God’s love embraces people living with poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS.

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God’s love embraces people living with poverty, hunger and

HIV/AIDS

Ryan White – 1971 - 1990

Credit: S. Kalscheur, USAID

so should God’s people.

God’s love embraces people living with poverty, hunger and

HIV/AIDS

You have

By giving to this year’s

WORLDHUNGER

CAMPAIGN 2006CAMPAIGN 2006

KEEP THE PROMISE

THANK YOU.

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee

continue to

Your love and generosity helps the

care for the sick

break down the stigma

teach AIDS-inflicted communities the importance of good nutrition and how to

grow nutritious food

get orphans in school

spread awareness

help adoptive parents earn more to care for orphans.

“Learn to do good.

Work for justice.

Help the down-and-out.

Stand up for the homeless.

Go to bat for the defenseless.”

– Isaiah 1:17, The Message

Don’t be immobilized by AIDS

You CAN continue to make a difference.

PRAY

Pray for the hungry who suffer with HIV/AIDS.

Pray for a break down of the stigma.

Pray for how you can best serve those with HIV/AIDS.

“We don’t have to guess what’s on God’s mind here.

It bewilders me that anyone can call themselves followers of Christ and

not see that AIDS is the leprosy spoken about in the New

Testament.

God is at work here.”

–Bono, lead singer of U2 and global advocate to end HIV/AIDS in Africa

GIVE

Continue your support for HIV/AIDS beyond World

Hunger 2006.

Give to CRWRC’s

Keep the Promise campaign.

Help a family in an AIDS-affected area by becoming a Free A Family™ sponsor

"Africa has great sophistication in its ability to deal with the myriad of

issues connected to AIDS.

It's not a lack of knowledge on their part — it is a lack of resources."

– Stephen Lewis, special envoy to the UN for HIV/AIDS in Africa

SPEAK UP

Credit: World Vision, Australia

Send a letter to your federal representative asking for a bold national commitment to ending

the AIDS crisis. Visit www.crwrc.org/involved/AIDS

“Silence is not an option.

Nor is inaction.

Injustice and suffering demand our advocacy in a world that desperately needs people of

faith creatively working together for change.”- Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance

KNOW MORE

ASSUME LESS

“My experience is that there's corruption everywhere: in the U.S., in

Europe, in Asia, and in Africa…

But what happens is that everyone's wringing their hands about

corruption without trying to solve practical problems…

And right now, we're not even helping the well-governed places,

the places where we are capable of finding absolutely practical and

effective approaches to turning help into real success on the ground.”

- Jeffrey Sachs, world’s leading economist and author of The End of Poverty

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

Invite a CRWRC staff person to speak to your church about hunger and HIV/AIDS

Take a Discovery Tour to see CRWRC’s

ongoing work firsthand.

KEEP THE PROMISE

WORLDHUNGER

CAMPAIGN 2006CAMPAIGN 2006

CONTINUE TO

And embrace those with HIV/AIDS

as God has embraced you.

“We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing when people are dying.”

- Nelson Mandela

www.crwrc.org

Copyright 2006 – The Christian Reformed Church in North America

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