Crazy

I just finished talking to my friend, Brad Gautney. I told him that this drought in Africa is making me go crazy. He agreed. Then we both agreed that what makes us crazier is that other people aren’t going crazy too.

I have to be honest—I can’t sleep at night. I keep wondering how we can help one more child. Nearly 30,000 children have died in the last three weeks. Over 11 million are seriously in trouble now from the lack of water and food in the Horn of Africa. I just got back from there. This trip was different. I have seen poverty before, but I witnessed a new level of poverty this time.

Did you read the story in the news about the mother making the trip from Somalia? She only had enough for one child to live and had to choose. http://news.yahoo.com/child-dies-famine-forces-impossible-choices-145356561.html

How do you live with stuff like this? Sophie’s Choice.

It just shouldn’t be this way.

A militant group in Somalia was keeping out the relief agencies and hindering them from helping. It was mainly because the groups were seen as Christian representatives. So aid couldn’t get in. And then the same militant Muslim group decided to persecute and even kill refugees who were trying to escape in order to get food in Kenya. So they couldn’t get out to get aid. It just shouldn’t be this way.

CRF workers in Kenya are transporting food now to Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world. Please pray for them. Please help them. We don’t have enough food to give away. What is tragic is that all these refugees are traveling so far and risking their lives only to arrive at one more place where there is not enough food. And what is even worse is that there are other places in Kenya just as bad, but no one knows that the same life and death situation is happening because it is not on television. I really want to find some of those places too and help. Don’t you?

Please go crazy with me!

About Milt

Milton Jones is the President of Christian Relief Fund in Amarillo, Texas. In his work there, he has focused on the care of AIDS orphans in Sub-Sahara Africa. He has also served as a preacher and campus minister in both Texas and Washington. Milton has authored eight books including a touching tale of one of his heroes with Cerebral Palsy, Sundays With Scottie. He is married to Barbie Jones and has two sons, Patrick and Jeremy.
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3 Responses to Crazy

  1. elaine nesbitt says:

    I’m going crazy–so much need–beyond belief!

  2. janis says:

    I’m worried sick, my stomach is in knots thinking about the kids I have hugged and laughed with, let alone the kids I don’t know except to understand they are dying of hunger while the images are just ignored when they flash on t.v. People have become hardened to anything not directly affecting those they know and love. I know and I love these people and I am hurting for them. I can’t do it alone but I have to do all I can. I encourage everyone to go see, touch, talk to, play with and smell those kids then try to go back to our clean, tidy world and not be affected forever.

  3. Cathy says:

    I’m joining your Crazy Movement. We are sooooo blessed here in America and take clean running water and plenty of food for granted! I just spent $20 for food for me only at a movie theater…I know there are others that have wasted $10, $20 or $50 too….so please join me in contributing to this cause. Milt, sign me up for “One More Child”….one of Emmanuel’s kids and I look forward to meeting them in person next year! Praying for miracles!

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