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According to the United Nations World Food Programme there are 795 million people who do not have enough food to live an active, healthy life. This means that one out of nine people on our planet will not have enough to eat today--or tomorrow, or the day after that. We live in a world blessed with God’s abundance but cursed by our inability to provide for the most basic needs of God’s people. How do we even begin to wrap our minds and, more importantly, our hearts around this urgent issue?
