{"id":94,"date":"2015-10-19T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/?p=94"},"modified":"2015-10-21T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:02:13","slug":"the-problem-of-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/2015\/10\/19\/the-problem-of-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/10\/Little-girl-criyng-for-more-food-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-93 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/10\/Little-girl-criyng-for-more-food-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Little girl criyng for more food (3)\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/10\/Little-girl-criyng-for-more-food-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/10\/Little-girl-criyng-for-more-food-3-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2015\/10\/Little-girl-criyng-for-more-food-3.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What you are seeing is the problem of hunger.\u00a0 To say that hunger is a problem here in Mozambique is a grotesque understatement.\u00a0 You see, this little girl is crying because she wants more food.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t get any food yesterday and may not have anything to eat tomorrow so today she cries for more food even while her plate is full.<\/p>\n<p>It has been an unexpectedly long dry season and crops have dried up and withered away.\u00a0 There is no food.\u00a0 The children in this village only get rice on special occasions.\u00a0 Their normal diet is a corn meal massa.\u00a0 It fills the tummy, but offers very little nutrition.\u00a0 On this Sunday the whole village was fed for less than $50.\u00a0 The children received Beans with onions and tomatoes and rice.\u00a0 It was a time of celebration!\u00a0 They sang and danced and played games &#8230; and little children had full tummies.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a small\u00a0part of what we are doing here in Mozambique.\u00a0 We are doing our best to love people in practical ways.\u00a0 We are giving them physical and spiritual food.\u00a0 If you think they are physically hungry then you also need to know that they are spiritually hungry as well.\u00a0 They hunger for hope, they hunger for a future.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray that God would meet these needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=94&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What you are seeing is the problem of hunger.\u00a0 To say that hunger is a problem here in Mozambique is a grotesque understatement.\u00a0 You see, this little girl is crying because she wants more food.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t get any food yesterday and may not have anything to eat tomorrow so today she cries &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/amviana\/2015\/10\/19\/the-problem-of-hunger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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