While enjoying that tasty fast-food meal during your 60-minute lunch break here's what took place around God's globe:

•  2,738        people died from starvation
• 342             people died from malaria
• 76                mothers died from childbirth issues
• 9,582         babies died from induced abortion
• 8,898         infants and children were abandoned
• 4,650         rural poor people migrated to cities
• $ 2,088,751,996     personal income was earned by church members
• $ 2,737,851             was given to global foreign missions (about 0.01% of church members' income)
• $ 2,966,005            was embezzled by trusted church leaders (nearly $250 thousand more than was given to global foreign missions)
• 20                 Christians were martyred

During that same happy 60-minute meal here's what took place in the United States:

•  78               people died from heart disease
• 64                people died from cancer
• 50               people died from tobacco use
• 42               people died from poor diet or physical inactivity
• 10                people died from alcohol use
• 2                  people died from illicit sexual behavior
• 2                  people died from illicit drug use

(ht: Mission Maker Magazine 2009)

Does that break your heart as I assume it does Christ's?  My question this political season isn't all that political at all.  What are you doing to help those less fortunate than you?  What are you doing to help fight these facts?  In what ways can we get involved?