Feeding the Children at Winter Conference

In Ethiopia right now there is a severe famine that is occuring. Due to climate changes and centuries of harvesting thier land, there is now no longer an easy way for ethiopians to raise a harvest and provide food for thier already poor country. Children and adults are dying daily of starvation. But worse yet, these people who are starving physically are also starving spiritually. Most people in Ethiopia are Muslim or Coptic Orthodox, which in short is messed up, or they are nothing.
There is an organization called Feeding the Children. Feeding the Children has recognized these needs and developed a way to get packaged food that contain nutrients to these people, where all the have to do is boil water, which is something readily available and possible for them. The campuses in our region partnered with them to help feed these people physically in order to open a door that they may never hunger again spiritually. Together through different events on campus, our region raised over $19,000 for this cause. What that means is this. $10 buys 40 meals. I may have failed math more than once, but i calculate that to 76,000 mealsish. And i want to elaborate on what is being done here. I think its great to feed the hungry. But to be blunt, what good is it to feed a hungry person, or to house a homeless, or in some way to meet a physical need of some one who is seperate from Christ, with out sharing with them how they can have a personal saving relationship with God through Jesus. In essense if all we did was give the people the meals, we'd be enabling less hungry people to spend eternity seperate from God. The good folks at Feeding the Children and enabling us to get these meals first to the staff and believers in Ethiopia, so that they can then go the then hungry and see that they are fed meals and nutrition, then also allowing that to open the door to share with them on how they may never hunger or thirst again, by gaining eternal life in Christ. Not that these people won't struggle with food but that they have something that satisfies thier soul.