Dear Lord, make Ava Missionary Baptist Church one who fives constant praise to You. And let us share the joyous news of Jesus Christ with a world that needs His transformation and His salvation. And Lord during this season in which we celebrate your birth, let us not forget those who who have little at all and those that serve them so willingly our Missionaries.
BINGA, Zimbabwe –– Southern Baptists have brought badly needed relief to an isolated region of Zimbabwe, where a national political impasse – compounded by hyperinflation, a cholera epidemic, and a burgeoning food crisis – have brought the country near the point of collapse.
Zimbabwe’s government declared a national emergency Dec. 4 because of the cholera epidemic, which has spread across the entire country, claiming at least 565 lives, according to news reports. The inflation rate has been estimated at 231 million percent and United Nations food analysts believe the hunger crisis will grow worse in the spring because many families have eaten seeds needed for planting.
People in Zimbabwe are growing more desperate by the day, said Susan Hatfield, who with her husband, Mark, directs work in Sub-Saharan Africa for Baptist Global Response.
“Grocery store shelves are almost completely empty, except for the U.S. dollar stores, accessible by only a very few,” Hatfield said. “People do not want to be paid in cash, but in food, as many are hungry and starving. Many of the schools have closed. The main hospital in the capital, Harare, has closed down. The water has been turned off in most parts of the country, including much of Harare, and I just received word of an anthrax outbreak that has killed several people as well as a growing number of cattle in the Bulawayo area.”
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