| Show I Service Held Meld To Aid in Famine Relief Saturday was wu Disaster and Famine Fam Pam ine me Relief day for all Seventh Seventh- Seventh day ay Adventists In the Moab Seventh Seventh- day Adventist church Pastor F. F II U. Rahm presented the world needs to the Congregation He lie told of a report that came In of ofa a family consisting of a mother and six children When the Adventist Ad Ad- Adventist representative was visiting visiting visit visit- ing the only food on the table for the noon meal was one horses horse's hoof hooft There in the presence of the visitor one of the little children children child child- ren fell dead from starvation the others were ere crying for bread In tn Italy not long ago a young man riding a bicycle fainted When passers-by passers revived him he showed show show- ed cd them a clump dump of grass in his I knapsack his only diet for lor three days I God has hu a plan piau to help those In need It Is outlined In Isaiah and It Is that the he more favored favored favored ored ore ones help the less favored ones Pastor Rahm told of the Hungarian refugees In Vienna Austria The Seventh-day Seventh Adventist Welfare Leader in that vicinity w west went t to the camp director director tor tat of the refugee camp in Vienna asking what the Adventists could do to help out The camp tamp director had never heard of Seventh-day Seventh Adventists before but said that the people we were so exhausted from I their battle with Communism and flight to freedom that they could not eat lie He a asked aked ked for tor oranges and bananas for the refugees there So the Adventist went shop shopping shopping shopping ping for thousands of oranges orange and bananas which were brought by truck to the camp and distributed distributed distri distri- buted to the over-Joyed over refugees Then a request was sent to Bern Dern Switzerland the AdventIst headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters for Southern Europe and funds were telegraphed to further furth furth- er aid the refugees Then Pastor Rahm called for forthe forthe forthe the Disaster and Famine Relief offering to be taken for tor the purpose pur pur- purpose pose to bring relief to an ever Increasing number of ot persons In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States and abroad who simply do not have the ti ties s of life lite Besides continuing poverty In thousands of cases there are Increasing numbers of persons w whose ose entire resources are wiped out In a single day of hour by disaster In 1956 Adventists s gave some tome In cash clothing food and Other ther supplies to aid persons In 30 different countries s affected by famine and disaster The May 25 28 offering was expected to bring in about from rom Seventh Seventh- day Adventist churches throughout through out the world Th The funds fords will rill be besent besent sent to Adventist world head headd headquarters quarters quarter In Washington D. D C c. where dispatches will be adminIstered administered administered admin admin- by a Disaster committee of the church which dispatches funds to disaster r and famine areas around the world |
