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Show Pastors of Community Church Urge Generosity for Needy Ones cising this compassion. Our gifts will be rushed immediately through the United Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief Re-lief to those who are caught up in Natural and man-made disasters. dis-asters. Currently the major thrust is to bring immediate relief to the refugees in India. However, there are other needs that must also be met. While there has been a special appeal for the refugees, we must do more. There is no time to be tired of the bad news. Out of the comfortable life that we as American Christians live we must give and give again so that those who suffer may know that there are those who care. Each situation is so critical that every dollar you give becomes be-comes a life-saving dollar. Be generous on March 12. Sincerely, Walter and Twildi Aman, Your Pastors. Dear Church Friends: Each day's headlines carry mostly bad news. Our built-in protection allows us to view the devastating pictures of war and natural disasters on television without feeling the necessity of responding in any meaningful way. When we discuss the day's events we tell each other how tired we are that it's nothing but "bad news." Our response is only to what is happening to other people. To ' really sense how bad the news is we would have to be the "victim" rather than an observer. ob-server. We feel sorry when we see the picture of the starving mother and child. We. could only truly sense the horror if it all were we the mother who is watching her baby die because she lacks the nourishment to adequately nurse it. In our warm and comfortable homes we do feel sorry for those made homeless. But to really know how bad it is we would have to be one of the nearly 10 million refugees that have fled from East Bengal into India. We would have to have suffered suffer-ed the loss of all of our physical possessions, seen our friends murdered and discovered that after our long journey of exodus there is only a bush under which to live for protection. It's easy to be philosophical about such situations unless you are the one doing the starving, suffering and dying. The Christian Christ-ian Church will not allow its members the luxury of a philosophical phil-osophical approach. Ours must be a compassionate one. Through the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering on March 12, we have the opportunity of exer- |