Poverty of hunger

Love For Myanmar Ministries Update

Christ Centered, Servant Hearted, Myanmar Focused

• Half of the world’s population lives on less than $5.50 a day
• 31.5 million of Myanmar’s population lives on less than $2.15 a day
• Conflict/war is the #1 driver of hunger in the world currently displacing 68 million people
• Myanmar is the site of the longest running civil war on earth (1948-present); current coup began 2-1-2021
• 65% of the world’s hungriest people live in conflict/war zones
• Over 3 million Myanmar people have been displaced since the 2021 coup, and living in caves or makeshift structures in jungles

Your donations to our Blessed And Giving or BAG food supplies distribution program makes possible over 14,000 meals a month.

• Prayer Request: Please pray that there will be a renewed understanding among the junta leadership of the value of helping their country’s poor, and they will work together with all ethnic groups to resolve the issues regarding the staggering poverty, rampant unemployment, deteriorating education system, and horrendous health care network.

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.” 2 Corinthians 8:9

The jungle of poverty, the indifferent faces trespassing on the abundance of this earth, open mouths taunting the fields of grain, human life exposed to one of man’s gravest failures…conquering hunger.

What has emerged over these many years is a landscape of staggering and vivid poverty. At times, it seems almost deliberate, acts of omitting fellow human beings from even touching life or at best living at its edge.

So many reckless moments in mankind’s history where our allegiance to power, our urgent demand for prestige muffled the cries of the needy; every tear an invitation for compassion, but every tear a safe distance from our hearts.

The sheer loneliness of poverty is one of the most striking realizations of the human spirit, fighting for life every day, reclaiming your courage to endure every day. And yet, so many of the blessed willfully look the other way. Some recognize poverty the moment they see it; unmistakable and unforgettable. Poverty and hunger, neither truly knows itself without the other.

Let’s not pass by these needy lives this year. Let’s tilt our hearts in their direction and allow our generosity to pull them out of their uncertainty of life. Will you? It is a wonderful miracle to have an outer goodness towards a stranger become an even grander inner joy within the giver.

Gary Watkins, LFM Co-founder

“Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people.” Colossians 3:23

This year, beyond the families in our ministry areas, your donations have helped provide food supplies to 4,100 people either displaced because of junta attacks or typhoon flooding.