Seventh-day Adventist Church

2003 NAB Offering Call

“Becoming Faithful Stewards”

DISASTER AND FAMINE RELIEF OFFERING

Wahidela and Nagoda are young children, yet all they’ve known is famine and war. They have no memories of even one day when it was safe to play outside. Each morning in Afghanistan, they wondered if today was the day they would die. To survive, they started out on foot across mountainous terrain in biting cold temperatures. Heading for the nearest border and life as refugees, they joined more than 25 million other children uprooted from their homes by disaster and famine.

After an earthquake turns homes to mere rubble, drought ruins a country’s food source, or children watch their parents die in war, forcing them to flee and live as refugees, your church is there. Through the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, your arms are wrapped around them to extend a hand of hope and love.

Drawing on our “Disaster and Famine Relief Fund,” ADRA bandages the wounded, and provides food, water, tents, blankets, and hygiene kits. Later, these funds are used to provide long-term rehabilitation to disaster survivors.

To enable ADRA to continue being arms of aid, love and hope to disaster survivors worldwide, please give generously to today’s Disaster and Famine Relief Offering.

Appeal text: “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and their shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” [Matthew 24:7-8]

Submitted by ADRA International, Public Relations