"Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service -- prayer is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom."

~Mary Slessor

"Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.  Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth."

~Luke 11:2

"It is easy to talk of leaving all for Christ, but when it comes to the proof-it is only as we stand 'complete in Him' we can go through with it."

~ Hudson Taylor

"He must increase, but I must decrease."

~ John 3:30

"...The truth is that there are children like this all over the world, sick, starving dying, unloved and uncared for.

The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children.  And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people

on this earth proclaim to be Christians.

The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child,

there would not be any statistics left.

This is the Truth.  I have the freedom to believe it.  The freedom, the opportunity to do something about it.  The truth is that He loves these children just as much as He loves me and now that I know, I am responsible."

~ Katie Davis "Kisses from Katie"

"Is not this the fast that I have chosen?  To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?  Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?  When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?  Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.  Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say, Here I am.  If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.  And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called,

The repairer of the breach,

The restorer of paths to dwell in."

~ Isaiah 58:6-12