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Slide 1: AND SO SO LUCKY! Give thanks! Help others!
Slide 2: There comes a time when we heed a certain call
Slide 3: When the world must come together as one
Slide 4: There are people dying
Slide 5: and it’s time to lend a hand to life
Slide 6: The greatest gift of all
Slide 7: We can’t go on pretending day by day
Slide 8: That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
Slide 9: We are all a part of God’s great big family
Slide 10: And the truth, you know
Slide 11: Love is all we need
Slide 12: We are the world, we are the children
Slide 13: We are the ones who make a brighter day
Slide 14: So let’s start giving
Slide 15: There’s a choice we're making
Slide 16: We're saving our own lives
Slide 17: it’s true we'll make a better day
Slide 18: Just you and me
Slide 19: Send them your heart so they'll know that someone cares
Slide 20: And their lives will be stronger and free
Slide 21: As God has shown us by turning stones to bread
Slide 22: So we all must lend a helping hand
Slide 23: We are the world, we are the children
Slide 24: We are the ones who make a brighter day
Slide 25: So let’s start giving
Slide 26: There’s a choice we're making
Slide 27: We're saving our own lives
Slide 28: it’s true we'll make a better day
Slide 29: Just you and me
Slide 30: When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
Slide 31: But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall
Slide 32: Let us realize that a change can only come
Slide 33: When we stand together as one
Slide 34: We are the world, we are the children
Slide 35: We are the ones who make a brighter day
Slide 36: So let’s start giving
Slide 37: There’s a choice we're making
Slide 38: We're saving our own lives
Slide 39: it’s true we'll make a better day
Slide 40: Just you and me
Slide 41: We are the world, we are the children
Slide 42: We are the ones who make a brighter day
Slide 43: So let’s start giving
Slide 44: There’s a choice we're making
Slide 45: We're saving our own lives
Slide 46: it’s true we'll make a better day
Slide 47: Just you and me
Slide 48: We are the world, we are the children
Slide 49: We are the ones who make a brighter day
Slide 50: So let’s start giving
Slide 51: There’s a choice we're making
Slide 52: We're saving our own lives
Slide 53: it’s true we'll make a better day
Slide 54: Just you and me
Slide 62: If you were to shrink the earth’s population to a village of 100 people, it would look something like this:
Slide 63: 52 would be female, 48 would be male
Slide 64: 70 would be NonChristian, 30 would be Christian
Slide 65: 6 of them would be Americans. These 6 would have over half of the world’s wealth.
Slide 66: 70 would be unable to read
Slide 67: 50 would suffer from mal-nutrition, 1 would be near death, l near birth.
Slide 68: 1 would have a college education, 1 would own a computer.
Slide 69: Education and pay for people 18 and older (1998): • No high school diploma • High school diploma • Some college, no degree • Associate degree • Bachelor’s degree • Master’s degree • Doctoral degree • Professional degree Does it pay to go to school? $16,124 $22,895 $24,804 $29,872 $40,478 $51,183 $77,445 $95,148
Slide 70: If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
Slide 71: If you have a non-dirt floor in the place you live, you belong to the upper half of the world’s most prosperous people.
Slide 72: If you have a window, a door and more than one room, you belong to the upper 20 percent of the world’s richest people.
Slide 73: If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
Slide 74: If you can attend church without fear of harassment, arrest or torture, or death, you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.
Slide 75: If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on you back, a roof over head and a place to sleep you are richer than 57% of this world.
Slide 76: If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish some place you are among the top 8% of the world’s most wealthy.
Slide 77: If your parents are still alive and still married you are very rare, even here in the United States and Canada.
Slide 78: Regardless of where you live, if you can read and you have a pair of shoes, a change of underwear and can choose from two or more foods to eat, you belong to the top 10 percent of the world’s most wealthy.