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What are Material Riches?

What is Material Poverty?

What are Spiritual Riches?

“Faith, Hope, and Love” (1 Cor 13:13)

What is Spiritual Poverty?

“The most terrible poverty

is loneliness”

– Blessed Mother Teresa

Symptoms of Spiritual

Poverty Suicides per 100,000

Egypt 0.05

Guatemala 2.35

Mexico 4.05

Brazil 4.60

Zimbabwe 7.90

United States 11.10

Germany 11.95

Cuba 12.25

China 13.90

France 17.25

N. Korea 21.85

Russia 31.70

Demographic Shift to Global

SouthNumbers of Christians Worldwide(2000)

Europe 560 million

Latin America 480 million

Africa 360 million

Asia 313 million

North America 260 million

Numbers of Christians Worldwide (projected 2025)o Europe 555 milliono Latin America 640 milliono Africa 633 milliono Asia 460 million

*By 2050, only 20% of Christians will be Western

Testimony of Poverty

“How hard it is for a rich

man to enter the kingdom

of Heaven”

– Matt. 19:23

Active Spiritual Warfare

Martyrdom

“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of

the Church” – Tertullian 200 A.D.

Ugandan Martyrs (1885-1887)

Miguel Pro (1927)

Sudanese Martyrs (1983-2005)

How do we help?

“Those who have come into genuine contact with Christ cannot keep Him for themselves, they must proclaim Him”

“Many who are last will be first” Mark 10:31

“I have come that you may have life and

have it more abundantly” John 10:10