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SAVING PEOPLE

DYING IN THE DUMPSTER

May 2018

An Amazing Fact: In March 2017, more than 100
people, mostly women and children, perished in Ethiopia
when they were buried under an avalanche of garbage.
They were living in homes adjacent to the 75-acre
mountain of refuse outside the capital city of Addis
Ababa, where they survived by combing through the
trash for anything of value.

Dear friend,

Can you even imagine living in the shadow of
a towering mountain of trash?
I used to get food out of dumpsters. Living on the streets in the 1970s, quite a few
hippies would join me in “dumpster diving” for food and other items. At first, I thought it
was disgusting—but the more I saw people doing it, and participating with them, the less
offensive it became, until I actually grew accustomed to the sight and smell of garbage.
This is happening right now on a spiritual level to an entire generation. We are living in
times so morally bankrupt that, I dare say, it would cause the residents of Sodom to blush.
The rotten values broadcast by worldly media are pouring into our culture and eroding
away any sense of virtue. The most troubling thing is that many professed Christians seem
to have grown accustomed to living next to mountains of garbage.
Resisting the Rubbish

The devil is always working to discourage believers to think that there is nothing we
can do to combat the tsunami of sin that is drowning people. Nehemiah faced this problem
in his day: “The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubbish that we are not able
to build the wall” (Nehemiah 4:10).
However, Nehemiah did not concede defeat! He inspired God’s people to keep building
and, eventually, the rubbish was removed and the wall completed.

Today, you can stand as a bulwark of purity against the landslide of trash pouring into
people’s homes when you support Amazing Facts. Your gifts really do help sanitize lives
with the cleansing blood of Jesus.

(over, please)