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Test Your Hunger I.Q.

How much do you know about hunger and poverty? Be sure to check out the Sacred Seasons 2009 Hunger Emphasis packet for ways you and your congregation can help end hunger.

1. How many of the world’s countries have the potential to grow sufficient food on a sustainable basis?
Virtually all______            3/4______            1/2______            1/4______

2. The amount of money that the richest one percent of the world’s people make each year equals what the poorest ______ percent make.
15_____            24______            57______            62______

3. What percent of the world’s population survives on less than $1 a day?
5______            12.5______            19.3______            23.4______

4. Each day in the developing world, more than ______ die from preventable and treatable diseases, their bodies made weak from malnourishment.
10,000______            20,000______            30,000______            40,000______

5. In developing countries, 91 children out of 1000 die before their ______ birthday.
2nd______            5th______            9th______            15th______

6. What is one of the leading causes of food security crises?
Displacement______            Job loss______            High population______

7. What percent of American households experience hunger or the risk of hunger?
5.2______            10.7______            12.3______            15.8______

8. True or false? Children who experience severe hunger suffer from higher levels of chronic illness, anxiety and depression, and behavior problems than do children with no hunger.
True______            False______

9. Overall, households with children have nearly ______ the rate of food insecurity as do households without children.
Twice______            Three times______            Four times______

10.  True or false? One person or one community cannot make a difference in the fight against extreme hunger and poverty.
True______            False______

Scroll down to figure out how much you know about hunger!

Answers:

(1. Virtually all) (2. 57) (3. 19.3) (4. 30,000) (5. 5th) (6. Displacement) (7. 10.7) (8. True) (9. Twice) (10. False)

—“Facts about Hunger & Poverty” and "Test Your Hunger IQ” were compiled by Lauren Elder, published in Sacred Seasons: Hunger Emphasis 2009, Seeds of Hope Publishers

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Weekly Scripture

Luke 14:15-24
One of the dinner guests…said to him, “Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” Then Jesus said to him,

“Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready now.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please accept my regrets.’ Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’ Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’ So the slave returned and reported this to his master.

“Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ And the slave said, ‘Sir, what your ordered has been done, and there is still room.’ Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those who were invited will taste my dinner.’”

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