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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 27, 1983
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I'd like to thank you for writing and sending me the prayer cloth
to use for my healing.
God sure did heal me!
Most of my
arthritis is gone and my heart is better too. I can breathe
easier now and sleep well, too. I feel lots better and thank God
for answered prayers.
s.T. (Netty, WV)
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your
thoughtfulness in sending me a letter and literature. It was so
uplifting and really helped me with my "ailing" attitude. Thanks
to all of your prayers and, of course, God's hand, we were able to
sell our house. We are now in our new home. Thank you so very
much for your kindness. I never truly understood the meaning of
love until I entered God's true Church.
P.v. (Virginia Beach, VA)
I want to thank the Personal Correspondence Department and all
others who prayed for my brother who has cancer� His condition
has improved a great deal since I requested you people at Head
quarters to pray for his recovery.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
L.S. (Roanoke, VA)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
WORLDWIDE WEATHER CRISIS: MILLIONS FACE STARVATION "CRAZY WEATHER--What on
Earth is Happening?" ran the headline on the cover of the May 13, 1983 issue
of ASIAWEEK magazine. The feature article detailed upset weather condi
tions all around the world, especially in the Pacific rim countries. The
authors speculated that much of the turmoil may be caused by the mysterious
"El Nino" phenomenon, an inexplicable reverse flow of warm water currents
in the mid-Pacific, as well as stepped-up volcanic activity.
Regardless of the causes, 1983 has indeed been disastrous in climatic up
heavals and their looming impact on world food supplies. So far, we have
witnessed searing droughts in Australia and much of Africa; floods in
Western Europe; a California ·coastline battered by storms and high tides; a
topsy-turvy winter all across the United States followed by freak spring
time storms.
The biggest impact at the moment is being experienced in Africa and India
where, unlike in Australia, saving rains are yet to come. Some meteorolo
gists, in fact, feel normal weather may yet be years away--which means
millions of people could starve in the meantime.
Nations on the brink of famine are turning to traditional food exporters
for emergency grain supplies. Yet Australia is hard pressed to meet export
obligations and South Africa, an unpublicized supplier of food to many
black African nations, will be a net importer this year. Irony of ironies,
the biggest exporter of all, the United States, is faced with current un
manageable surpluses. To alleviate this problem the government has insti
tuted a risky program to curtail grain production this year. Some experts
believe the "PIK" program (for Payment-in-Kind, under which farmers take
land out of production, and are credited with comparable value in stored
surpluses) could result in a severe cutback in food available for foreign
sales in the immediate years ahead.