Popular speaker and Christian author Joyce Meyer and her husband Dave are preparing to visit famine-stricken Ethiopia for humanitarian relief, the ministry announced on Friday.
The Meyers will travel with a mission team from the Joyce Meyer Ministries (JMM)’s humanitarian and disaster relief arm, Hand of Hope, and plan to visit established ministry outreaches. Hand of Hope is headed by their eldest son David Meyer.
Among the outreaches that they will be visiting include Hand of Hope feeding programs, a Hand of Hope Medical Clinic, and a Hand of Hope Women’s Home.
“We know that our friends and our partners are concerned about the welfare of children around the world,” said David Meyer, CEO of Hand of Hope and Joyce Meyer Ministries World Missions. “As a ministry, we are committed to feeding the hungry, providing medicine to the ill and hope to women and children who need shelter."
This past week, the United Nation’s humanitarian arm warned that food insecurity is worsening in Ethiopia, with over six million people now in need of emergency aid to stay alive.
Notably, the figure marks a 40 percent increase since June, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Ongoing drought, rising food prices, shortages of medical supplies and increase cost of fuel have contributed to the current worrying situation in Ethiopia.
In May, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of Ethiopia estimated that 126,000 children are in urgent need and at risk of severe malnutrition.
Since its official launch in 1985, Joyce Meyer Ministries has grown from two employees working in a basement to a ministry that provides millions of meals to the hungry every year, supports and operates medical outreaches in remote areas, operates and fully supports 46 children’s homes worldwide and provides other humanitarian and disaster relief around the world.
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While what is described in the article is commendable, I couldn't help but think this is nothing more than another high-profile "Christian tourism" project - have film crew and starving people - will travel. I also wonder if Meyer will do any work for those Ethiopian Christians currently being thrown in prison and tortured for their faith.
A.S.-I could not agree more, but the truth of the matter is, so many are just frightened at this time. With unemployment at an all-time high, and "Wall Street" hovering on the BRINK, we are all a little GUN SHY so to speak. My husband and I still give to our church weekly, but times have been tough on us as well. I just pray that this country gets back to basics and back to Christianity, and soon.
It is highly commendable that Joyce Meyer is heading
to Ethipia to head the relief work there, and hope and
pray that other T.V. preachers will follow the pattern
in helping the helpless in a far off land. Those prophets of propsperity must make a uturn to the slums
of third world countries to share their prosperity and time as the word of God teaches. God wants us to be
blessed so that we can be a blessings to others. We are
faced with a terrible economic time, and the real love
and compassion of Jesus has to be projected at this
critical time; whether it is here or overseas.
very plainly.