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The Facts ...

Due to war (in the last decade alone): 6 million children injured, 2 million dead, 13 million internally displaced, 10 million became refugees.

After the Rwandan genocide in 1994, an estimated 45,000 households were headed by children, 90 percent of them girls.
Since September 2000, more than 400 Palestinian and 100 Israeli children have been killed and thousands seriously injured.
In early 2003, the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist) conducted large-scale abductions — mostly of schoolchildren.
In Sierra Leone in January 1999, more than 4,000 children were kidnapped during the incursion of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) into Freetown — 60
percent of them girls, most of them sexually abused.

Children in War
Cynthia Schnereger

Many organizations collect and dispense monies, personnel and services to war-torn countries. Many of the aid recipients are children — youngsters involuntarily surrounded by the incredible horrors of suffering and death and deprived of food, clothing and shelter, medical care, and education.

Among those responding to their cries, only Christian organizations — Free Methodist among them — can offer true hope. Why? Because Christian assistance transcends the battlefields that define the here and now. By introducing these children to Jesus, Christian aid touches souls and provides eternal relief.

World peace is only arguably possible — if and when humanity can humbly set aside sociopolitical differences and aggressions in submission to the Prince of Peace. Today’s war-torn children, assisted in the name of Christ, are the potential bearers of tomorrow’s hope. Transformed hearts can — and will — create a better world.
We provide you with but a glimpse of the wonderful, caring ministrations of Free Methodists among children in war. And we urge you to get involved in reaching even more of them.