Cont. from p. 8 great hidden hunger, protein mal nutrition. This deficiency is large ly responsible for brain damage, disease and death among seventy percent of the world’s children. An egg a day in the diet of a growing child could make the dif ference between nourishment or undernourishment, development or underdeve lopm en t, life or death. The means of food production are produced and supplied on the mission field “ Service Farm.” In the case o f laying hens, ready-to- lay pullets are raised and deliv ered to satellite family projects in the orbit o f the “ Service Farm.” Thus the family can soon enjoy a daily supply of eggs for their diet. The goods and serv ices of FARMS are available on interest free credit. As the Lord prospers each individual project, the fami ly gives a tithe o f its earnings to their local church, and repays the original investment to a revolving fund so that other family projects may be started. FARMS goes be yond self-help into establishing a chain reaction in food production. “ It is more blessed to give than to receive” is just as true for those who receive as for those who give. The first FARMS project was launched in Guatemala where a laying hen enterprise was entrust ed to Ismael de Leon, a faithful Christian, who had been praying many years to have more and bet ter food for his wife and ten chil dren. To maintain their project, the Leon family has to carry feed every week on their backs over rugged mountain terrain for a steady hike of three hours. This they gladly do, thanking God for good feed and good chickens. Be cause they have an excellent means of food production, their hard labors are fruitful, in con trast to the little or no results their long hours o f arduous labor had previously produced. As a result of the project, the family has enjoyed the best health it has ever had. The eggs provide
William Roberts (left) Farm building specialist for Rutgers University, presenting a laying hen house model to Rev. Gareth Miller, president of Farms.
Some of the twelve Leons at home. Gonzalo, on the right, in charge of their laying hen project, was recently converted and is now leading layman of his church.
DECEMBER, 1969
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