Chapter 1: Our Once-in-History Opportunity
1. UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health, www.unicef.org/sowc09/report/report.php.
2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The State of Food Insecurity in the World: Economic Crises—Impacts and Lessons Learned, 2, ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0876e/i0876e.pdf.
3. UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2007: Women and Children; The Double Dividend of Gender Equality, 5, www.unicef.org/sowc07/docs/sowc07.pdf.
4. That equals approximately 25,000 per day. Anup Shah, “Today, Over 25,000 Children Died Around the World,” Global Issues, www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-over-25000-children-died-around-the-world.
5. Peter Greer and Phil Smith, The Poor Will Be Glad: Joining the Revolution to Lift the World out of Poverty (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009), 26.
6. Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2005), 10.
7. Ibid., 35.
8. UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2009, 133.
9. The percentage of Christians in the United States is 76.8 percent, and the population of the United States in 2009 was approximately 307,212,000, according to the CIA, The World Factbook, 2009, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html.
10. UNAIDS and World Health Organization, AIDS Epidemic Update: November 2009, 21, http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_2009_en.pdf.
Chapter 2: Calling Mr. Pot Roast
1. “Nicholas Winton, the Power of Good,” Gelman Educational Foundation, www.powerofgood.net/story.php, and Patrick D. Odum, “Gratitude That Costs Us Something,” Heartlight, www.heartlight.org/cgi/simplify.cgi?20090922_gratitude.html.
Chapter 3: Let God Unshell You
1. Hilary Le Cornu with Joseph Shulam, A Commentary on the Jewish Roots of Acts (Jerusalem: Netivyah Bible Instruction Ministry, 2003), 144.
2. Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, unabr. ed. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1993), 81–2.
3. M. Paul Lewis, ed., Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th ed. (Dallas: SIL International, 2009), www.ethnologue.com.
4. If you want to explore in detail your “you-niqueness” and how to discern it, see my book Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2005).
5. Telephone interview with Jo Anne Lyon, conducted by David Drury, June 23, 2009.
Chapters 5: Team Up
1. For an excellent summary of microfinance, see Peter Greer and Phil Smith, The Poor Will Be Glad: Joining the Revolution to Lift the World out of Poverty (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009).
2. Sam Nunn, “Intellectual Honesty, Moral and Ethical Behavior; We Must Decide What Is Important” (speech, National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., February 1, 1996).
Chapter 6: Open Your Door; Open Your Heart
1. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Poverty: 2007 and 2008; American Community Surveys, 2, www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/acsbr08-1.pdf.
2. Mark Nord, Margaret Andrews, Steven Carlson, Household Food Security in the United States, 2008, United States Department of Agriculture, iii, www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR83/ERR83.pdf.
3. National and Community Service, “White House, USDA, National Service Agency, Launch Targeted Initiative to Address Hunger,” www.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1579.
Chapter 7: See the Need; Touch the Hurt
1. UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health, www.unicef.org/sowc09/report/report.php.
2. James Strong, New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), s.v. “Compassion.”
3. Bill Gates Sr. with Mary Ann Mackin, Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime (New York: Broadway Books, 2009), 155.
Chapter 8: Persecution: Prepare for It; Resist It
1. CIA, The World Factbook, 2009, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html.
2. Malatya: The Story of the First Martyrs of the Modern Turkish Church, www.malatyafilm.org.
3. CIA, The World Factbook, 2009, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html.
4. dc Talk and the Voice of the Martyrs, Jesus Freaks: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus; The Ultimate Jesus Freaks (Tulsa, OK: Albury Publishing, 1999), 208–9.
Chapter 10: Stand Up for the Have-Nots
1. Richard Stearns, The Hole in Our Gospel (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008), 11.
2. The Expositor’s Bible Commentary with the New International Version of the Holy Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990), 2:633–35.
3. Walter Bruggeman, “Isaiah and the Mission of the Church” (sermon, Mars Hill Bible Church, Grand Rapids, MI, July 13, 2008).
4. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting Climate Change; Human Solidarity in a Divided World, 2007, 25, http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf.
5. “Closer to the Music,” U2.com, July 30, 2003, www.u2.com/news/article/682.
6. United Nations World Food Programme, WFP Facts Blast, December 2009, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/communications/wfp187701.pdf.
7. Anup Shah, “Today, Over 25,000 Children Died Around the World,” Global Issues, www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-over-25000-children-died-around-the-world.
Chapter 11: Remember Who Holds You
1. Mission Gate Ministry, “Gospel of Matthew, chapter 20,”www.charityadvantage.com/MissionGateMinistry/images/Matt20.doc.
Chapter 12: Blast a Few Walls
1. Rick Reilly, “There Are Some Games in Which Cheering for the Other Side Feels Better Than Winning,” Life of Reilly, http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3789373.
2. Hilary Le Cornu with Joseph Shulam, A Commentary on the Jewish Roots of Acts (Jerusalem: Netivyah Bible Instruction Ministry, 2003), 403.
Chapter 13: Don’t Write Off Anyone
1. Not to be confused with the Ananias of Acts 5.
Chapter 14: Stable the High Horse
1. Gavan Daws, Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984).
2. Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, unabr. ed. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1993), 62–3.
3. Bob Ray Sanders, “Blossom’s in the Dust Movie Fine, but the Woman Was Amazing,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, November 17, 2002, www.angelfire.com/tx5/adoptee/sanders.html.
Chapter 15: Pray First; Pray Most
1. Oliver W. Price, “Needed: A Few Committed People to Pray for Revival,” Bible Prayer Fellowship, www.praywithchrist.org/prayer/committed.php.
2. R. Kent Hughes, ed., Acts: The Church Afire (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1996), 169–70.
Chapter 16: That’s Jesus Playing That Fiddle
1. Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before Breakfast,” Washington Post, April 8, 2007, www.washingpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html.
2. Frederick Dale Bruner, The Churchbook: Matthew 13–28 (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1990), 918.
3. David Aikman, Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century (Nashville: Word Publishing, 1998), 199–221, 224.