But let’s talk more specifically about what our churches are doing about it. Are the
churches so poor that they cannot help? Not at all. You do not have to drive far to find
mega-churches with their huge complexes of facilities for the interests and needs of the whole
family. Please understand, I am not saying there is anything wrong with churches having such
facilities or the money to develop them; but I am simply asking what gets left undone when so
much is spent on the facilities. It does not take long to calculate that these churches could
certainly feed the poor people in the city regularly. Perhaps the affluence of the churches has
weakened their influence in the community.