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Shirley Lyles of Carol Stream, Illinois:
“I once lived in Kenya and helped orphans there. AIDS is so devastating. I have a heart for Africa, and I want to help reverse the trend. There are a lot of education issues involved, both here and abroad. In the United States, we need to help people understand that there are many reasons why people end up with HIV/AIDS, and also help people understand how to interact with people with HIV/AIDS. In my experience abroad, I found that people are often so destitute that they don’t know how diseases like this are caused. I’m motivated to get involved in child sponsorship, prayer, and asking the Church to take this on.”






Hak Soo Kim of Buffalo Grove, Illinois:
“My church is interested in reaching out. AIDS is everybody’s concern. If we are following the word of God, the spread of AIDS will stop. I didn’t know that World Vision is involved so much on the issue of HIV/AIDS. I’m impressed that they are helping supply food, education, and clean water for orphans who have lost parents to AIDS.”






Colin Gray of Elmhurst, Illinois:
“The statistics you hear about AIDS, those are just numbers. When you hear from people like Bruce Wilkinson, you see how it’s gripping people. You get a feeling for it. When Rich Stearns talks about going to Uganda and meeting a boy who lost his parents to AIDS who is able to take comfort in the Bible, you get a sense of connectedness. It’s normally very hard to connect to these things.”






Shayne Moore of Wheaton, Illinois:
“I didn’t know the scope of the problem of HIV/AIDS. I’ve been a Christian all my life. Why isn’t this being talked about in the Christian community? I believe it is a spiritual issue. I have three children. I want my kids to know this is going on, too. I don’t want people to say to me 30 years from now, ‘You mean your generation didn’t do anything about it?’ ”






Aimee Fritz of Wheaton, Illinois:
“Instead of buying Christmas presents last year, my husband and I decided to give money to World Vision to combat AIDS. There was no other Christian organization we could find that was doing anything about this. There’s no excuse not to do anything. I don’t care how numb you are. We had a really cool Christmas morning. Instead of opening presents, we opened the Bible and had devotions.”