"World View" is a set of 60-second radio spots by Rich Stearns, president of World Vision U.S., which have been converted to Real Media audio commentaries for the Web.

We invite you to use these spots for quick global updates for your church, or to send to your friends and acquaintances as an e-mail attachment. In order to listen to them you will need to have the free RealMedia player . . . click here to go get it. Then, when you have it, click on each of the real logos () to listen to each file.

World View Index

New commentaries posted 3/20/01. For additional commentaries, please click here.

Release Date	Commentary Title
3/19/2001	Colombia needs butter, not guns The Senate Appropriations Committee will be considering allocations to Plan Colombia in March. Colombia needs economic and humanitarian assistance, not just military aid.	Colombia_needs.rm
3/26/2001	Instead of a wedding, three funerals Navin Thakker took his family to Bhuj for a wedding on January 26. Instead of celebrating, he had to bury his mother, wife and oldest daughter.	three_funerals.rm
4/2/2001	Being good Samaritans to children If we saw a child dart into traffic, we'd try to save him. But every minute of every day, 15 children die of hunger and preventable illnesses.	good_samaritan.rm
4/9/2001	Make sure diamonds are not blood red Diamonds are fueling brutal wars in Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere. Congress is considering the "Clean Diamond Act" which would keep blood diamonds out of the United States.	diamonds.rm
4/16/2001	Food for the body, food for the soul For Indian earthquake survivors, food does more tha nourish the body, it helps to restore a sense of normalcy in shattered lives.	food.rm
4/23/2001	Equipping a farmer for the cost of a soda Drinking water instead of soda at fast-food restaurants has alowed my family to save about $450 a year - enough to equip a farmer in Malawi with a plow and two oxen.	farmer_soda.rm
4/30/2001	On the run in Colombia Imagine selling all that you have to ransom your 18-year-old daughter, then losing her anyway.	on_the_run.rm
5/7/2001	Minnesota Church responds to AIDS Christ Presbyterian Church in Minnesota is reaching out to hundreds of children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.	minnesota_church.rm
5/14/2001	Earthquakes are great levelers Earthquakes shake the rich and the poor with equal fury. But the poor have a harder time rebuilding their lives.	levelers.rm
5/21/2001	What are you going to do about it? A missionary thrust a rejected child into an evangelist's arms and asked a question which led to the founding of World Vision.	what_are_you.rm

For previous World View Commentaries, click here.