News & Views: Add It Up
Add It Up
Brotherly Love
Published 05.25.2005
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/add_it_up/Content?oid=19327
Annual budget of the largest church in Atlanta, First Baptist Church:
$13 million
Number of uninsured children in Georgia:
166,000
Approximate cost to give a basic check-up, without blood tests or vaccines, to all those children:
$12,450,000
Approximate number of Sudanese refugees who've fled to neighboring Chad because of tribal warfare:
250,000
Cost to shelter and feed those refugees for one year:
$13,590,000
Minimum number of homeless people in metro Atlanta
37,000
Minimum number of meals provided to homeless by the Open Door Community each year:
15,600
Annual budget of the nonprofit Open Door Community:
$440,000
Number of times Jesus lost his temper in the New Testament
1**He threw money changers out of a temple in Jerusalem.
Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Department of Community Health, Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Save Darfur Coalition, CARE, Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Open Door Community