Missionaries Among UsBy Geoffrey M. Miller The average Haitian subsists on less than two dollars a day. Food shortages have led many Haitians to literally eat dirt ‹ mud mixed with shortening and salt, simply to assuage their hunger pangs. This has little or no impact on people in the Greater Johnstown region. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, many people died and property damage was estimated to be in the billions of dollars. This had little or no impact on people in the Greater Johnstown region. In Nicaragua there is an orphanage dedicated to saving the street children of Managua. When money runs short, the orphanage is forced to send the boys back onto the street. They keep the girls because on the street even the youngest are often kidnapped, shipped overseas and sold into sexual slavery. This has little or no impact on people in the Greater Johnstown region. Yet every year, hundreds of local people make enormous sacrifices to reach out and help those in need around the country and the world. Their stories are remarkable ‹ not just in terms of what they do, but why they do it. There is even a surprise ending: Reaching out to help others (for no reason other than that help is needed), can have a profound and lasting effect on the missionaries themselves. To continue this article, 
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