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Sunday Morning Bible Study: “Walk” 2016 Eastern North Dakota Synod Assembly Sunday, June 5, 2016

And what does the LORD require of you? to do justice, to love do love mercy and to walk humbly with your walk humbly God. -Micah 6:8

Balige, Indonesia, Asia

Oka, Edwin, Angel and Nurhayati

Photo credit: C. Peterson

Photo credit: F.Ishida

Numbers 27:1-11

Questions: Warm Up • Who in your life has modeled “humbleness” and “courage,” and what you have learned from them? • Have you heard the story of the Daughters of Zelophehad before? • Back home, who do you know who urgently needs to hear this story of good news and faith in a merciful God?

• Close to one billion people are hungry, and about three billion people are not eating well (obese, overweight and micronutrient deficient)(UNFAO). • We produce enough food to feed every person on the planet (by some accounts, 1.5 times enough), but 1/3 of that food never reaches the plate (UNFAO).

• Less than one quarter of agricultural land holdings in developing countries is operated by women (UNFAO). • Rural women produce half the world’s food , and in developing countries, between 60-80% of food crops (UNFAO).

• In the United States, women farmers control 7% of U.S. farmland , a 2% decrease since the previous mark in 2007. These female-headed farms accounted for 3% of sales (USDA 2012). • If women had the same agricultural access to resources and markets as men, yield gaps would close by 20- 30%, reducing the number of undernourished people by 100-150 million (UNFAO).

Questions: The Info Some interpretations of “walking humbly” name it as “walking attentively” with God. Given the previous information: What are some injustices • happening today that we might pay more attention to as we walk humbly with God? What things do you care about, • see and know that are missing from the list?

Questions: The Love Issue As God showed God’s love for us • through Christ, how can we truly share and show that love for our neighbors today? What holds us back? • What compels us forward? •

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