The document discusses poverty rates among children in several European countries and in the United States, with over 1 in 6 American children living in poverty. It notes that Detroit has the highest poverty rate in the US and explores what it means to be poor from a biblical perspective, highlighting that God loves the poor as Jesus lived among and identified with the poor during his time on Earth.

1. What do you think it means to be poor or needy?

2. Steve Sjogren says… “ That group of people consisting of the least, the lost, the left behind and the lonely, who are very close to Jesus’ heart.”

5. Detroit has the highest poverty rate in the United States!

8. God loves the poor God loves the poor so much that sent Jesus to live with them During Jesus’ time here on earth, he was a member of a poor family Jesus lived amongst the poor

10. God loves the poor Matthew 25:34- 46 1 John 3:16- 18 James 2:15- 17