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Thoughts from a Developing World

There was a big smile on his face. Almost as big as the rip in his jumper and the holes in his shoes. ‘Excuse me sir… are you Miss Turner’s father?’ I assured him I was. ‘Please say hello to her!’ And with that he was gone and I was back to mixing an endless supply of concrete. I’ve been working in the orphanage town of Bulembu, Swaziland for the last two and a half weeks. Swaziland has one of the highest rates of HIV and AIDS in the world. A poor African country by any measure, it would be called ‘developing’ in our ‘PC’ world. But maybe it’s more developed than we give it credit for? Life there is simple – and poor. But the joy in that boy’s eyes as he recognised me as Lois’ father (Lois used to work there) was wonderful. We can help build, help finance and more, but one thing they don’t need is the joy of living. As our team of 20 from KingsGate Church return to the ‘developed world’, there is much to reflect on. Contrast the openness of the children and their joy of life with our s...

The Human Population Through Time

This is a stunning graphical illustration of the growth of the human population. It took 200,000 years for the population to reach 1 billion. It took just 200 years for it to reach 7 billion. 'And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”' (Genesis 1: 28) Let's be careful how we interpret that command.