Monthly Archives: March 2013

4,430

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Notes taken from a New Zealand BIBLE SOCIETY publication.

4,430

THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE

THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE

That’s the number of languages in the world that have no portion of the Bible. None whatsoever! And that figure represents about two-thirds of the world’s languages.

BIBLE TRANSLATION

Facts and Figures

  • There are 6,909 languages spoken in the world.

  • There are 2,479* of these languages with all or part of the Bible – for many, that means just a book of the Bible or maybe the four Gospels.
  • There are 451* languages that have a full Bible – 13 more than last year.
  • There are 1,185* languages that have a full New Testament.
  • There were 71 new Bible translation projects begun this year.
  • It takes a minimum of 12 years to complete a translation of the full Bible.

    NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION

    NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION

  • There are at least 250 different translations and editions of the  Bible in English. The rest of the world is not so fortunate.

Reading that I am challenged to:

1. read the Bible even more and

2. support Bible translation.

* figures as at 31 December 2008

 

 

“Child Poverty” in the NEWS

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werner-150x150TOO SHALLOW

In her ‘Maxim Institute’ column  called “Ending Child Poverty”Jane Sillloway Smith in THE NORTHERN AGE, Tuesday, March 27, 2013, says that discussing the material deprivations of Child poverty is too shallow.

She is pointing us too the poverty of:

1. addiction,

2. abuse,

3. lack of work,

4. poor education,

5. loss of hope,

6. broken relationships.

She says that “more than  money” is required to address the above mentioned poverty properly.

And here are her own words: “They require dedicated and compassionate neighbors, communities and social service providers – our hearts and our hands as well as our wallets.”

STILL TOO SHALLOW

I think there is still “a shallowness in this current discussion”.

Our  greatest poverty is that our relationship with our creator is broken. It needs to be repaired. P1110710-150x150The Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and repaired the relationship. Once our relationship with our creator is repaired through the Lord Jesus Christ we have hope. God is our Father and we are his children.

We can ask him to help us with everything: addiction, abuse, lack of work, poor education, loss of hope and broken relationships.)

EASTER CAMP 28 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2013

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COOPERS BEACH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CAMP

TAIPA BEACH - DOUBTLESS BAY

TAIPA BEACH – DOUBTLESS BAY

On our way from Kaitaia to the camp we are driving through TAIPA with Taipa Beach to the left.

COOPERS BEACH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CAMP

COOPERS BEACH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CAMP

 154 State Highway 10, Coopers Beach, Northland.

COOPERS BEACH

COOPERS BEACH

 Featured Speakers: Dean Vivian, Lew Meyer and Roland + Ruth Stark.

COOPERS BEACH

COOPERS BEACH

We were day visitors today – Friday – and stayed for a meal.

COOPERS BEACH

COOPERS BEACH

“What happens if you can no longer make decisions?”

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“What happens if you can no longer make decisions?”

That’s what it says on the front page of the Age Concern  New Zealand brochure. There are more questions in the pamphlet. The next question is: Do you have an enduring power of attorney (an EPA)?”

We find the answer to the first question in the Bible:

P1110710-150x150“Remember your Creator

Ecclesiastes 12:1-5

Intr.:

in the days of your youth,

1.  before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, ‘I find no pleasure in them’ –

2.  before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars  grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

a.  when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop,

b.  when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the window grow dim;

c.  when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding faints;

d.  when men rise up at the sound of birds, but all of their songs grow faint;

e.  when men are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets;

f.  when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags himself along and the desire no longer is stirred.

End:

Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets.”