“Ribbon Riders shine a light on suicide,” is an article called on the front page of our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE. (Thursday, February 27, 2014)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is very high.

In 2013 there were more than 540 suicides in New Zealand from the age of ten to seventy five.

Eighty per cent of those were Maori and eighty per cent were teenagers. Here where I live in the north of New Zealand the suicide rate was the highest last year.

Reading  the article “Ribbon Riders shine a light on suicide,” challenges me even more to shine the light of the Gospel.

In John 8:12 the Lord Jesus Christ says, “I am the light of the world.” And in Matthew 5:16 we read, “In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”