Will Obama’s inauguration be an opportunity for the world’s poor?

Got this email from the Micah Challenge: Will Obama’s inauguration be an opportunity for the world’s poor?

The short answer is No! But I really do believe it can have an impact upon the way that our world can refocus it's priorities and values. With Obama in office there are reasons to be hopeful, he is high intelligent, motivated and also passionate about peoples freedom but not forgetting the communal responsibilities we have. The reason why I don't think that his inauguration will be an opportunity for the poor is because he is just one man (even if he is the President!!).

We all have the opportunity to serve and support the poor, even in this difficult economic climate. We can't pin our hopes on one man and leave him to it. He is going to need some help.
Whether in the US, UK or Africa each of us can do something. Our church has raised £225 to buy a cow and goats for families in Africa and we run a Breakfast and After School club for children in a deprived area of Nottingham.

We have loads of opportunities within our local community to serve the poor. Obama is more than welcome to join us but I am sure we will manage without him.

Matt

There is no God!

'No God' campaign draws complaint

Scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins backed the campaign
An atheist campaign claiming "There's probably no God" has been reported to the advertising regulator.
Posters with the slogan appear on 800 buses in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as on the London Underground.
But organisation Christian Voice has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority saying they break rules on substantiation and truthfulness.
The British Humanist Association, which backed the campaign, said it was not taking the complaint seriously. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7818980.stm

I can't help feeling a little embarrassed that the Christian Voice have lodged this complaint. The God I believe in isn't worried about what people think of Him, he's worried if people know Him.

So maybe we should let the athesit waste thier money on expensive ads and we should concentrate on the people in our community who don't yet know Him.

Matt

New Year

For someone who has a lot to say, I have been very quiet on the blogging front. I have being thinking about it lots but have not mustered up the will to do it. Not only that I have not being running since we moved to Aspley and I am feeling very unfit!!
So my new years resolution is to blog three times a week and run twice a week. So here is my blog entry and tomorrow morning I will be out running!!!!

On Saturday in the Pub after football I had a fairly random conversation with a guy called John. I had never me him before then but hopefully will again. We got chatting about my "Salvation Army hoddie." what he said has stuck with me over the past few days. He said "I thought you lot had gone, where are you!" A good question for us a church to answer. That is the second time I have heard that question in a few months - Jimmy Carr that asks that question at his gig.

So where are we? What are we doing? Who knows who and where we are? These are the questions we both locally and nationally we need to answer......and quickly.

What are we going to do about it?

Matt