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Campaigns Awareness
TD Jakes Writes…
For years I’ve been telling you to Get ready…Get ready… Get ready. Now, it’s time to Be Ready! We’re entering the year 2010 and I am very excited about what God is about to do. The most important thing I want to stress for the New Year is “Strategy.” If you’re planning to use the struggle and adversity from 2009 to propel you forward in 2010, I believe you will be blessed!
The Bible says “write the vision and make it plain” (Hab 2:2). I’m encouraging the church and believers to get a strategy in place for 2010 by participating in the “My 2010 Plan” Campaign.
Consider sowing a special seed and over the next 365 days, let’s work together to set in place systems, order and structure for the entire year. To equip you with a few tools to help get your plan in place, we created a special web site: www.my2010Plan.org.
The year 2010 is not just a date, but looking back at 2009 and the worldwide recession gives us an indication of what is to come. Whenever God pulls back a bow, the arrow is going to go further than it’s ever gone before! I believe the year 2010 is going to be that turning point. God promises to restore the years that the cankerworm, palmer worm, and the locust have eaten.
In 2009, these vermin ate into resources – retirement, homes and finances. But our God has declared that the coming year will be the time of restoration and renewal. But you have to be prepared! I can’t stress that enough.
Start right now preparing your strategy and plan for 2010. Write your goals, work your plan and get ready to sow your seeds in expectation of a double portion harvest! I’m believing God for a double portion, not just financially, but of wisdom, faith, inspiration and the most important thing, a “Strategy.” Remember, what you plan for is what you are going to get!
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REPORT TAKEN FROM gothamist.com
The campaign will take over 20 Manhattan buses for about one month, and president of New York City Atheists, Ken Bronstein, says the test run could be reaching other boroughs later this year (the group’s website is taking donations for the next roll out). The ads read: “You don’t have to believe in God to be a moral and ethical person.”
Joseph Zwilling, the director of communications for the Archdiocese of New York, told CityRoom the ads were “not offensive in the Catholic Church’s view, given their wording. They’re not attacking or disparaging the Church as far as I can see.” While the message isn’t a rebuttal to that of another religious group’s, the site reports that the inspiration came from a similar campaign in London last year, which was in response to a Christian group’s whose message told nonbelievers that they would “spend all eternity in torment.”
The goal of the $10,000 NYC ad campaign is to increase membership—Bronstein says there has been an “atheism awakening” lately, and the practice was made more acceptable when President Obama included a reference to “nonbelievers” in his inaugural address. Previously, the MTA explained that the Jews for Jesus ads in the Times Square subway station were protected under the First Amendment.
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Report Taken from townhall.com
An anonymous donor is apparently donating thousands of dollars for the express purpose of advertising atheism in the New York City subway system. According to blogger Gothamist, yesterday kicked-off a month-long advertising blitz in a dozen Manhattan subway stations with signs advertising the slogan, “A Million New Yorkers Are Good Without God. Are You?”
In addition to promoting godlessness, the advertising will reportedly also be promoting a new book called Good Without God, by Greg Epstein.
The ads are being coordinated by “New York City Coalition for Reason,” an umbrella organization comprised of local atheist groups, City Room reports. According to their website, “All Big Apple COR organizations share common ground—promoting wider acceptance of a more rational and realistic view of the universe—but each has its own particular emphasis. Some advocate for scientific knowledge, reason, and skeptical inquiry. Some focus on the promotion of dogma-free humanist ethics, and an appreciation for life and the lives of other persons.”
New York isn’t the only city being targeted by these outspoken atheists. Chicagoist is also reporting on billboards that have popped-up in the Windy City: The billboard, located at LaSalle and Grand and paid for by the Chicago Coalition For Reason, says, “Are You Good Without God? Millions Are.”
The CCoR describes itself as “an exciting group of organizations in the Chicago area, each of which celebrates a human-centered and naturalistic approach to life. For us, non-dogmatic and rational approaches to ethics, culture and the human experience are the most meaningful and satisfying.”
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Survivor: Biadglign Befekadu still bears the scars of the famine to this day.
It is twenty five years since news of the dreadful famine in Ethiopia hit our televisions screens with its distressing pictures of orphaned and abandoned children. In the month when the Ethiopian government is again calling for food aid, St Matthew’s Children’s Fund Ethiopia (SMCF) is launching its Twenty5 campaign, to raise funds for the longer-term investment which is so vital in enabling communities, and their children, to withstand the effects of future famines exacerbated by climate change.
The campaign aims to fund work with a number of poor urban communities throughout Ethiopia so that they can better care for their orphaned and ‘at risk’ children. The work will include promoting urban agriculture and environmental improvement, providing water and sanitation, setting up income generation training, women’s self-help groups and also strengthening the community’s own capacity to care for its members.
Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu
The campaign is endorsed by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu who says: “It is 25 years since Michael Buerk’s groundbreaking reports from Ethiopia which drew the attention of a generation to the devastation caused by the famine of 1984. Since that time the work of organisations like the St Matthew’s Children’s Fund Ethiopia have done much to alleviate the poverty and suffering in this proud country. Please support the Twenty5 appeal for SMCF and its work in giving children a family, an education and the skills to earn their living in Ethiopia.”
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I AM A CHRISTIAN
Everyday Christians are finding it increasingly difficult to openly express their faith.
The National Secular Society has encouraged 100,000 people to sign a certificate to “debaptise” themselves as part of their campaign to allow people to revoke their baptisms.
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Testimonies from actors, business leader, musicians and athletes on how Jesus changed their lives.
iamsecond.com
Brian Phillip Welch (born June 19, 1970), better known as Head, is an American musician best known as the former lead guitarist/co-founder of the band Korn. Welch left the band in 2005 due to personal beliefs and to focus on life as a father.
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