I have decided to move my blog over to wordpress http://mardibum63.wordpress.com/ I will keep this one going for a while then shut it down down

Today we had Richard Mayabi from Kenya with us.He came to us along with Paul Ede who has visited his church in Nairobi and has been studying with him at ICC.
It was a great blessing to have him preach and to hear his passion for God,yes he comes from a different world but I felt challenged by his words.He reminded us of the power of Gods word to change things ,the power we have to speak that word not only to ourselves but to others.
I believe we have much to learn from our brothers and sister in Africa I think they can help us to believe again that with God all things are possible.So a big thank you to Richard and you never know I may take him up on his invitation to visit Nairobi next year along with Paul and a few others.

Found this on TSK thenines looks like it could be a great idea.An on line leadership conference with 9 minute messages from an amazing list of leaders .The event starts today and is free but you must register.You can dip in and out through the day and join in through twitter and a few other techno gizmos.

http://thenines.leadnet.org/

Here we are in the middle of the worst recession in living memory and all our elected officials care for is more politics.Our country is bleeding jobs like never before and not a word,apprentices are being laid of, manufacturing is being strangled of cash by the banks who have taken our cash and kept it, and hip hip hurray we have more "finance jobs" (call centre workers).These jobs add nothing to our nation and are moved out asap because the skills are easy to teach and it takes no time to replace them in another part of the world.

And the governments answer .Lets talk about independence lets put a minimum price on alcohol to stop people drinking.Apparently alcohol is responsible for people missing to many days of work as well as all sorts of social evils .Well those with no jobs wont need to worry about missing work now will they!

It has not taken long for those in Edinburgh to become completely detached from reality .These are people who think its more important to talk about Independence than it is to keep food on our tables.I have said this before and I will say it again.I remember voting for devolution and having such high hopes for it.But this programme shows that what we have here is just a glorified more expensive version of local council.A parliament that either cannot or will not get involved in the reality of life in Scotland today.

Shame on those up in there big expensive house I want to vote but not on independence I want to vote to get rid of this useless lair of politics that serves no other purpose but the stroking of small nation ego's.