PEOPLE OF THE WAY MUST ARISE!

So what can the Christian church do in times of a national crisis apart from fasting, praying, blogging and attending church faithfully each Sunday:

I believe that the greatest resource the Christian church has is it's people. And not just any people.

They have to be people of vision, of compassion, of righteousness.People with the knowledge & skills. People with financial means. People with influence. People in strategic positions of authority with the capabilities at their disposal to assist others in need!

These people must pool their resources and skills together to formulate and implement plans to help build the lives of people with in their territories that are suffering needlessly through this crisis.

They can formulate and implement plans for:

1. Providing skills based training to unemployed youths in area such as
agriculture such as farming, cattle, poultry, piggery, fishing or

in office work ie computer literacy, driving licenses, simple accountancy, banking etc.

2.Assist in securing employment opportunities for those who have lost employment.

3. Provide small business training for women, horticulture, garment, crafts, catering etc.

4.Providing the necessary capital to kick start the businesses.

5.Opening of "Soup Kitchens" or Resource Centres where needy, people who have been incapacitated by physical disabilites that can collect daily/weekly/monthly rations of groceries.

The Christian church is to be the CONSCIENCE of a nation. If things are going awry, the church should be recieving the warning signals and spring into action, not BURY IT'S HEAD UNDER THE CLOAK OF,

"EVERYTHINGS OK, JUST PRAY AND IT WILL GO AWAY, JUST STAY IN THE CHURCH AND KEEP PREACHING TO OURSELVES UNTIL WE ARE BLUE IN THE FACE. LET THE NATION GO TO THE DOGS ANYWAY, IT'S NONE OF OUR BUSINESS."

When the nation of Israel was going to be destroyed by it's enemies, a young Jewish woman arose, Esther, who in her strategic capacity as Queen of Persia made plans to save her people.

By the way, she did not hide in the closet and pray only for some angel to come down and save them. She stuck her neck out and risked death to save her country. Read the Holy Book in Esther chapter 8.

A Call to the CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THE PEOPLE OF THE WAY;

"FOR IF YOU REMAIN COMPLETELY SILENT AT THIS TIME, RELIEF & DELIVERANCE WILL ARISE FROM ANOTHER PLACE BUT YOU AND YOUR FATHERS HOUSE WILL PERISH. YET WHO KNOWS WHETHER YOU HAVE COME TO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS." Esther 4:14