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INTERESTING ITEMS

THE WORLD'S 1O MOST HONEST CITIES?

Would you keep a mobile phone or a wallet if you found one or hand it in to the local police station?  Reader's Digest wanted to know.

They randomly chose some of the world's cities and deliberately "lost" 30 mobile phones in each of them.  Then they advised the nearest police stations and waited for a call from the finder.

They then put together a list of the world's top ten honest cities.  We highlight the winners below in order of merit.
 

1. Ljubljana, Slovenia
The capital of Slovenia was the surprising winner of the test. Many stories in the press concentrate on the less honest and unattractive aspects of Eastern Europe but 29 out of 30 cell phones were returned to their rightful owner.
 

2. Toronto, Canada
Canada's largest city should be proud of its inhabitants where 28 out of 30 phones were returned. This should not be any surprise really as Canada has, for many years, ranked highly in surveys of life quality and contentedness of the population.
 

3. Seoul, South Korea
South Korea has to be one of the world's leading countries in gadgets and the latest technology. Maybe our latest mobiles were "old hat" for the Koreans as 27 out of 30 were returned. Could it be that the missing three were retained by tourists?
 

4. Stockholm, Sweden
The first North European city on the list, Stockholm ranked fourth which may come as a disappointment as the city has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. Four phones went missing.
 

5. Mumbai, India (Joint 5th Position)
Mumbai has a lot to be proud of considering the dense population of this rapidly growing city. With 60% of Mumbai's population living in slums, this is proof that poverty does not lead to dishonesty. Only six phones lost.
 

5. Manila, the Philippines (Joint 5th Position)
Another Asian surprise! The second most populated city of Philippines shares the fifth rank with Mumbai and New York. Only 6 phones went missing.
 

5. New York, USA (Joint 5th Position)
Not bad for New York considering the number of inhabitants and tourists, combined with the absolute anonymity one has in the 'Big Apple'. 6 phones went AWOL.
 

8. Helsinki, Finland (Joint 8th Position)
Helsinki is the second Scandinavian representative, proving that it is a safe choice for the World Design Capital in 2012 with 7 phones going missing.
 

8. Budapest, Hungary (Joint 8th Position)
Budapest, the capital of Hungary and ranked third in an Emerging Markets Index of 2008, attracts over 20 million tourists every year and should be proud of its place in the survey.
 

8. Warsaw, Poland (Joint 8th Position)
Despite being razed to the ground during the Second World War, our seventh capital in the top 10 has a thriving economy and hardiness to make it to the top ten.

Are you surprised by that list?  Are there any conclusions you could draw, other than those mentioned?  Wouldn't you like to know which the most dishonest cities were, the bottom 10?!  I wonder if London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast were included, where would they stand?

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“STREET PASTORS” IN BANGOR

Several Bangor Churches have agreed to support the introduction of “Street Pastors” to Bangor.  Discussions with the Police and Gwynedd council received a favourable response.  Street Pastors willing to commit to 12 days training and 12 nights duty per annum are now being recruited.  A co-ordinator is also needed, willing to devote about two days a week to the task. 

Contact: Paul Rowlinson 01248 605365

paul.rowlinson@trysor.f9.co.uk

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CYTUN CONWY COUNTY BOROUGH CHORALE

Cytun Chorale is intending to perform once again Stainer's Crucifixion on Palm Sunday 2010.  The venue for the performance is still to be arranged.
The Chorale will be reconvening on Thursday 18th February at 7.30pm to commence practices.  They will be held every Thursday on the run-up to Palm Sunday at either St Paul's or Dewi Sant in Colwyn Bay
You are warmly invited to come and join us and / or to promote the rehearsals within your church choir / congregation / noticeboards
Contact: David Smith

cytunccb@hotmail.co.uk

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15 YEARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

“The last 15 years have changed our world for ever,” claims Tony Whittaker, co-ordinator of Internet Evangelism Day. “Digital media are transforming the way we communicate, behave and even think. If Facebook was a country, it would have the fourth largest population in the world.”

Internet Evangelism Day is a strategic resource to help the worldwide church understand these issues and use the Web to share the good news. It is both a year-round online guide and an annual focus day - to be held this year on Sunday 25 April.

Churches are encouraged to use Internet Evangelism Day resources to create a presentation for their members on or near that Sunday (or at any other time they choose). The IE Day site offers free downloads: PowerPoint, video clips, handouts, drama scripts, music and posters. These enable any church (or homegroup, college, or conference) to build a customized program, lasting from five minutes to fifty.

2010’s focus day will be the sixth to be used by churches around the world since the initiative’s launch in 2005. Over this period, digital media have developed dramatically, with the advent of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and the growing use of mobile phones to access online services.
The outreach opportunities have multiplied too.

IE Day’s website is also a one-stop resource covering many subjects, including how to build a church website that is ‘outsider friendly’, using Twitter in evangelism, and blogging. Perhaps surprisingly, you do not need to be technical to share your faith online. And you can volunteer to be an email mentor to inquirers with several large online outreach ministries.

Internet Evangelism Day is an initiative of the Internet Evangelism Coalition, based at the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton, Illinois. It is supported by a wide range of leaders and groups. “I am glad to commend Internet Evangelism Day,” says John Stott.

For more help, visit the website:
www.InternetEvangelismDay.com

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IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DAB RADIO, NOW'S THE TIME TO GET ONE!

UCB (UNITED CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS) HAS ACQUIRED A NATIONAL DAB LICENSE

From TUESDAY 1ST DECEMBER they will broadcast across the UK

For more information go here -

www.ucb.co.uk

PREMIER CHRISTIAN RADIO HAS GONE NATIONAL!

MONDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER

No longer just available on you're television sets or through the Internet, but across the nation on DAB radio

For more information go here -

www.premier.org.uk/features/premiers%20gone%20national.aspx

VOICE IN THE CITY

350 children and young people from the deprived backstreets of Croxteth and Norris Green in Liverpool are delivering a message of hope to the country.  The choir of 5-17yr olds, known as “A Voice Of One” have united their communities through the power of music and recorded a CD.  “You’re The Voice” (the John Farnham classic) will be released as an anti-gun, gang and knife crime message, on Friday 18th September, 2009

Buy the song and help take it to No 1 - available online

www.voiceinthecity.org.uk

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FNT - FRIDAY NIGHT THEOLOGY

Evangelical Alliance's regular email comment on a news event of the week

Learn more about it, read some samples, or sign up now -

SOME INTERESTING WEBSITES

Christians for Zion

www.christiansforzion.com

Worship from Wales

www.worshipfromwales.com

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EVERYCLICK MAKES A DIFFERENCE! - FUNDRAISE FOR CHRISTIAN CHARITIES

Just in case you are not already using Everyclick - an easy method involving no cost to you, of donating money, for example to help Christians suffering for their faith - here is the link - www.everyclick.com

Here are just a few of the thousands of Christian charities that you can fund raise for on Everyclick

If your favourite charity is not listed on their website, you can search for it amongst their over 200,000 UK charities including schools and churches

www.everyclick.com/charity-directory/religious-charities

You can also add a charity that is not on their website by contacting them

Contact: Everyclick 0870 005 5050

www.everyclick.com

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ALBANIA OR KOSOVA AT YOUR CHURCH

The Director of the Albanian Evangelical Mission (David Young, Bradley Road Baptist Church, Wrexham) would be grateful for an opportunity to come to your church on a Sunday or midweek meeting to tell you about the situation and the Lord’s work in Albania, Kosova or Macedonia. The main ministries are church-planting; publishing Christian literature in Albanian; training Albanian church workers; young people’s summer camps; some humanitarian work.

For fuller details see our website www.aemission.org

Contact: David Young 01978 290138

office@aemission.org

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OFFERED FREE!

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COFFEE CUP POLITICS  -  ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN POLITICS MADE SIMPLE
 

What happens when a fly falls into a coffee cup?

The Italian throws the cup and walks away in a fit of rage

The Frenchman takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee

The Chinese eats the fly and throws away the coffee

The Russian drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge

The Israeli sells the coffee to the Frenchman, the fly to the Chinese, buys himself a new cup of coffee and uses the extra money to invent a device that
prevents flies from falling into coffee

The Palestinian blames the Israeli for the fly falling in his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian
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"Who am I? - SAVED" (The Christian's identity in a confused & shaking world)

A new book by GWYNEDD HARDING-JONES

"Well worth reading and passing on to others"   Ruth Owen

£7.00 each

Copies available by post - for postage & packing please add the following:

1 book - add £1.95, 2 books - add £2.95, 3/4 books - add £3.95, 5-9 books - add £4.95, 10+books - please ring or e-mail

Please make cheques payable to 'Gwynedd Jones' and send with details of number required, and your name and address (incl. postcode) to:

Haulfre, Penmynydd Road, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey LL61 5JT

Contact: Gwynedd Jones 01248 716459

gwyneddjones@hotmail.co.uk

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SCHOOL TEACHERS REQUIRED IN ALBANIA!

YES, I KNOW IT’S NOT IN NORTH WALES… BUT THE ANSWER MAYBE!

ALTHOUGH THIS REFERS TO 2008/2009 STAFF ARE STILL REQUIRED FOR 2009/2010

URGENT UP-DATE ON BELOW ITEM

Unexpected news this week has lead to an urgent situation for our teaching staff for the next year

Maybe you're are the person we need, just the person we are looking for....
To come or to pray for the right people to see this message
 

Top Priority
Maths Teacher Years 6 - 9 (one class per year)
We follow the National Curriculum Guide lines (pre any 2007/8 changes)

Kindergarten Teacher (Reception/rising year 1's, 5 year olds new to school)

Secondary Need
Literacy Teacher years 6-9
We follow the National Curriculum Guide lines (pre any 2007/8 changes)

Term Starts 3rd September
The earlier you can make it and the longer you can stay... the more you answer our prayers
 

If you can help please contact the Director as below
 

GJERASIM D. QIRIAZI (GDQ) SCHOOL

Christian Education for the International Community of Children in Tirana, Albania

www.gdqschool.org

Are YOU interested in Teaching overseas?

If you are a certified teacher in your own country, or someone who will be graduating soon with a degree in education and you feel led to work at GDQ, please email us at the following address gdqschool@icc-al.org to find out more about this great school and the benefits we provide.

STAFFING NEEDS:

2008/9 Academic Year Vacancies:

As well as traditional teaching responsibilities, candidates must be willing to:

Also looking for secondary teachers, especially for 2009/2010, though earlier if possible

Please pray, if the Lord leads you to, and pass on this information to anyone who might be interested in helping!  Unless, of course, it’s you!

Contact: Roger Pearce, School Director

School Phone/ Fax: 00 355 4 258948

Mobile: 00 355 692072593
Skype address: gdqiriazi

Director Email: director@gdqschool.org

School web page: www.gdqschool.org

Alternately, please write to:
GDQ School
C/o AEP (Box 89)
K.P. 119
Tirana,

Albania

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ALIVE AND KICKING ABORTION CAMPAIGN AND PETITION LAUNCHED

The Alive and Kicking Alliance launched its campaign on abortion with a fully updated website at:
www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org

Alive and Kicking brings together eleven organisations including Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship, Christian Medical Fellowship, ProLife Alliance, Maranatha, CARE, LIFE, and the Evangelical Alliance
With The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill about to be debated in the House of Commons, the Alliance aims are:
* A substantial lowering of the upper limit of 24 weeks for abortion
* An end to discriminatory abortion up until birth for disabled babies
* Fully informed consent for women contemplating abortion
The main features of the campaign are:
* An online data base of MPs past voting record and current voting intentions on abortion:
www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/mp/searchmp.php

* A petition calling for reform of the abortion law aimed at gaining 100,000 signatures:
www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/petition

* An online information pack for people to use in lobbying MPs:
www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/public/pdf/aaklobbypack.pdf

Please do let people know about the campaign and in particular encourage them to:
* Sign the petition and print off a downloaded version for people in churches to sign and post in
www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/public/pdf/petition.pdf

* Let us know their MPs voting intentions
voting@aliveandkickingcampaign.org

Targeting MPs Views on Abortion and Action Pack
As mentioned above, by using the database you can select your MP (by entering your postcode) and find out where they stand on abortion. There are some MPs whose opinions on abortion we do not know. If your MP is one of them please write or visit their surgery asking them specifically where they stand on abortion, and let us know their response. Please forward MPs’ responses to

voting@aliveandkickingcampaign.org

or 020 7407 6157
Note the majority MPs hold (how many votes they won their seat by in the last election), which you can find on the MPs’ database on the Alive and Kicking website. If they have a small majority work with the churches in your constituency to lobby your MP to represent your views on abortion in Parliament. If the number of Christians lobbying an MP is higher than the majority they hold, this may persuade them to represent your view in Parliament rather than lose their seat at the next election! You can lobby your MP using the Alive and Kicking Action Pack.

Julia Millington
Alive and Kicking Campaign
Tel: 020 7584 7186
Alive and Kicking Alliance includes CARE, Christian Medical Fellowship, CORE, Evangelical Alliance, Guild of Catholic Doctors, Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship, LIFE, Maranatha, Prolife Alliance, Real Choice, Student Life Net.

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'Mystery worshippers' secretly visiting Shropshire churches have praised them for their sermons and warm welcomes.  The 13 inspectors, normally paid to visit shops posing as ordinary shoppers, said they were genuinely surprised by their visits.  Churches in Telford and Oswestry scored between 90 and 100% in tests, according to Heart of England Christian Resources Exhibition.  The aim of the test was to find out how churches could meet people's needs.  Mystery worshipper Mike Sadler, who lives in Telford, said although he does not go to church it was interesting to see how things have changed over the years.  Benita Hewitt, from the Christian Research Association which organised the study, said: 'Although the churches in Telford were given no advance warning, several scored more than 90%, with two achieving 100%.  Most of our mystery worshippers were genuinely surprised by the warmth of their experience in church and some were even keen to go back for more.'

Praise: God that when He is worshiped He will draw all men unto Him. (John12:32)

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We have just produced a booklet entitled "Who is this God?" designed to help people understand the Christian view of who God is and what He is like. In this post modern age, people are bombarded with so many different perspectives of spirituality, yet often have very little understanding of the unique Christian view. This resource helps address this enabling people to really understand. There is also a multi-format cd available which presents the same concepts but using both audio and visual formats.
Individual copies of either cost just £1.95 and there are very substantial discounts available for bulk orders. (e.g. £75 for 100)
What's more the booklets can be personalised to include details of your church with logos, service information etc. With Christmas fast approaching this could be a great resource to give to visitors to your Christmas services, or what about using it during HOPE 08?
 

For more information call 0845 050 4566 or visit our website: www.nationwidechristiantrust.com
Contact: Andy Twilley 01527 579785 / 07710 679648
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http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/

Well worth a look to see if there are Petitions that hold a biblical worldview and which could warrant your "signature"

Remember, too, that you could create a Petition yourself!

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"The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.  Oh! the horror of it..."

Preaching without unction kills instead of giving life...  The Word does not live unless the unction is upon the preacher.  Preacher, with all thy getting - get unction...
Preaching is a spiritual business.  A sermon born in the head reaches the head; a sermon born in the heart reaches the heart.  Under God, a spiritual preacher will produce spiritually minded people...
Unction cannot be learned, only earned - by prayer...  Victory is not won in the pulpit by firing intellectual bullets... but in the prayer closet; it is won or lost before the preacher's foot enters the pulpit...
When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed."
 

"No man is greater than his prayer life...
The pulpit can be a shop-window to display one's talents, the prayer closet allows no showing off...

The pastor who is not praying, is playing; the people who are not praying, are straying...

We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters.

Failing here (i.e. in the place of prayer), we fail everywhere...
The ministry of prayer - the highest ministry of all human offices - is open to all...

To be much for God, we must be much with God...
The secret of praying is praying in secret.

A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, not even bent.
Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the businessman...
For this kind of prayer, there is no substitute. We do it - or die!
He who kneels before God will stand in any situation...

There are no reduced rates for revolution of soul...

This sin-swamped world calls for unction in the pulpit and action in the pew!
My reader, because the Church has lost Holy Ghost fire, men go to hell-fire!"
 

'Why revival tarries' by Leonard Ravenhill

"When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them a-praying".
Matthew Henry

"When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposeth us all he can".
R. Sibbles

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FED UP PAYING RIDICULOUS PETROL PRICES?

SAVE MONEY WITH A FREE PIPELINE CARD!

Register at the following website http://www.pipelinecard.org/ which has been set up to secure cheaper petrol for its members.

It's free to join and expects to deliver discounts of between 5p and 10p a litre on petrol & diesel.

There are now savings on domestic heating oil, too.

Why not take a look and see what you think?

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CALLING ALL MOBILE PHONE USERS

East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In Case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign with the support of Falklands war hero, Simon Weston, and in association with Vodafone's annual life savers award.

The idea is that you store the word "I C E" in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".
In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them.

It's so simple that everyone can do it.  Please do.  Please will you also tell everybody you know, it won't take long before everybody will know about this.  It really could save your life.
For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc

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