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TWO LOADS OF ROCKS

 

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(Click the photos to watch the two videos!) In the two weeks since our last newsletter, Vision Complex's ARC (Agape Restoration Community) project in Tanzania has bought 16 hens and 4 roosters, so they'll not only have more eggs to sell, but also more chicks. They've already sold enough eggs to buy two loads of rocks for the foundation. Now they need $200 to feed the workers to carry the rocks and gravel to the trenches they've dug for the foundation, and mix and pour the cement... all by hand. And of course, the chickens need to be fed as well! We need your help! Can you donate for some people-food and chickenfeed? Please go to https://Agape-Restoration-Society.org/Vision-Complex and do what you can!

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only part of the world with sufficient human population to rely on manual labor. Why? It may be precisely because it is the "non-industrialized world." Did you notice the phrase "all by hand"? Think of all the back-breaking work involved: manually digging trenches for the foundation, carrying gravel and huge rocks by hand, mixing cement by hand, and making bricks by stomping in mud and putting it into forms: these people also grow their own food – they are in touch with nature, the real world. This all requires human strength and hard effort, whereas in the "industrialized world" of North America, Europe, and Asia we rely on machines and technology to do the hard physical labor so we can enjoy a "modern life" of ease and comfort. But this has led population decline by worshipping the things and careers that industrialization has produced and requires, rather than caring for people, especially for one's own family and neighbors.

As you will read in our newsletter articles below, the result of chasing after things instead of caring for people, namely raising our own families in the right way, is leading us to a demographic implosion: not enough babies are being born, so that within 20 years if not sooner, there won't be enough workers to support the ever-expanding proportion of elderly people. Thus, abortion and childlessness will inevitably lead to an unspoken policy of euthanasia of the elderly.

We have swallowed the line of (pseudo-)science and technology – "knowledge so-called" as in the KJV. We've bitten the bait, believed a false report, gone along with the crowd, and now we're hooked on a life of ease and comfort... and extinction:

1 "You shall not spread a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
4 If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, do not leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
6 You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
10 For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
12 Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
13 Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and do not invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth." (Exodus 23:1-13)

You can read the rest in our newsletter at https://agape-restoration-society.org/ARC-News/a-n_2024-11-16.htm, and share it!