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The Australia Report
originates from the Australia office of the
Intercontinental Church of God. |
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12 March
2010 Greetings everyone, Last week I mentioned the weather a bit. Again this week. It was widely reported in the press that the area of flooding in south western Queensland was the size of the State of Victoria. That means it covered about (and it's still covering though moving slowly south into NSW) 91,000 square miles. That is about the size of all of Great Britain which is 94,247 square miles. That's a big flood. In fact, in places this flood broke 120 year old height records. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/st-george-charleville-brace-for-more-rain-as-flood-levels-rise-in-queensland/story-e6frf7jo-1225837465438 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1021291/queensland-floods-break-records-bureau http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2010/03/08/st-george-escapes-worst/ http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/queensland-floodwaters-closing-in-on-nsw-20100311-q1i6.html The birth of an elephant is not usually the subject of too much notoriety but this week Taronga Zoo in Sydney made the news twice. First on Monday reporting that an expected baby Asian elephant had died in the womb, there being no signs of life. On Thursday morning however news flashed that the baby elephant had been born during Wednesday night around 3.00am. A keeper found the mother looking disoriented and despondent around 6.00am and saw the baby lying some meters away. The keeper expected the baby was still born and dead. However the baby then lifted it’s head. It has been called a miracle. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/taronga-zoos-miracle-baby-elephant-mr-shuffles-doing-well/story-e6frg8y6-1225839610163 I was at the zoo today and enjoyed watching the elephants in particular. The new addition will be fun to watch too when he is ready to face the adoring crowds. We have seen several, two in particular, devastating earthquakes in just the past three weeks. There have been many more reported of lesser intensity. Though it is “early days “ for 2010 you might find this schedule of annual earthquakes recorded for each year from 1970 to date of interest. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/quake1.html The GTA telecast last Sunday was the program , “The BIBLE, fact or fiction?”. We offered the booklet and two part sermon by that title. The sermons were offered on cassette tape, audio CD and DVD. By far the DVD was most popular and just as well this is a really good quality picture DVD. As a matter of interest I was watching an ABC program Monday night, Q&A , which is a panel program usually involving some politicians and various other social commentator types or those of various professions. One guest last week was the British atheist Richard Dawkins. What a hectoring puffed up ego that fellow is. Anyway, all three politicians confessed to following their faith. I suspect a Catholic, a C of E and the other I could not be sure but lets say earnest nominal Christian. Having done so they all got themselves in a pickle with Dawkins over evolution/creation. How old is the earth? When and how did the earth come to be? By what process etc, etc. At times they stood their ground on their “faith” but fumbled with creation while appearing to concede evolution (under Dawkins hectoring). All in all an embarrassing display. I have to say the female Jewish rabbi may have done the worst of the the lot with her performance on the issues. I probably should not have but I did send one of the three pollies a package of GTA material from last Sundays program and some other CDs/DVDs on Noah’s Flood and an old GTA sermon on CD called “Evolution v Creation”. Who knows, it may help for next time this fellow has his beliefs in the Bible assailed on national television. However, returning to the topic the GTA telecast this week has brought in 104 responses, including 44 new contacts and a total of 123 program packages were dispatched. The latest bunch of weekly sermon DVDs will be dispatched to the DVD list early next week with the sermon material for Unleavened Bread and the Passover service. Have a good Sabbath. I will be attending with a number of others the fellowship group in East Maitland tomorrow. All the best. Murray Allatt Sydney |
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