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special features 1 Super Love Keeps Dami Grounded by Richard Miller 3 Do Science and God Mix? with Professor John Lennox 7 The Perils of DIY Wills by Ai Phan 9 CBMC Living Up to its Name with Lin Andrews and Andrew Marsh

regular features 11 RiseVibes: Blood and Roses by Cindy Williams 11 RiseWise: Africa by Dr Nick Hawkes

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Dami Im talks about the special relationship be-husband Noah to sponsor, too. began she was a teenager and Somoli that has helped her to keep her X-Factor “We wanted to sponsor children from the just seven. In the years that passed, Dami experience in perspective. same country because we thought one day realised that Somoli didn’t love her because we could go and visit them together,” she she was a great singer or a TV star—she You might recognise her from Channel explains. loved her because they had been through a Seven’s The X Factor: the statuesque young lot together, they’d written to each other and woman in impossible heels and glamorous That was before The X Factor made Dami encouraged each other. It was a small anchor costumes, her winning smile, her quiet grace Im a household name. Little did she know in a storm of media attention, but along with and poise. Even if you’re not a television that she would have the chance one day to her own faith and her husband’s constant watcher, you’d recognise that incredible travel to India with Compassion to meet her love and support, it helped. voice soaring on your radio waves, most sponsored child, Somoli. recently in her new single Super Love. “Through X Factor things were crazy, and *** even after [the show] a lot of things in my life Dami Im—the winner of Australia’s 2013 The changed, but having a relationship with my X Factor—is a star on the rise. But even in Always passionate about music—she plays sponsored child kept me more grounded.” the glare of the media spotlight, this humble classical piano and the violin as well as 25-year-old is keeping her feet on the ground singing—Dami says she was a performer *** and her heart open to children living in from a young age, but struggled for the poverty by partnering with Compassion confidence to take others’ opinions in her In March 2014, Dami and Somoli met face to Australia as an ambassador and sponsor. stride. After years of self-doubt, she says she face for the first time when Dami and Noah didn’t know whether her dream of a pop travelled to India with Compassion to see She says her support for Compassion began music career could ever come true. firsthand the difference their sponsorship when she was a university student, years was making. before she’d even dreamed of appearing on a When Noah urged her to audition for The X television show. Factor, she saw a way to cast off her shackles Now 14 years old, Somoli dreams of and chase her dream. becoming a nurse to help her friends and “I got into uni and I was doing some private neighbours access good quality medical care. teaching, music teaching, so I was earning “When I decided to audition I was at the a little bit of money,” Dami says. “I felt like I point where I just really wanted to sing in Communicating with the help of a translator, wanted to do something about the poverty Australia, but I was so frustrated because and through hugs and gifts, Dami says she that’s going around in the world … but I I didn’t know how to get that happening. could clearly see the difference sponsorship didn’t know what to do about it.” [Noah] just thought I was being too hesitant, makes in Somoli’s life, and in the lives of and so he gave me a gentle push to try children living in poverty in her community. When Dami, a committed Christian, heard harder. I eventually agreed and decided to about Compassion on the radio and give The X Factor a shot.” “I can see that Compassion has started through her local church, she decided to something that is very hopeful,” she says. sponsor a child. She knew that through her From her first audition, it was clear that the “A child in the program [has] access to sponsorship, a child in a developing country Korean-born beauty had a special quality. education, help with hygiene, medical things would have opportunities to go to school, to Viewers all over the country fell in love—and and fitness and all sorts of different care— receive good nutrition, a safe place to play Dami’s quiet life exploded into song. and they’re being looked after spiritually as and much more. It seemed like a good place well. to start in her fight against poverty, especially Yet even in the most hectic months of her when she found out that Compassion life, when her schedule was brimming over “I think it’s really effective that Compassion works in partnership with local churches in with rehearsals, interviews, photo shoots runs their programs only through churches developing communities. and promotional spots—not to mention the because local churches understand their pressure of performing in front of a national area and the children better than anyone … “I feel so humbled to know that by audience every week—Dami knew she had it’s really important that the child gets the sponsoring a child with Compassion, I’m to keep her perspective. opportunity to realise that somebody really changing someone’s life in such a big way,” cares for them and that they’re not alone in she says. It was then that writing letters to Somoli, her their hardship. sponsored child in India, helped Dami to see Her first sponsorship began in 2007, and it the opportunity she had to make a difference “Now that I’ve seen what Compassion does, I didn’t take her long to convince her soon-to- in others’ lives. When their relationship have witnessed that it works.”

1 About Dami Im Dami is a South Korean-born Australian singer and music teacher who won the fifth series of The X-Factor Australia in 2013. She released her winner’s single “Alive” and debut album through Sony Music Entertainment Australia, both of which debuted at number one on the ARIA charts and achieved multi-platinum sales. The 25-year-old is a committed Christian from Queensland who attends Brisbane Full Gospel Church with her husband, Noah. Dami immigrated to Australia with her family at the age of nine. She studied at the Young Conservatorium of Music, graduated with honours in music from the University of Queensland, and is an accomplished violinist and pianist. See more on Dami and her music at: damiim.com

About Compassion Australia Compassion is Australia’s second largest development and child advocacy ministry supported by over 73,000 Australian child sponsorship organisation and is part of working in partnership with local churches sponsors. Compassion International, a global network to foster the development of over 1.3 million of both funding countries and 26 developing children living in extreme poverty. More See more about Compassion at: countries. Together we are a Christian child than 100,000 of these children are currently compassion.com.au

Dami with her sponsored child Somoli. Photograph by Paul Mergard 2 Do Science and God Mix? Oxford University Professor of Mathematics John Lennox responds to some key questions about science and faith. These articles are transcribed from Professor Lennox’s online video resources.

3 Does Nature Point to a Creator? the human mind is simply the accidental by- product of a mindless, purpose-less process. Can one see evidence of a Creator in nature? Well, one begins to wonder how such an I believe that one can. Nature is not neutral. apparatus could begin to deliver any kind of It’s not as Stephen J Gould, the famous truth at all. Indeed many noted philosophers palaeontologist, put it, that whatever we like Alvin Plantinga are bearing down on think of God, there’s no evidence of Him this – that this atheistic explanation of the in nature. I think there very much is. But I universe undermines the very rationality would start, actually, with the fact that one which all scientists must believe in to do of the Biblical claims is that ‘the heavens their science. declare the glory of God and the earth shows His handiwork’. I always remember Whereas Christianity tells us, or theism more – because I studied in Cambridge – that generally tells us, that the reason we can do the brilliant scientist James Clerk Maxwell, science is that the same God that created the who gave us electro-magnetic theory, had universe out there ultimately is responsible inscribed over the door of the Cavendish for the creation of the human mind in here, Laboratory, where many of the epoch making and that makes perfect sense. So I would experiments in physics were done, ‘great are start with the very doing of science. To quote the works of the Lord sought out by those [or Professor Richard Swinburne of Oxford: studied by those] who take delight in them’. ‘I postulate God to explain why science explains’. In other words the very order that James Clerk Maxwell, along with many of we discover through science is a pointer the great pioneers of science – indeed, towards something deep and intelligent practically all of the early ones, like Galileo, underlying that order. Kepler and Newton – saw evidence of God in nature and in fact they devoted their science But then of course I would come to the to explicating that evidence in, as Galileo put actual science itself. We discover that we live it, the language in which God had written it – in a fine tuned universe, i.e. the fundamental the language of mathematics. constants of nature have to be very precise within very small tolerances, if you are to So my first response to [this question] is have a universe in which carbon based life this, that the Christian cradle gave birth is possible. And I’m interested in what some to modern science, in the sense that the of the physicists who are not necessarily contemporary scientific set of investigations theists are saying about it. That it is an arose because of the conviction that there overwhelming indicator of intelligence. is a designer, an intelligence, a God who created and upheld nature. That set people So those kinds of things seem to me to free and encouraged them actually to do mount up and one tends to agree with science. And one of the greatest evidences Fred Hoyle who, when he found the carbon to me that that is the case is the fact that resonances that are necessary for carbon we can do science and mathematics at to be created, said something like ‘a super all. We find the mathematics that we intellect has monkeyed with physics and do in our heads in here corresponds to chemistry’. So that would be my start – what we find in the universe out there. indicating that science points towards the It reflects what Einstein said ‘the only existence of God. One of the most eminent incomprehensible thing about the universe is cosmologists, Allan Sandage (‘the father of that it’s comprehensible’. He saw there was a modern astronomy’), points out that the problem. How is it that the human mind can very existence of this order is something that develop formulae equations (mathematical points him in the direction of believing in descriptions) that reflect what’s going on out God. For him that’s the only explanation of there? the order that makes any sense. Atheism, which is one worldview that’s very *** dominant in the academy today, tells us that

4 ‘the only incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it’s comprehensible’ {Einstein}

Faith and Reason see whether his faith is justified. And that that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God and applies right across the board. When we that by believing you might have life in his This question of the relationship of faith to say we have faith in something, we trust it, name’. reason is one that one comes up against we believe in it. The next logical question is all the time. And the question is often what reasons have you got, what evidence In other words John is not asking us to put put as if faith and reason were opposed. have you got for believing in it? So if I say blind faith in Jesus. It’s the exact opposite. That to my mind is nonsense. It’s coupled ‘God is the Creator of the universe’, you are He said here’s the evidence I’ve collected as with an impression that faith is something perfectly justified in saying ‘what reasons an eye witness and this evidence forms the that occurs only in religious situations and have you got?’ basis on which you can rest your faith. That therefore isn’t worth talking about. Richard is, he is appealing for evidence-based faith. Dawkins talks about ‘faith-heads’(or roughly So we need to distinguish faith from blind Of course there is such a thing as blind faith put, the ‘cloth heads’ I suppose), and that faith. What makes this discussion very and it’s very dangerous, particularly when reason is associated with science and, complex is that many of the New Atheists it’s coupled with unscrupulous religious therefore, we take it seriously. Well, that is to regard all faith as blind faith, but that is authority – as we see in 9/11, the blind faith make an error in both directions. absolute nonsense. A man’s faith in his of those that drove the airliners into the Twin wife is not blind. I even discussed this with Towers in New York. That is blind faith and it Firstly, faith and reason walk hand in hand in Richard Dawkins and, although he did not is to be roundly condemned. I agree entirely both science and theology. So we need to like using that particular word, he conceded with the New Atheists in condemning it, but unpack this just a little bit. Our English word that he did have faith in his wife. We I will not agree with them that that is the [for faith] comes from the Latin word fides immediately see that that kind of faith can only kind of faith there is. Because after all, which means trust. In its normal usage faith, have reasons – it is evidence-based faith, but some of them are scientists, like Dawkins reason and evidence are words that belong it is nonetheless faith. and Dennett, for instance, so they have faith very much together. in common with every other scientist who So to say that all faith is blind faith is simply ever lived in the rational intelligibility of the If I go into my bank manager with a project wrong, when using faith in its general universe. Their science doesn’t give them for making money, the issue for the bank context. It is also wrong using faith in its that. As Sir John Polkinghorne, my teacher manager is, can he place his faith in me? specifically religious context. The early of quantum physics at Cambridge, points out Can he trust me? Of course in these days scientists and many contemporary scientists in many of his books: ‘physics is powerless of financial crises the problem might be weren’t fools for putting their faith in God, to explain its faith in the intelligibility of the the other way around. Can I trust the bank because they believed there was evidence universe’. Why is that? Because in order manager? But leaving that aside, can he trust for it. And it’s interesting that in the part to do any physics you must believe in the me? of the New Testament that is devoted to rational intelligibility of the universe. explaining what faith is (in one of the major Now he will want reasons to trust me. He’ll books we call the Gospel by the Apostle Now here comes the major irony. The want evidence on which to base his faith John, who collected together all this atheists claim they don’t have faith, but in me. And he will ask me a whole series evidence) it says: ‘these things are written they do, in the rational intelligibility of the of very penetrating questions in order to that you might believe [that is have faith in] universe. But half a minute – where’s the

5 evidence that that faith is justified in their ‘revelation’. Sometimes faith and revelation is against reason. Of course that is nonsense, worldview? It doesn’t exist because their are put as opposites, as diametrically it proceeds from the source of all reason, worldview is that human intelligence is opposite. But let’s think of revelation, firstly, God himself. simply the product of a mindless, unguided at the simple human level. Here’s Aunt process. But if that’s the case why on earth Matilda and she’s baked a cake. Scientific Copyright of John Lennox and reproduced by would you give it any credence whatsoever? analysis cannot tell you why she made the permission. For more resources from John Why would you believe anything that it cake. You’ll never find out unless she reveals Lennox, see johnlennox.org produced? it to you. But if she reveals it to you that doesn’t mean you shut off your reason. *** As John Gray pointed out not so long ago, Indeed, you will have to use your reason to the interesting thing about the evolutionary understand the content of her revelation. John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics doctrines that these New Atheists base so That’s absolutely obvious. And you can in the University of Oxford, Fellow in much of their worldview on, is that they are check, using your reason, whether what she Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science, geared to survivability not towards truth. So revealed to you made sense. If she says she and Pastoral Advisor at Green Templeton why would you believe anything produced made it for her son, Jim, and you know she College, Oxford. He has written a number by an apparatus that is thrown up by such a has a son called Jim, then that makes perfect of books on the interface between science, mindless, unguided process? sense. philosophy and theology. These include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? What am I saying? I’m saying firstly, there At the higher level it’s exactly the same as (2009) and God and Stephen Hawking, a is such a thing as blind faith. It is very this. The Bible claims to be revelation. I response to The Grand Design (2011). Prof dangerous in the religious sphere. But it believe that that is the case, but an atheist Lennox has lectured extensively in North seems to me that the atheists are coming reading it doesn’t have to start by believing America, Eastern and Western Europe and very near to being guilty of blind faith, when that. They simply read it as data, and any Australasia on mathematics, the philosophy they trust the human mind, even though data requires reason to even understand of science and the intellectual defence they haven’t a shred of evidence on their it. I have never yet met anybody, Christian of Christianity. He has debated Richard own hypotheses (in their own worldview) or not, who can read the Bible without Dawkins on ‘The God Delusion’ (2007) and that it should be considered as reliable. In using their reason. So to say that reason on ‘Has Science buried God?’ (2008). He has other words scientists have to have faith in and revelation are opposed is to make a also debated Christopher Hitchens on the the rational intelligibility of the universe. fundamental category mistake. The issue is New Atheism (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and The rational justification of that faith came simply this: we get data from nature and we the question of ‘Is God Great?’ (2010), as originally from Christianity – atheism simply use our reason on that. The Bible claims to well as Peter Singer on the topic of ‘Is there a doesn’t have any. So this matter of faith, be a revelation of God – it claims to be God God?’ (Melbourne, 2011). evidence and reason is something we need speaking. We use our reason on that. What is to think about very carefully. being claimed, though, is that there is certain Professor Lennox was in Adelaide to speak information in scripture that unaided human at the South Australian Prayer Breakfast There is a final point to be made here reason could not, on its own, gain. But what and the City Bible Forum Event ‘Cosmic actually, and that is to bring in the word we are certainly not saying is that revelation Chemistry: Do Science and God Mix?’

6 The Perils of DIY Wills

Ai Phan warns that taking the Search the internet and it’s not hard to find Common Mistakes any number of Do It Yourself (DIY) Will kits easy way out with Wills may for purchase at a relatively low cost. Even at In addition to the very limited application of the post office, DIY Will kits are strategically a DIY Will, there are a few common mistakes end up costing money and heart placed alongside the serving queue, leaving that, if made, could result in anything from ache to those you leave behind. you to ponder whether you should grab one delays in obtaining Grant of Probate (or or not. Before succumbing to temptation Letters of Administration) through to the you need to think about how you would feel Will being rejected on the grounds that it is if it turned out that your DIY Will caused invalid. nothing but financial and emotional trouble to those you left behind. Mistake Number 1 - Giving away jointly held assets under your Will People are often confused about their rights in relation to joint ownership and assume Simple or Complex? that they can deal with the jointly owned If your affairs are simple, a DIY Will kit asset in their Will. This is not the case. An may be adequate in your circumstances. asset that is held jointly automatically passes However, it is likely that your affairs are to the survivor and does not form part of the not as simple as you think. While most DIY estate. If you have assets that are owned by Will kits contain warnings to obtain legal your company or trust, these assets remain advice if your situation is complex, very few assets of the company and trust when you offer advice on what constitutes a complex die. In these situations it is important to deal situation. The following is a list of common with the control of the company or trust, not situations that a DIY Will kit may not be the assets held by the company or trust. appropriate to cover: • Blended families Mistake Number 2 - Failure to properly sign • Children and grandchildren under 18 or date your Will years of age Something as simple as this can make the Will invalid. A properly executed Will • Family members with a disability requires two adult witnesses who are not • Shares held in private companies/units beneficiaries under the Will. Also, don’t held in unit trusts or managed funds forget to ensure that you and the two • Interests in businesses witnesses sign each page of the Will. • Significant debts owed to you by another person or organisation Mistake Number 3 - Failing to appoint an appropriate Executor and Trustee • Taxation issues The role of the Executor and Trustee

7 is to administer your estate. In some clauses can result in a gift to a beneficiary requisition from the Probate Registrar asking circumstances, that role could last for years lapsing, thereby failing to provide for for an explanation of what was attached, where: someone even though it was your intention so the rule is, never attach anything to your a) there is a life interest to do so. Will. The same goes for removing the staple or binding that holds your Will together. b) a trust or conditional gift is created, or Mistake Number 7 – Hand written It may make it easier to photocopy, but c) where minor beneficiaries have to be amendments leaving evidence that suggests that the cared for. If you must make hand written amendments Will could have been tampered with in any make sure that they are in ink, the directions way (including extra staple holes that could It may be wise to choose an impartial make sense and such amendments have suggest that pages have been removed or individual to act as the Executor and been properly signed and witnessed. Failure substituted) can render your Will invalid. Trustee so as to avoid conflicts that may to do any of these things could render either arise between the Executor/Trustee and the amendments or the entire Will invalid. the beneficiaries during the long term Seek Advice administration of the estate. Mistake Number 8 – Failure to adequately The task of drafting a valid Will is not as deal with the residue of the Estate straight forward as you may assume and Mistake Number 4 - Making provisions that Sometimes in the enthusiasm to prescribe while a DIY Will may appear to be cost- result in a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) liability to specific bequests to particular beneficiaries, effective, it could end up unnecessarily your estate a clause dealing with the distribution of the costing your estate thousands of dollars in An example of this is where your Will gives residue of the estate is either omitted or legal fees or creating unnecessary adverse a beneficiary an option to purchase real incorrectly dealt with under the Will. The tax outcomes. property. The general rule is that CGT is not residue is intended to catch all of the assets assessed when an estate asset is gifted or not specifically given away under the Will, It is recommended that you seek legal advice passes to a beneficiary. including gifts that have failed. It is therefore before preparing your Will. A legal firm will essential to include a clause which sets out be able to explain the finer points of what Mistake Number 5 - Leaving family how 100% of the residue of your estate is to you can and can’t do and offer you options dependants out of your Will be dealt with, because failing to do so could that you may not have thought possible. This could happen where you specifically result in a partial intestacy (dying without a name your children and then subsequently legally valid Will). Ai Phan is Senior Associate with have more who are not included in your Will. Tri-meridian Corporate and Commercial Law A professionally prepared Will would make Mistake Number 9 – Attaching additional tri-meridian.com provisions to include all of your children as at documents to your Will or separating the the date of your death. pages Whilst it may be tempting to attach notes Mistake Number 6 – Poor or inadequate or related documents to your Will so that drafting of bequests they stay together, the indentations from Poor or inadequate drafting of bequest a paperclip or fold back clip may produce a

8 CBMC Living Up to its Name

CBMC (Christian Business and Marketplace Connections) International SA Inc is a Christian leadership network connecting with the business and marketplace community in South Australia to bring hope and transformation through sound values and principles. RISE recently spoke to two people whose stories demonstrate what CBMC is all about. Andrew Marsh – Connecting with the CBMC Community

RISE paved the way for Andrew Marsh to magazine featuring CBMC CEO Natalie connect with CBMC when he moved to Paxton on the cover. It just so happens that Adelaide recently. Now the organisation Natalie and her husband are Compassion Amanda and Andrew Marsh with Natalie he works for is a major partner of the SA sponsors. Geoff was interested in connecting Paxton (Photo by by Melissa Neumann) Prayer Breakfast. with CBMC so he could meet like-minded Christians who might be interested in the Andrew Marsh recently moved to Adelaide, work of Compassion. Geoff also was keen the [CBMC] group who were willing to sit along with his wife Amanda, to take up a role to introduce Andrew, Compassion’s new down for coffee and for some much needed with Compassion Australia as Relationship Adelaide based Relationship Manager, to support and encouragement. The group Manager – Central. Originally from Natalie. So Geoff contacted her. were very generous with their knowledge Newcastle NSW, Andrew was employed by of Adelaide and offered to send Amanda’s Compassion in August 2013 which required “During my first week on the job Geoff resume around to their networks. They were him to uproot and move across the border to came to Adelaide to help train me and had also willing to give me a snapshot of, and South Australia. connected with Nat after reading her story, help me get connected into, the Christian so we all had a coffee together. Nat spoke community which is integral to my work.” Trying to get established in a new job in a about what she did and connected me into new city, Andrew knew that he needed to CBMC and I began attending a monthly Andrew’s wife Amanda found employment make connections with the local community group. with Schools Ministry Group before the and start developing relationships. These help of the group was needed, but Andrew relationships would be of benefit in his new “It was quite overwhelming pioneering a says that, really, the most important thing role, but most importantly they would help new office for Compassion, while being to them both was the friendships that were him and his wife as they settled into their new to the organization and to the city, quickly established. new life. packing life up at home in five weeks, while renovating our home so someone else “Geoff [CBMC Chairman] and Penny Geoff Harrison, could live in it, and then finding out that my Kempster met up with me over coffee Andrew’s colleague mother had cancer. numerous times and prayed with me which who works in was very encouraging.” Compassion’s “As someone new to Adelaide I found things Melbourne office, a bit challenging. It was difficult without the As a result of their new-found connections was sent a copy of support networks that I had at home. with CBMC, Compassion Australia has the September 2013 come on board as a major partner with (SA Prayer Breakfast) “After only our first meeting, I was able the South Australian Prayer Breakfast. The edition of RISE to call on the support of the members of connection had another unexpected benefit,

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9 as Dami Im – 2013 winner of The X-Factor Their vision simply says ‘To facilitate years of experience that people who invest – is a Compassion Australia Ambassador investment in property for the benefit of wisely in houses or commercial property, and Compassion arranged to bring Dami people’. store their own wealth for retirement needs to Adelaide as guest artist at this year’s whilst having the privilege of supplying a breakfast. Lin says “As well as working within the Lin resource for the benefit of those who need Andrews Group, the Directors have their or choose to rent.” Read the interview with Dami Im in this vision and energy invested in external NGOs edition of RISE Magazine. Find out more which provide for growing education and Lin Andrews Real Estate, says Lin, assists about Compassion Australia at: community facilities for the good of people people to provide for their old age by compassion.com.au everywhere.” simplifying the micro-management of their investment property. So what is the passion that drives the vision? Will Lin Andrews Real Estate and Lin Andrews – “One of the outstanding and motivating its associated companies survive teachings of Jesus (our Lord and Saviour) generationally? The group’s Board believes The Christian in two thousand years ago was his summation that ‘the requirement to feed and clothe ‘When I was hungry you fed me, naked you and house and rehabilitate people’ does not Business. What’s clothed me, when I had no place to go you have a stated finish date. Generationally, the the Difference? took me in, sick and in prison you visited me.’ Board is committed to ‘world’s best practice’ in fulfilling the Master’s call. Lin Andrews Real Estate is an associate “One of the very best ways of feeding, partner of the SA Prayer Breakfast. The clothing, housing and rehabilitating people is Lin says “We will find ways of creating company’s mission aligns to that of CBMC’s through ‘principle centred economic activity.’ employment and making secure investment as it aims to bring hope and transformation Principle centred economic activity opens as easy as possible for generations of people to South Australians through sound values doors for people to care for their own needs who have the need but lack the skill or and principles. with dignity through employment.” the time to micro-manage their property investment. Every day our capabilities According to Lin Of South Australia Lin says “If every business improve and our geography is widened.” Andrews, “business that Australia Post delivers to within the people are those Adelaide metropolitan area were to employ Lin Andrews believes his company makes a who feed, clothe and one extra person, this would mean an difference, bringing hope and transformation house the masses additional 37,600 persons employed. to South Australians. He has a question for of the world. As other business people: “How about you?” Christians we dare “Our company stands for the creation of jobs not stop.” through the supply of commercial property For more about the Lin Andrews Real Estate across metropolitan Adelaide. It is our life’s story: linandrews.com.au/our-story For forty-four years the Lin Andrews Group work to facilitate employment through the of Companies has continued to function provision of the widest possible variety of Connect with CBMC at: cbmcint.com.au in South Australia in the face of economic commercial property for sale and/or for changes and associated challenges. The lease. vision, mission and value statements of Lin Andrews Real Estate provide for interesting “It is not our job to tell people how to invest comment on how this has been possible. their money, but we know through forty-four

10 RISEVIBES RISEWISE by Nick Hawkes

Atheist Says dependence on the papal system.” I found it fascinating that a crucifix was considered “of God is Good the Devil”, the celebration of Christmas was banned by parliament and how a girl was almost “swum” (which inevitably ended in for Africa drowning) for carrying a collection of bones Matthew Parris, writer for The Times for her dog. and former Member of Parliament, is not your typical atheist, for he The author successfully conveys biblical truth wrote in an article on 27th Dec, 2008, through direct quotes from the Bible and saying, “As an atheist, I truly believe through a number of spiritual experiences. Africa needs God. Missionaries, not She also shows how God’s word speaks to aid money, are the solution to Africa’s our specific situation. I liked seeing Nell’s biggest problem - the crushing Blood and Roses spiritual transformation from someone who passivity of the people’s mindset.” By Jacqueline E Waters “had never thanked him (God) for anything” because she had “assumed it was the As a result of researching a story Blood and Roses is historical fiction set in priest’s duty to do that for her” to someone on aid organisations in Africa, the mid-1600’s during the English Civil War who could not support either side because Parris wrote: “Travelling in Malawi – a battle for religious freedom. It follows “neither seemed to express the love of the refreshed a belief I’ve been trying to the lives of a number of characters from Christ she had seen on the cross.” I had not banish all my life, but an observation both sides of the war over a span of around realised that so many people left the country I’ve been unable to avoid since twelve years. The key character is Nell, a for the sake of religious freedom. my childhood. It confounds my servant girl who runs away from her royalist ideological beliefs, refuses to fit my household in search of her brother who is There are a number of tragic situations world view and has embarrassed my fighting for the Royalists in support of King in the book which could have been more growing belief that there is no God.” Charles I. She finds herself working for a heart-wrenching and drawn me more Puritan household and it is there that she into the characters, with more showing of He goes on to say: “I’ve become first encounters God personally. emotions rather than the logical telling of convinced of the enormous the character’s thoughts. However the old contribution that Christianity makes Anyone who is interested in religious English voice definitely evoked the period in Africa: sharply distinct from the or British history will enjoy this story. It as did the descriptions of food, clothing, work of secular and government highlights the age old problem of religion wildlife, plants etc. organisations and international and politics, and contrasts that with a aid efforts. These alone will not personal relationship with God. It has I would have liked a map as I became a do. Education and training alone romance as well as plenty of facts and bit lost with the many towns and cities will not do. Christianity changes fighting so it should appeal to both men and mentioned. people’s hearts. It brings spiritual women. transformation.” The book ends well leaving you wanting to It presents the strengths and weaknesses know what happens to the characters next So, even atheists are discovering that of both sides well and shows that there – perhaps a sequel, Jacqueline? Blood and no one is doing very well without are good and bad people whatever their Roses is enjoyable, interesting and thought Jesus. Without Jesus, Africa reverts religion. On the Royalist side, many who provoking. to tribal warfare, abusive overlords supported the king “secretly longed for the and urban gangsterism. Parris says days when Catholic rule had maintained ‘Blood and Roses’ is published by WestBow that removing Christianity from Africa a rural peace and the rhythm of life from Press and can be purchased through the risks “leaving the continent at the the cradle to the grave was celebrated and publisher or by contacting the author at mercy of a malignant fusion of Nike, controlled by the ordinances of the church.” [email protected] the witch doctor, ...and the machete.” The Puritans however believed that true religion had no place for “superstitions and Reviewer: Cindy Williams If atheism and indifference to God is not working very well for you, perhaps you’d better re-connect with God and be what you were intended to be.

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