CRE Eastbourne

With Ray Amey of OM.

CRE Eastbourne

Tomorrow Ray Amey ( Operation Mobilization ) and myself will have a stand at the CRE at Eastbourne. Ray will have a book table and I will do the SPUC Evangelicals side.

Please pray that we would do well and have safe travel to and from London.

See :     http://www.creonline.co.uk/

SPUC Council meeting

Today ( Saturday 21 Nov ) I will be attending the SPUC Council meeting  in London. This is like a shareholders meeting for a company. Representatives of SPUC regions around the UK will be in attendance , many old friends.

Please pray for a good outcome. I shall be representing SPUC Evangelicals.

Prayer for Israel ( PFI)Conference - Derbyshire

Today ( Wednesday 18 Nov ) I am in London , just about to catch a train to Derby in England.
Hopefully the storms of last night will not have caused rail disruption.
I will be reporting on the pro-life conference I spoke at in Israel a few weeks ago.
Please pray that I get a good reception.

God bless

Peter Smith

Me at the podium

Front left are Derek and Gail Rous who lead PFI, very good friends.

I got a very good response at this meeting praise the Lord.

The venue of the meeting was the Willersley Castle Hotel. This structure was owned by Sir Richard Arkwright who is credited with the invention of the Water Frame that revolutionized the cotton milling industry in the UK and all around the world. Construction on the castle began in 1790. This man was a key figure in the Industrial Revolution.

Low fertility conference at the UN

All the Professors at the conference

On Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning I attended a United Nations Expert Group meeting on Policy Responses to Low fertility. This was the most surreal experience of my 20 years of lobbying at the UN.

The Bible commands us to go forth and multiply and fill the Earth  ( Gen1:28 ) . The word of God also says that " Children are a gift from God , Ps. 127. However the world has decided that children are a burden , the world is overpopulated , and that radical femenists want to be just like men. All this equality stuff sounds fine , until you realise that it will lead to extinction of the people groups embracing such an ideology.

The UNFPA has been in the forefront of providing contraceptives , pushing abortion on demand and promoting low fertility. Then yesterday a lady from UNFPA was chairing the meeting on low fertility. She and her organisation are one of the main causes of this fertility decline , she was not there to repent , far from it.

The room was full of professors from many universities , all complaining that all the pro-natalist policies tried around the world have failed. The Netherlands has a higher fertility rate than many countries in Europe at around 1.7 children per woman. Over 60  % of Dutch women who have young children work part time. It is almost impossible for women working full time to have 3 or more children. A Dutch demographer said " Countries get the fertility rate they deserve".

The solution seemed to be a range of policy initiatives to help families , without voicing any policy to get more children , like in the UK. It is very hard to see how that will work.

After 50 years or so of a culture of death , easy divorce , abortion on demand , fake environmental threats , secularization , women working full time what else can you expect but eventual extinction. Demography is destiny.As people turn their backs on God , there are very severe repercussions.It takes time for the curse of these modern apostasies to come into effect. God intended us for growth not stagnation and decline.