Whatcha Doing This Weekend?

You don't even have to ask and most people will enthusiastically start sharing with you how hectic, just how really busy, their lives have become.

We're all trying to squeeze our personal lives into the gaps of schedules that seem overloaded past bursting with financial demands, family obligations, the nuisances of running errands, buying groceries, running the kids back and forth, keeping salon appointments or trying to catch the latest sale at the neighborhood Big Box Store.

Weekends always turn out to be the worst. Seems like there's never enough time to fit everything in and by the time the alarm clock starts erupting like a little volcano on Monday morning, the weekend's flown by in a hazy blur.

Take a look at what's out there competing for your attention this weekend: The NBA Playoffs, Desperate Housewives, Law and Order, CSI: Miami, and Survivor are all gonna be on TV. Local movie theaters are showing Mission: Impossible III, United 93 and Ice Age: The Meltdown.

And I won't even go into stuff like yard sales, birthday parties and weddings, or finally getting around to cleaning out the garage.

"I'm just too busy" is the excuse most often given for skipping church ... people live such hectic, fast-paced lifestyles that we feel justified thinking that sometimes it's absolutely necessary and OK to take time off from church so we can spend the extra time "getting caught up." Because as everyone knows life ain't as easy as it used to be ... and sometimes a hour spent in church gets in the way, seems wasted and becomes too much of a bother.

Here's what some other folks will be doing with their time this weekend:

-In Darfur, the Sudanese government will spend its weekend using its air force, combined with Arab "Janjaweed" militias and mass starvation, to continue the systematic slaughter of black Sudanese ... including Christians. At the present rate an estimated 2500 people will be murdered between Friday afternoon and Monday morning

-6900 people in Africa will spend this weekend dying from malaria ... which was preventable with just $6 of medication

-In India 3 million people will go to sleep Saturday night suffering from leprosy - and 15-20% of them are infectious. Another estimated 19 million Indians will spend their weekend suffering with symptoms of filariasis ... parasitic worms

-By Monday morning 172,800 people will have spent their weekend starving to death

-Worldwide 500,000 people will die, having spent their last weekend without knowing Christ

Looks like it's gonna be a very busy weekend after all.


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17 Countries Where Christians Are Persecuted:
http://www.epm.org/articles/pers17.html