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slimfine:
I thought u fulanis leave on the street begging.

you wicked o. not alll of them live on the street. merry christmas

i hope this helps. how can animals know things you cant work out?

Orangutans learn to trade favours [b][/b]

Orangutans from Sumatra and Borneo are among our closest relatives
Orangutans can help each other get food by trading tokens, scientists have discovered - but only if the help goes in both directions.

Researchers from the University of St Andrews found orangutans could learn the value of tokens and trade them, helping each other win bananas.

An article in Biology Letters, claims it is the first evidence of "calculated reciprocity" in non-human primates.

Gorillas and chimpanzees were much less willing to co-operate, they report.

Two orangutans - Bim and Dok - who live in Leipzig Zoo, Germany, were especially good at helping each other.

Initially, they were given several sets of tokens, and learned the value of the different types. It's not just humans that calculate about giving; orangutans do that too

Valerie Dufour

An animal could exchange one type for bananas for itself, another type could be used to gain bananas for a partner, and a third had no value.

Initially, Dok, the female, was especially good at swapping tokens to get bananas for Bim, the male. Sometimes Bim would point at the tokens to encourage her.

But he was less interested in trading tokens that would win bananas for her.

As she became less willing to help him out, Bim responded by trading more and more, until their efforts were more or less equal.[i][/i]

"So we have a calculation behind the giving," explained Valerie Dufour who led the research at the Scottish university.

"If you don't give me enough, then I don't give you either; but if you give me enough, OK, then I buy your co-operation, and I secure it by giving too."

Many animals exchange goods and services with each other; the grooming of primates is an obvious example.

But the researchers say there has been no experimental evidence before of "calculated reciprocity", where animals adapt their own behaviour in response to how another is helping them.

"It's not just humans that calculate about giving, and it's not just humans who expect to be given something in return when they are co-operative," Dr Dufour told BBC News.

"Orangutans do that too."

However, other apes - chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos - were less able or willing to play the game.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7797776.stm

Ape gestures 'show human links'

The ability to learn gestures separates apes from most species
Researchers in the US say they have firm evidence that apes communicate using gestures - shedding light on the development of human language.
The team analysed the way bonobos and chimpanzees used hand and limb gestures to make themselves understood.

The scientists found the apes used gestures more flexibly than the way they used facial and vocal expressions.

They say the findings support the theory that human language developed through the use of hand gestures.

Food or sex?

The team comprised researchers from Yerkes Primate Center, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. It found ape groups developed different gestures to say different things and that meanings depended on context.

They may use the same gesture for something totally different

Frans de Waal
Emory University, Atlanta

A male chimpanzee may beg for food from another chimpanzee by gesturing with an extended arm and open hand.

But the same gesture might also be used to ask a female chimpanzee for sex, or between two males as a sign of reconciliation after a fight, said primatologist Frans de Waal, a member of the research team.

"Typically they may use it for food, but they may use the same gesture for something totally different; so, for instance, a male may invite a female for sex by holding out an open hand to her," Dr de Waal said.

This ability to learn gestures distinguishes apes from monkeys and most other species on the planet, the scientist says.

Although all primates use vocal and facial expressions to communicate, only the great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, orang-utan and gorillas - use gestures as well, an ability they share with humans.

And when apes gesture, they use their right hand, which is controlled by the left side of the brain - the same side as the language control centre in the human brain.

The latest research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6610447.stm

Outstrip:
This same thing happened to my cousin's co worker in nigeria. I am hesistant to believe these things but I am starting to believe it is real. He was also able to contact someone with a cell but then contact was lost. I don't know how they did it but at a point they even got him to go into the bank and withdraw money. I think it is a form of hypnosis they use. Another case was a family member (though I don't know the full story) got missing in lagos they found her in a church in abuja, again I believe she was hypnotised at some point. My cousin says at a point they even got into ajao estate and people where going door to door warning that these people have come into the estate. I don't know if they are ritualist but they say the longer they talk to you the better chance that they will get you to do what they want like get in their vehicles. That's why I am inclined to believe it is hynosis. What they do with these people after they kidnap them only God knows. Trust me there are devils in the form of humans walking this earth.

only God knows. that country of ours have too many twisted minds

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

adoption is not reason to be foolish. she is supposed to be a human being

SeanT21:
Keyword:Adopted

DaPhoenix:
Props to Naija girls! Smashing hearts since 2000.

trust them
merry christmas to you all

it is his money plus he knows his kids more than anyone. the bodyshop anita roddick did same too.

How to give away £51m  
By Jonathan Duffy
BBC News Magazine   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4525994.stm
 
Body Shop founder Anita Roddick says she plans to give away her entire £51m fortune to good causes. But there's nothing straightforward about philanthropy these days.

Montgomery Brewster, the character played by the recently deceased Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions, hardly ranks as one of Hollywood's all-time classic comedy creations. But the dilemma in which he found himself perhaps resonates ever more these days.

Brewster, a hapless small-time baseball player, had to get rid of $30m in 30 days, in order to avail himself of a $300m inheritance. Yet so luckless is this sorry protagonist that he can't even waste money competently. It just earns him more.

By contrast, Anita Roddick, one of the UK's best-known entrepreneurs, could never be described as incompetent. Yet the 63-year-old tycoon faces a similarly unusual predicament in the years to come.


Greenpeace has already benefited
For Dame Anita, founder of the Body Shop, is planning to give away her entire £51m fortune.

"I don't want to die rich," she told the Daily Telegraph. "Money does not mean anything to me."

Rather than throw her cash at seemingly fruitless investments, as Monty Brewster did, she wants to give it all to worthy causes.

Listen to anyone in the philanthropy sector, and they'll tell you that this is harder than it sounds. Giving away a fortune effectively is almost more difficult than it is to make the money in the first place, says Theresa Lloyd, author of Why Rich People Give.

Bewildering choice

Philanthropy has broad appeal in the UK, with almost 60% of people giving to charity at least once a month, according to a new report by the Charities Aid Foundation.

 
My intention is to give my money away - I don't want to die rich

Anita Roddick
At the very top end, among the super rich, a mini-industry has grown up in recent years advising benefactors how best to part with their wealth.

With some 180,000 charities in the UK alone, the sheer number of worthy causes can be mesmerising.

As head of strategic philanthropy for Coutts & Co bank, Mark Evans says clients are increasingly coming up against a checklist of familiar questions.

"We're finding people are saying they don't necessarily want to give everything to their children, which was the case historically.

"They don't want to give it to the government since they've had a big enough slice through tax. So they're left with charity. They could leave it all in their will, but where's the fun in that? And that's where Coutts comes in, to help them create personal giving strategies."

The "fun factor" is an important consideration among today's Giving Elite, says Ms Lloyd.

"Any intelligent charity will ensure that giving is a buzz," she says. Keeping benefactors abreast of developments, putting them in touch with beneficiaries, providing access to fundraising events - all are examples of how givers can expect a reward for their generosity.

But the watchword in the slick new philanthropist sector is "impact". Impact, according to A Guide to Giving, which advises wannabe philanthropists, is "the social return on your investment in a disadvantaged community; a park preserved; a patient cured; a diploma earned. In short, tangible evidence of money well-spent."

The guide sets out a list of check boxes to steer donors through the maze of considerations: what are their personal objectives; how much money do they have; what causes do they want to benefit - social, cultural, environmental etc; what are the mechanics of giving, and so on.

Giving it away

There is also room for some cold hard business sense. Giving, if it's done correctly, can be financially rewarding, with tax breaks for donors and beneficiaries.


Bill Gates has made multi-million dollar donations to malaria research
Perhaps the world's best known philanthropist is also the world's richest man - Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Much of his good work is done through his charitable foundation.

The trend for foundations, or trusts, is growing, says Ms Lloyd, who interviewed 100 philanthropists for her book, 50 of which had family trusts. Dame Anita has herself expressed a wish to start a foundation before she dies.

"With a trust you are making a long-term commitment to charity," says Ms Lloyd. "You are also involving your children who can become trustees at 18, and so it's about starting a family legacy."

One organisation spearheading this new approach is New Philanthropy Capital, which investigates charitable sectors and advises clients which of the lesser-known, or "non-brand name", charities can meet their expectations.

"Wealthy people are often too busy to investigate but they want to apply some rigour to their giving," says NPC's Maya Prabhu.

In two years, it has advised donors to the tune of £20m. "We don't do the high end of the arts or animal charities because we think they can look after themselves."

Given that Dame Anita's charitable priorities are the environment and human rights, she might do well to consult such an organisation on how best to benefit these causes

Body Shop founder Anita Roddick left daughters with nothing[color=#990000][/color]Jack Malvern
Anita Roddick, the late founder of the Body Shop, fulfilled her promise that she would not leave one penny of her multimillion-pound fortune to her children in her will.

The retailer gave £51 million to her charitable foundation before she died last year aged 64, leaving an estate of £655,747, which will go to the taxman. Her net worth is listed as nil.

It is understood that hundreds of thousands of pounds in death duties became liable on gifts of money she gave to family and friends shortly before her unexpected death, last September, from a brain haemorrhage. Large cash gifts escape inheritance tax only if the donor survives for seven years after the money is transferred.

Dame Anita once described the idea of bequeathing her fortune to her children as obscene. “I told my kids that they would not inherit one penny,” she said. “The money that we make from the company goes into the Body Shop Foundation, which isn’t one of those awful tax shelters, like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.”

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Dame Anita Roddick
The genius of the Body Shop founder
Gordon Roddick, Dame Anita’s husband and business partner, will not be wanting for money, however. He will have his share of the £100 million the couple received when they sold the Body Shop in 2005. The couple owned 18 per cent of the company, which was bought for £625 million by L’Oréal, the French cosmetics giant.

Dame Anita gave her share of the profits to the Roddick Foundation, which supports charities such as Chicken Shed Theatre, Greenpeace and Amnesty International. The charity gives away up to £2.5 million a year.

The couple’s two daughters, Sam and Justine, have previously said that they supported their mother’s decision to disinherit them. Sam, 35, who runs Coco de Mer, an upmarket sex shop, said in an interview before her mother’s death that it was a relief. “If the money was divided between family members, I suppose it would be natural to equate the amount that you were left with the amount that you were loved, which makes it very complicated and emotional.

“If my mum had said to me, ‘I’m not leaving the money to you but I’ve decided to give it all to a distant cousin’, then I would have found that offensive. But giving it all to charity is different. You can’t argue about someone giving their money away, can you? They’ve already given us everything in terms of love and support.”

Dame Anita was told in 2004 that she had hepatitis C, contracted through a blood tranfusion when she gave birth to Sam in 1971. She had cirrhosis of the liver and needed a transplant, but appeared to be fighting the disease. Her collapse, at her home in West Sussex, came as a shock.

“Money does not mean anything to me,” she once said. “The worst thing is greed - the accumulation of money.”

Strong willpower

— Joan Crawford cut her two eldest children, Christina and Christopher from her will. Christina later published Mommie Dearest, about her mother’s abusive treatment

— Eugene O’Neill disinherited his daughter Oona, accusing her of seeking publicity fit for a second-rate actress and “floozie”

— Barron Hilton, Paris Hilton’s grandfather, said last year that he would leave almost all his fortune to charity, costing Paris $2.2bn

Source: www.legalzoom.com; agencies

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/beauty/article3760876.ece

dont u have enough hookers in your banking hall?

baani:
Here are two instances:

1) i hv a female friend who after a frantic search for a suitor finally got one things was goin on smoothly until she devised a plan wit some of her co-workers in crime to turn her suitor in a maga, she actually went as far gettin pregnant for this guy and when d guy found out, he actually took to his hills even denoucin d child which he knws is d father, well after much delibratin by the families they had to split ways wit her to carry d child bearin burden wit out her man though family was dere to carter for her needs, she actually gave birth to a boy who is in the UK as we speak while his father is married to another lady who kids for him

2) i hv another female friend who has been goin out wit a friend of mine, finished sch 2yr ago but was lucky to get into a bizz that fetches sum good moni for the lady but not good enough for my friend ( guys u knw what i mean) this year i just went to c him like say 8 months back and i couldnt blieve my ears that his girlfriend/fiancee was already pregnant and d worse was that she actully waited till she was 3 months due before she recealed her secret, anyway my friend is goin 2 do his trad on the 27 of dec
between d both of us he is not completely happy but he say he want to cover the shame,

these are two dif but similar cases, WHY D HECK DO LADIES FILL that THEY CAN ACTUALLY HOLD A MAN DOWN BY GETTIN PREGNANT

because most fools dont learn to keep themselves from strange women

iice:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-210642.0.html

[color=#9900ff]^^ Your healing strategy? [/color]

ask him one more time

Aloy.Emeka:
Good roads, food and electricity.

Is that why Fashola went to holy Ghost conference to ask God to cease the fall?

you are talking to the wrong person. what is Holy Ghost conference? never heard of it until some days ago. what are you talking about and who is the fashola self?

wonders called naija

olabowale:
The same Iwo Funmi who promised to arm youself to the teeth and fight the Muslim northern folks? How do you now preach forgiveness? Are you just saying it or you are for real?

I beg woman, Practice forgiveness, if you are preaching it here.

olabs can't you let my aunty have her peace? enjoy this

The power of forgiveness
by Mary Southerland

Printer version




Sometimes the hardest thing to say is "I'm sorry," to admit that we have hurt someone. The only thing that can be harder is to forgive those who have hurt us. Most of us are familiar with the love chapter of the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, where Paul defines true love:

Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love does not envy.
Love is not easily angered.
Love keeps no record of wrongs.
The reality is that we all need forgiveness, and we all must learn to forgive.

I grew up in a small Texas town that we moved to the day after my father's funeral. We were poor, living in what some would call a "shack" on the edge of town. My amazing mother worked three jobs to support three children as well as my grandmother who lived with us. Her main job was working as a nurse in the hospital nursery where she took care of newborns.

As a child, I was frequently sick with colds, ear infections, and the flu. It seemed as if I was at the doctor's office almost every week during the winter. We had no insurance and very little money, but we did have a family doctor who was a friend and colleague of my mother's. In fact, they worked side-by-side each day at the one and only hospital in town. Knowing our financial circumstances, this doctor and his wife often asked my mom to babysit to earn extra money. Since they had five children, I was often recruited to go with her as a backup.

Over the years, this doctor often took care of our medical needs, charging us nothing. Little did I know the high price that I would have to pay. This doctor was my friend, a man I respected, and a man I trusted – until the day he molested me in his office. The hurt, pain, and betrayal were so great that I locked it away in some dark corner of my soul, refusing to admit it had ever happened. I told no one.

Uncovering the wounds

Fast forward 20 years when I was happily married to Dan Southerland, a pastor and my best friend, and had two wonderful children. Our church was exploding in growth. I had started traveling and speaking for women's conferences and retreats, and loved it! Everything on the outside looked great, successful, and very right – but inside the past slowly ate away at my very being until one day, my world collapsed and I sank into a pit of clinical depression. I was paralyzed emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The simple tasks seemed like impossible mountains to climb. Panic attacks became a daily event. I stepped out of ministry and out of life as I had known it.

I began to uncover the wounds I had so desperately tried to ignore most of my life. Instead of dealing with those wounds, I kept insanely busy in a vain attempt to earn God's favor and the approval of others. My worth seemed to rest on the foundation of doing, instead of being. I soon discovered that one of the main reasons I had fallen into that pit was because I refused to face and deal with the pain of my past, but with the help of a loving husband, a Christian psychiatrist, and a brilliant family doctor, I began to make slow but steady progress in climbing out of that dark, slimy pit. Then, I remembered.

I remembered that day in the doctor's office. I remembered it all, and when that awful memory slammed into my life, I fell apart. I hated that man. I wanted him to pay for what he had done to me. I wanted him to hurt like I had been hurt. I also knew that somehow I had to let go of my pain and forgive him or I would be trapped for the rest of my life. God and I began to work through every painful, horrifying moment of that memory.

Months passed, and the day came when Dan asked me to speak at all five worship services of our church. When I asked him what the topic was, he smiled and simply said, "Forgiveness." I knew what God was up to, and being the mature and godly woman that I was, I became furious with Him. "That man does not deserve forgiveness, Lord" I ranted.

My Father whispered, "Neither do you, child." But I was still angry. "Lord, he is the one that hurt me," I cried. "I think it is only fair for me to wait for him to make the first move. And then he needs to come crawling on his hands and knees, begging for my forgiveness!"

The choice to forgive

In the silence, I heard the words of the Great Physician, a voice I have come to love so much, "Aren't you glad I didn't wait for you to come to me?" I suddenly realized I had a choice to make. I could hang on to my anger and bitterness, making that evil man my jailer, or I could choose to forgive him and set myself free!

But I just couldn't forgive him on my own, so I did what David did. I cried out to God.

Psalm 40:1-3a (NIV) says, "I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit; out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God."

As I wrestled with the choice to forgive, I learned several life-changing truths:
If we make the choice to forgive, God will supply the forgiveness.
There should be no limit to our forgiveness because there is no limit to His.
Forgiveness is not a feeling or an emotion. Forgiveness is a deliberate choice.
Forgiveness is our greatest need, and God's greatest gift.
For some reason, the holidays seem to intensify old wounds, resurrect old hurts, and magnify old longings. We must deal with old pain before we can truly live today and tomorrow. While we cannot change the past, we can change our response to the past and dictate the power it has over us.

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent a scientist. But because our greatest need is forgiveness, God sent a Savior, Jesus Christ, who is calling us all to a higher place, a place of forgiveness. The choice is ours to make. Today, we can choose freedom by choosing to forgive.




Mary Southerland is the Stress-Buster, helping women manage stress and experience joy in their daily lives. A former women's ministry director, Mary works in the trenches with pastors' wives and ministry leaders. She also encourages and motivates thousands of women through her speaking ministry, her online Bible study, Light for the Journey, and as a member and co-founder of Girlfriends in God.

Mary provides a variety of CDs, MP3 downloads, and a new, e-Book Bible Study, God's Answer to Stress, that can be used for personal or small group teaching. Her books include: Hope in the Midst of Depression, Sandpaper People, Escaping the Stress Trap, and Experiencing God's Power in Your Ministry . She also writes for Crosswalk.com and is a frequent radio and TV guest. Mary is director of women's ministry at Westside Family Church in Lenexa, Kansas, where her husband is the lead teaching pastor.

davidylan:
no, i've talked to Nimshi himself and he denies it.
Nimshi is also as combative but he is very intelligent . . . Adam Brody's brain must weigh the size of 50ml compressed CO₂.

Adam Brody wants a wife

you and your clever brain bro david.

what did she benefit when you guys were swimming in oil money?

bigmodo:
U be maga? I no dey mess p's. Na bobos wey no go fit toast girl dey go mess p's. As u see me, i be professional toaster.

@acidrop
I don try make i sleep but i no fit. Please say hi to daddy.

you will soon be toasted

bindex:
Hey after about 27 pages your God has'nt locked or crashed nairaland despite all, the people that derided, insulted and mocked him. I say he should show that he is a God of fire and Iron as you are so quick to say he is and do some of the things he did in the bible. I need not tell you what they are, if he does'nt crash niaraland by the next hour then he is a stupid piece of chicken shit.

did you hear those the gods wants to kill they first make mad?. did you remember the titanic? why do you guys hate seun so much? shameless fools

MrCrackles:

Start wetin?

I only said she should shut the fuc.k up!

how can you tell someone's aunty to shut up? please leave her alone i beg you my dear brother.

MrCrackles:
Shut your mou.f, clown!

you want start again?  wetin my aunty do you?

earTHMama:
say it again. You have to be empowered by the holy spirit in order to fight demons otherwise, you are a goner unless you are one of them. A senior jinn can cast away a junior one in order to make the victim comfortable in their methods of worship or faith. I hope you know that?

is this the very rev. funmi?

nice one seun.

Sisi Jinx:
Seeing as every click you make is kaaching in his pocket, one can safely say your Seun is already well compensated and appreciated.

What would be totally radical is if your Seun can appreciate the people who make those clicks. https://www.clipartof.com/images/thumbnail/2014.gif

is this true? i dont think so myself

pray and pray some more that God would free the mind of men to be who they were made to be

what is this?

leave her and try deepzone she will be better for you

bawomolo:
isn't yasar arafat a muslim. shia or whatever

well, research into that and get yourself informed. what was his wife?

Newsweek Lists Nigerian Pentecostal Among World Influencers[b][/b]
Church planter Enoch Adeboye is included beside presidents as one of the world’s 50 most powerful people.

[12.22.08] One of the 50 most powerful people in the world is a Pentecostal preacher from Nigeria whose mission is to save souls.

So says Newsweek magazine in its Jan. 5 cover story, which includes Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), in its list of 50 world powerbrokers.

Adeboye and Pope Benedict XVI are the only Christian leaders on the list, which features both revered and reviled influencers including President-elect Barack Obama, the Clintons, Oprah Winfrey, Chinese President Hu Jintao, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I certainly agree with Newsweek on this,” Pentecostal historian Vinson Synan told Charisma. “I have visited [Adeboye’s] campground and preached in one of his large churches in Lagos. In terms of masses of followers and influence in Nigeria, as well as other nations, he is a dominating person with tremendous power.”

RCCG, which Adeboye has led since 1981, has some 5 million members in 14,000 congregations in Nigeria alone and hundreds more across 110 nations. In 2006, the Lagos-based church movement built a US. headquarters in Texas, and has planted several hundred churches nationwide.

“In the developing world we say we want churches to be within five minutes’ walk of every person,” Adeboye told Newsweek. “In the developed world, we say five minutes of driving.”

A former math instructor at the University of Lagos, Adeboye began working at RCCG translating the pastor’s sermons from Yoruba to English. He now travels the world preaching at services that can last as long as 12 hours.

Each month in Lagos, RCCG hosts an all-night prayer meeting at its Redemption Campground that draws several hundred thousand people. Every December, several million people travel from around the world to attend RCCG’s annual Holy Ghost Congress. The most recent congress ended on Sunday.

“If I were to name the top 10 apostles in the whole world, Adeboye would have to be there on the top of the list,” said C. Peter Wagner, president of Global Harvest Ministries and leader of the International Coalition of Apostles. He is also the editor of Out of Africa, which chronicles the growth of the charismatic movement in Nigeria.

“I attended his all-night prayer meeting the first Friday of the month, and the leaders apologized to me for the low attendance,” Wagner said. “They had only 300,000 the whole night long. Usually they have 500,000.”

Synan noted that the prosperity gospel is a central message at RCCG and within other prominent Nigerian Pentecostal ministries.“In Africa, prosperity means generally having a roof over your head and food to eat,” Synan said, adding that the prosperity message is also used negatively by some to promote the idea that Christians must give financially in order to receive God’s blessings.

Adeboye has avoided accusations of financial misdeeds or faking supernatural power, which have plagued many ministries in the nation. Nigerian government leaders seek his input on social issues, Newsweek noted, and he recently made a public-service announcement condemning discrimination against people who are HIV-positive.

Newsweek called Pentecostalism “the biggest, fastest-growing Christian movement since the Reformation,” with some 600 adherents around the world.

In North America, the number of Pentecostals has grown from 19 million in 1970 to roughly 77 million today, Newsweek reported. According to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, the numbers are even higher in Asia and Latin America, where Pentecostalism claims 166 million and 151 million followers respectively.

Grant Wacker, professor of Christian history at Duke University, estimates that by 2050 most of Africa will be Christian—and the majority of those converts will be Pentecostals.

“Pentecostals have such an impact because they talk of the here and now, not just the by and by,” Adeboye told Newsweek. “We pray for the sick, but we pray for their prosperity, for their overcoming of evil forces and so on. While we have to worry about heaven, there are some things God could do for us in the here and now.”

Although Adeboye is not as well known in the United States as he is in Nigeria, Wagner said he represents the new center of gravity for Christianity. “One of the things that excites me is that [Newsweek] had the wisdom to include a leader from the Global South because that is the focal point of growth and influence of the Christian church,” said Wagner, referring to Africa, Asia and Latin America.

“It’s absolutely necessary for us who have an older church that has not been on fire like it has in the past to look to the Global South and catch some of the fire that the Lord is setting there,” he added. “It is absolutely necessary.” –Adrienne S. Gaines
http://charismamag.com/cms/news/archives/1222082.php

MSMAMASITA:
icecold, once when i asked for help he said he was broke but he tried to help me research to solve the problem at a less costly rate. i was so offended that i don't ask anymore. because i felt like he should have offered.

i know that he sends money to the mother of his child. but shouldnt he? it is his child afterall. I have a child myself and my ex gives me money for my daughter.

getting better

MSMAMASITA:
i have dated him for 4 years.
we do not live together but i spend each weekend with him
he has a child in nigeria but he says that he is no longer with the woman
we broke up during our first year because i wasnt ready for the relationship. and that is when he had his child. he said i hurt him so bad during that time. but since we've been back together no gifts even though he did give me gifts during that first year before he break up.
But he does treat me special and is very caring and loving towards me

you still on the fone to your freind?