[From a Baptist list I subscribe to]

Lyn, I think it’s a great idea, even with the obstacles that naysayers delight in inventing.

[The idea: city-people using paddocks for agistments for lambs/sheep in times of drought]

We have ten acres of pasture outside our town that we would be happy to use to assist with a project like this. We have a few sheep at the moment (I don’t know how many because whenever I try to count them I fall asleep!) but we could look after another thirty or so.

Let the Ba-a-a-a-ptists lend a hand!

For those who have no land for such an agistment plan, let’s consider the land we have around our churches.

One step we are getting underway in an effort to head off projections of skyrocketing foodprices because of the drought is a community vegetable garden behind our Creative Living Centre.

The plan is to use this plot as a classroom, so participants can learn on the spot and take new skills back home to set up their own gardens, or establish other community gardens around the town.

There is little time as the growing season is bursting upon us, and poorer families’ budgets are going to be stretched to the limit over summer. The idea hit us on Saturday. I mentioned it on Sunday, and by Wednesday we had five people volunteering from the local garden club to lend their supervision and expertise, offers of seeds and sedlings, and interest from Work for the Dole coordinators to fund a project for unemployed people. We see God confirming the idea through these provisions.

God stretch us in blessing us, so we become part of his blessing for others.