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Funding is needed to complete
UK Buses Question God’s Existence
this building at Miracle Village.
LONDON—A four-week as dogmatic as religious leaders
advertising campaign conducted are, even though Dawkins
earlier this year featured this claimed the existence of God
message: “There’s probably no to be as likely as that of the
God. Now stop worrying and tooth fairy.
enjoy your life.” One bus driver—Ron Heather
Promoted by the British of Southampton, Hampshire—
Humanist Association, this mes- refused to drive his shift when he
sage was originally planned to arrived on a Saturday morning
The Miracle Began Under a Tree
appear on 30 buses. However, as and saw the advertisement. He
the idea picked up popularity— was allowed to skip work that
NYAMPHANDE, Zambia— become a community clinic
with the support of atheistic pro- day, and his bus company
“Together we can do this; because of the dire need in the
fessor Richard Dawkins—the promised to arrange for him to
together we will do this,” is the area. Also, a growing portion of
message was posted on the side drive a bus without the offend-
rallying cry for Miracle Village, the ministry’s property is being
of 800 buses in England, Scot- ing message.
which began in 1996 as a school cultivated for the growing of
land, and Wales. Fund-raising efforts are
with 15 children that met under crops, and a fishpond has been
Campaign organizers said enabling this advertising cam-
a large tree. In that same year, stocked, with the ultimate goal
they included the word probably paign to spread to other Euro-
an orphanage was begun to pro- of Miracle Village being able to
because they did not want to be pean countries as well as Canada.
vide a home for five children produce most of its own food.
whose parents had been lost to The orphanage and school
the HIV/AIDS pandemic and president, John Mambo, wrote,
whose grandparents were no “Our greatest wish is to see the
longer able to care for them. children of Nyamphande gradu-
As Miracle Village reached its ate and become what they wish
13th anniversary in March 2009, in future as the sky is the limit.
there were 80 children living in Further, we would like to see a
the orphanage and more than day when every child will be
700 attending the school. All of called off the streets and the
the children are fed three meals infamous phrase ‘street children’
each day. becomes a term of the past.”
In addition, a small health The website for Miracle Vil-
clinic, which was initially lage is www.nyamphande.com.
designed to provide services to The Church of God World Mis-
the students only, has also sions project number is 1318080.
By the
Americans with Least religious Americans calling
no religion part of country themselves Christians
Numbers
2008: 15% 2008: Northern 2008: 76%
New England
1990: 8% 1990: 86%
Source: American Religious 1990: Pacific
Identification Study
Northwest
30 EVANGEL • MAY 2009
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