Malaria is a disease caused by the blood parasite Plasmodium, which is transmitted by mosquitoes. Infected humans experience flu-like symptoms that can result in coma and death. Malaria, from the Medieval Italian words malaria or â bad air, infects more than 500 million people a year and kills more than a millions” one person dies about every 30 seconds. The disease is particularly devastating in Africa, where it is a leading killer of children. In addition to being home to the deadliest strain of malaria and the mosquito best equipped to transmit the disease, many areas in Africa lack the proper infrastructure and resources to fight back.
The disease is a self-perpetuating problem with large-scale impact on societies and economies. Malaria accounts for up to half of all hospital admissions and outpatient visits in Africa. In addition to the burden on the health system, malaria illness and death cost Africa approximately $12 billion a year in lost productivity. The effects permeate almost every sector. Malaria increases school absenteeism, decreases tourism, inhibits foreign investment, and even affects the type of crops that are grown.
Malaria is both a preventable and treatable disease. It can be prevented by giving families and individuals insecticide-treated bed nets to sleep under and taking steps to kill mosquitoes where they breed and when they enter houses to feed at night. At the same time, anti-malarial drugs such as artemisinin and other combination therapies that are widely available can treat malaria before it becomes deadly.
Malaria has been brought under control and even eliminated in many parts of Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Yet in Africa, with increasing drug resistance and struggling health systems, malaria infections have actually increased during the last three decades.
Despite the magnitude of the problem, there is a simple and cost-effective solution to prevent malaria deaths. For just $10, we can purchase a bed net, deliver it to a family, and explain its use. Bed nets work by creating a protective barrier against mosquitoes at night, when the vast majority of transmissions occur. A family of four can sleep under an insecticide-treated bed net, safe from malaria, for up to four years. The benefits of bed nets extend even further than the family. When enough nets are used, the insecticide used to deter mosquitoes makes entire communities saferâ including even those individuals who do not have nets.
Although $10 for a bed net may not sound like much, the cost makes them out of reach for most people at risk of malaria, many of whom survive on less than $1 a day. Nets are a simple, life-saving solution, but we need your help to provide them to those in need.
Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the most effective drugs currently available for treating malaria. Less expensive ACTs need to be developed and strategies to deliver them need to be implemented and evaluated so that the therapies can be accessed by the people who need them. Artemisinin-based combination therapies are also used to help pregnant women by administering at least two monthly treatment doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. More than 70 percent of pregnant women in Africa attend prenatal clinics at least once during their pregnancy. A regime of SP helps protect pregnant women from possible death and anemia and also prevents malaria-related low birth weight in infants, which causes about 100,000 infant deaths annually in Africa.
While bed nets are generally effective in Africa wherever they are consistently used, sometimes specialized teams are organized to spray an insecticide on the inside walls of houses (a process known as Indoor Residual Spraying or IRS). IRS kills female mosquitoes when they rest on sprayed surfaces after feeding on a person, reducing malaria transmission to others. Only female mosquitoes can transmit malaria. In special circumstances, teams are also organized to eliminate or treat mosquito breeding sites with another type of environmentally friendly insecticide. However, because the African malaria mosquitoes are so prolific and have such a broad range of breeding habits, this type of “larval control†may not be applicable in some areas.
For just $10 we can buy a bed net, distribute it to a family, and explain its use.
Insecticide-treated bed nets can keep a family safe for up to four years.
Nothing But Nets has partnered with the Measles Initiative to deliver the nets to even the most hard-to-reach areas of Africa.
Only female mosquitoes can transmit malaria.
Malaria’s etymological roots are in the Italian language, and “malaria†translates literally as “bad air,†a reference to the early belief that the disease was caused by breathing the stale, warm, humid air found around swamps.
Four Nobel prizes have been awarded for work associated with malaria to Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1907), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927), and Paul Hermann Müller (1948).
Two important, currently used anti-malarial drugs come from plants whose medicinal values have been noted for centuries: artemisinin from the Qinghao plant (Artemisia annual, China, 4th century) and quinine from the cinchona tree (South America, 17th century).
In the poorest parts of the world, where effective window screens are lacking, insecticide-treated bed nets are arguably the most cost-effective way to prevent malaria transmission. One bed net costs just $10 to buy and deliver to individuals in need. One bed net can safely last a family for about four years, thanks to a long-lasting insecticide woven into the net fabric.
Studies show that use of insecticide-treated bed nets can reduce transmission as much as 90% in areas with high coverage rates. Bed nets prevent malaria transmission by creating a protective barrier against mosquitoes at night, when the vast majority of transmissions occur. The African malaria mosquitoes generally bite late at night or early morning, between 10:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. A bed net is usually hung above the center of a bed or sleeping space so that it completely covers the sleeping person. A net treated with insecticide offers about twice the protection of an untreated net and can reduce the number of mosquitoes that enter the house and the overall number of mosquitoes in the area.
Currently, nets are treated with pyrethroid insecticides. These insecticides have very low levels of toxicity to humans, but are highly toxic to insects. By repelling the mosquitoes, a bed net can protect other people in the room outside the net. When enough nets are used in an area, the insecticide used in the net fabric makes entire communities safer even for those individuals who don’t have nets.
How Bed Nets get to Africa
With the money raised for Nothing But Nets, the UN Foundation and the campaign’s partners work with the Measles Initiative – one of the most successful vaccination efforts ever undertaken – to purchase bed nets and distribute them in countries and communities in greatest need.
The Measles Initiative is a partnership of the American Red Cross, the U.S. Center for Disease Control, the UN Foundation, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF. Since this integrated campaign began in 2001, nearly 250 million children across Africa have been vaccinated against measles and the number of measles cases reduced by 60%.
Child Health Interventions and Bed Net Distributions
Building on this success, the Measles Initiative has expanded to provide a package of critical child heath interventions, such as Vitamin A, de-worming medicines, the oral polio vaccine and insecticide-treated bed nets.
Since 2002, the Measles Initiative has distributed over 23 million bed nets in 18 countries across Africa through these integrated child health campaigns. In 2006 alone, almost 20 million bed nets were distributed in 10 African countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria.
How Bed Nets are Distributed through the Measles Initiative
Coordination with African Governments
Each year the Measles Initiative coordinates with African governments to determine which countries will undertake measles campaigns. This is based on the prevalence and spread of the disease, the number of years since the last campaign, and the interest and preparedness of each country. Such coordination is necessary to conduct effective and efficient campaigns as well as ensure sustainability. To date, 12 countries have been chosen to conduct measles campaigns in 2007.
Government and NGO Coordination of Bed Nets
During the planning process for a measles campaign (which can take 6 to 9 months), a country can choose to integrate other health interventions such as insecticide-treated bed nets. When a country decides to distribute bed nets during its measles campaign, the Measles Initiative and the country government coordinate the planning for each such that they are fully integrated. Together, WHO, UNICEF and the local ministry of health determine where to purchase the bed nets and who will be responsible for bed net storage, distribution, social mobilization, and follow-up surveying.
Distribution of Bed Nets and Education on their Use
Throughout the integrated child health campaign, children travel to vaccination posts where they receive the measles vaccine and other medicines, as well the insecticide-treated bed net. Health workers and volunteers provide the immunizations and educate children and their families on the use of the bed nets, while observers from various agencies and organizations monitor the activities of the campaign and provide support to the health workers and volunteers as needed.
Evaluation
The evaluation of the bed net distribution generally takes place just prior to the rainy season, providing an opportunity to re-educate families on the use of the bed nets as they enter the time of year during which mosquitoes tend to be more prevalent.
Sending Nets. Saving Lives
This entire process of purchasing and distributing insecticide-treated bed nets to children under the age of five, as well as providing education and follow-up surveying on their use, is accomplished at the cost of just $10 per bed net.
Although $10 for a bed net may not sound like much, the cost makes them out of reach for most people at risk of malaria in Africa, where many people survive on less than $1 a day. Malaria has been brought under control and even eliminated in many parts of Asia, Europe and the Americas. Yet in Africa, malaria infections have actually increased over the last three decades. Malaria is a leading cause of death of children in Africa, killing nearly one million children each year. Every day 3,000 children die from the disease.
LUANDA, Angola (UMNS) -- Sometimes malaria can kill a child before anyone even knows the child has been infected.
The Rev. Domingos Kafuanda says the recent death of an 8-year-old girl in his congregation was a grim reminder of how deadly malaria can be.
The child was singing in the children's choir on Sunday. "She was happy and playing," he says. "We got word she died the next day of malaria."
People sometimes ignore a headache and fever that may be the first symptoms of being infected, he says.
"Malaria can be in your body for a long time. Children can have fever one day and be feeling well the next; that is why it is so important to be tested," he says. "Her death really moved the church and reminded us we need to be vigilant about prevention and testing."
The complications are that not every mosquito carries malaria, and sometimes it is just impossible to avoid getting bitten.
Kafuanda, a United Methodist district superintendent for the Angola West Annual (regional) Conference, was bedridden with a high fever from malaria just two days before he spoke to United Methodist News Service about the killer that claims so many lives in this southwest African country.
He says he sleeps under a mosquito net and is well aware of the danger, "but sometimes you have to get out from under the net, and sometimes mosquitoes get inside."
Breeding grounds
Neighborhoods that lack potable water, adequate sewage systems and are overcrowded create the perfect breeding grounds for misery.
Dr. Pedro Francisco Chagas and Dr. Laurinda Quipungo sat down with a United Methodist delegation from the Board of Global Ministries and United Methodist Communications to talk about the problems they face every day in another part of the country at the Malanje Provincial Hospital.
“We have a population of 1.2 million in 14 municipalities,†Chagas says. “It is a dream of mine to have one doctor for every 10,000 people. Right now that dream is far from coming true, he says.
Setting priorities is hard because the problems are so many, he says. The top diseases the doctors face are malaria, respiratory problems, gastric problems, AIDS/HIV and sleeping sickness. The greatest threat is to children under 5 and pregnant women.
"If a child has a fever, the first thing we must assume is malaria," says Quipungo, a pediatric doctor who is also the wife of Bishop Jose Quipango, United Methodist leader of the East Angola Annual (regional) Conference.
Along with fever and headaches, other symptoms are coughing and convulsions, sometimes followed by a coma. Children often become anemic, which weakens their ability to fight off the disease. Cerebral malaria attacks the brain, and the person never fully recovers, Quipungo says.
"Sometimes parents see the hospital as the last alternative, and it is too late when they bring in their children."
No protection
Jose Vieira Dias Van-Dunem, the vice minister of health for Angola, says 30 years of war have left the country without much protection from deadly diseases.
"Resources are not elastic," he says. "Many resources went to the war and were not used for health or potable water. In the last four years, that is becoming the past."
Angola won its 16-war of liberation from Portugal in 1975 but was thrust into a long civil war that lasted from 1976 to 2001. Thousands died, infrastructures were destroyed across the country, and more than 2 million people were displaced.
The government's top priorities are promoting education, health and national unity, and fighting poverty, Van-Dunem says. The church has a major role to play.
Angola had the deadliest outbreak of Marburg disease ever recorded in 2005. When the fatal disease swept through the country last year, Van-Dunem says he went to see the African religious leaders. He told them to tell people to stop the African tradition of kissing and touching the dead body because the disease was spreading as a result. The word got out and the disease was stopped.
Churches can help with education, he says.
In seven of the 18 northern provinces, sleeping sickness is a major problem. The disease is spread by the bite of a tsetse fly, and 40,000 people die every year in regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Van-Dunem says the fly is attracted to black or dark blue cloth so the government has made traps of dark cloth to catch the flies.
"People are stealing the traps to make clothing for their children," he says. "Then the children become the traps for the flies.
"We as Africans listen to our elders," he says. "Our relationship with churches is very important, but we have to be greedy, we want more."
My Involvements in Christian Ministry
I was converted in December 1983 and baptized to Boamang Baptist Church the first indigenous church in Ghana, March 1984. As an active member of the church, I was ordained as one of the first Deacons in the church in 1989 for the first time of the history of the church since 1954, and was I then asked to be in charged of the Evangelism and mission ministry of the church from 1989 -1990. From1990-1992, I was elected as church leader to serve the church when the pastor –Rev. A.K. Ankrah resigned. It was during this period that I felt the call into full time ministry. I therefore enroll at the Ghana Baptist Theological Seminary then Ghana Baptist Seminary from 1992-1995, where I graduated with Certificate in Theology. I took me supervisory work under Rev. Mark Nti one of our senior ministers in St. James Baptist Church-Kumasi for my three years in the Seminary.
After my graduation, I was called to serve as a minister in charge of Evangelism, mission and discipleship at Antioch Baptist Church from July 1995-1997. During the period I led the church to plant a church which I develop leaders to take over from me.
I responded to a call to serve Saviour Baptist Church-Fumesua in April 1997, where I am serving to date. I met about 40 members in the church, and they were meeting at classroom for worship and other meeting. With prayer and much effort we increased from 40 to 250 which the active Sunday attendance is 150 to 200. After serving the church for one year I was recommended by the church to be ordained and so therefore I was ordain in 1st August 1998 and was gazette the same by the Government of Ghana
I am able to build a church auditorium and mission house with one time help from some friends in USA who visited us in 1999 for children ministry and true love wait. I have also led the church to plan two churches and developed leaders for those churches. I am involved in preaching, teaching, discipleship development, counseling, and evangelism among other duties. One of the most wonderful situations that keep on going is the helping hands of the Almighty God. I was informed by the church leaders the financial position of the church but because the Good Lord wants me to serve the and bring His people that has been bought by price together, I did not depending on the monthly salary so much so I started with one hundred thousand cedis which about is $11.00 They increased to two hundred thousand cedis which was about $22.00 the following year. As at the time I am writing, my monthly salary is four hundred thousand cedis which about $43.00. I have a wife with four kids and adopted 3 from her family. I am the tenth born of my parent both deceased.
I also served as a chairman of the welfare and social for the Kumasi South Baptist Association from 1998-2001 involving 72 churches. Which most of them are in the rural communities, my duties were to teaching the leaders and congregation in developing their potentials and see to the needs and the welfare of the ministers in the rural communities. I elected to serve the Association as Chairman in January 2001 I had an opportunity to study community development at the Asian Rural Institute in Japan the same year so I handed over to my vice Chairman while I have served for three months.
I was also served the Kumasi Area Baptist Minister Fellowship, a Fellowship of about 100 ministers of the Ghana Baptist Convention as Treasurer and I served the fellowship in that capacity from 1998-2001. I was a member of the constitutional committee and Ethics Committee of the Fellowship. During my time I introduced a membership and dues card and since they are using them with modification.
I had an honorary responsibility as Director of Special Duties at the office of the General Secretary-Rev. Frank Adams of the Ghana Baptist Convention till he resigned to join the All Africa Baptist Fellowship. During this period I was able to introduce special tags for the delegates at Ghana Baptist Convention’s Annual Sessions which they are since using them at Annual Session and adopted by the Minister Conference
I had opportunity to study Community Development at Asia Rural Community in Japan and Philippines from March 2001- March 2002. I have been involved in social ministry after my returned from Asia. I have begun training and also serve as consultant to the youth and pastors in our churches and to the member of the communities I served.
I was called by Rev. Dr. Frank Adams to serve as supporting staff in part-time basis at his office (All Africa Baptist Fellowship) as his part-time Administrative Secretary till the office recruited a full-time Administrative Secretary and I was asked to serve as a project and Administrative Coordinator under the Peace and Development desk at for All Africa Baptist fellowship since 2002 up to date.
Since 2005 to 2006 I worked with an International NGO called “His Nets” based in USA in conjunction with personnel from Ghana Healthy Service distributing free Treated Mosquito Nets to pregnant women, children under five years and sickle cell patients.
In 2005 June we distributed 1800 Net to 3 Districts where Malaria prevalent rate are very high. We also donated some to Hospitals for children’s wards. The year 2006 June ,we distributed 2600 Net to 4 Districts, 7 orphanages, 4 Churches, 3 Hospitals included a Muslim hospital. Last year I did a follow-up assessment and the results was positive. Malaria in those places has drastically reduced. This is a summary of my involvement in the Christian ministry since my conversion. continue 10/3/09
Ms. Nozuko-the Queen of Africa with Uncle Timo after her
2008 African Graduates with Uncle Timo and our Nurse
Rev.Dr & Mrs Takami the founder of Asian Rural Institute
36th Foundation Day of ARI and the 2008 participants Choir group
TOPIC: WHEN THINGS ARE DOWN, LOOK UP
TEXT: LUKE 21:25-33
Greetings in the blessed name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus. My topic for today is “When things are down, look up”.
However, I will like to convey my sincere appreciation to the Church, the Pastor and his elders for your infringing support to ARI. As you are supporting us from the developing countries in ARI, the pride in it is that you are supporting our communities, because if you support a participant, you have supported his or her whole community. So therefore I want to stand on behalf of the ARI community around the world today and say God bless you.
Now the question is; as we see what is happening around the world today, is there anything that we can hold on to? Is there anything that gives us meaning in our lives? There are emptiness and frustration in people of today.
The economic situation has changed drastically that some big companies like Toyota and others are just firing their so called casual workers, while they do not think about the future of these young people and the country Japan rather they are thinking about how they can make money. Things are changing, things are getting wrong. But there certain this that are not change
The nature of God does not change. Nothing can compare to the God that we are serving, He is unchangeable God. He is what he is now and what He was before. He is still the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
He is the unchangeable God. Human person changes most of the time for even a promised that they have made, but throughout all these centuries Our God has not changed. He said, “I am the Lord, I do not change” (Malachi 3:6). “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should [change]” (Numbers 23:19).
2. God is unchanging in His holiness. God is a holy God, a righteous God: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8).
God is unchanging in His judgment.
A day is coming in which all of us will stand before the judgment of Almighty God to give an account of our lives; we will give an account of what we did with His Son, Jesus Christ, and of our response to Him when He said, “I love you, I want to forgive you, I want to change you, I want to be your Friend.” What will we answer? What will we do with Christ? The Bible says, “The Lord will judge the ends of the earth” (1 Samuel 2:10).
3.God is also unchanging in His love: “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). God loves us! God is interested in us. He has the hairs of our heads numbered. He knows all about us, and He loves us! God loves us with a love that we do not understand.
When we come to Christ and give our hearts and lives to Him, He will give agape love—His love—to us so that we can love people whom we usually don’t even like. Now we will love them. He will give us a supernatural power to love.
4. The Word of God has not changed: “The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever,” says the Bible (Isaiah 40:8). The Bible was given to us by God. The Bible is our guide, our compass through life.
The first question that the devil put to Eve in that encounter in the Garden of Eden was, “Has God indeed said?” (Genesis 3:1). He was questioning the word of God. The devil will do everything in his power to keep you from reading God’s Word, from studying it, because believing the message in this Book will change your life!
Human nature has not changed. The Prophet Jeremiah wrote, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). Human nature is the same all over the world.
I have preached in all kinds of cultures and in all kinds of conditions, and I have learned that the human heart is the same everywhere. The Gospel meets the need of the human heart when a person turns by faith to Christ.
The Bible says, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). We are sinners.
We have broken the moral laws of God. We are all sinners. And the moral Law has not changed. God gave the moral Law to Moses who recorded it in the Ten Commandments.
“You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3). Anything can become a false god.
“Honor your father and your mother” (Exodus 20:12). Even when we no longer have to obey our fathers and mothers, we are to honor them.
“You shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14). Adultery is thrown at us from every angle. I don’t know how people today can stay clean and pure in their moral lives without Christ. But with Christ Jesus we can.
“You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15). Robberies, muggings—all kinds of things these are going on; we read about them every day in the newspapers. We watch on Televisions and listen to it almost everyday on radio.
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16). That’s lying.
These are from the Ten Commandments, and Scripture says that if we have broken one of those Commandments, we are guilty of breaking all of them (James 2:10).
So we are guilty in the sight of God. That makes us sinners, and sin comes between us and God. We are separated from God by our sin. We all need Christ!
It doesn’t mean that you will become perfect overnight. As long as you live on this earth, you will be imperfect. And you won’t find a perfect church. Only one who has ever lived was perfect and that is Jesus Christ.
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0ne of the famous Evangelist Bill Graham visited the Dean of a one of the great American universities. And while they are looking out the window from the office the Dean, and watched hundreds of students walking to their classes.
Then Bill Graham asked the dean, ‘What is the greatest problem at this university?’ He thought a moment and answered, ‘Emptiness.’
So many people today are bored, lonely, searching for something. You can see it in their faces. Many people have lost the meaning of life; they are spending more time on internet and other devices than meeting people.
I am afraid that a time will come that even in Philippines here people will feel more emptiness.
I have been observing that people are holding mobile phone but it will hardly to hear people talking via mobile to others than sending text messages.
Gradually it seems to me that people are creating emptiness for themselves due to the advancement of technology.
One girl went home from college told her wealthy father, ‘Father, I want something, but I don’t know what it is.’
That’s true of many people; we want something to meet the deepest problems of our lives, but we haven’t found it. People are not ready to even hear what they need to hear but rather what the want.
The Apostle Paul expressed it, ‘I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content’ (Philippians 4:11)
Before we can get help to quench our thirsty, we have these things to remember’
Self Confidence: A history of 0ppression, denial, injustice and abuse has been the greatest detriment to people of color. We have listened so long to what we cannot do that we have little confidence in what we can do.
It is the lack of confidence, not racism, not hatred, not lack of education or social injustice that creates the greatest deterrent to our progress.
One of the best kept secret in life is when we the children of God make up our minds into harmony with the desire in our hearts, when we pray for and follow intuitive guidance; then no one and nothing can stop us, no matter what color we may be.
Confidence and a made-up mind are the stuff kings and queens are made of. If you do not have confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. I believe that with confidence, you have won even before you have started.
So therefore, you don’t have to give up on life, to throw up your hands and cry, ‘It’s no use.’ You can have God’s peace, God’s joy, God’s happiness, God’s security; and yours can become the most great person(s) life in the world.”
2. Low self esteem; Fear and self low esteem tend to make us jump to conclusions. If what we are facing is near to our hearts, we have a tendency to expect the worst.
We miss so much, including opportunities to change, when we jump from the end to the middle, Brothers and sister, sometime in life, God opened the gate of opportunities for us to get in, but our self esteem will turn back and lock the gate of opportunities that has been opened before us. When we poise ourselves for failure, we forget our focus and goals in life.
My ancient Africans knew that no matter what were going to happen, it would not happen until it is happened, therefore, they are prepared for all possibilities in life the good and the bad. Do not jump into conclusions, you would be wrong.
Do not allow yourself to be pulled out in the middle that is a total waste of time, keep your faith, trust and stay focused, put your best foot out anyway.
The ancient ones had faith and trusted, knowing that the end is only a reflection of the beginning, because the end is not here yet. The only thing that you have to do is just put your entire weight of thought on God who is in Christ Jesus reconciling us to him.
3. Who Can Quench Your Thirst?
“I still believe that there is still emptiness within people today, and they are attempting to fill that with things that do not satisfy. Jesus said to the woman at the well, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again’ (John 4:13, NKJV).
I will like to encourage you to write this Scripture over the top of their ambition, over every goal they set for their lives.
Because my brothers and sisters, no ambition is going to satisfy your thirst, because it is a spiritual thirst.
We are a three-fold being--body, soul and spirit. We have physical thirst. We have emotional thirst for love, security and the need to be needed.
Then way down, deep inside us even now, we have a thirst for God.
In Romans 8, Paul said, ‘The creature was made subject to vanity’ (Romans 8:20, KJV). I believe that God himself created this spiritual thirst and that only He can quench.
The problem is that we are trying to quench a spiritual thirst with a physical or emotional experience. It can’t be done, even as you can’t fill a physical thirst with an emotional experience what we have to do is to trust ourselves and depend on God. Even though, sometimes we forget Him, yet he is not forgetting us.
