Class Diversity

As I've mentioned, we have a lot of diversity in the classes I'm taking now. From a policeman from Ghana, to an evangelist from Nigeria, a radio broadcaster from Slovenia and another evangelist from Ethiopia to me, an international student worker from Phoenix! We are learning a lot of things in the intensive courses but also from each other. For example, the Ethiopian student shared that China has reserved 7 trillion dollars, yes I said trillion, for the development of Africa. The Chinese are building roads and infrastructure here at a very rapid pace. Chinese automobiles are everywhere as well as heavy equipment. China is a rising power in the world. They have no national debt (despite what you may hear) and in fact they hold about 1.5 trillion of the U.S. national debt. China is the world’s biggest creditor. It has done this by providing cheap labor and products to more expensive markets. Despite the huge numbers of its population, the top market for China is not its own domestic consumers but the market of the United States. Better have your kids learning Chinese! However, the wealth is not distributed equally. There is the upper class and the lower class and very few in the middle. This is often seen in countries that have growing economies. It's here in Ghana. We went to a church that had the slum shacks next to it. However, the church members were all upper class. Not one homeless person could be found in the congregation. Is the church for everyone or just the upper class? Why doesn't the church have all classes of people? Does yours?

"To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people that by all possible means I might save some." - I Corinthians 9:22