Why then do most women stop before they have 7 if childbearing often gets better with each one?
Women in Yemen tend to be much more joyful about having kids than some places. Ironically, one worker in Yemen had as a priority
project to get money for a whiteboard to help teach the proper use of birth control to men (if I remember the details correctly) ... an odd approach to church planting. In my mind that ranks as the most interesting conversation I've ever had about missions: How do you grow a church if you are trying to reduce the number of kids who are born?
This is actually an old debate in ecclesiology:
Did Jesus want us to be fruitful & multiply or to serve as eunuchs?
(Obviously my own multiplication is mainly on paper or on a calculator, so please don't take offense. It is a little thing I've thought about at times though. ... I think too much!)
BTW: Do you know what the # 1 income producing export is for Yemen. Yep. People!! Or, more polically correct: labor.
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P.S. My elder brother informed me that their fourth child was more difficult.
Women in Yemen tend to be much more joyful about having kids than some places. Ironically, one worker in Yemen had as a priority
project to get money for a whiteboard to help teach the proper use of birth control to men (if I remember the details correctly) ... an odd approach to church planting. In my mind that ranks as the most interesting conversation I've ever had about missions: How do you grow a church if you are trying to reduce the number of kids who are born?
This is actually an old debate in ecclesiology:
Did Jesus want us to be fruitful & multiply or to serve as eunuchs?
(Obviously my own multiplication is mainly on paper or on a calculator, so please don't take offense. It is a little thing I've thought about at times though. ... I think too much!)
BTW: Do you know what the # 1 income producing export is for Yemen. Yep. People!! Or, more polically correct: labor.
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P.S. My elder brother informed me that their fourth child was more difficult.
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