Footsteps 3

Drs Steve and Margaret Brown with Marian Storkey. Does your area have an effective and caring family planning programme, or are you considering how to improve or set up such a programme? Whatever the situation in your area, here are four key points ... More >>

Family planning is a sensitive issue about which Christians may have very different views. This study may help you to think more about your beliefs, and what your attitude should be towards others who may have opposite views. Read Philippians 2: 1-4... More >>

Working with people to encourage rural development is a slow process. Whether your work is in health, agriculture, water supplies or some other subject, you will know that improving the quality of people’s lives is a gradual process. But the world p... More >>

The lives of 5.6 million children and 200,000 women could all be saved each year if all the women who wanted to limit their families had access to family planning. 500,000 women die of maternal causes a year. More than 200,000 of these could be save... More >>

By Dr Margaret Brown. This is a true story from Bangladesh, helping us to understand several points about a family planning programme. Fatima is the mother of five children. She lives in a small hut, on someone else’s land, in the middle of a vill... More >>

Nurturing community participation? I work in community health with the Prem Sewa Hospital, Utraula, India. At present we are training two women to join our team as field supervisors. We also have ten community health visitors. Only two out of the t... More >>

There are many ways of helping couples to space their families. The most suitable method depends on what is available, the needs of the couple, and on their beliefs about which methods are appropriate. It is important first to understand how a bab... More >>

Aids, Sex and Family Planning – A Christian View By Dr K Baker and H Ward, Africa Christian Press, 1989. This book is written in story form, looking at many aspects of the issues which confuse Christians in family planning, sex and also AIDS. It is ... More >>

By Jim Rowland. Anything that grows requires food, water, an energy supply and space. This is true whether we are talking about humans (especially children!), livestock, trees or crops. Human beings grow best where there are plenty of these resource... More >>

With a 3% population growth rate…The population will double every 20 years.   Every gardener knows that plants placed close together do not grow well! In the same way, spacing births helps produce heavier children. Because they can have more of the... More >>