Faith Like Potatoes [antikvár]

± Faith L-ltee Potatoes o hell with El Nino!" I looked out over the vast crowds gathered in King's Park Rugby Stadium, and I knew I had their full attention. "To hell with the drought warnings and the fear and the worry! We are not listening to the lies of the devil. We are listening to the promises of God!" My audience looked at me in stunned silence. They had come to Durban in September 1997 for the Peace Gathering hosted by Shalom Ministries, and they knew weather as only farmers can: they knew it could make or break them. El Nino comes around every three to seven years. A warm current of water in the Eastern Pacific triggers unusual weather conditions around the world, bringing torrential rain in some places and extended periods of drought in others - Southern Africa in particular. That year all the signs were that El Nino was the strongest for 50 years, and the drought would be correspondingly worse. The newspapers, TV and radio seemed to talk about nothing else. Even the Agricultural Union had succumbed to the current fears.