Sunday's Coming

Good morning, and it truly is.

We had a big storm come through last night, high winds, heavy rain and hail. We came through much better than many. We have a hole in one vent and had water blowing in one window, but throughout the park trees and limbs are down and several awnings are history. Praise the Lord, no one was hurt.

My trip to Iowa was a success. After all the meetings, we have at least one area working to open a clinic and have a few other places talking about it as well. So, to me it was a great week. Dennis Maloney and Bill Sisson are still trying to help put all the pieces together. I came home excited and very tired. It has taken all week for me to gain some sort of energy back.

We also met a young pastor working as a new church plant and his congregation are all people who are down and out. My heart aches for him and his ministry. He needs help in many ways from mission groups to help build and to do ministry, to people to come along side and pray with him and give financially. If you want details and phone numbers call or email me.

Thanks again for your prayers, emails and financial support, you can see by this posting it is bearing fruit. I read the following today and it encouraged me so I hope it does you as well.

Have a great day, love you, pass it on.
Don

Loving Servant
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:39
Recommended Reading
John 13:12-17


Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of The Learning Channel's 18 Kids and Counting believe that teaching their 18 children to have a servant's heart is one of the most important goals of parenting. They want their children to become a representation of Christ to each other and everyone they meet, and they accomplish this by teaching the children to look for opportunities to serve others.
In the same way, the church should desire to show Christ's love by having a heart for others and being made up of servant-hearted people. So often though, churches begin to exist for themselves; and they lose sight of the very core of who Christ is… a loving servant.
During Christ's earthly ministry, He spent the majority of His time loving and serving brokenhearted, downtrodden, sick, and sinful people. He was setting an example for the churches that would be established after He returned to Heaven. He wanted to ensure that His followers would not merely strive to live holy lives separate from a world in need, but that they would accurately represent Him and His unconditional love by taking every opportunity to reach out and serve others as He did.
The church is a servant community in which those who hunger are to be filled; the ignorant are to be taught; the homeless to receive shelter; the sick cared for; the oppressed set free.
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