Resolutions

As 2009 comes to a close I thought it only fitting to make some "want-tos" for the upcoming year. Notice I did not say "resolutions". This is because normally whenever I make a resolution if fail to follow through with -- especially the New Year's type. So for what its worth, here are a few of my New Year's want-tos.

1)love God more
2)love my wife more
3)love my children more
4)love my friends more
5)love God's family more
6) love my students more
7) love those in my minstry team more
8) love my missionary partners more
9 love those who don't know God more

Notice the trend here? Finally my want to #10 for 2010:

10) love my enemies more.

"Beloved, let us love one another, for Love is of God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He that loves not, knows not God, for God is Love, so Beloved, let us love one another." 1 John 4:7-8

Contextualization of Christmas

Recently I had the opportunity to engage in a discussion over the merits of celebrating the birth of Jesus as a special day. The opponents of celebrating Christmas had some valid points, most dealing with the tendencies of Christians to turn Christmas into a day of rampant commercialism or tradition, devoid of any significant meaning. Furthermore the argument of the early NT church not celebrating the day does hold some merit. As the discussion wound its way around our group, it became apparent that no clear cut persuasive arguments would end the discussion in favor of one side or the other. It was at this point that I took the time to interject a simple missionary thought. Christmas, or the celebration of it has become a part of our culture, good or bad. The key I believe is to accept its presence and use it as an opportunity to contextualize the gospel message. Too many Christians fall into the trap of syncretization when it comes to this "holy"day, leaving nothing of worth or value to its real meaning. We need to see Christmas for what it is a day on the calendar where we remember that God became flesh and dwelt among us. Immanuel became a physical reality. But more than just celebrating Christmas on one day a year or in one season, I think it would be better to live out the significance of Christmas daily throughout the year. Doing this while recognizing the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, makes a proper celebration.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

There are many Christmas hymns which celebrate the advent of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Many contain awe-inspiring lyrics requiring dynamic vocals to capture the full essence of the song. (Oh Holy Night, for example) Others such as Away in a Manger for example, describe the various events surrounding the event with child-like clarity. But for me the essential message of the birth of Christ is contained within a couple of powerful lines found in the hymn Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
Hail, the incarnate deity
Pleased as Man with men to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.

You see Christmas is exactly that. The exact moment in time when the WORD became flesh and dwelt among us, HIS creation. This is the message being heralded by the Angels in the song.

This is the message we must herald to those around the globe who have yet to hear!

Merry CHRISTmas and keep singing!

Thank Goodness for Grace!

As I sat down at McDonald's with my three children tonight, I saw someone who reminded me of an event in my past. An event that I am not too particularly proud of. It felt weird to be dwelling on this event, because I knew that I had been forgiven and had been set free from the sin and guilt of it. Still the memory was there. Then, just when I needed it, Jesus showed up. He arrived in the presence of my wonderful wife. Her arrival reminded me of the life I have in Christ and the victory of sin he provides! He saved me from a past of bad decisions for a life of purpose and fulfilment. He longs to do that with many of you reading this blog as well.

Some of you may be wondering what this has to do with missions. Well, nothing and everything. You see my personal experience is not really related to missions, but the message it brings is the reason why missions exists. Our missionary friends share the love of Christ to those who have yet to receive it. For this they need our prayers.

Grace and Peace

Thoughts from Yoda

Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.-- Yoda

Recently while speaking with a missionary friend of mine, the preceding quote came to mind. Often while trying to be sensitive, the western church uses words and phrases which do more harm than good -- especially when it comes to making commitments to missionary partners. When we say things like, "we'll see what we can do," or "maybe there's a chance we can help," our missionary partners are filled with hope. All too often as I was reminded, these words turn out to be mere lip service and provide only false hope. The missionary and his plea are forgotten as soon as he/she leaves the meeting it would seem.

When I asked my friend if this was an example of cultural/linguistic misunderstanding, I was firmly admonished with the acknowledgement that many of our partners in the field have a better grasp/understanding of our language and its usage than we do. Hard to swallow for sure, but I believe this idea has its merit. We forget that our partners in the field are pastors, leaders and experienced teachers that hold great sway and esteemed reputations in their respective fields. We treat them like inferiors sometimes when they arrive and solicit our partnership and/or support. This should not be!

As I rant, I must confess that a lot of this comes from a Spirit-driven conviction in my own personal experience and is only posted for your consideration, not necessarily any condemnation. So lest I overstep my bounds, let me finish with one final convicting point. Sometimes we think we are doing great things with our support, only to find out that we really should be doing more. I have been led to believe that maybe we short change God and limit what he wants to do, because too often we rely on our own plans and calculations. A three-year church plant for example seems great, but when you look at the numbers per capita our "generous" plan worked out to be only a small amount per person per month over a three year period. Don't get me wrong, I praise God for the fact that we are planting a church, but hope that we will learn to allow God to work through His people more in the future.

So remember the words of Yoda -- Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.

Grace and Peace

Miscellaneous Updates

This is a simple blurb to give everyone an update regarding the missions Mt. Carmel Christian Church is currently supporting.

1)Mid-India Christian Mission/Bethlehem -India -- Church Planting and Discipleship

2)Southwest India Christian Mission -- Orphanage and Discipleship

3)Christ Reaching Asia Mission -- Discipleship, Evangelism, and Social Welfare

4)Lecce Christian Mission -- Discipleship, Evangelism, and Restoration

5)Pakistan Christian Evangelical Services -- Church Planting, Discipleship, and Christian Action

6)Pioneer Bible Translators - Vanuatu -- Bible Translations, Evangelism, and Discipleship

7)Mulberry International - Ukraine -- Foster Services, Street Evangelism, and Social Relief

8)Living Water Christian Mission - Haiti -- Education, Church Planting, and Discipleship

If you have specific questions about any of these, please don't hesitate to drop me an e-mail.

Grace and Peace
chris

Sweet Submission

The term "submission" is a cause of great concern to many who hear it and for many rightly so. Those who have submitted to someone only to have themselves abused, abandoned, or taken advantage of definitely would seem to have a legitimate argument against submission in any form.

But recently borrowing an idea from Richard Foster regarding the discipline of submission, I realized that God deals with this all the time. The perfect act of submission, demonstrated through the act of Christ on the cross, has been abused, abandoned, and, yes taken advantage of (in the negative sense) by all of us at some point in our lives. This realization caused me to understand submission in a whole new light.

Submission as many of my missionary friends would tell you, is essential to experience all the sweetness of life that God has to offer. Submission you see takes us to the place where we no longer have to be burdened by our own selfish interests and desires, but where we can tap into the Beloved and derive our satisfaction and worth from the knowledge that we have been found pleasing in HIS sight. Truly sweet indeed!

10 INDICATORS

10 Indicators That Your Missions Program Has A Problem

1) The church "mission guy" always allows his emotional desires to override the Spirit's direction, failing to extend grace to others. (A lesson this blogger needed to be reminded of recently.)

2) The missionary field easily becomes a topic for the latest round of political posturing.

3) Missions is always someone else's call or gift.

4) The mission field is always somewhere I am not.

5) We can't believe that God would really want to save "those people".

6) Saving Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, Buddhists, etc. where they live is a missions opportunity, but if these same individuals come here to our country and our churches they are somehow a threat.

7) Everyone seems just too busy for missions.

8) "We support that one guy, right?"

9) "Missions? Oh right, that's where we send checks to those foreigners who seem to always hound us for money."

10) "Look at us we support 100 missionaries at $10.00 per month!"


Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. -- Hebrews 10:23-25

Restoration Movements

Coming from a Restoration Movement church, I found the following life analogy to be quite interesting. It deals with a "little" project dad and I have slowly, VERY SLOWLY, begun in his garage -- the restoration of a 1972 Toyota FJ40 Landcruiser.

Much like the frame pictured here, the frame on our cruiser was in pretty good shape, solid and ready for use, a good foundation to start from. The body on the other hand was quite a different matter altogether. The hull was so rusted in places that it simply lifted off the frame mounts. The two of us removed it quickly after somework with a sawzall. This body was in need of some major work.

This reminded me of some simple truths that many of our missionaries in the field already know:

1) Restoration is good for the church because it allows us to discover a usable frame -- the New Testament -- solid, designed by God.

2) Restoration is good for the church because it removes the rotten parts that have been attached to the frame, often for too long -- removing the hypocrisy that Christ warned against.

3) Finally restoration is good for the church because it allows us to examine the body in context of the frame, it allows us to see if our "mounts" are in good shape and in the proper places -- alligned through God's Spirit.

Good Fishin'

It has been said that a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work. Under most circumstances I would have to agree with this. I can remember as a young man, sitting at the end of my grandfather's boatdock on Lake Cumberland casting, reeling, casting, reeling, and casting again. More often then not I didn't catch a thing. That really didn't matter though. I was outdoors enjoying life. I can remember not wanting the day to come to an end, but it always did, so I would pick up my pole and tackle box and head back for the lime-green single-wide trailer that could have easily been dubbed the Jabez Hotel.

These memories got me thinking though. What if my job is fishing? Not the Bill Dance kind of fishing but the kind that Jesus laid out for us in the Gospel, the "I will make you fisher's of men" kind. If I have a bad day in this type of fishing, the consequences may have terrible eternal consequence! How could any good come out of this? To this I reply I don't know, only to say that God's grace covers a multitude of bad "fishing" days. He can turn the worst evangelistic efforts into something for his glory and the worst angler into the next Billy Grahm. So Keep On Casting and Good Fishin'.

Important Things

Every so-often there comes a moment when we are forced to take inventory in our lives. We are forced to answer the question, "What is important?" The recent passing of a young person I know has caused me to do this once more. Here are the things I wish to do a better job of:

1. Walking a little closer to the Lord.
2. Hugging my wife a little tighter.
3. Playing with my kids a little longer.
4. Providing a little more attention to my students and friends in mission.
5. Taking better care of myself.

Missed Opportunities

Quite often when we think of the mission field, we tend to think that we need to be the great evangelist/missionaries of yester-year. We rationalize to ourselves or others that the Lord has not called us because we are not the Taylors, Livingstons, Moodys, or Grahms of the world. We argue that we don't have the fortitude for missions like an Elliot or a Staines. While doing all of this we miss the obvious -- opportunities for mission that God has placed right in front of us. Opportunities that rarely require us to speak at all. We miss the everyday opportunities to evangelize through acts of kindness, service, and love. We fail to take the time to play with our children. We don't stop to listen to a co-worker or neighbor who's having a rough time. We don't don't offer a helping hand with a non-Christian spouse who is cleaning the house. These opportunities are all around us. We don't always have to go to the "field" to be a missionary, quite often the "field" comes to us. Don't miss the opportunity to be a part of the greatest act of love in the history of the world!

CAMPING FOR CHRIST

Often times in the world of Missions there are two camps. Those who define missional work as those events and activities taking place in and around their own community, or what I like to describe as the "Jerusalem" camp. The other camp are those who view this type of work as local evangelism and tend to focus more on the global community -- the "ends of the earth" camp. Are these two camps incorrect in their thinking? Well no, and yes. You see, traditionally, the commission of Christ to go into Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth, has often been viewed as a linear command, i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. This way of thinking often causes a conflict between the groups mentioned earlier because it prioritize the "mission field" in a chronological order. A second view of this commission has traditionally split the camps above into "my job" vs. "your job" roles. Either way the conflict still exists. And what shall we say about the middle of the road, the "Samarian" camp? This has its own unique issues. The missional community can continue to be divided on this issue, or we can recognize that as the Church we are called to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ -- using whatever gits and talents HE has euipped us with to whomever he brings into our sphere of influence. If Christ has only equipped a church with the gifts to minister to people just like them in the community -- great! They should do that. If HE has equipped them only to minister to people in their community not like them great! They should do that. If HE has equipped them only to minster to people not like them and not in their own community -- great! They should do that. And for those rare few -- if HE has equipped them to minister to all at the same time -- even better! They should do that.

Happy Camping!

chris

CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE

MCCC MISSIONS WANTS YOU!

Come join in Mt. Carmel Christian Church's "Celebration of Discipline" -- A course on spiritual disciplines beginning Wednesday September 16, 2009 at 7:00pm. You may come early for a good meal at a great price. This class is ideal for those wishing to grow further in their faith and in their leadership potential. Class runs through 11/4. For more details contact me via e-mail at cvanhuss_@hotmail.com

Grace and Peace

chris

Sunset -- "Son"rise

As I was driving home tonight I saw a beautiful sunset. Red-orange sphere highlighting clouds with streams of gold, red, and purple hue coming forth. Then all of a sudden I came to an intersection and a traffic pole blocked my view of the sunset. This got me thinking, what kinds of "poles" block my view of God's Son Jesus? Is the Son rising or setting in my life on a daily basis? What about people around the world? How can I allow them to see the "Son"rise and not the "Son"set?

On another the note, the website for Mid-India has been updated, check it out.

Grace and Peace

Some Recent Happenings

Praise be to our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus! He has made the following possible:

1) The missions team has been able to assists individuals hoping to go to Romania, and Chicago for short-term trips. We also provided help to a family from Zimbabwe now living here in the U.S.

2) CRAM has a new team member. "Thomas" has joined the ranks of this great ministry. We were able to assist with the "Jacob" fund. Also "Gabriel's" flashlights are providing a new way to share the Light of the World in NK.

3) Our friends with PBT our finally residents in Vanuatu. Pray they received their work permits.

4) Our partners in Southwest India hosted a VBS for over 1500 students. Also God has added to their numbers in both people and physical structures.

5) Our friends from PCES will be visiting with us in November. I will be representing them in Owensville in October. Pray for me and pray for the persecuted church in Pakistan.

6) Work continues on the school in Haiti with our partners at Living Water.

7) We hope to strengthen the ministry efforts of Mid-India through capital campaign contributions.

8) Our friends in Italy and Albania hosted a wonderful VBS for children in Albania.

9) We continue to experience success in our efforts to plan for a visit to the Ukraine in 2010.

10) God has provided many educational opportunities for his people at Mt. Carmel. The National Missionary Convention is in November. Urban Missions Conference in December. Perspectives Classes this fall and spring. Lake James Mission Camp in July of next year.

11) Individuals hoping to get involved in missions locally at Mt. Carmel may do so through a Samaritan's Purse outreach, person to person ministries, and by becoming a missionary partnership champion. Contact me for more information about any of these.

You said what? -- The problem with global communication.

Recent events in missions at Mt. Carmel have made me realize how terribly important communication and understanding of culture is. When communicating with those from a different culture let me offer a few random thoughts:

1) Try to anticipate potential delays in reply. The person with whom you are communicating may not always get/give you a reply in the time frame you think is acceptable.

2) Recognize that honesty is still the best policy. Rather than try to alter your original comments, admit what you said and then work to explain.

3) Speak the truth in love. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS!

4) Don't be afraid of confrontation. That which seems confrontational may in fact be a search for clarity, or may be necessary.

5.) Speak with humilty and extend grace whenever possible. Remember we all say things from time to time we shouldn't or wish we hadn't said.

The Cost of Following Christ

If you're reading this then you've either already glossed over the title or have read through the article linked to in it. Either way I encourage you to reread the article. Often times we forget that following Christ should be costly. In North Korea, picking-up your cross and following Christ has an almost literal meaning. That made me stop and think about costs.

What has following Christ cost me? Sadly, or gratefully, I'm not sure exactly which, I've not had to sacrifice too much. I've been blessed to live in a country where religious freedom is (or at least used to be promoted) and where there is a distinct separation between state and church. Quite a comfortable position. Yet this comfort has a cost as well. It has led me to a state of weakened faith, one that often lacks luster, a faith that at times seems to border on the kind of luke-warmness Jesus often warns about in Revelation. I don't always hunger and thirst for God's Word because it is so readily available here. Also because of my comfortable state, I often shy away from doing what is right.

Perhaps then this should be my outlook, if I am to be a faithful follower of Christ here in the U.S. I must be willing to give up comfort. Can I pray, Lord make me uncomfortable so my faith and love for you will grow strong? Am I willing to do this? Are you? Christ was and Christ did!

Updates from the Ukraine

Many of you are probably not aware that Mt. Carmel supports a ministry in Ukraine known as Mulberry International. Mulberry is actually the name of the U.S. body that governs three ministries in the Ukraine. The photo at left is take from one of those ministries Project Sasha which primarily works at finding and helping street children. What follows is personal reflections from national field directors of these ministries. Charles McKibben is the stateside director mentioned in the updates.

Camp Report
(This is a report from Galya. Hopefully, we will get pictures later.)

Piece to you, Charles and everyone there!

This is the time when I can write to you about our life here. So the first shift of our camp has been finished and it was a great time when God has shown His mercy and His blessings to us all, it was not just good time, it was also difficult time. There were 65 kids that went the whole time with us.
The kids are all different and our sisters and brother from the US were helping us with them. The kids were crying when they had to leave and were thinking and talking about them all the time afterwards. Those kids who received letters from Christa, couldn't wait to get home to read it. Everything was great! We thank You all for everything.

When we came back to Simferopol we were met by the government officials and parents - they were so much happy that started buying the tickets to the camp next year! Both children and the government officials are thinking good about us!
The second shift of camp has started! There are 60 kids now.
So, this seems to be all. We love you and bless you!

Ministry Update from Kostya

We have got a few good news that I would like to share with you. We've made the tables for SImferopol hospital and the chief of the department has asked us to thank the brothers who have donated money for this. We have installed the window in Sevastopol hospital in the baby's ward and the chief of the department is also telling thank you to the brothers.
Pilgrim staff is still working in the camp. The second camp is going much easier for them. Probably, it's because of the experience they've got in the first camp. We are doing some small renovation in the building of Pilgrim, with our own strength. The room above the garage is slowly turning into a big storage room for clothes, with a lot of shelves and hangers.
Chernov family is so thankful for the construction to keep going and very happy about the family ministry that they are a part of right now. Respectfully, Konstantin. We are doing fine. We thank you for the encouragement and the support in the ministry. Our families are doing great. Galina Gudwill went to the Crimean mountains, to the lake area with the kids for a week. She is planning to send children to the summer camp this month. She had a trip with Vanya to Kiev, a month ago, where they had additional examination for Israel. They have planned another trip to Israel but haven't dated it yet. Right now they are thinking of Yana - she's got a heart disease and needs a surgery in Kiev. She has had a medical examination in Simferopol and she will be getting ready for a surgery in September.Families of Macevich and Goryainov and Chernov are arranging the vacation time for their kids by themselves and are also having computer lessons in the lab. The construction keeps moving. We will try to direct all the work to the finishing works(walls and the ceiling). These are the most expensive works. The price for the finishing work is the highest. We will do everything possible to keep the expenses down. The time will show the results. We all are so thankful to the Lord for the movement that has been done in construction and for the temp. Dear brother Charles, you and your family and all our helpers are in our prayers.Respectfully. Konstantin.

Clapping Hands

Children from VBS in Albania.

Just tonight while reading Bible stories with our children, I experienced an amazing moment. We were reading about the women going to the tomb and finding, (or should I say NOT finding) something amazing. Jesus had risen! When I read the part about the angel's announcment to the women, my oldest daughter sat up in her bed and started to clap. She loved the happy ending! Don't we all. In Christ, there can be a happily ever after to all of our lives, and this is something we can sit up and clap about!

Also I wanted to share with you some news about work currently being done by friends in Italy and Albania:

LECCE CHRISTIAN MISSION
(Italy and Albania)
CASELLA POSTALE 36 (73100) LECCE, ITALY
Mission E-mail: chcr.lecce@tiscali.it;

July, 2009
Pino Neglia – Jessie Lee Troyer

Special Albania
Again this year we had our usual VBS in Albania in the city of Elbasan and in the village of Gostime. It began only a few days after the conclusion of our annual Italian Churches of Christ convention , the details of which I gave you in our June newsletter. In this VBS Chuck Schmidt, from Wichita, KS., was to have participated but because of continuous delays and flight cancellations of Delta Air Line he was blocked at Atlanta on standby for some days and finally was compelled to return home. He felt both embittered and frustated. He was to have accompanied our singing in VBS on his guitar, was to sing solos, and planned to bring with him the portable baptistry which his church had donated to the Church at Elbasan. On my next mission trip to Albania in September, I’ll take the baptistry with me . (providing it arrives in time.)

The first stop of my trip to Albania was at the Christian clinic at Durres where I took the usual supply of medicines . In the first photo to the left are the doctors and nurses who run the clinic. Much to our dismay, in the period when I was in Albania there were extreme climatic conditions; in fact, on Albanian TV they said such storms had not occurred in more than 100 years. The roads turned into torrents of water and mud. Water was in our church location at Gostime. We managed to keep the water from flooding the location by digging trenches.

In spite of the torrential rains the young people came to our VBS. We had a maximum number of 31 at Gostime and 29 at Elbasan. The team of teachers were: Arian Kosta, evangelist at the Durres Church; Koli, member of the Church at Elbasan, Mondi Gjoni, our native evangelist at Gostime and Elbasan; and I. At Elbasan we used the usual elementary and middle school building. The theme was: “Conversions in Acts of the Apostles.” Due to the bad weather we prolonged VBS for a few days. The road from Elbasan to Gostime was a disaster. I never before saw so much mud.

Sunday, July 5th, the only day of sun and no rain, we had the inauguration of the new center and church location at Elbasan which we had rented on my preceding trip in April. There are four rooms and removing the dividing wall between two of them will give us our worship room. One other room will be used for Bible study and the fourth will have a ping-pong table. A sign like that at Gostime reads: Youth Center – Church of Christ. Under the name is Mark 16:16. I had taken chairs bought in Italy. The bath is very small…but at least…there is a bath…!!!

I had taken balloons for VBS which we used also in this occasion. Koli was baptized several years ago and his wife, from Muslim background, is studying the Bible. Another person present for the first time at Christian worship was Genny, economics teacher, who is also of Muslim origin. I had the privilege of sharing at length the Word of God with her. She promised to continue attending services and to study the Bible.

Don’t forget to pray for these children that the seed of the Gospel that we have planted will produce the spiritual fruit of conversion to Jesus Christ Lord and Saviour and re-birth of water and of the Spirit.



Pino Neglia – Jessie Lee Troyer
Lecce Christian Mission

W-mart -- Picture of Heaven?

Recently while travelling, the wife and I made a stop at a certain well-known super center to pick-up some necessities for our journey. I was amazed at the sights, sounds, and smells of the this facility. Persons of what seemed like every tongue, tribe, and nation seemed to be out in the aisles looking for cereal, deodorant, fresh fruit, etc. I couldn't help but think that maybe this was what heaven would one day look like. No not the discount racks and the fake jewelry, rather the buzz of excitement that fills the air because persons of every tongue, tribe, and nation will be there, praising GOD the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ. Then a sad thought crossed my mind, how many of these W-marters will not be there? How many will not be there because I was too busy in my own W-mart quests not to notice the tired, the poor, the hurting, etc. How many will not be there because I believed language to be too big a barrier to sharing God's love. How many will not be there, simply because I was too concerned with my own needs, desires, and wants, and did not do the right thing?

Interesting Video

A friend sent this to me today. The video is powerful. It was taken from a missions conference somewhere in Knoxville.

http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8742977b76e3475fae47&sp=1

Photos from Pakistan

From time to time the information we hear about the persecution on other lands seems so far-fetched that few would believe. My friend from Pakistan recently sent this photo of a young Christian girl who was involved in an attack against Christians there. Acid was thrown on this girl.

Trouble in Pakistan

Friends,

I recently received an urgent prayer request for Christians in Pakistan. My friend writes: Two days ago in Mann Village, Kasur, a mob of fanatic Muslims attacked 117 Christian families. Powerful Muslims claimed that Christians were standing on their way--like standing in the street. They started a quarl and start beating them and burnt their houses of 117 Christian families--total 155 Christian families live in that village. Christians suffered a lot. Please pray for them.

Please keep these families and my friend in your thoughts and prayers.

So the world may know.

Welcome Back!

Wow! It's been a really long time since I've been here. What seemed like a good idea 3 years ago has now found time and fruition (sp?). I am still new at this blogging stuff so please be patient with me. Today I wanted to simply encourage you all to share the fact the Jesus loves you, he died for you and rose again,and he wants a genuine love relationship with you.Find out more next time.Blogging so the World May Know,