As I type this, there are about 30 students participating in “Experience Texas Night.” We are currently hosting a team of 7 students from Sam Houston State University. They have been out all week inviting students, engaging in conversations, handing out Bibles and coffee, and prayer walking on the various campuses in Berlin. Tonight, one of their main events, is Texas night. When I left the meeting, they had already served up some delicious enchiladas, taught the crowd some Texan (like yeehaw, howdy, and ya’ll), sang “Home on the Range,” and were quizzing them on Texas trivia.
Pray with us, that through this evening new friendships would be built and students would experience Christ’s love. Pray that tonight would bring students, who don’t know Christ, one step closer to him. Yeehaw!!
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Some more pictures for your enjoyment. We’ll be working on getting the next newsletter out pretty soon. Blessings to all…
It’s stories like this one Dead in Her Home for 17 Months and Nobody Knew that really disturb me. Not only is it incredibly sad to think that an elderly widow lady could die in her home and no one realize it for 17 months, but I have to ask the question, where is the church in situations like this? The scripture is clear, God’s Father heart beats for the ‘orphan, widow, and alien.’ Please, if you don’t know your neighbor, especially if they are an elderly single person, please get to know them and care for them as God intends for us to do.
Amid a New Baby Boom, a Jump in Adult Unwed Mothers the title of a new article by Times Magazine in which it states that a full 40% of all new babies born in the U.S. are by unwed mothers. That is a staggering number!
Having lived with Kristen during the months of pregnancy she has just gone through, I can’t imagine someone doing this on their own! Oh, they would survive, but, I think, that is all it would be –survival! All the little things that need to happen to get the children’s room ready, the doc appointments, the shopping during the later stages of pregnancy, and the cooking during the early stages of pregnancy.
It might be very tempting for some of us to shake our heads and wonder about the moral state of our Union. “Whatever is going on with our youth,” some might be wondering. Other’s might point to one political policy or another in blame.
I don’t think those who take the claims of the Christian faith seriously can be all that surprised though. It’s fairly clear that the world is fallen, and it isn’t exactly easy for the insiders to even walk the straight and narrow in the midst of peer pressure, and the ebbs and tides of living in this world.
Could exactly this sort of situation —40% of all births happening to unwed mothers— be a chance for the church (that is, the people) to rise up, not to condemn (read John 3:17 some time), but to bring God’s blessing, love, and grace in tangible and wasteful extravagance on people who find themselves in the need of help, acceptance and love… do I hear an Amen?
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| From Progressing in Pregnancy |
I’m trying to be patient.
It takes longer to get in and out of bed, to roll over, and to get from point A to point B. I don’t think I can really bend over anymore, and hugging is just not like what it used to be. 
One of these day my boys will come. But for now, I will just have to be patient.
Here is an interesting article that is happening just 5 minute walk from where we live… though I can’t recall seeing any burning cars as of late. Have fun reading!
