Struggling Well With Life

Rainy days and Mondays, are not so bad.  Lord knows we need the rain, and Mondays are what they are.  This Monday is actually pretty good.  Thanks to the Spirit’s prompting and your response the church has received $19,000 for the hungry in Haiti and Liberia.  Wow!!!  May our gracious God not only fill their bellies, but their hearts with His love and presence.  Thank you, thank you, thank you for your compassion.

I serve in a unique position and am privy to some difficult issues in the lives of many in our church familiy, and I am also aware of God’s divine intervention that is often equally confidential.  So, let me tell you this in generalities.  For those of you who have been around for a while, you will remember that for years we took up a love offering on communion Sundays to help those in our community who found themselves on hard times.  You have probably also noticed that we no longer do that every communion Sunday.  It’s not that there are not needs in our church, for there are always needs, and with the numbers growing, so are the needs.  Here is the really cool part - the folks who have been helped out in the past have been giving back, and have become the very lifesource to others that they had experienced.  God is rescuing His people, and using His people to rescue His people.

So, when the Spirit prompts, as He did last week, we had the freedom to respond without question.