Friends, we have updated the web site with a brief video on the ministry. Please let me know your thoughts and if the audio is clear.
http://www.achildshopeintl.org/HomePage.html
A few of us are making a short visit to the mission in Haiti, 10 days before the Sept Pack-A-Thon. We heard tonight that the local missionary met with some of the people in the community earlier this year and promised them food. He wasn’t sure how he was going to get 1 ½ containers of food (420,000 meals) per year for them. We will be shipping (Lord willing) 1 full container of Kids Against Hunger food at the end of Sept to them (280,000 meals). We all recognize that the Lord answered his prayer – and the work of evangelism, church planting and disciple making will go forth in the slums and poverty stricken areas of Haiti because of what that missionary is doing.
Remember, we are to be found both worthy and working when He comes. So be sure that what God has entrusted you with is not in the ground (or the bank, or in your hand, or in your mind, etc) for safe keeping. Some keep what they have, safe for an unknown greater cause. If it is the “ground” when He returns, what will you say? If it is in your mind but you never got around to being involved, what will you say? If it is in your hand and you could not let go because you were not sure if there were a better investment, what will you say? Principles, polices and practices can be good tools but they can become unwieldy and deadly tools when they act as shovels as we hide the “talents” in the ground waiting for the perfect time to release them. The Bible speaks clearly this way:
The servant given one thousand said, 'Master, I know you have high standards and hate careless ways, that you demand the best and make no allowances for error. I was afraid I might disappoint you, so I found a good hiding place and secured your money. Here it is, safe and sound down to the last cent.' "The master was furious. 'That's a terrible way to live! It's criminal to live cautiously like that! If you knew I was after the best, why did you do less than the least? The least you could have done would have been to invest the sum with the bankers, where at least I would have gotten a little interest. "'Take the thousand and give it to the one who risked the most. And get rid of this "play-it-safe" who won't go out on a limb. Throw him out into utter darkness.' (Matthew 25:24-30)
The One who spoke still speaks, the One who came still comes.
http://www.achildshopeintl.org/HomePage.html
A few of us are making a short visit to the mission in Haiti, 10 days before the Sept Pack-A-Thon. We heard tonight that the local missionary met with some of the people in the community earlier this year and promised them food. He wasn’t sure how he was going to get 1 ½ containers of food (420,000 meals) per year for them. We will be shipping (Lord willing) 1 full container of Kids Against Hunger food at the end of Sept to them (280,000 meals). We all recognize that the Lord answered his prayer – and the work of evangelism, church planting and disciple making will go forth in the slums and poverty stricken areas of Haiti because of what that missionary is doing.
Remember, we are to be found both worthy and working when He comes. So be sure that what God has entrusted you with is not in the ground (or the bank, or in your hand, or in your mind, etc) for safe keeping. Some keep what they have, safe for an unknown greater cause. If it is the “ground” when He returns, what will you say? If it is in your mind but you never got around to being involved, what will you say? If it is in your hand and you could not let go because you were not sure if there were a better investment, what will you say? Principles, polices and practices can be good tools but they can become unwieldy and deadly tools when they act as shovels as we hide the “talents” in the ground waiting for the perfect time to release them. The Bible speaks clearly this way:
The servant given one thousand said, 'Master, I know you have high standards and hate careless ways, that you demand the best and make no allowances for error. I was afraid I might disappoint you, so I found a good hiding place and secured your money. Here it is, safe and sound down to the last cent.' "The master was furious. 'That's a terrible way to live! It's criminal to live cautiously like that! If you knew I was after the best, why did you do less than the least? The least you could have done would have been to invest the sum with the bankers, where at least I would have gotten a little interest. "'Take the thousand and give it to the one who risked the most. And get rid of this "play-it-safe" who won't go out on a limb. Throw him out into utter darkness.' (Matthew 25:24-30)
The One who spoke still speaks, the One who came still comes.
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