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    Is it just me...

    in Legacy Lounge

    Posted

    I know its a joke but I am board at work and I am going to attempt to read every last, Last post on here! I am up to page 20, this is going to be a long, long, long day..

    At least now I know how it started.

    Well, I think I'll make it one of my long term priorities to kill this thread. I will be the last, just you wait and see...... :tongue:

    Followed shortly by Ted

    HA!

    I'm last!

    t.

    Of whom I do wonder about from time to time... as he thought my contiueing story was a last thread as well...

    any way after saying all of that...

    LAST!

    I did a I DARE YOU thread a while back, daring anyone to read ALL the Last Thread. I think that was in the early days.

    Yep, and we now use it as a ironclad rule to those who DARE to claim LAST. They have to go back and read all the back posts.

    And BTW, I do claim to be the police when it comes to reading the back posts, but I admit to resenting being called a Nazi. Especially considering I wear a Star of David necklace around my neck, attend a Messianic Jewish congregation and love the people and land of Israel with all my heart. Thanks.

    a.

    Er..I think that was a jokey remark by Creed, in a vain attemt to be last..which didn't work. :emot-pray::emot-hug:

    Haiti Update from YWAM Haiti

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Today we bought 15 25lb bags of rice in St. Marc. To our knowledge it was the last available rice in all of St. Marc city and province! This is getting serious friends. What the UN and Government people may not be taking into thought is the mass number of people that are evacuating PAP. This is devasting the supplies in the province. One of the largest wholesalers in St. Marc has empty depots tonight with no word on when he might be able to get more bulk food! Victims of PAP are now beginning to fill churches in St. Marc and we are looking at potentially staging two additional camps here in this city as well as our staging points in PAP. FUEL is gone, vehicles are being parked! We have to have fuel if we are going to survive, much less help the victims! I have worked most of the day on the opening of the port of St. Marc. US Coast Guard has come and inspected the port. I have spoken to the person in charge of security and we are close to having green lights from the customs office to open the port to allow aid supplies to pass through for little to no charge! If you have a container of food or building supplies that is ready to send, please contact us or Bill Colman at cartrans@myacc.net. Bill has done much shipping into the port of St. Marc and is assembling three small vessels that can quickly load and offload at the port of St. Marc. However we need 40 containers to fill the ship for it to be able to leave. The ships are located in the Miami / Everglades Florida area. 888-763-2999. We need Rice, Beans, Cooking oil, Tomato paste, spagetti, soap, tarps, tents, wood, tin roofing, foam matress of sleep cots etc. Please contact us for an updated list! We still have no communication worth mentioning with cell phones. As I prayed today I felt God speak that a new beginning is coming to Haiti. Decisons for their future hang in the balance. Let's pray that the Haitian people will respond to God's love and make the right choices that will bring them healing and blessing!

    Newlywed woman jumped to her death from tower over credit card and loa

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    <H2 style="FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" id=passage_heading>www.dailymail.co.uk%252Fnews%252Farticle-1243415%252FNewlywed-woman-jumped-death-tower-credit-card-loan-debts.html&h=d1366a794dfe0c21c66366520c352056&ref=mf<H2 style=WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2">

    </H2><H2 style="WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2"><A name=passage_heading1>Proverbs 22:7 (New King James Version)</H2><H2 style=WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2">http://' target="_blank">7 The rich rules over the poor,

    And the borrower is servant to the lender. </H2><H2 style=WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2">

    and yet most Americans believe that debt is a good thing and the only way to achieve our dreams!...</H2></H2>

    Bad is Good and Good is Bad

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    ts a sad thing where bad is good and good is bad. This runs deep and on many many fronts that are sometimes not even on the radar. We all do it sometimes and not realize it. My personal one that I fight is the myth that Debt is a good thing, when the Bible makes it clear that its not. But I digress...

    The dark is getting darker and the light is lighter.

    This thread has turned into a homeless thread so I will comment on that as well. I do not give money to panhandlers, ever. This is why, I believe that you enable them to continue in what is dragging them down. I will however give food, and prayer.

    I have a bit of background I have worked on several occasions with homeless, matter of fact we took our youth group down to San Fransisco, on a missions trip to work with them. Many of them are addicted and or mentally challenged. Unfortunately drug abuse appears like mental problems so its near impossible to tell the difference with out seriously spending time with that person. So we love them, pray for them and even feed them, but money does not help. I had one guy ask my wife and I for money. We felt that we should not give him money but instead bought him a small snack from the store, as we did not have a lot on us. On the way out we asked if we could pray for him. He said yes and as we prayed blessings on him he broke down in tears and was really touched. That counted much more then a few bucks would have.

    The trick is to be wise as serpents but gentle as doves.

    Help For Haiti: Is this feesible

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I was watching the tragic scenes of Haiti this morning and my heart was weeping for them. I thought of something... Our government should hire construction companies from all over the US as well construction suppliers to provide workers, materials, equipment to go to Haiti and rebuild their buildings to meet the same earthquake codes that are used in S. CA.

    We could put a lot of Americans to work. We could also provide support organizations that would handle the food, clothing, medical needs and shelter needed for the skilled workers who are sent to Haiti. It would take years to complete and would provide much needed help both for Haiti and out of work Americans.

    It seems better than throwing money at the problem, provide real, meaningful help for the Haitians, and would also bless the US.

    See my post Youth With A Mission Haiti

    http://www.worthychristianforums.com/Youth...ti-t115851.html

    They are doing real, practial things. and Money does help, for more info on how to help you can email them I am sure they will be able to help inform you!

    Youth With A Mission Haiti

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Isaiah 6:8

    At 5:05pm I was sitting with our leadership team when the room began to tremble. EARTHQUAKE! We quickly realized that this was an abnormal rumbling. We have experienced minor trembles in times past but not like this one. We all bolted to the exit. Soon we saw everyone out in the center of our campus field as the earth continued to tremble. One of our walls had some plaster begin to shack loose, but then it stopped. Thank God!

    The city erupted with screams and shouts! Most of our cell companies were down, electric went off, but then one of our new DTS student's cell phone rings. People are telling him that many buildings have fallen. There is much destruction in the capital Port-au-Prince!

    Due to phone communication we are unable to reach our YWAM Center in Gonaives north of us, but we feel they are most likely ok as the earthquake's center was 10 miles south south west of Port-au-Prince.

    Our survey teams we sent through St. Marc have reported back in with the good report that all looks safe in our city, St. Marc!

    Let's pray for the many people in the capital. We have received word that many housing units have collapsed and government buildings as well, but still no clear reports. Everyone only had 45 minutes before the sun set and now they are pretty well in the darkness.

    Terry W. Snow

    National Director

    YWAM Haiti

    The Day After

    Every 30 minutes to an hour the house rumbled and shook from the after shocks of the earthquake that has divested the capital, Port-au-Prince. It was hard to sleep wondering if you should run, wait or ignore it. All I could think about was the thousands that had no where to sleep in Port-au-Prince 60 miles away from our city, St. Marc.

    We were up early to see the video footage and pictures of the Presidential Palace destroyed and so many other buildings we once knew. We feel in some ways as helpless as the victims in Port-au-Prince in the since of shock and not knowing what to do or where to start. Communications are still down, airport is closed for today so we have decided to send in a observation team to see what connections they could make. Haiti has no infrastructure much less a crisis management team. I suspect that PAP is crying even louder this morning as the reality of their situation tumbles on them.

    We are thinking through how this impact will affect St. Marc and the population here. Fuel, electric communications, food and construction supplies all route through PAP. Today we are ok, but what about in a few days or week. Where are the refugees going to be going since there is little living space in PAP?

    Pray for us and our observation team!

    YWAM-Haiti Earthquake update 1/14/10

    Dead lay in the streets, possibilities of mass burial sights talked about on the radio. People wandering the streets, city parks now filled with people camping out in them. The situation is worst than dreamed! Yesterday we sent an investigative team to Port-au-Prince (PAP) to take a first hand look at the situation. I will not easily forget what Rodney Gephart and Wayne Snow said when they had returned; "The situation is worse than it has appeared on TV!" My heart sank and instead of crying I felt a numbness come over me as they began telling me of the dead, the buildings that had colapsed and then to hear that they could not find any information on who is doing what as far as cordinated efforts for immediate response and longterm recovery. Our Leadership Team went late into the night trying to assemble all the data and strategies on how to begin with assisting the victims of the earthquake of 1/12/10. Praying for strength and wisdom from God! We know He has a plan. We have seen him take us through many floods and other situations that were greater than we could bare in the past and by GOD's grace, mercy and power we will see this through! How ummeasurable is His love! Nothing is impossible concerning Him! Today's goals are; -Establish Communication Hub- Focus (Connect with US Embassy, cordinate with any known releief teams, communicate with volunteer teams and individuals that are emailing)-Establish routes to recieve and send aid (Money, Supplies and Volunteers)-Check out and establish staging points to House and feed Volunteers (Probably need portable housing)-Immediate Response - Look for opportunities to run street soup kitchens (Use street vendors to make hot meals to give to anyone who needs them, buy purified water for distro)-Prepare for Security concerns (Yesterday the people were stund, today they will be starving!) The ground underneath me just trembled once more as I close this email and I am 60 miles away! Many people have asked how they can help. We need funds to kick in quickly. Until the shipments of additional releif supplies get open money is all we can work with. We have connections to food whole salers in St. Marc that can assist us, but we also need to purchase vehicles to get mobile. Many vehicles were destroyed so we need to find and purchase quickly! If you would like to get involved you may make a contribution over the internet and the following link https://www.ywam.org/secure/donations/donate.asp?project=10. If you would like to send a USA Check you may make it payable to YWAM Haiti, designate it to "Haiti Relief" and mail to;

    YWAM HaitiPO Box 236Akron, PA 17501

    If you are sending in a contribution we would like to hear from you immediately so we can put those funds into affect before they arrive. Please reply to this email with the amount you are sending.Thank you!Taking the High Places!Terry W. Snow

    National DirectorYWAM Haiti

    [YWAM-Haiti] Relief Update

    Just a quick update, We have been very busy and have made great headway in developing a plan to begin assistance. We would like to begin preparing food and passing out sacks of purified water very soon! Instead of doing this today we focused on staging points to host teams, connect with the US Embassy and develop the infrustructure needed to assist in a positve way! We have located two potential staging points and we are appreciative to our very large Youth With A Mission family world wide. Saturday we will see a YWAM team from D.R. (Boardering nation) drive in with supplies. We have two other teams, one from YWAM Tyler Mercy Works and the other from Lancaster PA, New Danville Mennonite, that will be here Sunday. One team will be building a home in the St.Marc area the other will be setting up for medical relief. We have begun to make arrangements for getting a hold of finances. Please understand that all the banking systems have collapsed due to communications and the main offices destroyed in the capital. Hopefully tomorrow we will see our Haitian bank begin to open or release some funds for our use. We are finding other ways to obtain funds as well. YWAM International is recieving funds from around the world at a internet link https://www.ywam.org/secure/donations/donate.asp?project=10. Others are responding through email making commitments and sending funds to our YWAM Haiti, PO Box 236, Akron, PA 17501. The Haitian government is not funtioning and we have a team working to try and find a way to get the port of St. Marc opened for humanitarian supplies. Our YWAM base has 3 acres of land that we could make available to park containers for unloading, organizing and then shipping on to PAP. We have placed a call to YWAM Volunteers to come and assist in administrative ways to help in organization of the many teams that have already written ready to come. As mentioned we have currently found two staging points that could provide housing for these teams. We have a possibility of up to 10 additional places as well. Airplanes were seen flying in and the US Embassy was still very packed with people trying to leave. The smell of dead bodies is growing stronger and there seemed to be a spirit of dispair crying out through out the city. This is our time to demonstrate the power of the love of God. There is a deep stirring within many Haitians. Especially amongst our staff. Our Haitian staff are proclaiming it is time for change!

    [YWAM-Haiti] Attn! Email address!

    Hello everyone,

    We now have a new email address that will help us coordinate those who are wanting to bring a team, send supplies or help with funds. It is relief@ywamhaiti.orgPlease use this email for inquires concerning helping the relief work in Port-Au-Prince Haiti! Taking the High Places! Terry W. SnowNational DirectorYWAM Haiti

    I know of at least one of my YWAM friends who is on there way right now to help.

    I will keep updates as I recive them.

    I am on the YWAM Haiti Email list.

    Media Fast

    in Fellowship Hall

    Posted

    My wife and I have decided that a lot of our problems lately have been do to a lack of focus. Part of this lack comes from almost every waking second of free time being spent on the TV, Video games, and Computer. doing nothing. Not that any of the above are sinful on there own but they have come in between us and our spending time with HIM and with each other. So I will not be online in the month of January at all. I will be working on my stories and my writing in my spare time and spending more time with HIM. See you all in a month and Happy New Year!

    BTW I am going to be keeping an eye on my email so if anyone needs me urgantly thats the way to go.

    Media Fast

    in Fellowship Hall

    Posted

    My wife and I have decided that a lot of our problems lately have been do to a lack of focus. Part of this lack comes from almost every waking second of free time being spent on the TV, Video games, and Computer. doing nothing. Not that any of the above are sinful on there own but they have come in between us and our spending time with HIM and with each other. So I will not be online in the month of January at all. I will be working on my stories and my writing in my spare time and spending more time with HIM. See you all in a month and Happy New Year!

    Dating a non-Christian

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Dating a non christian to try to convert them is unwise and going to backfire. Its has a sorta "Gotcha" built in and they will not like you at all, and maybe even push them away from God. I also think that you should never "Date" or play the game, just back off of relationships other then friendships until you are ready to get married. Here is my testomony on this subject....

    Growing up I never dated, I failed to see a point in it. Granted my mom told me I was not allowed to date until I was 16, but by that time I had decided that God had a better plan for me. So amongst jibes from my friends and strangers I stuck to my guns. I planned on two things. One to trust Him to bring me my mate, and the other was that I was going to wait till I was ready to marry before I even started looking for a spouse.

    When the time came to look I was determined to court my wife. To my point of view the word court has a million meanings ranging from simply another word for the typical

    The true meaning of christmas

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On the early morning hours of December 9 2007 a gunman entered the dormitory of the Youth With A Mission Denver. After a discussion he was asked to leave, he did only to return and open fire, killing two staff members and wounding two others. The two killed were Tiffany Jonson and Phillip Crouse.

    Later on that day the same gunman drove down to Colorado springs, and opened fired in a church, killing two sisters, he was shot by an armed guard. He then sadly took his own life.

    I had previously been on staff at that YWAM base. I had known all the people involved and injured on that base in some shape way or form. Its impact is still with me to this day. I had met Tiffany Johnson only a week before and was struck by her smile and personality. It was only a small conversation while adding creamers and such to our coffee but I will never forget it.

    It was in large part through worthy that I was able to come to terms.

    I was in shock for quite a few days afterwards and the following is the short blog I wrote expressing my feelings.

    The True meaning of Christmas

    Hope, Love, forgiveness, and the Promise of Life Eternal.

    The Gift of Jesus, his new life and later his death and resurrection brought us all these.

    And all these I saw, today in a place I did not think I would find.

    A Memorial Service for two of God's own taken by a hateful, selfish act

    The Family of Tiffany Jonson exemplified all those quality's. They Celebrated Her life. Her life was spent loving others. the hurting the "Unlovable'. In her death they forgave, and they all have hope that Tiffany is now in Heaven, living a better life now then we have now, for all eternity, no pain, no sorrow, no tears, only endless joy.

    This is the true meaning of Christmas.

    We may mourn the loss of our friend but we rejoice with Them that They have run the race, fought the fight, and has entered into their reward. We are left behind to pick up the good fight where they left off. We are not to quit, and give up, but rather we are to redouble our efforts so that their lives will be honored not by words but by our lives. They sacrificed and gave of themselves to reach others, can we do no less?

    Jesus did the same thing, He left His seat of power and glory to come down as a frail human child, to grow into man hood, to live a sinless life, to die a horrible violent death. All because he loved us, and wanted us to be able to have eternal life with him, to hang out with him. One of the friends of Philip Crouse, asked to be given a dream or a vision to let him know how Philip was doing.. He got a dream that he saw Phillip in heaven, making things out of wood with Jesus. Philip turned to him and said "I am O.K., I am learning to be carpenter from the best one in history.

    This is all what Christmas is about.

    -Isaiah-

    There legacy continues, with many more going into missions and coming to the Lord through this. A documentary movie was made following this, and its impact is already being felt even though it is not in full distribution yet. http://www.jesusfreaksmovie.com/ is the movie.

    Guy Advice

    in Have a problem? Looking for advice?

    Posted

    As for the guy in question, Simply work on devolping a friendship and let the lord lead from there, all the best marrages have a solid friendship core. The Following is my testimony.

    Growing up I never dated, I failed to see a point in it. Granted my mom told me I was not allowed to date until I was 16, but by that time I had decided that God had a better plan for me. So amongst jibes from my friends and strangers I stuck to my guns. I planned on two things. One to trust Him to bring me my mate, and the other was that I was going to wait till I was ready to marry before I even started looking for a spouse.

    When the time came to look I was determined to court my wife. To my point of view the word court has a million meanings ranging from simply another word for the typical

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