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| Santa dropped in |
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December 2013
Christmas Time
We will be doing our 2nd Annual Book Drive, as well as planning a Christmas Family Fun day for the San Carlos community, providing gifts for the children at the San Carlos Apache Youth Home, and blessing the young men and their families who work construction with us.
How can you help? There are THREE ways! First, you can send new books that are appropriate for children and teens. We will be passing them out to families at our Family Fun Day. Second, you can send Wal-Mart, Target or Kohl's gift cards to help purchase gifts for the children at the Youth Home and the families of our construction teammates. The last way you can help is by sending money to help with the supplies we will need for the Family Fun Day.
We love being able to share with our Apache brothers and sisters that people from all over the United States send gifts to share the love of Jesus with them. Your gifts make a difference!
Please have all donations to us by Friday, December 6th. Gifts can be sent to: 3:18 Ministries 1210 E Crestwood Dr. Globe, AZ 85501
Thank you in advance for blessing the Apache families God has put in our path!
lemons
Yes as the title implies, we have a lot of lemons, far too many lemons for my taste. You see, I understand lemons are a part of our life. I understand that the more we step out and take chances, the bigger the lemons get. And while I continue to pray for less lemons, they just seem to show up in larger sizes. My bigger problem is that the lemons are now affecting others...as we knew would happen. It hurts to see those you love and care about take a giant step toward Christ, to be smacked down by a huge, smelly, rotten lemon. You aren't making lemonade out of these, you are cleaning up the mess.
So instead of ducking and avoiding and sweeping under the rug, we have decided to face the lemons, yep we are suiting up! Our fight is not with the lemons - Ephesians says "12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people."
I'm not looking to avoid the lemons, I know that is impossible. I want to stand firm, take the hits and remain standing firm. As I said, we have a lot of lemons right now. We also know we are taking some huge steps in faith, starting new things that will increase the lemons. Exciting times, and fearful times. We are armoring up, please join us!
Liz
So instead of ducking and avoiding and sweeping under the rug, we have decided to face the lemons, yep we are suiting up! Our fight is not with the lemons - Ephesians says "12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people."
I'm not looking to avoid the lemons, I know that is impossible. I want to stand firm, take the hits and remain standing firm. As I said, we have a lot of lemons right now. We also know we are taking some huge steps in faith, starting new things that will increase the lemons. Exciting times, and fearful times. We are armoring up, please join us!
Liz
Sometimes
Sometimes I wonder if we are making a difference.
Sometimes I think we aren't.
Sometimes I wonder if we should have stayed in So. Cal.
Sometimes I wish we had.
Sometimes I see God working in our lives.
It's then I know we are where we belong!
The other day we were in a neighborhood on the reservation. You see we had a team in and we were loving the kids. It was a great time.
I was showing a kid my rubber band trick. He stopped me and asked if I had been there a long time ago. I told him yes. He then told me where I bought some of my magic. He remembered me and my rubber band trick.
Sometimes God uses the smallest things to make a difference.
He used rubber bands. He used me.
Robert
Sometimes I think we aren't.
Sometimes I wonder if we should have stayed in So. Cal.
Sometimes I wish we had.
Sometimes I see God working in our lives.
It's then I know we are where we belong!
The other day we were in a neighborhood on the reservation. You see we had a team in and we were loving the kids. It was a great time.
I was showing a kid my rubber band trick. He stopped me and asked if I had been there a long time ago. I told him yes. He then told me where I bought some of my magic. He remembered me and my rubber band trick.
Sometimes God uses the smallest things to make a difference.
He used rubber bands. He used me.
Robert
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