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11-25-2007, 07:46 PM
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I know churches during Katrina & Rita that opened their gyms up to feed in different locales. One housed the Red Cross.
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11-25-2007, 08:12 PM
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But has he ever done something like that? Has he or any of the other guys who are leaving taken up a generous offering for charity or sponsored a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving or established a home for unwed mothers or opened their family life centers for a mobile health clinic to offer free or low cost medical attention for the poor? Why is this kind of thing not focused on in our ranks?
I can't remember our churches actually reaching out to provide for the physical needs of the less fortunate in the community.
We did provide much love and support for those who regularly attended church. If there was a death in the family, the ladies were on the ball bringing covered dishes and the men helping in any way they could. The congregation surrounds their own with care and concern. That is wonderful and good, but what about those outside the doors of the church?
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I think this is a very good thought.
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11-25-2007, 08:22 PM
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But has he ever done something like that? Has he or any of the other guys who are leaving taken up a generous offering for charity or sponsored a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving or established a home for unwed mothers or opened their family life centers for a mobile health clinic to offer free or low cost medical attention for the poor? Why is this kind of thing not focused on in our ranks?
I can't remember our churches actually reaching out to provide for the physical needs of the less fortunate in the community.
We did provide much love and support for those who regularly attended church. If there was a death in the family, the ladies were on the ball bringing covered dishes and the men helping in any way they could. The congregation surrounds their own with care and concern. That is wonderful and good, but what about those outside the doors of the church?
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Our church does. In fact it is becoming a focus.
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11-25-2007, 08:38 PM
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Go OLLU Armadillos!!!
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Our church does. In fact it is becoming a focus.
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Is your church a derivative of Mennonite or is it UPC? Or other?
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11-25-2007, 08:56 PM
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Is your church a derivative of Mennonite or is it UPC? Or other?
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Longtime UPC
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
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11-25-2007, 03:51 PM
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I doubt if he signed it with a $5000 pen...
I wonder if TJ will send out a letter so classy...Josh???
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11-25-2007, 07:01 PM
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I doubt if he signed it with a $5000 pen...
I wonder if TJ will send out a letter so classy...Josh???
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Oooh, good question, however it is the wrong one. We both know if TJ drafts such a letter, while it may be a little more scathing, it will, no doubt be classy.
I am curious whether he will draft a letter at all...is he leaving too BTW?
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11-25-2007, 11:26 PM
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Oooh, good question, however it is the wrong one. We both know if TJ drafts such a letter, while it may be a little more scathing, it will, no doubt be classy.
I am curious whether he will draft a letter at all...is he leaving too BTW?
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With all of the hemhawin for the last 20 years if he doesn't after this he has lost credibility...probably just waiting for a few others to jump in the pool...er...water
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11-26-2007, 12:55 PM
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With all of the hemhawin for the last 20 years if he doesn't after this he has lost credibility...probably just waiting for a few others to jump in the pool...er...water
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Care to elucidate???
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11-26-2007, 12:57 PM
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