... Every time we share the cup of wine or the cup of coffee, · Every time we send a tutoring team to Pontiac or a mission team to Costa Rica, or fill a Rummage Sale coat rack, or hammer a Habitat nail, we do it as a way to remember and give thanks for all God ... of this church's past: the smile on the faces of people who speak of a still-beloved Dr. Runkel, the powerful pulpit of a Jim Wright and G. Ernest Thomas, the keen mind of a Bob Ward and the visionary passion of a Bill Ritter. But more, I am overwhelmed ...
... when I deliver those meals on wheels." "You knew that Christ was there at the Day Shelter for the homeless." "I know I didn't have to go to Costa Rica to experience Christ -- but He was more real to me than ever before in those poverty-bound children that we had in our Bible School." Fellowship with Christ ... be done. "My God in his loving kindness shall meet me at every corner." (Dr. Jim Moore, "There is No Spot Where God is Not", May 28, 1989. If you can believe that you can go "singing in the rain."
... and to crops that had remained unharvested. In recent years, we have seen tragic examples of this world rejection approach in… - Jim Jones’ Jonestown where over 900 people died in a mass suicide in November of 1978, - David Koresh’s Branch Davidians tragedy ... and die but you will smell here forever!” Well, I hope we “smell forever” – in Houston – in Texas – in Belize and Costa Rico – in Russia - in Africa and all over the world. My hope and prayer is that we will share the fragrance of ...
