October 26... Training Materials

Greetings to you all on this last Monday of October! The fall colors are blazing and it has been raining and I have not been able to get any good "color" photos... oh well.

PERSONAL NOTE: Allow me to take this space and thank all of our workers and parents who made the costume party on Saturday such a great event. As far as I could tell, the kids all had a great time. Thank you Barb and Bill Swift and crew for all of the work in pulling the event together. I must confess, I wanted to throw a pie at Don but I resisted! Many hands made for a great event.

I felt that yesterdays' worship service was well received by our people. I had many comments about the message. Let me thank Elizabeth Warner for playing her clarinet during the offering. Elizabeth, you did an outstanding job. In the words of that philosopher of the 50s, Arthur Fonzarelli... your playing was "superbamundo!".

I trust after the Graham video concerning "Operation Christmas Child", that you are already gearing up for the shoe boxes that you are going to fill to be delivered to children all over the world for this Christmas. What a great event!!!

This last week I received a gift catalog from Samaritan's Purse (Franklin Graham's organization), and I was overwhelmed by all of the creative ideas that we have available to help people that we have never met. We have the opportunity to "give a cup of cold water" in Jesus' name. The catalog has about 47 ways that we can help people who desperately need our help.

How about this: Gift # 21 is a $9 gift to feed a hungry baby for a week!
How about this: Gift # 19 is a $4 gift to provide milk for a child for a week!
How about this: Gift # 20 is a $10 gift to provide a life-saving mosquito bed net!
How about this: Gift # 27 is a $60 emergency medicine pre-packaged kit to aid 50 people!

There are many more... but these are just examples of how we can have a great impact on others this Christmas. Please take the time and visit Samaritan's Purse online at: www.samaritanspurse.org ... you will be blessed with the ways you can help. I believe that this is an organization we can trust. I personally am going to partner with them this season.

MONTHLY AUDIO: Please check the October 5 blog for this month's audio download.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING FEATURED ARTICLE: Please click on this LINK in order to listen to and download this week's article: Connecting Generations.

BONUS THEOLOGY ARTICLE: Please click on this LINK in order to view this week's article: "Can Christians become too heavenly minded?"

YOU CAN KNOW GOD'S WILL: In I Peter 4 verse 1, The Apostle tells us through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to arm ourselves with the thought that Christ has suffered; therefore we can also live out the will of God even though we may suffer. Wow!... that is a life changing thought.

LEADERSHIP QUOTE: "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." Dale Carnegie

TODAY'S DEVOTIONAL: For the devotional, please click on this LINK.

It is my hope and desire that you have a wonderful week serving your Lord.

In His Majesty's service, Pastor Darrell