The Blind Side – Official Trailer
Syndie and I were able to see this movie last night due to the generosity of a co-worker who gave me movie tickets for a Christmas present. I was a great movie! Great testimony to the power of love!
Archive: January, 2010
Great movie
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January 24, 2010 | 
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New Firefox Out Today
jim | January 21, 2010 | 0 Comments
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help in praying for Haiti
jim | January 21, 2010 | 0 Comments
via Godspace by Christine Sine on 1/19/10
Once again Haiti is uppermost in our thoughts and prayers. Around the world people continue to respond pouring out resources, prayers and love to this suffering nation. World Concern one of our local relief and development agencies that is involved in Haiti is running a fundraiser on PRAISE 106.5 radio today.
Sometimes we do not have the words within ourselves to know how to lift needs like this to God. If you are still not sure how to pray watch this poignant and sobering video produced by Work of the People to help focus our prayers.
Or you might like to recite these prayers I wrote this morning as I was praying for Haiti. They helped me to focus my prayers and move closer to God. I find that the words keep revolving in my mind as I listen to the news and watch the images still flowing out of Haiti
Merciful God
Compassionate Christ
Transforming Spirit
Have mercy on all those who suffer
Protect the weak and the vulnerable
Provide for the homeless and the destitute
Comfort the grieving and the dying
Have mercy on all who are helping
God who loves
Christ who cares
Spirit who comforts
Grant peace to the people of Haiti.
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God grieve with us
Christ grieve in us
Spirit grieve through us
Embrace and comfort all who suffer
God care with us
Christ care in us
Spirit care through us
Heal and renew through our hearts and hands
God love with us
Christ love in us
Spirit love through us
Transform death into eternal life
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Help Cancel Hatian Debt
jim | January 21, 2010 | 0 Comments
| Dear ONE Member,
Since this disaster occurred last Tuesday, I have wanted nothing more than to go to Haiti to help, hold and comfort my family and other survivors. Knowing I can’t do that now, I am putting all my energies into helping Haiti rebuild its country without the burden of debt. Together, we can convince global creditors to cancel Haiti’s $1 billion international debt. Please click here to sign ONE’s petition calling for cancellation of Haiti’s debts: http://www.one.org/us/actnow/drophaitiandebt/o.pl?id=1405-3697601-_sQk5Hx&t=2
Haiti needs a sustained international effort as it seeks to recover from this earthquake. Beyond the current emergency response, we’ll need to ensure that money saved from debt relief is invested in long-term development, and that assistance to Haiti isn’t given in the form of new loans that would exacerbate the debt problem. But here and now, there is a very clear goal: let’s get rid of this crippling debt. Thank you, Keren Dongo |
jim | January 21, 2010 | 0 Comments
Haiti Response: Update from World Vision President Rich Stearns in Haiti
please watch this video
The Dilemma
jim | January 20, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Dilemma
By Ann Landers
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel,
Change, grow or love. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave.
Only a person who takes risks is free.
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great find in google reader
jim | January 20, 2010 | 0 Comments
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Howard Thurman
HT to Colin Beavan aka No Impact Man
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Reflecting on MLK
jim | January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Last night I came across a post card when I was cleaning up my desk. The postcard was purchased at the MLK Memorial in Atlanta on our trip last year.
“Most people are thermometers that record or register the temperature of the majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.”
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Praying that God will help make us “thermostats”. 
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Childrens Hope Chest
jim | January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Haiti’s devastating earthquake may triple the number of orphans living on this small impoverished island. Already one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti’s new orphan crisis will bring incredible strain upon the country’s resources to care for children.
Our ministry team has developed a two-stage plan to assist organizations in caring for an expected 300% increase in orphaned children in Haiti.
EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEF
Through our “5 for 50” program, we have already contributed $3,000 to Kids Against Hunger. In 2009, they shipped over 500,000 meals to our carepoints in Africa. From Jan 1 – Feb 28, HopeChest will donate 100% of all 5 for 50 contributions to Kids Against Hunger to feed Haiti’s orphans. To join us, please go to http://www.5for50.org to make a gift. 100% of all contributions made before Feb 28 will support emergency food relief for orphans in Haiti.
LONG-TERM CARE
Organizations are rushing into Haiti–just as we watched them pour into the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Today, less than 10 percent are still ministering in Russia. Right now, HopeChest is conducting extensive due diligence on several orphan ministry partners in Haiti. Our COO, Bob Mudd, has been on the phone every day with new potential long-term partners.
We are looking for ministries with a pre-earthquake track record of caring for orphans, and who will experience a substantial increase in the number of children they are serving. Through a ministry partnership with Children’s HopeChest, we will explore providing long-term care through our CONNECT COMMUNITIES outreach, as well as our TRANSFORM church sponsorship programs.
Above all, please pray for everyone affected by the earthquake, especially David Hames and his family. David attends Vanguard Church, one of our Swaziland carepoint sponsors. David was in Haiti to film stories of children for Compassion International and was in the Hotel Montana when it collapsed during the earthquake. Search and rescue teams are working to locate David, and we ask you to join us in asking for God’s miraculous hand to work in Haiti today.
Thank you for your support and prayers.
Sincerely,
The HopeChest Ministry Team
P.S. If you haven’t contributed to disaster relief in Haiti, we would encourage you make a financial contribution to one of the following organizations:
- The Red Cross
- Compassion International
- Samaritan’s Purse
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Additional Way to support Haiti
jim | January 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
Here is the link to purchase T-shirts
Help Haiti T
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On the afternoon of January 12th, Haiti was changed forever. A 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the country and left thousands of people injured and without their homes. Hundreds of thousands are thought to be dead and many more have yet to be found. These shirts are a way we can support ministries that are on the ground in Haiti doing the hard work. 100% of the profits from these shirts will go to support ministries in Haiti. We hope that you will buy some for yourself and for your friends.
This is a high-end super soft and lightweight T. Due to inventory fluctuation, you cannot specify which of the three color offerings you will receive. You will receive either New Silver, Heather Grey, or Asphalt color Ts (or a combination of the three if you order multiple Ts). |
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