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The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

• From The Screwtape Letters
• Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. How often have you wondered, where are the young adults in the PC(USA)? Wonder no longer. The 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is devoted to the theme of young adults in the church. Its stories, many told by young adults, lift up how Presbyterians of all ages are engaging and joining with Presbyterian young adults in reforming the church for Christ’s mission.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 22, 2015

PRESBYTERY OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, MAINE/NEW HAMPSHIRE/VERMONT/MASSACHUSETTS - I never set out to be a prison chaplain, and yet I love being with these women in a world that should not exist. I serve as a chaplain at the New Hampshire State Prison for Women, a ministry supported in part by a mission grant from the Presbytery of Northern New England to the Women’s Prison Ministry of the New Hampshire Council of Churches.

I lead worship services and provide pastoral care to these women, who together hear Jesus’ words of “release to the prisoners” and seek to experience the transforming and freeing love of God in Jesus Christ ...

• CLICK HERE to read more.

In the News ... "Co-pastors discuss state of church"

OA Photo by Mark Sterkel

• ‘A lot of people under 40 grew up going to church but are not going now,’ pastor says

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American
 

ODESSA, TEXAS - The Rev. Drs. Joseph A. “Joe” and Dawn Darwin Weaks worked separately ‘til deciding they wanted to be co-pastors in Raytown, Mo., and a year ago coming to the First Christian Church at 601 N. Lee Ave.

Preaching on alternate Sundays at 10:30 a.m. to an average of 80 people, they combine musical, scholarly, business and evangelistic talents ...

• read the rest of this OA report ...

Invitation to Prayer from Faces of Children ... TODAY

Faces of Children is an ecumenical prayer ministry under the auspices of First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Our mission is to initiate ministries of prayer for children in churches, communities, and neighborhoods. In doing so, we seek to provide an opportunity for people of God to join together, learn about children and their needs throughout the world, and celebrate Christ's love (especially as it relates to children).

Hello Friends,

Hi Friends,

I hope you'll be able to join us TODAY (Wednesday, October 21) for prayer at 11:30 in the gym conference room followed by lunch together. I'm keeping my email brief because I want to ask you to pay particular attention to our first set of prayer requests this week, sent to me by Hannah Schorr from Jerusalem. See you tomorrow!

Israel and Palestine // Pray for the current violent uprising between Palestinians and Israelis.
From Hannah Schorr, working at The Jerusalem School | (Editor's Note: Hannah is the daughter of the Senior Pastor here at FPC Midland. She is in her second year as a teacher at The Jerusalem School. What follows are prayer requests directly from her concerning the current unrest in Jerusalem. If you want more information about the clashes happening now, this article gives a good overview of the situation.)

This is a tragic time for both Palestinians and Israelis. Pray for the families who have lost loved ones. Pray for the Palestinians who will lose their homes and their Arab Israeli citizenship. Pray that the Israeli government would come up with a peaceful, just strategy to deal with the perpetrators of the violence (whether Palestinian or Israeli) that doesn't involve collective punishment, restriction of the freedom of movement, or point-blank murder.

Pray that Jesus' peace, Jesus' grace, Jesus' love for all (and for enemies) would REIGN in the hearts of the people of Jerusalem. Pray for forgiveness to become stronger than bitterness. Pray that the Kingdom would come.

Pray for the Jerusalem School. Pray for faculty and students who commute from various parts of the city and the West Bank who will now have to go through additional check points to come to school. Pray that these checkpoints would not become hotspots for further clashes. Pray that our school would be a refuge, a place of peace, in this time of violence.

Pray for protection for our students. Many of them are angry, anxious, and frustrated. May God silence the voices in their lives telling them to channel this anger into violence. I'm teaching a class on nonviolent revolutions to Juniors and Seniors this fall. Pray that Christ would be present in that class and that he would use that time to raise up leaders for his Kingdom and peacemakers for this city.

Pray for my relationships with students. May I be a bearer of Christ's hope in the midst of heartache and pain. May my classroom be a place of peace and comfort. May they feel like they are known, understood, and loved when they are around me. Pray for Jesus to make his endless love known to these kids.

India // Praise God for the rescue of 4 young girls from trafficking aboard a moving train.
From IJM | In an incredible story involving the coordinated efforts of a concerned witness, local Indian law enforcement, IJM staff and other NGOs, 4 young girls who were in the process of being trafficked were rescued last week in Mumbai. The youngest was 10 years old, and the children were hundreds of miles away from their homes when a fellow train passenger found their circumstances to be suspicious and alerted authorities. The authorities then alerted IJM who mobilized two teams to identify and board the train when it stopped. They were then able to locate the girls and arrest, with the help of the local authorities, the traffickers. The girls are now in a shelter for trafficking survivors and IJM will ensure they receive the support and services they need. Some of the girls have already been able to make contact with their families. Praise God for concerned citizens who had the necessary training to identify the warning signs of trafficking victims, a quick response from authorities and IJM, and ultimately that these children were rescued before they were exploited.

Algeria // Pray for Algerian young believers who want to share their faith.
From Open Doors | Pray for Algerian youth who are eager to share their faith with Muslim peers in a school system that teaches Islam. Pray for opportunities to share, and wisdom in doing so.

USA // Praise God for the rescue of 149 sexually exploited children and 153 pimps in a nationwide FBI sting this month.
From Denver Post | In a mission called Operation Cross Country IX, the FBI coordinated with other local, state, and federal agencies across the country to recover victims of trafficking. Praise God that these children have been found, rescued, and set on the path to restoration and healing. Please pray for the perpetrators to be brought to full justice. In many states, laws are not strong enough to ensure the pimps are locked up for their crimes. Also, please pray for the thousands of child sex trafficking victims still caught in the trade. The FBI estimates there are up to 2,000 in Colorado and Wyoming alone, each of whom can make as much as $100,000 for a pimp. Please pray for those who provide a market for these kind of heinous crimes. Pray they cease their abuse and that those who do not are caught and brought to justice.

Thank you for your continued passion for vulnerable children around the world. There are a lot of hurting and broken and dark places in this world, and I think as a church, we most look like Jesus when we show up in those places, lifting them up in prayer and extending our hands in love.

Blessings,

Carrie J. McKean
Faces of Children Director
First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas
(432) 684-7821 x153

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If you have prayer requests about children, those who care for them, those who have authority over them, or those who harm them (the really hard prayers to say sometimes), please send them to info@facesofchildren.net

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

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Here is another thing that used to puzzle me. Is it not frightfully unfair that this new life should be confined to people who have heard of Christ and been able to believe in Him? But the truth is God has not told us what His arrangements about the other people are. We do know that no man can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved through Him. But in the meantime, if you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is to remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ’s body, the organism through which He works. Every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who alone can help them. Cutting off a man’s fingers would be an odd way of getting him to do more work.

• From Mere Christianity
• Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. How often have you wondered, where are the young adults in the PC(USA)? Wonder no longer. The 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is devoted to the theme of young adults in the church. Its stories, many told by young adults, lift up how Presbyterians of all ages are engaging and joining with Presbyterian young adults in reforming the church for Christ’s mission.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 21, 2015

PRESBYTERY OF NEWTON, NEW JERSEY - According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 5 million Americans are living with this degenerative brain disease. Patients and caregivers can often feel alone and helpless as they adjust to a new way of life.

After a family member was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, I began looking for resources ...

• CLICK HERE to read more.

Invitation to Prayer from Faces of Children ... Tomorrow

Faces of Children is an ecumenical prayer ministry under the auspices of First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Our mission is to initiate ministries of prayer for children in churches, communities, and neighborhoods. In doing so, we seek to provide an opportunity for people of God to join together, learn about children and their needs throughout the world, and celebrate Christ's love (especially as it relates to children).

Hello Friends,

Hi Friends,

I hope you'll be able to join us tomorrow (Wednesday, October 21) for prayer at 11:30 in the gym conference room followed by lunch together. I'm keeping my email brief because I want to ask you to pay particular attention to our first set of prayer requests this week, sent to me by Hannah Schorr from Jerusalem. See you tomorrow!

Israel and Palestine // Pray for the current violent uprising between Palestinians and Israelis.
From Hannah Schorr, working at The Jerusalem School | (Editor's Note: Hannah is the daughter of the Senior Pastor here at FPC Midland. She is in her second year as a teacher at The Jerusalem School. What follows are prayer requests directly from her concerning the current unrest in Jerusalem. If you want more information about the clashes happening now, this article gives a good overview of the situation.)

This is a tragic time for both Palestinians and Israelis. Pray for the families who have lost loved ones. Pray for the Palestinians who will lose their homes and their Arab Israeli citizenship. Pray that the Israeli government would come up with a peaceful, just strategy to deal with the perpetrators of the violence (whether Palestinian or Israeli) that doesn't involve collective punishment, restriction of the freedom of movement, or point-blank murder.

Pray that Jesus' peace, Jesus' grace, Jesus' love for all (and for enemies) would REIGN in the hearts of the people of Jerusalem. Pray for forgiveness to become stronger than bitterness. Pray that the Kingdom would come.

Pray for the Jerusalem School. Pray for faculty and students who commute from various parts of the city and the West Bank who will now have to go through additional check points to come to school. Pray that these checkpoints would not become hotspots for further clashes. Pray that our school would be a refuge, a place of peace, in this time of violence.

Pray for protection for our students. Many of them are angry, anxious, and frustrated. May God silence the voices in their lives telling them to channel this anger into violence. I'm teaching a class on nonviolent revolutions to Juniors and Seniors this fall. Pray that Christ would be present in that class and that he would use that time to raise up leaders for his Kingdom and peacemakers for this city.

Pray for my relationships with students. May I be a bearer of Christ's hope in the midst of heartache and pain. May my classroom be a place of peace and comfort. May they feel like they are known, understood, and loved when they are around me. Pray for Jesus to make his endless love known to these kids.

India // Praise God for the rescue of 4 young girls from trafficking aboard a moving train.
From IJM | In an incredible story involving the coordinated efforts of a concerned witness, local Indian law enforcement, IJM staff and other NGOs, 4 young girls who were in the process of being trafficked were rescued last week in Mumbai. The youngest was 10 years old, and the children were hundreds of miles away from their homes when a fellow train passenger found their circumstances to be suspicious and alerted authorities. The authorities then alerted IJM who mobilized two teams to identify and board the train when it stopped. They were then able to locate the girls and arrest, with the help of the local authorities, the traffickers. The girls are now in a shelter for trafficking survivors and IJM will ensure they receive the support and services they need. Some of the girls have already been able to make contact with their families. Praise God for concerned citizens who had the necessary training to identify the warning signs of trafficking victims, a quick response from authorities and IJM, and ultimately that these children were rescued before they were exploited.

Algeria // Pray for Algerian young believers who want to share their faith.
From Open Doors | Pray for Algerian youth who are eager to share their faith with Muslim peers in a school system that teaches Islam. Pray for opportunities to share, and wisdom in doing so.

USA // Praise God for the rescue of 149 sexually exploited children and 153 pimps in a nationwide FBI sting this month.
From Denver Post | In a mission called Operation Cross Country IX, the FBI coordinated with other local, state, and federal agencies across the country to recover victims of trafficking. Praise God that these children have been found, rescued, and set on the path to restoration and healing. Please pray for the perpetrators to be brought to full justice. In many states, laws are not strong enough to ensure the pimps are locked up for their crimes. Also, please pray for the thousands of child sex trafficking victims still caught in the trade. The FBI estimates there are up to 2,000 in Colorado and Wyoming alone, each of whom can make as much as $100,000 for a pimp. Please pray for those who provide a market for these kind of heinous crimes. Pray they cease their abuse and that those who do not are caught and brought to justice.

Thank you for your continued passion for vulnerable children around the world. There are a lot of hurting and broken and dark places in this world, and I think as a church, we most look like Jesus when we show up in those places, lifting them up in prayer and extending our hands in love.

Blessings,

Carrie J. McKean
Faces of Children Director
First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas
(432) 684-7821 x153

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If you have prayer requests about children, those who care for them, those who have authority over them, or those who harm them (the really hard prayers to say sometimes), please send them to info@facesofchildren.net

In the News ... "Praise services under Ratliff lights"

OA Photo by Edyta Blaszczyk

• Youth groups meet for Fields of Faith

By Jared Wilson, Reporter
Odessa American
 

ODESSA, TEXAS - Local teenagers came together Wednesday night at Ratliff stadium for the second annual Fields of Faith event.

Fields of Faith is a nationwide, student-led event with the purpose of encouragement, prayer and celebrating the word of God.

About 1,000 teenagers came to the stadium in Odessa to do just that and strengthen their resolve ...

• read the rest of this OA report ...

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

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“Please, Aslan,” said Lucy. “Before we go, will you tell us when we can come back to Narnia again? Please. And oh, do, do, do make it soon.”

“Dearest,” said Aslan very gently, “you and your brother will never come back to Narnia.”

“Oh, Aslan!!” said Edmund and Lucy both together in despairing voices.

“You are too old, children,” said Aslan, “and you must begin to come close to your own world now.”

• From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• Compiled in A Year with Aslan

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. How often have you wondered, where are the young adults in the PC(USA)? Wonder no longer. The 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is devoted to the theme of young adults in the church. Its stories, many told by young adults, lift up how Presbyterians of all ages are engaging and joining with Presbyterian young adults in reforming the church for Christ’s mission.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 20, 2015

PRESBYTERY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - livingston Presbyterian Church took Peter’s words in Acts 3:6 seriously, asking, “What do we have to give that people really need?” When pastor Daniel Martian started building relational networks outside the church, the congregation began noticing economic disparity and hunger in the community, which is generally regarded as affluent. “Gathering a theologically and ethnically diverse range of Christian, Jewish, and Hindu leaders in the community led to a compassionate and prophetic partnership,” he says ...

• CLICK HERE to read more.

From ChinaAid: "Guangdong pastor appeals official notice to cease house church meetings"

The China Aid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.

Guangdong pastor appeals official notice to cease house church meetings
Distributed by ChinaAid, September, 2015 ...

DONGGUAN, GUANGDONG, CHINA – A church pastor in China’s coastal Guangdong filed an appeal claiming the “Notice to Cease Illegal Religious Activities” given to his house church was unlawful.

Dongguan officials issued a notice to Zhongfu Wumin Church on Aug. 23 prohibiting further meetings. On Sept. 8, the church’s pastor, Liu Peng, filed an appeal, disputing the validity of the notice ...

• more on this story from China Aid  

In the News ... "Family Promise event nears"

• Awards slated for Thursday night

Staff Report
Odessa American
 

ODESSA, TEXAS -Family Promise founder Karen Olson of Elizabeth, N.J., will be the featured speaker at a 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, awards banquet at Bethany Christian Church at 4522 N. Everglade Ave. for volunteers at a dozen Odessa churches who work in the temporary housing program for homeless families ...

• read the rest of this OA report ...

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

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TO GENIA GOELZ: On the reality of our individuality in the body of Christ; and on the five sources of discernment: the scripture, the church, Christian friends, books, and meditation.

20 June 1952

Thanks for yours of the 10th. I would prefer to combat the ‘I’m special’ feeling not by the thought ‘I’m no more special than anyone else’ but by the feeling ‘Everyone is as special as me.’ In one way there is no difference, I grant, for both remove the speciality. But there is a difference in another way. The first might lead you to think, ‘I’m only one of the crowd like anyone else’. But the second leads to the truth that there isn’t any crowd. No one is like anyone else. All are ‘members’ (organs) in the Body of Christ [I Corinthians 12:27]. All different and all necessary to the whole and to one another: each loved by God individually, as if it were the only creature in existence. Otherwise you might get the idea that God is like the government which can only deal with the people as the mass.

About confession, I take it that the view of our Church is that everyone may use it but none is obliged to. I don’t doubt that the Holy Spirit guides your decisions from within when you make them with the intention of pleasing God. The error would be to think that He speaks only within whereas, in reality, He speaks also through Scripture, the Church, Christian friends, books et cetera.

• From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis
• Compiled in Yours, Jack

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. How often have you wondered, where are the young adults in the PC(USA)? Wonder no longer. The 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is devoted to the theme of young adults in the church. Its stories, many told by young adults, lift up how Presbyterians of all ages are engaging and joining with Presbyterian young adults in reforming the church for Christ’s mission.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 19, 2015

NEW YORK CITY PRESBYTERY - The Church of Gethsemane in Brooklyn was created in 1986 by and for those with some connection to prison: people who are or have been in prison, their families, and those who feel called to ministry with them. Gethsemane strives to create a spiritual community that comforts and challenges, fortifies and sustains, heals and liberates. It thrives in its diversity and inclusiveness. No one is turned away ...

• CLICK HERE to read more.

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

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‘Niceness’—wholesome, integrated personality—is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’; just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world—and might even be more difficult to save.

For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine. God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to pro- duce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature. Of course, once it has got its wings, it will soar over fences which could never have been jumped and thus beat the natural horse at its own game. But there may be a period, while the wings are just beginning to grow, when it cannot do so: and at that stage the lumps on the shoulders—no one could tell by looking at them that they are going to be wings—may even give it an awkward appearance.

• From Mere Christianity
• Compiled in A Year with C.S, Lewis

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. How often have you wondered, where are the young adults in the PC(USA)? Wonder no longer. The 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is devoted to the theme of young adults in the church. Its stories, many told by young adults, lift up how Presbyterians of all ages are engaging and joining with Presbyterian young adults in reforming the church for Christ’s mission.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 18, 2015

MINUTE FOR MISSION: CHILDREN'S SABBATH - "Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.” (Mark 10:43b–44)

This weekend, churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship across the nation are joining in the 24th annual National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths. Through worship, education, and action—over the weekend and throughout the year—people of faith are responding out of concern for children facing poverty, violence, and other crises. They are renewing their commitment to compassionate service to children and prophetic advocacy on their behalf. In serving and seeking justice for children, people of faith are discovering true greatness. ...

• CLICK HERE to read more.

In the News ... "Locals Supporting "In God We Trust" Decals on Law Enforcement Vehicles"

KWES Photo

• Violence towards law enforcement in other parts of the country sparked idea for the new decals

By Kalene O'Brien, Reporter
KWES-TV

SEAGRAVES, TEXAS - The Seagraves Police Department is sporting some new decals on all of their patrol units. It reads "In God We Trust."

That's caused some controversy in another Texas town, Childress. That's where the saying is being challenged by the Freedom From Religion Foundation but that has not stopped other law enforcement agencies from jumping on board ...

 • read the rest of this KWES report ...

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

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He had always disliked the people who encored a favourite air in an opera—“That just spoils it” had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backwards . . . was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself—perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defence against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film.

• From Perelandra
• Compiled in Words to Live By

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. How often have you wondered, where are the young adults in the PC(USA)? Wonder no longer. The 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is devoted to the theme of young adults in the church. Its stories, many told by young adults, lift up how Presbyterians of all ages are engaging and joining with Presbyterian young adults in reforming the church for Christ’s mission.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: October 17, 2015

PRESBYTERY OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY - n 2011 the presbytery’s Urban Mission Cabinet—12 Presbyterian congregations committed to ministry in Trenton and New Brunswick-— opened its first house of hospitality. The former Bethany Church parish house was renovated to create this communal living space. With the help of suburban partner congregations, including Nassau and Lawrenceville Presbyterian, and critical funding from the presbytery’s Urban Fund, Bethany House stands as an intentional community whose residents covenant to live simply, participate in a communal way of life, and faithfully explore both new and ancient spiritual practices—all while engaging in the neighborhood and with the organizations that they serve ...

• CLICK HERE to read more.

From ServLife International: "Loving Arms"

ServLife International is a movement defined by values of God’s kingdom, not programs built around human efforts and activities. The reign and rule of God should be made apparent to every person on the planet, despite their religion, race or socioeconomic status. We believe that issues of justice are inseparable from the good news that Jesus Christ came to proclaim. ServLife exists to take the gospel of Christ and the hope of a better, more just, world to the lives of people we touch. This happens through individual contributions of time, creativity, resources and dreams.

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Loving Arms
In Psalm 27 David writes, “Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the LORD would take me in. Teach me how you want me to live; lead me along a level path.” God is the only perfect and present parent, and the only constant to be found in this world. When I was a teenager and my mom died, God took me in and held me close like no human could. He gave me hope, comfort and overwhelming love.

Now I sponsor a child, Bhadra, in west Nepal who lost both her mom and her dad ...

• CLICK HERE to read the rest of this post from ServLife

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From Adam Nevins
Executive Director
ServLife International Inc.


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