“IT’S HARD TO STUMBLE WHEN YOU’RE ON YOUR KNEES.”

You can see already many posters telling us about Father’s Day! Father’s Day is this year on the 5th  of September!

The local pharmacy has special mugs for sale. Because it is Father’s Day you get 30% off. You can buy a standard mug from $13.95. That same mug is normally $19.95.

New Zealand Post says: “Shop for Dad like he’d shop for you.” “Father’s Day made easy here.” You can buy there a gift, a card and postage of course.

Subway says,  “The way to Dad’s heart is through his stomach.” – “SUBWAY GIFT CARDS FOR FATHER’S DAY.”

I have never known my father. He did not come back from the last world war. I have never been able to buy him anything – not even a card from the post shop.

But I have known my Father in heaven from an early age. Praise the Lord!

I’m looking here at a small advertisement in the the local paper today. It’s all about the:

“Cancer Society

DAFFODIL DAY

with your help there is hope”

“WITH YOUR HELP THERE IS HOPE.

CANCER NORTHLAND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGH THE YEARS.”

Where is real hope?

Read Jeremiah 29:11 “…, plans to give you hope…”

“Postal voting in the 2010 local body elections opens on 17 September and closes on 9 October.”

At the present time you find pictures and views on topical issues of  Far North mayoral candidates in the local papers.

One mayoral candidate has listed five things he stands for. One of them is:

“NO MORE BROKEN PROMISES”

“No more broken promises.”

I am reminded of the promises in the Bible. There are many promises. And God does not break his promises.

Here is one of them:

Isaiah 43:2

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and

when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;

the flames will not set you ablaze.”

“Nothing beats a good book” is an article in the local paper today (Thursday, August 26, 2010) with a picture. In the article I read also about  the demonstration of “The power of the written (and well-read) word…”

It is all about celebrating Library Week!

I sort of  overlooked Library Week in spite of picking up a bookmark from last year in the library not long ago advertising Library Week. Library Week was last year from  10 -16th August. “Escape, Explore, Discover” is written on the bookmarker.

The reason for not taking much notice of Library Week is probably that I have Library Week every week. I am surrounded by books in our own house. I love books and I read everything I can get my hands on…….

I own many good books.

I looked up ‘Good Book’ in The Collins Concise Dictionary and it says there that ‘Good Book’  is a name for the Bible, the Word of the Living God.

And this is now my own experience:

For a long time the BIBLE was for me like any other book, but when I became a true follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, the BIBLE became alive for me. True followers of the Lord Jesus Christ have come out of darkness into light, from death into life.

The author of the BIBLE is the HOLY SPIRIT!

“THE BIBLE DOES NOT CONTAIN THE WORD OF GOD; THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD.”

“TO PLOUGH IS TO PRAY.” – R. G. Ingersoll

WECs faith goals for 2011-2018

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— 33 new people groups

–180 new church- planting locations

1,200 workers to achieve these goals

— Prayer network for every people group we are engaged with

WECs objectives

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–Reaching the least evangelized

–Planting churches

–Mobilizing cross-cultural workers