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Haiti Update

I want to update you about the unfolding situation in Haiti and ask for your prayers and continued support.  You can donate now online.

As many as 3 million Haitians were affected by the devastating 7.0 earthquake last Tuesday. Many have lost their homes and loved ones. We are supporting the efforts of World Vision as they bring immediate relief to the region.  World Vision has more than 800 Haitian staff as well as a dozen international disaster response experts responding throughout affected areas.

World Vision is rushing 18 metric tons of basic relief supplies to the quake zone. We are supporting their distributions for families and providing food, clean water, and emergency medical care. The country's infrastructure has been devastated, and the magnitude of this catastrophe is enormous. Click here if you’d like to donate now.

Thanks to US government grants, our gifts to World Vision are being multiplied 3 times.  If you've already given a gift, thank you. If you’d like to make a donation today, you may donate now.  We are forwarding the money from our members and friends first thing in the morning, so your gifts will be counted among those to receive the supporting government grants.

Thank you for joining with the church to make a united expression of support to our neighbors in Haiti.

Yours in Christ,
Pastor Steve

PS  We are still working to coordinate future relief of clothes and supplies with a Haitian Church in Asbury.  We will let you know more about this in future weeks.

 

Amore 2009 in Review

Davis Amore 2009

2009

A Christmas Carol For The Darwin Anniversary 2009 / Owen and Sally Vigeon

“Ask and it shall be given you, knock and the door shall be opened;
Seek and you shall find”
Matthew VII 7

“Glory to God” as the Angels sing
To welcome the birth of their Infant King
The agent of God’s divine revolution
Who changed the direction of our evolution.
For the Saviour was born not to keep us in line
But to free our humanity to seek the Divine
And his words bid us focus on what lies ahead
And forget the old luggage that belongs to the dead.
“For to knock ask and seek is a basic technique
To seek knock and ask is the scientist’s task
To seek ask and knock is the truth searcher’s Rock”
And Love is the point of Creation

As the angels applauded new light in the night
Their song was an echo of heaven’s delight
For if God can embody himself in the human
There’s no limit to fashioning all kinds of new man.
So angels can praise [in proportion of course]
All those who can overcome darkness by force;
By force of the spirit, by force of the light
by force of the truth that illumines the night
For to knock as and seek is a basic technique
To seek knock and ask is the scientist’s task
To seek ask and knock is the truth searcher’s Rock
And Love is the heart of Creation.

For when Francis of Poverty’s call was enticed
Then Christians evolved a new vision of Christ.
And angels sang “glory” when Shakespeare was born
With a mind to create a new dramatist’s dawn.
And they sang at the birth of young Beethoven too
Whose music evolved into something quite new.
So when Darwin was born, they sang with elation
For a soul who could try to make sense of creation;
Whose mind could discern how our senses might solve
The question of how all we know could evolve.
And all evolution of science and art
Of thinking, inventing – in mind and n heart –
We owe to the Child of the first Christmas day
Who changed our direction and showed us the Way.
Oh, to knock ask and seek is a basic technique
To seek knock and ask is the scientist’s task
To ask seek and knock is the truth searcher’s Rock
And Love is the soul of Creation.

Shine Your Light / Terry Rettig

Come and sit with me a while
Chase the darkness with a smile
Shine the light that glows inside of you
All the dots can be connected
Soulful eyes share love reflected
All the things once old, again are new

Goodness shows, when in the light
Together we can make it right
Everything is just a thought away
Shine your light on all you see
Sweetens life like honey bee
And offers promise of the coming day

God chisels us towards his perfection
Loving arms provide protection
Lights of thought steer vessels of your dreams
Darkness sometimes, it will blind you
Do your best put it behind you
Stars will dance to music from moon beams

Go on a limb, show you are daring
Joyfulness is found in sharing
Light can save a soul who's lost at sea
Send the beacon out from shore
Illuminate the spirits core
Like a lifeline your light rescued me.

                                  - - Terry Rettig