Healing Testimony at Nursing Home

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Anyone wanting to serve in nursing home ministry would do well, to consider finding a team to do that ministry with. Lone ranger types of service are fine if no one else is available, but the biblical example is always teamwork. Jesus called twelve disciples; He sent them out two by two and when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, He brought three of them with Him. We have a wonderful team that has been helping at Life Care for a few years, who sometimes share their testimonies, and last week our friend Gena shared hers. Everyone at the home knows and loves Gena as she has been volunteering there for over a year. She comes in about three days a week for a few hours and spends time visiting, encouraging and praying with the residents. Then, when we have our Friday morning service, Gena passes out songbooks, opens in prayer and serves communion. So, when she went through a heart procedure last week, and her daughter experienced a seizure everyone was praying for her as they would for a family member. I hope you will be blessed as you listen to her special message of how God brought them both through.

"So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another." Romans 12:5 ESV

Rainy Days

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Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. Psalm 57:1 ESV

Some days the hawk sits silently
While the thunder crashes round
And swallows swoop into the barn
Where the chickens huddle down

Tall cranes stand in the rushes
In her house the blue bird sleeps
While the chickadees are twittering
In the thickets dark and deep

But eagles fly up to their nests
When they hear their children cry
And shelter them under their wings
While the rain is passing by

Then why should you and I do less
Who know our place to fly
Up to God our refuge strong
While the storm is passing by

Rainy Days by Peter Caligiuri
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A Letter From Jesus

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You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 2 Corinthians 3:3 NIV

Imagine trying to write while riding in a stagecoach or racing around the track on a roller coaster. Your handwriting would be terrible, maybe even illegible. When we are always running towards the next activity never pausing to rest, that is how God’s handwriting looks on our hearts. But when we take time to be still and pray His Holy Spirit begins to clearly write the story of Jesus for others to see. Though not everyone wants to read it, there may be one person who will want to know Him more. During this Christmas season, that bouncing stagecoach or racing roller coaster is a pretty good description of my own life some days. I am running so fast to celebrate the birth of our Jeus that the handwriting on my heart often looks scrawled or smudged.

There are many ways to slow life down and give it some order, and for some of us that begins with a moment of reflection on a Bible verse and a simple story that helps bring it to life. If you are that kind of person, then, you might consider The Christmas Star, which is a simple 30-day advent reading plan. Each day begins with a verse, then tells a story and offers a moment to stop, take a breath, and listen for the voice of Jesus. If we are quiet long enough, He will begin to tell us what His plans are for the day and then start writing another chapter of His story on our hearts for everyone to see! The Christmas star is available on Amazon, in both eBook and softcover in large print.