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Hoar Frost

Ok, now that I have your attention I guess it's not technically hoar frost . . . it's just ice covered bamboo.
It snowed almost all night Friday
and almost all day Saturday.
Now the post snow freezing rain has come.
It's snowing inside our house too!

Who is your role model?

1) Pick a number number between 1 and 9.
2) Multiply by 3.
3) Add 3.
4) Multiply by 3 again.  You will get a 2-digit number.
5) Add the digits together.

Now with that number see who you admire most from the
list below:




















1. Albert Einstein
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. John McCain
4. Nelson Mandela
5. Mother Teresa
6. Mahatma Gandhi
7. Brad Pitt
8. Bill Gates
9. Celina Green
10.George Washington


I know‚ I just have that effect on people. One day you
too may be like me. Believe it!

PS. Stop picking different numbers.  I am your idol, just deal with it!

An Invitation

As the years have passed Advent has become more and more meaningful to me. Anticipation, Hope, Longing.

This year our church is using a resource that combines image, scripture and a devotional thought. It is called "The Advent Door" . . . consider this an invitation to join in!

Click the door to enter

World AIDS Day

December 1, 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Since 1988, the face and response to AIDS has greatly changed. While many of these changes are positive, this anniversary offers us an opportunity to highlight how much more still needs to be done.

In an e-mail today from Dan Hastline of Bloodwater Mission he writes, "there is so much risk in thinking about too many stories at once. Without a way to visualize millions of faces, I am reminded that AIDS is a disease that kills one person at a time. It is a disease that destroys the body, one blood cell at a time. It destroys families one person at a time. It creates a void, a deep emptiness where hope and health should be, one story at a time. And so today, I am thinking about how I can help one person. How I can love and act, and advocate on behalf of one person. And in the midst of this great and challenging fight, we may one day realize that we have the opportunity to not be able to visualize the millions of stories that have regained their threads of hope, and sustained their health.

Can you think of a person? Can you put yourself in the place of someone wrestling with HIV/AIDS? Do you wonder what their fears might be? Do you wonder what their families might be going through? Do you consider the moment that they have to bring the news of their illness to their family? Is there room in your heart, in my heart to feel what they feel?

Today is World AIDS Day. To most of us, it is just another day. What would it take for us to remember there is no such thing as "Just another day." And what would it look like to do our best to ensure that those wrestling on this day under the weight of this disease can make it to the next?

It is in our hands. It is our ideas, our passion, our willingness to learn, to fail, to search, to love, and to fight that will bring forth the ideas and the designs to beat HIV/AIDS.

It is my hope that we will continue to feel the urgency of this great need. It is my desire that we will continue to open our hearts to the stories of people all around the world that suffer.

I believe that God has given us this great privilege to be a part this great act of healing. Please join us in praying, in knowing, in loving, and in serving.

And maybe we can one day celebrate by saying, 'Happy World AIDS Day!' "

Well written Dan.