Bless you Lester and thank you for staying those extra minutes when my daughter got turned around and was late to your warehouse on Friday.  Without that food, we would have been hard pressed to give out any food on Monday.

Ginger W

WOW,
Thanks very much, Lester, for sharing the praise report!  You are such a blessing to me-have been and still are!  I felt impressed yesterday to seek the Lord over the next few weeks-for good reasons-God is blessing me so much.  If I come to your mind, please say a prayer.
This note came at the right time as I begin seeking the Lord.

 

Thank you for the reminder.  Pastor Don B.

This morning I have jury duty, I mean Josiah duty.  I am watching my grandson or the truth be known he's watching me.  He and I went to Evans Mills to get my son's tire fixed on his car.  While waiting for the car, Josiah and I went for a walk over a bridge which ran over a running creek.  As we approached the end of the bridge I looked up and saw the most beautiful red apple tree full of apples.  The branches were so full of red ripe apples they were hanging low from the weight of them.  Then the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me and said so many of my children are so full of ripe fruit and don't even know it.  It's one thing to be full of fruit and not give it away, but even more sad to not know that your branches, your life is full of ripe fruit and your father longs to give it away to those who are so hungry.  The Lord said, that is why so many of my children are so weighed down inside because they have so much fruit and don't know it, therefore they don't give it away.  Today, know that you are full of God's fruit of his Spirit and you have something to give others, and even eat of yourself.  Today you are full of ripe fruit and so beautiful to your God but fruit was never meant to stay on the tree, but given.  A tree full of fruit can be a tree of life today but you must first know it to be so, within you.  A tree full of fruit.   
 
Thanks for listening, Pastor David

One of our food pantries has come to us and said they are closing their doors after so many years of serving the needy.  We have been partnering with them for over eight years and we will miss them.  Most of all, the people they serve will miss the food that they would receive from that food pantry.

 

This is not an isolated case, but very common with food pantries.  They just cannot afford to stay open and it is getting harder to get people to volunteer.  Please keep praying for the food pantries and soup kitchens that are struggling to keep their doors open for the hungry people of their communities.

 

Be Blessed,

 

Lester