Agape Newsletter, July 24, 2009: Special Welcome Back Kotter Edition
Hello everybody and welcome to another Agape newsletter.
This Sunday, we welcome our youth group back from Atlanta, where they have been serving God by serving children in a high risk neighborhood. We will hear testimonies from the youth group, and their leaders, as well as worship God together, and hear from the public reading of His Word. Also, noted author and banking executive David “Aubie” McConnell will be on hand to introduce the youth group, and autograph copies of his new bestselling novel, “Floral and Fauna of the Regions Bank Wilderness Area” *, after the service. Who could miss that?!
Also this upcoming Tuesday at Agape we will be heading downtown to offer medical care and food to the homeless of Birmingham. Be at Agape around 5:45 or 6:00 to help load food and chairs, and then hop on the bus for a trip downtown. Special thanks to David Hicks, who cooks every month for literally hundreds of people, and to Cindy Underwood who coordinates our efforts downtown. Speaking of Cindy, today is her birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CINDY!! I believe it is her 28th birthday, or thereabouts, so be sure and email her or text her, or bring her very, very expensive gifts this next Sunday morning.
Prayer Requests:
From Monte Owen: Can you send an e-mail to everyone, asking them to pray for Jefferson County and its workers? We just found out in our office that 67% of the county workforce will be cut due to budget shortfalls. Two weeks ago it was 33%, then last week it was 45%, so things are not looking good for the county. I work for the DA’s office and we are state employees, but we depend on the county for a lot of our workforce. Please pray that God will find a solution to this crisis and we all can get back to doing our jobs.
Also, an update on baby Sadie, my niece, from Janet: Once again, thank you so much for praying with us for a miracle in the life of little Sadie! God hears our prayers and is answering them. Sadie’s platelet count has started going UP. Isn’t that wonderful! This morning her platelets were up to 184! Praise the Lord! Wednesday she did have a small amount blood in few of her stools and a little blood in her spit up. And last night she had several bloody diapers through the night. Please pray that there will be no further blood in her diapers and that all internal bleeding will stop. Her hematocrit count was 48 this morning so that is good. That indicates no significant blood loss even thought she has had some bloody diapers. She is nursing well and eating well. Praise God! We are currently waiting on the results of a second biopsy of one of her spots. The first biopsy did not work. We hope to hear some good news soon! The doctors have begun to talk about the possibility of Sadie going home the first of next week. That would be wonderful!! Pray, pray, pray! Also, Sadie is being weaned from her steroid medicines. Please pray that she would continue to do well, her platelet levels would keep going up and have good blood(hematocrit) levels .Also would you continue to pray for renewed and supernatural strength for Stephen and Kelly, Sydney, Seth and the grandparents(Bob and Carolyn Hall, Tony and Judy Rice)? Traveling back and forth to Children’s each day is tiring. Thank you for your faithful and fervent prayers!
Finally, keep remembering Paul Marshall in your prayers. We visited Paul Wednesday night, and he seemed to be in good spirits and doing well, but he is still struggling to breath, and feels like he is smothering. Please pray for and check in on or call mrs. Ruth and brother Paul. Email me for their phone number if you need it.
Knowing that our God is continuing to protect, heal, strengthen and sustain!!
I close this missive with some links worth checking out. Enjoy! :
***** Mark Noll on the changing face of worldwide Christianity. A tidbit from the article, “This past week in Great Britain, at least fifteen thousand Christian foreign missionaries were hard at work evangelizing the locals. most of these missionaries are from Africa and Asia.” CLICK HERE
***** A great article on teaching young men sportsmanship. Tiger Woods would do well to read this! CLICK HERE
***** In October, Kelly Hildebrandt will be marrying Kelly Hildebrandt. No joke (and no homo)! CLICK HERE
More next week - I hope to see you Sunday,
Chase
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