It is time to make a difference in a childs life.
It is time again for the Compassion bloggers to go on another trip to document what Compassion is doing in another country. This time they are heading out to El Salvador. Shaun Groves who is heading this trip has asked us who support Compassion for some help. Instead of me trying to paraphrase what Shaun had said, I will just copy it here.
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It’s that time again. I’m heading out with another group of bloggers to see the ministry of Compassion and tell the interwebs about it (El Salvador, NEXT WEEK! Nov. 9-13th). Hundreds of kids will get sponsored! I’m sure of it. But we need your help.
Could you please…
1. Pray.
-To see the names and faces of the bloggers going with us visit http://www.compassionbloggers.com/elsalvador
-Pray for their families they’ll leave behind, their spiritual and physical health, their ability to take in a lot of information and experience a lot of emotions and find the words to write about it.
2. Twitter.
-Please send your followers to our trip’s page using this link: http://bit.ly/CBElSalvador
-Please tweet any specific posts you’d like to pass along using the hashtag #cbes
- If you ask your followers to sponsor a child, please use this link: http://bit.ly/Give1Life
3. Facebook.
I’ve created a widget for Facebook pages (works on Myspace and blogs too). It displays pictures, videos and posts from our trip as they become available.
No need to know what the heck a widget is. Just go to http://bit.ly/Give1Lifeand click “Facebook” to add this widget to your Facebook wall.
Thank you for praying us through this trip and spreading the word.
-Shaun
Blogger Manager
CompassionBloggers.com
Compassion.com
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That was a great thing to do.
Unlike last week where I was very disappointed by President Obama’s action by having his picture taken of saluting fallen American service personal at Dover Air Force base. I have to give President Obama credit for what he had done during Halloween. It was great having all those kid and their parent stop by the White House and having the chance to meet President Obama as he and his family handed out candy and a cookie. Those kids and their families are unlikely to forget their chance to be at the White House and to meet the President and his family.
Thomas
Another great life lesson
PRICELESS!
The light turned yellow, just in front of him.. He did the right thing,stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection. The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection,dropping her cell phone and makeup. As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. He took her to the police station where she was searched,fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a holding cell. After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door.She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer
was waiting with her personal effects. He said, ”I’m very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the ‘What Would Jesus Do’ bumper sticker, the ‘Choose Life’ license plate holder,the ‘Follow Me to Sunday-School’ bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk, so naturally…I assumed you had stolen the car.”
Priceless.
(thank you mr matteo for sending me this in a e-mail)
Thomas
Too long of a season
As I watched the World Series, I wondered if the season is just to long. When I se fans in the seats wearing winter jackets and looking like they are freezing, how can they be enjoying the game. Just think if Colorado was in the World Series, Denver is expected to get over a foot of snow today. How many games would have to be postponed because of snow and could weather? How could there be an other Mr. October when most of the World Series will played in November. Baseball should seriously consider shorting their season or cut out the wild card games so the World Series could be played and completed in October.
Thomas
What is poverty?
In this video, Wess Stafford defines poverty and describes Compassion’s solution to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
Thomas
How do you define love?
How do you define love. I think that this defines it perfectly.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (The Message)
3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New Living Translation)
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Heavenly Clocks
A friend of mine sent me this e-mail. It mixes two topics together: religion and politics. I am saying that I agree with this e-mail. I just found it funny.
Heavenly Clocks
A guy dies and goes to heaven. It’s a slow day for St. Peter, so, upon passing the entrance test, St. Peter says “I’m not very busy today, why don’t you let me show you around?”
The guy thinks this is a great idea and graciously accepts the offer. St. Peter shows him all the sights, the golf course, the reading room and library, the observation room, the cafeteria and finally, they come to a HUGE room full of clocks.
The guy asks, “What’s up with these clocks?” St. Peter explains, “Everyone on earth has a clock that shows how much time he has left on earth. When a clock runs out of time, the person dies and comes to the Gates to be judged.”
The guy thinks this makes sense but notices that some of the clocks are going faster than others. He asks why is that?
St. Peter explains, “Every time a living person tells a lie, it speeds his clock.”
This also makes sense, so the guy takes one last look around the room before leaving and notices one clock in the center of the ceiling. On this clock, both hands are spinning at an unbelievable rate, so he asks, “What’s the story with that clock?”
“Oh, that,” St. Peter replies, “That’s Obama’s clock. We decided to use it as a fan.”
(I shared this e-mail with family member who is a big time democrat. This family member thought it very funny.)
random thoughts from a GovGab post to daylights saving time.
It has been a while since I last did a post on my random thoughts so I decided to do one for today.
GovGab has an important post about possible scams being done during the census next year. They have some links to good information on how to protect yourself. I hope that you will take a few minutes to read it.
For the first time I saw a car on fire. It was across the street. There was a small explosion. All of us at work were standing around watching it burn up. There was the comment made where is the marsh mellows. The thing is as we walked in I thought how bad we all would feel if the driver did not get out of the car.
This football season has been more stressful then usual. I should not of entered into a fantasy football league. I spend more time watching the players on my team then watching and enjoying the game.
I was thinking about getting a flu shot for the first time in my life. But after talking with my mother I am not sure if I will get the swine flu shot when it become available. My mom’s doctor told her does not want her to take it. My mother did not get into the reason why he said that, but her doctor did say that they would come up with a plan if anyone caught it who is around my mother.
I still have not figured out when we are suppose to move the clocks back for daylight savings time. Why did they move it in the first place?
I hope that you all have a great weekend.
Thomas
At what point does this end.
One of the things we are suppose to trust is the news we receive from the major networks. They are supposedly suppose to have the best interest of the people when they report their stories. Then you when you read how the current administration brags in how the media is in their pockets. That they reported what the administration wanted reported instead of checking in why the administration was saying what they were saying. Now you have the current administration attacking a news network because they will not report what they want them to report. They are claiming that the news organization is not a new organization and is distorting the facts to make their claim.
Now the questions are: Does the government begin a full attack on regular citizens who do not agree with? At what point does this end?
Thomas
