http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/ Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:30:57 GMT en-us Copyright 2011 Life Center Foursquare Church (New) http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/free-book-sheet-music/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/free-book-sheet-music/ Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:11:29 GMT check it out here. Even if you don't have a Kindle, there are apps available for smartphones and you can utilize the program, and read the book, on your computer. Hurry, this may not last long!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/the-great-divides/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/the-great-divides/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:26:51 GMT The Great Divides]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/new-tweeple/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/new-tweeple/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:03:26 GMT http://twitter.com/joewittwer11. It doesn't matter whether you have a twitter account - anyone can check it out. Enjoy!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/painting-reproductions/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/painting-reproductions/ Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:41:27 GMT here.]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/making-sense-painting/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/making-sense-painting/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:56:21 GMT here.]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haiti-update/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haiti-update/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:24:56 GMT http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haiti-response/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haiti-response/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:17:14 GMT http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/worship-sets/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/worship-sets/ Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:21:21 GMT sermon archives). Initially I won't be linking them, and unfortunately I can't post lyrics, though simply doing a web search with the song title and artist's name should provide them. Enjoy!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haiti-earthquake/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haiti-earthquake/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:56:42 GMT http://twitter.com/RAMhaiti Thanks for praying!  ]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/bulletin--website/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/bulletin--website/ Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:41:48 GMT http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/trouble-logging-in/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/trouble-logging-in/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:58:23 GMT http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/transcripts-for-only-one-thing/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/transcripts-for-only-one-thing/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:21:11 GMT Only One Thing.  I noticed they weren't online, so I posted them and they're now available for your reading pleasure!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/follow-up-from-rich/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/follow-up-from-rich/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:38:32 GMT http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/happy-veterans-day/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/happy-veterans-day/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:12:18 GMT Click here to go to the gallery.]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/web-video-resource/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/web-video-resource/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:50:07 GMT www.ccn.tv/online. Click "sign up". Enter our church's Subscriber ID 2643. Create your own user name and password (remember these because you will need them to log on in the future). Click on the title of the program you want to watch and it will automatically open. Enjoy watching!  I'll also add this to our Links page which you can find under Resources in the navigation bar.    ]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haley-gives-back/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/haley-gives-back/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:13:43 GMT Lori Swanson - our Preschool Director: The story of how one of AdventureLands own is helping the poor! Haley and mom “Angie” are amazing! www.nothingbutnets.net/blogs/haleys-story-bracelets.html]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/journal-blogging/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/journal-blogging/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:33:34 GMT I've found three great benefits: Availability - you can access your journal from anywhere you have the internet Tagging - These are the main topics of your entry.  In my blog I have over 100 posts with 90 tags - example to the right.  On my actual blog, these are clickable, and they pull up all the associated entries.  Some entries have one tag, some have seven. Searching - If tags aren't enough, you can look up any word in your entire blog. Beyond those are some smaller ancillary benefits: potential for transparency and accountability, automatic calendaring (so you can go to a particular day or month), linking posts together, follow up comments from others or just yourself, and (for me) the overall benefit of typing instead of writing - a much faster capturing of thoughts. Privacy Although I think there are benefits to allowing someone else consistent, unfiltered access to a devotional journal, there are some easy ways to keep your blog private. First and easiest … don’t tell anyone about it! Second, many blogging platforms allow you to make your site completely private and unsearchable via search engines. Alternatively, for a level of privacy as well as limited access, each of the sites above have various invite only or password protected options for your blog. Get Started If you're convinced - there are several great free blog platforms: Wordpress Blogspot LiveJournal Each give you everything you need to start posting your journal entries online.  I have found great benefit to this process.  If you would like to know more about this, or would like help starting one of your own, please email or call me (327.4422 x133) and I'd love to walk you through setting one up.]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/the-video-is-up/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/the-video-is-up/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:44:09 GMT going to the page for this weekend's message and clicking "Video."  It's a little small, I'm working on a little larger version, but small is better than none eh?!  Enjoy!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/read-for-more/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/read-for-more/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:43:19 GMT read for more!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/audio-posted/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/audio-posted/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:37:17 GMT http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/leadership-summit-notes/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/leadership-summit-notes/ Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:21:36 GMT Leadership Summit this year was absolutely incredible - whoever was able to be there left inspired; for those of you who weren't, my bet is that you'll hear lots about it. I was searching for the notes from one of the sessions (I'm a terrible note taker and I struggle to absorb when trying - other people are gifted, so I leave it up to them), and stumbled across a Granger Community Church pastor's blog which looks like it's got solid notes for every session - check it out!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-nairobi-again/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-nairobi-again/ Tue, 26 May 2009 16:27:23 GMT here to see all the updates) It's 9:13 PM on Monday...you're at 11:13 AM. We just arrived back at the Mayfield Guest House in Nairobi after a short flight from the tiny airport in Kisumu. The big news first: we have water! Woohoo! The drillers arrived on Friday night, started drilling on Saturday, continued on Sunday, and we stopped by Adiedo this morning on our way back to Kisumu from Homa Bay. It was a thrill to see the rig there on site, and so many of the villagers sitting watching the progress. When we arrived, they had already finished drilling to 96 meters (about 300 feet), and were starting to "develop the well"--cleaning it out to prepare for casing and screen and gravel. Water was spraying out when they shot air down the hole, and the driller told me it was a very good well, and should produce 1250 liters of water per hour (about 20 gallons a minute). If that proves to be the case, it will provide enough water for 6000 people a day...more than enough since it was intended to serve 1000-1500. Of course, we won't know the final results for awhile. Tomorrow or the next day they will do a 24 hour pump test to determine just how much the well can produce. We await those numbers. But as I said, everything looks very positive and the villagers are thrilled. David has been working on this for 10 years, and it was very gratifying to see it finally come to pass. We were only there for a couple hours, gathered for prayer and blessed the well, and then loaded the vans and got stuck in the mud again!!! We've had heavy rains in the afternoons or evenings, and the tiny road into the well site was a sea of mud. My new Birks got baptized pushing the van out! We got up early this morning so we could load the vans and be on our way to Adiedo by 7:30. Even though it's only about 20-25 kilometers (15 miles), it takes 75 minutes to drive there over the most atrocious road you've ever seen. There's one very deep mud hole where we've gotten stuck every day for the last several...and we get pushed out by the same 12 guys who make their living pushing vehicles out of the mud (there are no tow trucks). Jeremiah is the leader of this merry band and is now my friend...I have pics and video. When you get stuck, you negotiate a price with Jeremiah and the gang pushes you out. It's about 1000 shillings ($12...a buck per man)...but worth every penny because to avoid this whole you have to take another road which makes it a 3 hour trip instead of 75 minutes! By the way, these men keep the hole deep...there is a pile of rocks on the side of the road that they've removed so that you will need their services! Very resourceful! Before we left the hotel this morning, Grace came by to thank us for the gift of money we gave her (she is the recently widowed mother of two little boys who works at the orphanage, and David's good friend and contact and "fixer" in the area). We all prayed for her, then loaded the vans and we were off; got to Adiedo, blessed the well and visited with family and then headed for Kisumu where we ate lunch, then went to the airport, waited for our plane, flew here, and now...here I am. Tomorrow we leave at 7:30 AM for safari in the Maasai Mara...a national park and wildlife refuge. We drive there all day tomorrow; enjoy the wildlife tomorrow night, Wednesday morning and night, and Thursday morning and then drive back Thursday to Nairobi. We should have internet on safari...they cater to tourists with money! Friday we have the day in Nairobi and will go to a market. Friday night we get on the plane and begin the loooooong flight home. Yesterday was another spectacular day. We went to the Homa Bay Boys High School for their morning church service; Colt preached; the boys' singing was wonderful--800 boys in a boarding high school...very common here. David went to high school there...all these places are connected to David in some way, which is really cool. We'd never even know about them otherwise. We got a tour of the compound, visited with staff and students, and of course, as we have everywhere, heard about what they need. Every person, every organization is looking for "partners". As I've said before they are very resourceful, but the resources are slim. The boys school needs a well too. I need to back up. We also went to the boys school Saturday night. We ate a hurried dinner at the hotel and arrived at Mrs. Odanga's apartment (a teacher there) on the compound so we could go to a meeting of the Christian students association. Craig was preaching to that group of boys which turned out to be small but spirited. During the meeting, a giant beetle kept flying through the room...I knew it would land on our girls and it did, producing a scream and commotion and considerable laughter from the boys! :) The other hilarious thing that happened was that when we arrived at Mrs. Odanga's, we walked in to the small front room and saw a familiar site: a table set with dishes and empty chairs. Grace and Mrs. Odanga had prepared another huge dinner for us; we hadn't know they were doing that and had just finished. We ate two full dinners in an hour!! We were all laughing our heads off, and Mrs. Odanga in the kitchen thought we were the happiest group she had ever seen! :) Back to Sunday: after the boys high school, Mrs. Odanga insisted we go to the girls' school about 20 kilometers away where her daughter Glory is a student. When we arrived, the 700 high school girls were in the cafeteria/auditorium singing and waiting for us (wherever we go, people drop everything and treat us as honored guests with lots of fanfare). What happened in the auditorium is almost indescribable...it was so fun! The girls lit up the room with energy. I videoed their singing...Dan got much more...it was LOUD! And fun...dancing...clapping...smiling. Then they took us all on tours of their dorms: 120 girls to a small dorm in triple decker bunks! A form 3 student (junior in HS) named Judy adopted me, held my hand and walked me around campus (with a dozen other girls) showing me her school. Sunday afternoon we relaxed; I visited with a pastor from Homa Bay on the lawn for an hour...fascinating story. Reminds me of George Mueller, caring for orphans totally on faith. As they say here: God is good! (All the time!) All the time! (God is good!)  ]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-at-the-orphanage/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-at-the-orphanage/ Fri, 22 May 2009 16:21:33 GMT here to see all the updates) Below, I've included an email I wrote on Tuesday but was unable to send. We're having a meeting in about three minutes and the computer was open so I'm sending this quick note. I'll try to get on again later tonight and send more. Today, we went to the Homa Bay Children's Home and primary school attached. We all spoke with the children in their classes, and to the faculty and staff. Same as Adiedo: large classes, dirt floors, no electricity, no running water, etc. Amazing what they do with so little. They teach the kids in Kiswahili and English; they are not allowed to use their mother tongue (Luo); if they do, they are caned! ----- I'm in Homa Bay; it's Tuesday at 7:05 PM. there was no internet at our hotel yesterday; today one computer is working and i'm hogging it right now! (If I messed up anyone's internet address, please make sure everyone gets this.) Today, we went to Adiedo for the first time. it was an hour and fifteen minute drive (only a few miles, but the "roads" are unbelievable; almost unpassable! When we arrived at David's family's home, they had a big celebration prepared...fixed us lunch...we were honored guests. We were there from about 11 to 5 today; met his family, extended family, neighbors. his dad is 86, has 3 wives and 20 children. The first old mama i met shook my hand and grinned and said "Hallelujah! Amen!"...the extent of her English, but I understood her completely. :) I sat for awhile talking with all the old people through an interpreter (Grace, the lady at the orphanage whose husband died recently). It was fabulous. Being here, meeting them, listening to their concerns...makes the well seem all the more important. After lunch, the village chief showed up unannounced in military fatigues (he was delivered on a 175cc motorcycle that is used as a taxi...i'll show you pics). There was an impromptu community meeting, with lot of formal greetings. After the chief welcomed us, and talked, I was asked to address everyone. i gave a short speech, and then opened it up for questions and discussion which went on for over half an hour...I learned alot!!! They are so excited we have come to help and so appreciative...and have so much need. They asked if (after the well) we could pipe the water to strategically placed tanks for wider community access; put in troughs for their livestock; help them install rooftop water catchment systems for rainfall; help them build a hospital and a school; help them sponsor students for college education; and help them with all the orphans. I fielded each request, answered the best and could, and teased them, saying, "You're not asking for much." After I spoke and fielded questions (they applauded after every answer--and Dan videoed most of the meeting), they asked each of our team who was there to bring a greeting. Everyone did very well...although they were fairly emotional. The chief asked Joey Cwik if he was married; when Joey said no, the chief insisted on finding Joey a nice Kenyan woman so he would come back often! :) The children are beautiful and i've got scads of terrific pictures! While this meeting was going on, a van load of our guys went to Oyugsi where our driller is currently drilling, trying to finish up and get to Adiedo. They asked me to go with them...i'm so glad i didn't since the chief's visit was impromptu and it was very important for me (and Dan) to be there. By the way, you'll have to watch the video of the mama giving the final speech and prayer--a very old mama who can preach! it was awesome...they really love Jesus...in fact, one of the questions (all done through an interpreter) was about David Opap's spiritual health--he left Adiedo a strong Christian, is he still a strong Christian? :) We just got back to the hotel 30 minutes ago, and I just heard that the other van got stuck--the road was very muddy and running with water after a big rain--evidently they are not only stuck in the dark somewhere, but are nervous...feel it is dangerous. I'm praying for them...it's one adventure after another here! Everyone is concerned right now...I'd better go see if I can help. (They got back safe and sound...but very muddy!) I haven't even told you a thing about yesterday...another amazing day riding on a public bus from nairobi to Kisumu, then in vans to homa Bay. Beautiful country...people everywhere...more about all that later. Every day seems more powerful and important than the one before. Tomorrow we're in Adiedo again, and meet with mick at the well site...go to the school and deliver the pencils and school supplies...another big day. I'll write more the first chance i get]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-in-adiedo/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-in-adiedo/ Thu, 21 May 2009 17:40:38 GMT here to see all the updates) I typed a long email on Tuesday night from here in Homa Bay; but the internet connection went out before I could send it; it's saved on another computer; if I can get on that I'll send it to you later tonight! It's 7 PM on Thursday here...Thurs morning for you. The last few days have been very eventful. First, the well. Today we met with the drilling contractor at the well site; he said that our driller is marshalling the drill equipment today to the site. We left Adiedo at 4 PM (it took us 3 hours to get here because of a rainstorm that washed out roads and created huge mud holes that sucked up cars!) and the drill rig wasn't on site yet. We hope that it will get there still tonight, and get set up and start drilling tomorrow. The people of the village are very excited for the work to begin and water to come. We have spent the last three days in the village with David's family, neighbors and friends. We have gone to the school twice with all the gifts we brought. Today all the kids were clutching two new yellow pencils and were very excited about it. I took pictures of them holding up their pencils. The kids are amazing...422 students in the primary school...dirt floors, no windows, no running water, no electricity, outhouses...and as many as 65 students per class! Imagine!! However, they can do it becuase there are no classroom management problems; the kids all behave, and respond immediately to any order from their teacher. Six paid teachers and 3 volunteers for 422 students in 8 grades. They need more of everything... We have had meetings with the village elders and chief...amazing meetings. We got to hear from them what they need and want and hope for. The needs are endless and overwhelming: water, food, medicine, education are the big requests. They are very friendly, welcoming, loving. The chairman of the school told me, "You are family now, you are part of this community; this is your school now too." That's how they are about everything. They have welcomed us as members of their family and community. Each day at Adiedo, Esther and Paris (David's sisters...he is the youngest of 20 children from his father's three wives) and aunties have made a special meal for us. They start cooking at 7 each morning over a charcoal fire, and kill a chicken for the meal. Chicken, rice, cabbage salad, sukumawiki, flat bread...with fresh pineapple and baby bananas. Delicious food. But they serve all of us muzungus (white people) alone at a table. When we are done eating, then they clear the table and the Kenyans eat. It is a show of respect...but feels very awkward for all of us. The children are beautiful...I've already taken 1000 pictures! Every scene is a picture...I could stop every ten steps and take another amazing shot! The poverty is stunning, but their joy and faith are contagious. Tomorrow we go to the orphanage with Grace... The road between Homa Bay and Adiedo has been a disaster. It takes 75 minutes to travel the 15 miles when the roads are dry. But it has rained every afternoon, and the past two days it has poured. Rivers are running across the road. Holes three feet deep filled with mud trap cars. Sam, our driver, told us that some of the local boys dig the holes before the rain to make money. They wait there until a car gets stuck and then push it out for 1000 shillings ($12.50) split among a dozen guys. they did it for us this morning. It's dinner time and others are hoping to get on the computer...only two work. If I get a chance, I'll send more later tonight...if it's still working. Pray for our team; some have fallen sick...nothing serious, just Montezuma's revenge! Pray for the well. We are having the time of our lives! I wish you could all be here to see the sights and smell the smells and meet these amazing people.]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-headed-out/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-headed-out/ Tue, 19 May 2009 16:17:38 GMT here to see all the updates) It is Sunday evening here, 8:54 PM, and it has been a long and eventful day. Six of our large 50 lb. bags did not make it, and we are having trouble contacting anyone at the airport, so several of our team are on their out there right now to see if they can find our bags. We want to retrieve them because tomorrow morning (early) we board a public bus for the 10 hour ride to Kisumu, and from there on to Homa Bay, where we will stay next week while we work in Adiedo. Chuck is on the phone right now with Drillcon, our drilling contractor, expressing our concern about the continued delays, and asking Mick (the owner) to meet us on site in Adiedo on Tuesday. This afternoon, six of us drove out to Mick and Liz' home/office, an hour out of Nairobi. We met for almost 2 hours, and quizzed them. The latest update: the driller (a sub-contractor Mick hired) is on a job nearby (10 km from Adiedo), where he has encountered problems: collapsed boreholes, broken drill bits. Mick projects that he will be done on Tuesday and mobilize to Adiedo on Wednesday; however, David is very discouraged because he has heard this five times now and every time there is another delay. TIA. So after a lengthy and emotional team meeting tonight, Chuck is calling Mick to express our concerns and ask for another meeting on site on Tuesday. We hope this will speed the process. Please pray that the well will be drilled and water found while we are in Homa Bay/Adiedo! It is the primary reason for our trip and we want to see it happen! The day started early: I was up at 6 AM to shower and get ready for church; we left at 7:30; fortunately the church was only a 5 minute drive away. I spoke at three services at 8, 10, 12. This is a huge church--the pastor said about 12,000. Each service was 90 minutes; they asked me to speak for 30, but by the time I got up, there was 15 minutes left, so I made it up on the fly!! The worship was awesome! Africans sing so LOUD, and enthusiastically. It was wonderful...very inspiring...and so fun to be a white face in a huge sea of black faces! Worship was about 30 minutes, then there were 45 minutes of announcements, baby dedications, more announcements, recognizing the pastor and his wife for their wedding anniversary, and still more announcements; hence the 15 minutes. But I had a ball; the crowd was responsive, and my short message was very simple and clear and well-received. I'll tell you more about the church when I get home...quite a contrast from the slum church--this was all middle/upper class Kenyans. Dan videoed the 10 o'clock service, so you'll get to see it. After the last service, we met with a woman about adoption. Nothing new to report: you need to start with an adoption agency in the state that is licensed to work in Kenya; get your home study and paperwork done; get connected to an agency in Kenya; pick a child; spend 3 months in Kenya with the child under observation. If you pass the observation, the rest goes very quickly and you're home. Both parents need to be there, but one can go home after a couple weeks.  The woman said there were lots of them available. We got home from church, and six of us went to the meeting with the driller; we got back here at 6:30 PM, ate dinner, visited with other people staying in this guest house (I talked with two guys from a church in Texas here building an orphange...fascinating), and then had our team meeting. I'm sending you this email and then I'm heading to bed...exhausted...still somewhat jet-lagged. I only slept about 6 hours last night...woke up at 3:45 AM. Tomorrow is a long day of travel by bus over very rough road. We'll probably see some wildlife. I hope that there is a computer at the place we're staying in Homa Bay so I can send and receive emails.]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-in-nairobi/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/kenya-in-nairobi/ Sat, 16 May 2009 16:18:31 GMT here to see all the updates) It's 8:47 PM on Saturday here in Nairobi; 10:47 AM on Sat for you. Our flight from London to Nairobi was delayed by 5 hours...more plane problems...so our 23 hour flight took 40 hours! Even though it was incredibly long (and we're all exhausted for not sleeping for two days) the team got along well, and it was a bonding experience...a memory! We landed this morning at 11 AM, and are staying at the Mayfield Guest House. We took showers, ate lunch, and headed for the Soweto slum...220,000 people living in a little over a square mile in unimaginable poverty. It was staggering. No electricity, running water, sewer. No jobs, no food, no medical care. But thousands of beautiful small children everywhere mobbing us and wanting their pictures taken. Happy...with nothing. We divided into teams of 2 and went out with Christians from Bible Fellowship Church, a church located in the slum. These dear believers did most of the talking because of the language barrier, but we shared Jesus with people, prayed with them...most prayed for jobs, food, healing. Too many experiences to write here...will show you pics and tell stories when I get home. We got back here about 7 PM for dinner, a team meeting, and now I'm writing you this quick note. Tomorrow morning, we leave for church at 7:30 AM; I preach 3 times. Then we meet with someone at the church who knows about adoptions and she is going to tell us what is needed to adopt Kenyan kids (who are beautiful). Then we meet with Drillcon to find out the status of the well drilling...it looks like the equipment should be on site soon--maybe tomorrow. Monday morning, we leave very early on public bus for Kisumu...I'll write more about that tomorrow. That's the news. We're all safe and healthy...just very very tired. And the next two days are up early and going strong all day...so pray for us! After the slum, I thought of Matthew 20--the parable of the vineyard owner who hired workers all day for his vineyard. Jesus began, "The kingdom of God is like a man who owned a vineyard..." I wish there was a way to bring jobs to all the people in the slums...they need jobs to provide for their families, improve their living conditions, and give them hope. They were very open to receive Jesus, and those who believe in Jesus have a hope that others don't. But I wonder if Jesus would bring good news in the form of jobs...a vineyard owner who could put men to work. You can't see something like that without wondering, "What can we do to help? How can we be the good news to these hopeless people?"  ]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/inlander-best-of/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/inlander-best-of/ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:37:35 GMT Best Of" list and it named Pastor Joe as the #2 spiritual leader in the entire Inland Northwest!  Thank you for the votes and for making Life Center a great place.]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/if-only-cards/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/if-only-cards/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:25:18 GMT http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/bible-bookmarks/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/bible-bookmarks/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:39:01 GMT Reading Plan bookmarks for April - June!  They'll be stuffed in bulletins on March 22 & 29 and available at the Info Center for extras and replacements. This will complete our first full year of these bookmarks - we hope you've found them useful!]]> http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/easter-services/ http://lifecenter.monkpreview.com/drews-news/easter-services/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:35:40 GMT