I received a thank you note from our Short-Term missions trip to heaven. In part it read:

I was hungry and you fed me,
I was thirsty and you gave me a drink,
I was homeless and you gave me a room,
I was shivering and you gave me clothes,
I was sick and you stopped to visit,
I was in prison and you came to me.

I wrote back to heaven and asked when did a BFC Short-Term team ever see you hungry and feed you, thirsty and give you a drink? And when did we ever see you sick or in prison and come to you?

I then received this answer by return mail: ‘I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.’ This recorded in Matthew 25

Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way. –Paul

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• $46 billion - Amount spent per year globally on bottled water
• $1.7 billion - Amount needed per year beyond current spending to provide clean drinking water to everyone on earth
• More than one billion – Or 1 out of 6, is the number of people worldwide who lack reliable access to safe drinking water
• 80 - Percentage of world illnesses due to water-borne diseases [NEW YORK TIMES/WATER AID]

Americans drink on average more than 24 gallons of bottled water a year and another 52 gallons of soft drinks. Interestingly enough, many times tap water ranks higher in blind taste tests than does bottled water! Did you know that some bottled water costs 10,000 times as much as water from the tap?

I am not on a campaign to stop bottle water consumption by the Let’s Fish readership. I am however encouraging all of us to set priorities in our life. Every investment is a matter of choice. You have seen the needs of the world on your Short-Term trip this summer. How has that affected your lifestyle and your choices?

Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves. Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be. -Jesus

It is indeed a sad commentary on the lack of compassion we so often encounter as we move through our daily lives and activites. It bothers and sometimes irritates us because we see the world and its' needs through God's eyes and operate as God's hands. Those outside of Christ can often be self centered. However, we must be so careful no to get hung up on people who don't care and know that there are people who truly do care and desire to help such as the manager of a drug store who donated a large bag of items and said "I wish there were more things on the list I could donate". There was a cashier who overheard and said "What else do they need"?

I approached the managers of a large grocery store chain, who undoubtedly have had many requests in the past week for donations and are already partnering with the Red Cross but still are donating $100.00 in products.

We seem to be hearing from the media a lot about what people did not do or are not doing and pointing fingers of blame. Remember there are multitude of people Christians and non-Christians that do care and are putting that care into action.

Dare we say to "God, don't ever let me want to side step opportunities to share of my resources, my time or your love even in the business of my life in order to just get out of the store"?

Carolyn

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Trip Start: 9/8/2005 Trip End: 9/30/2005

Two women from the Royersford BFC will be traveling to Kabal, Afghanistan to help with CURE International. They will set up and train nationals in CURE's hospital regarding anesthesiology.

Trip Start: 9/11/2005 Trip End: 10/8/2005

Work with Efthemes and Irene Sioukiouroglou in an outreach ministry to refugees in Greece. Ministry will include food distribution, friendship evangelism, retreat ministry, and clothing distribution for displaced refugees from many areas in the 10 /40 window. The trip will include 10 going the first two weeks and another 10 the second two weeks. Team member are from the Cedar Crest, Emmaus, and Reading BFC.

Culture Link Seminar
Harleysville BFC
Canceled

Culture Link creator Larry Ragen is holding a Culture Link Seminar in the Lancaster Area October 20-22. I highly recommend this seminar to all who will be conducting S-T mission trips in 2006. Information on the Seminar will follow.

RWR Filling Quickly

Board of Missions
RWR
November 18-20

Every Fall the Board of Missions conducts an RWR at Pinebrook Bible Conference. An RWR is a Retreat within a Retreat held Friday through Sunday. Those who participate work as conference personnel throughout the weekend, and conduct their own retreat during their off-duty hours.
The Board of Missions' RWR is for teens and singles to spend some time thinking about God's plan for their lives as it relates to missions. Besides spending time looking into God's Word, there is also a missionary in attendance to add valuable insights on following God's lead into missions.
If you or someone you know would be interested in attending the next RWR contact the Board of Missions for additional information. God has done amazing things through this ministry.

REGISTER NOW at office@bfcbom.org

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