Austin Gardner

Ethan will be coming home soon. The Howeths need a van to get around in. It will make it much easier on Ethan getting in and out of a vehicle. They currently have a car and a suburban. Do you have any leads? They are not exactly in a position financially to spend lots of money now but they need a very reliable and comfortable means of transportation.

If you can help just put a note in the comments and they will see it. Leave a way to get in touch with you and we will. You can be sure of that.

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There is a great article by James Ray in the BIMI magazine. He talks about his uncle having the opportunity to work with Colonel Sanders before there was a Kentucky Fried Chicken. He talks about his missed opportunity. I would like to challenge you to read the article. Here are a few clips to get you interested:

Some of us are old enough to remember “how it used to be.” Many of the young people of this generation might be puzzled at the mention of days when there was the “ice man” (no refrigerator), when butter had to be churned, when water came from a deep well, when letters were written on a typewriter and when corn had to be taken to a grist mill. They might marvel that there were no televisions and a radio was a luxury. But ask them about computers, text messages, cell phones, GPS’s, mp3 players and they will respond immediately. The technology phenomenon over the past 75 years is staggering. BIMI is in its 49th year with over 1,000 missionaries serving in 89 countries of the world. WE ARE ALIVE IN THE GREATEST POPULATION ARENA OF ALL AGES. There are more people alive today than have ever lived before. Think about the world population.

� During the time of Jesus Christ, 170 million people lived in the world.

� One thousand years later there were 254 million.

� When Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, there were 400 million people.

� In 1800 the count climbed to 813 million.

� In 1950 it had climbed to 2.4 billion.

� Today there are 6.7 billion men, women and children that need to be reached with the Gospel.

There is no time to waste. Read the article. We must not get stuck in time. We must use every available means to get the gospel to the world right now.

Each day I write a devotional post on Vision News. I just posted number 342. Soon there will be one per day for a year. I would like to invite you to click here and read them.

The complete article is 4 pages long but well worth the read from each of you. I think this article was written for parents in our area!

The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought macrobiotic cupcakes and hypoallergenic socks, hired tutors to correct a 5-year-old’s “pencil-holding deficiency,” hooked up broadband connections in the treehouse but took down the swing set after the second skinned knee. We hovered over every school, playground and practice field — “helicopter parents,” teachers christened us, a phenomenon that spread to parents of all ages, races and regions. Stores began marketing stove-knob covers and “Kinderkords” (also known as leashes; they allow “three full feet of freedom for both you and your child”) and Baby Kneepads (as if babies don’t come prepadded). The mayor of a Connecticut town agreed to chop down three hickory trees on one block after a woman worried that a stray nut might drop into her new swimming pool, where her nut-allergic grandson occasionally swam. A Texas school required parents wanting to help with the second-grade holiday party to have a background check first. Schools auctioned off the right to cut the carpool line and drop a child directly in front of the building — a spot that in other settings is known as handicapped parking.

Read the article