Gospel Light Christian Fellowship Church (36 Fortune St, Lafayette, GA 30728) will host our 17th Annual Day of Praise. Please join us in their fellowship hall at 5:00 pm for a pre-praise meal. Followed by praise and worship, led by Second Chance, in the church around 6:00 pm. Pastor Chris Spears will share the Word to close out the evening.
“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Micah 6:8
It has been a tremendous blessing and great honor to serve the Lord by leading the Care Mission ministry these past 17 years. God has brought literally thousands of families to us, giving us the opportunity to serve them in His Name. In this walk with God we have given our best effort to serve justly, mercifully, and humbly. No one knows better than us that we have, at times, failed miserably. We are greatly flawed. Yet…God has chosen to use us. Remarkable. He has done a mighty work through this ministry in spite of the broken individuals He placed in charge. He continues to do far more than we could ever hope for or imagine. It is all for His glory that we mark the 17th Anniversary of the Care Mission with our Day of Praise. We are extremely grateful for all those who have allowed God to use them to support the Care Mission. And we hope you will join us as we rejoice for all He has done.
In May we lost another dear friend of the Care Mission. Mary Sauceman (99) was a proud hometown gal. A daughter, wife, mom, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, and friend of many. Mary was an important source of encouragement for us, especially in our early years. She was a gifted writer, as she demonstrated during her 30 years as a columnist for the Walker County Messenger. She chose the Care Mission as her topic in her June 21, 2006 column. A framed copy hangs in Kendra’s office. Mary was able to capture the essence of our ministry. Moreover she proved her words to be sincere. Over the next several years she volunteered faithfully at the Care Mission. While we always appreciated her help, it was her kind words that were most valuable to us. Mary is another of the many Godly individuals God has placed in our lives, who have gone before us. We are so grateful for them all.
God continues to faithfully provide. In June we assisted 790 households, the second most we’ve ever assisted in one month. God has kept our shelves, cooler, and freezers well stocked. And He has provided enough help for us to serve those He’s sent to us. Sometimes just enough, but enough nonetheless. We are thankful for all who give their time and talent to serve God by serving others through the work at the Care Mission Food Pantry, but we give God all glory because we know He is ultimately the source of our help (Psalm 12:1, 2).
Our Second Sunday Fellowship is held at the Care Mission on the second Sunday of each month at 5:00. Please join us as we praise God through prayer, song, and the Word of God.
Please keep in your prayers; our Board of Directors, our volunteers and supporters, our clients, our national and local leaders, the Body of Christ, the lost, those who serve, and those bound by fear. And pray that God will pour into us His discernment, wisdom, grace, and mercy. So we may lead well.
Food for thought;
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7
It has been more than two years since the China Virus first circled our globe leaving COVID chaos in its wake. So what, if anything, have we learned?
Well, while the COVID Pandemic was a source of much death and destruction, it is now clear that the fear of, and the reaction to, the pandemic was far more deadly, far more destructive. Blame whomever you wish for the fear generated, there’s plenty of blame to go around.
The questions we must ask ourselves as Christians are; how did we allow fear to overwhelm us? How did we allow ourselves to be so manipulated by those who clearly do not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior? Why did we give those with a spirit of fear so much authority over us? Where were the voices with God given authority, power, love, and sound mind? Where were the Godly voices of reason?
To be fair there were some Godly individuals who spoke up. But not nearly enough. And certainly not enough Godly men. Not that Godly women have no responsibility to speak up, by all means they do. But clearly God as designed and appointed men, Godly men, to lead the way. Men of God are called to stand in the gap against evil. This isn’t sexiest. This is God’s design.
The greatest crisis we have in America today is the shortage of men willing to be men. Society needs Godly men to act like Godly men. To be fathers. To be brave. To be bold. To be strong in Christ.
Father’s Day just past. If you weren’t looking for it you would’ve missed it. But not the PRIDE parades all across our nation. Corporations painted rainbows on their products. Celebrities, the Boy Scouts, and even some “churches” fell in line with their rainbow flags. Who needs fathers anyway? We got PRIDE.
Our children need fathers. All children need a father. And a Godly father all the more. Society suffers when men aren’t men. Women suffer. Children suffer. Many women have been forced to be a single parent, more than at any other time in history. And some have done wonderfully. But. Women cannot be fathers. Men cannot be mothers. Women cannot be men. Men cannot be women. This is not complicated. Not political. Not hateful. It is Biblical. It is by design. It is loving. It is obvious. We will see what we have learned when the next crisis arises. And it will. We should expect secular minded Americans to be controlled by fear as always. But let’s hope and pray that those Americans that call themselves “Children of the Most High God” will act like it next time.
Thanks and be blessed,
Deon and Kendra