Now I know that many do not go back and read the comments posted from an original post, so I am transfering Pastor Al's comments for ALL to read.......
al said...
I'd love to know who all of those that are putting comments in would let it be known who they are because I would like to visit them and thank them for their kind words and prayers.
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Dear Pastor Al,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Kathi. You don't know me, but I am a part of the Kingdom Roadhouse mailing list. I am a friend of Liz Collins and Pete Boglino (Heavenbound). I just wanted to let you know that I have been praying for you throughout your recovery and am so glad to hear that things are going better!
Al, glad to hear you are doing great. You can say hello when you get back to work. Miss the gingle of the keys.
ReplyDeleteKim (kp)
Al,
ReplyDeleteYou can stop by the com center to say hello, when you are back at kidspeace.
Linda
NEED A NEW T-SHIRT...
ReplyDeleteANONYMOUS...NO SUCH WORD
GOD KNOWS ALL AND SEES ALL...
AND REWARDS ALL!!!
SEEING YOU UP AND AROUND IS THANKS ENOUGH.
OR IS IT SEES AL???
Hey, Al,
ReplyDeleteSent my stuff in as anonymous, 'cause that's the easiest way to comment here. Cindy D here from "Pastor Dan and Cindy in Ashland" We've had about 5 churches around here praying for you - our church and the churches of all my Bible Study group (12 there, I think 5 churches besides mine.) Dan has prayed with his prayer partner about you - there's another person, and that man's a pastor. I'm also the one who sent Molly to see you at Good Shepherd. Hope she got a chance to meet you.
We came to see you the week of the accident, but have not been able to get down there since, but have kept up on the blog. Thanks Mitch for keeping such constant updates!
No need to visit us, as you say in this "request", but I have to let you know of something we were thinking about when we first got this church. We thought of asking you to arrive on your bike in your grubbiest clothes just to see how our traditional type congregation would react - to see what kind of a welcome you would get coming in on a Sunday morning. He was thinking of making a sermon about how they treat others who are different from themselves. (We're in an area where they all have known eachother from birth - or at least since kindergarten!) Thought you'd get a kick out of that!
Anyway, we've prayed for you.
Dan & Cindy DeSchoolmeester
Hey Al,
ReplyDeleteMike and I were thinking about you ever sinced your accident and i would come on Mitch's website to get the updates on you and Mitch you did a great job keeping everybody up to date. Al we are looking forward to seeing you again. You are missed at kidpeace. We hope to see you soon. Take care Mike and Sally
Hi AL here is todays daley bread I thought of you right away.
ReplyDeleteSeptember 8, 2009
Comforted To Comfort
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READ: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
[God] comforts us . . . that we may be able to comfort [others] with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. —2 Corinthians 1:4While speaking to a group of Christian athletes, I asked them how they normally responded to hardships. Their responses included fear, anger, self-pity, aggression, despair, abusive behavior, apathy, and turning to God. I encouraged them to trust that God would comfort them and then use them to comfort others.
Just as I encouraged those athletes, Paul encouraged a group of believers in a town called Corinth. He reminded them that afflictions were inevitable for the follower of Jesus. Many were being persecuted, imprisoned, and oppressed—all because of their relationship with Jesus. Paul wanted the Corinthians to know that in the midst of their trouble God was their source of help. He would come to their side and help them to have godly responses. Then Paul gave one of the reasons God allowed suffering and brought divine comfort—so that the Corinthians might have the empathy to enter into other people’s sorrow and comfort them (2 Cor. 1:4).
When we suffer, let us remember that God will bring comfort to us through His Word, by the Holy Spirit, and through fellow believers. God does not comfort us so that we’ll be comfortable; we are comforted by God so that we might be comforters. — Marvin Williams
When you receive God’s comfort,
Be sure to pass it on,
Then give to God the glory
From whom the comfort’s drawn. —Hess
When God permits trials, He also provides comfort.
Sory Al forgot the scripture http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+1:3-11
ReplyDeleteHi Al
ReplyDeleteSharon R from work :). I miss you at HQ and I'm looking for a "sighting." ha ha God Bless you! The place is not the same without you.