George Muller

By Lisa Brewer Buffaloe

George Muller answered the call from the Lord to help poor children in England in the 1800‘s. He believed totally and absolutely in the power of prayer and the power of His Lord. Not once, did he tell anyone the needs for himself or the ministry—except God. There were many times grace was said over empty plates only to have food delivered before the prayer was finished.
Page after page of his personal journal reveal God’s daily, consistent, provision for every need—clothing, food, and shelter. Each and every need was met.

During his lifetime, without ever making a plea on the behalf of the needs of himself or the Lord’s work, eighty-two missionaries were supported, 4,000 Bibles were distributed, over 1 million tracts and portions of scriptures were handed out, 117 schools were established which educated over 120,000 children, and through the orphanages he cared for 18,000 orphans.
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TCP Challenge

By Aaron S. Harris

We are fortunate to count you as one of our many friends from around the world that believe in this ministry.  First, we want to thank you in advance for your positive support and prayers.  We recognize that the Thanksgiving holiday is not celebrated by everyone but, I’m sure you would agree that we all have much to be thankful for.  As your family gathers together for food and fellowship, I want to encourage you to think about the little things that impact your life every day.  To make things more interesting, we came up with the TCP Challenge (below).

We often take our blessings for granted in a rush to keep up with the Jones’.  It seems like our fast-paced world hardly allows us a moment of quiet time anymore.  So, this Thanksgiving, we want to challenge you to take time to Pause and consider just how blessed you really are.  No matter what your situation may be, you are truly blessed!  It does not matter, how big your house is, what kind of car you drive, or how many accomplishments you achieve.
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Lepers, Samaritans, and Cumbersome Wounds 2 of 2

By Jay Weldon

Remember the lepers mentioned in part 1 of this article?  I think that is where we find them on this afternoon.  They sit where they always sit, keeping their distance from any decent people.  They aren’t allowed to touch anyone, they cannot work, they are asked in effect not to love, and they can only beg.  And so they beg, as they watch their flesh eaten away, day by day, feeling more and more ostracized, feeling less and less like they matter.  On this day, they don’t matter.  Maybe once they did… until… that day when they started not to matter any more.  I don’t know if you and I can really identify with the pain that they felt, both physical and emotional, caused by an anomalous skin disease from antiquity, and maybe the sufferings of minorities and those in the third world today seem equally difficult for us to grasp.  Perhaps we cannot even see the wounds in the person sitting next to us, the years of abuse, the years of not mattering, the lifetime of self-hatred, of being asked not to love.  Maybe we cannot imagine that, but we can remember those days when our own lives seemed not to matter to anyone, and beginning in our own personal sense of pain we can begin to understand, and from there we can begin to practice understanding.
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Lepers, Samaritans, and Cumbersome Wounds 1 of 2

By Jay Weldon

Jeremiah 29:1-7; Luke 7:11-19

As a child, I can remember the story of the ten lepers, only one of whom returned to thank Jesus.  It was usually mentioned around Thanksgiving, or anytime they wanted to teach us to be more grateful!  I have recently reconsidered what meaning we find in this story, especially considering it as a part of the healing ministry of Jesus, as well as comparing it to some of the material we find in the Old Testament prophets.

My wife and I were recently on vacation in Ireland.  It was a celebration of having been married for one year—twelve months of enjoyment for me, and about seven and a half happy months for her.  We had been given a very generous gift, a voucher for a stay at a castle in the West of Ireland, which served as inspiration for our journey.  We drove the four hours required to get there from Dublin, through towns and villages, passing sheep and cows at every turn, remembering to stay on the left side of the road as we got caught up in the emerald scenery. 

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Winner or Loser – You Get to Choose!

By Dan Miller

I had a lot of fun with creative experiments while getting my graduate degrees in Psychology. Students are known for devising interesting experiments to test various human theories.  Here’s one:  A number of years ago, some students decided to use one of their friends as a guinea pig, to see if false suggestions could cause reactions in the body.

On the chosen day, the guinea pig left the dorm, suspecting nothing unusual. However, a friend greeted him with, “Good Morning, Chuck! How are you doing today? You look a little pale.” Seconds later another friend rounded the corner with “Chuck, are you feeling okay? You look a little sick!” A third friend greeted Chuck and said, “You really shouldn’t be out of bed! You look horrible!” Before the young man could get to his first class, he turned around, went back to the dormitory and fell into bed. He was in fact, sick.
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