We each have many gifts, gifts that can be used for good and gifts that can be used for other purposes. Lately I have been thinking a lot about gifts and what it means to use my gifts and why it is sometimes so difficult to use them and not hide them. So first things
Category: ministry
I know this blog seems to be filled with references to songs, I can’t help it, one of the way that God speaks to be is through songs. I have had this song playing in my head for awhile which means it is also usually playing on my ipod or phone because I just have
Remember those old hymns that the church has gotten away from. I know some of you remember the old red back hymnals. I know many contemporary churches have since wandered far from these old hymns and some have looked down upon these hymns as not reaching the lost anymore and not worshipping. However, the words
The past few months have been full of changes. People have been moving away and new people have been coming in. As much as it has become normal for these changes, I still seem to hate change. When the first group moved away it was difficult and as others have left it seems more and
The past couple of weeks there have been so many thoughts flying through my mind. It seems as though when I was visiting Panama blogging just was so much easier to do and then I came back to Michigan and all my motivation to write had disappeared. I have decided that I need to make
This morning as I was reading in Isaiah 6 I had to stop. I reached the point where Isaiah is calling out that he is an unclean man and has unclean lips. 5“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of
The battle is on. What battle you may ask, there are a lot of things we are fighting for and against right now, its hard to keep them straight. But there is one battle we as a culture are losing each day. That is the battle for the children and teenagers. I know they may
Today at church our choir sang the song, Order My Steps and something just seemed so right. In a season in our church of so much change, remembering that our prayer should be that God orders our steps. Big changes have been occurring in the last six months and I know that there are more
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”New King James Version (NKJV)
Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
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Some of you that know me and what I do know that I am a foster care social worker. For those who don’t now you do. I have been working in the field of child welfare (foster care) since October of 2007. It seems crazy to me how time has flown by working in this field but one thing remains. No matter where you are the need for foster and adoptive parents is great. I have some friends that have become foster and adoptive parents along the way and I salute them. But the call, the ministry is still in need of laborers.
Now I know that some of you are thinking what is she talking about? Ministry? Yes, I said ministry and this is one that is close to the Lord’s heart.