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I recently had the privilege of accompanying my Sunday School class to Newgate Mission in Longview, TX. It had been a long time since I had been to rescue mission/homeless shelter, and I wasn’t at all disappointed by what I found. While it is always staggering the amount of grace and love that abounds in such places, it really shouldn’t be a surprise at all, considering the example and life of our Lord Jesus Christ. As the director Kent McKeever preached on the Samaritan Woman at the well, I found myself both in awe and transfixed by the simple message of love and grace in action. Also on point and something I hadn’t ever considered was “why was the woman at the well around the 6th hour? (that’s Noon for all of us in the US as the Jewish day started at 6:00AM approximately. This would have been an unusual time to be drawing water at the well, it was mentioned that custom and convenience would have seen the community come to the well around 9:00AM before the full heat of the day had struck. It would seem that this particular Samaritan was not only an outcast from the Jewish people but also her own community, at least that is one possible explanation, although we just don’t know for sure.
What we do know is that Jesus crossed those barriers and spoke to her heart, not only transforming her life but the life of that community.
John 4:42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; *now* we have *heard* for ourselves, and we *know* that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
Transformation from the inside out. . . Newgate is about that type of transformational hope and love spoken into broken lives. . .
Have you served at your local mission? If not check out these in East Texas and Shreveport Louisiana
http://www.newgatemission.org (Newgate Mission Longview, TX) http://hiway80mission.org (Highway 80 Rescue Mission Longview, TX) http://www.sbrescuemission.org (Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission Shreveport, LA)
In His Service, Glenn

An April Fairy Tale:

Once upon a time in a land not so far away whose sky sparkled with glittering diamonds at night and whose mornings were filled with techno colored sunrises and sunsets, there lived a princess. This princess’ focus was divided between the pursuit of truth and maintaining her kingdom and caring for its inhabitants. Life was calm and peaceful when she ruled wisely and chaos immeasurable when she grew lax.
One day while doing her routine maintenance check on the castle itself, she came across an imprisoned frog. It was the color of new blades of fresh spring grass. It eyes were like amber cat’s eye marbles. It’s gaunt belly as white as new fallen snow.

The frog was kept by the king and the house’s wizard, she assumed for the study of it’s’ song. When the princess looked in, the living conditions of the amphibian were far less than adequate. It was in need of so many things- food, water, light. It couldn’t sing because it was in great need. The princess being unsure of what to fill the needs of the singing frog sent a courier of light to the king who was out on the field of battle. “What, sire, do I do to meet the needs of the imprisoned singing frog?” Apparently, the king was in the midst of a harsh battle and could not promptly respond.

The princess felt the need of the frog weighing on her heart wearily. He was part of her kingdom. He was living. He needed. So she went to the wizard’s study and began research. It would appear that a distant relative of the frog lived imprisoned near him in the study. It was a slim anole who changed color like the grey sky before a prairie storm to a shiny green of English ivy. It licked its small black blinking eyes. Its egg shell colored belly was plump and it was absorbing the warmth of an artificial sun. The princess could hear the mimicry of violin songs from its food source still waiting to be found. The princess reasoned that if one amphibian at that food, surely its cousin could as well.
Carefully, for king and country, the princess lifted the lid of the prison. The frog weak as it was barely flinched. Taking a deep breath, having never handled a frog like this before, she slowly, speaking soft pleasant musical words explained who she was and her intent. She told the frog of the wondrous place he was to be relocated to and the milk and honey lifestyle he would soon enjoy as opposed to the puny ivy, cold potting soil, and lack of resources he now found himself in. She asked him if he wouldn’t love to relocate to another portion of the kingdom prepared for him and his kind where there would be abundance and a chance to sing again. She looked kindly into his small yellow black eyes. Reaching toward him, she gingerly took him in her hand. He was icy and slightly sticky. He did not move or fight. She took him out of his chamber and lifted the lid to the lizard’s apartment and carefully began to lower the frog inside.
Then he peed all over her hand and she dropped him into the tank and dropped the lid running to the bathroom to wash her hand! It was beyond disgusting.

Welcome to my world!You can not have tons of compassion for musical frogs apparently.
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(I thought this was absolutely hilarious and thought it would be a nice change of pace. . . If you like it stick around, leave a comment. . . I’m attempting to convince her to blog full time on her own site too! )

BTW: This is an excepted written work all rights are reserved by the original author or authors:

Hi There! Well I haven’t written much or actually nothing about this but I’m an Google Adsense Publisher. I accept Google ads on this site mainly in the 404 but some refer els are around, and run Contextual Ads on my Niche site www.findwirelessinternet.info I began to accept Adsense as an experiment to see if I could re-coup the domain cost and a part of my hosting. And so I began tentatively and slowly in March 2007. I found it to be really rough going at first, a kinda black hole of expectation. Every day, sometimes multiple times a day browsing over to adsense.google.com and looking to see if I had any earnings. But for a time almost nothing. . . Ahh but patience, research and a good niche make up for a lack of well . . . anything. But I kept plugging away. Here are some of the steps I took to break the $100 barrier, it took a quite a while for me but there it is:

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2. Read the Adsense Blog http://adsense.blogspot.com/
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Hello to my friends and readers who may have stumbled upon my blog. I wanted to write about the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project. This project is headed by Nicholas Negroponte the author of ‘Being Digital’ Being Digital, which is one of the several sources for the project’s mission.
The Goal as related from http://www.laptop.org/en/vision/index.shtml

“Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. read more”
So why do I agree with this assessment and project, because I believe people matter. I believe people of every nation tongue and tribe deserve to be empowered and encouraged and have the opportunity to educate themselves. This project isn’t about the technology or the laptop, the laptop is a doorway to interconnectedness and amazing opportunities for these young children around the world to find a way to learn, grow and play that they probably have never experienced before.
Do I believe technology is a cure all? (Absolutely not!) Do I believe that these children will be completely immune to the dangers inherent in an interconnected life? (Unfortunately Not! Human nature lends to exploitation and evil far to often Rom 3:23) Do I believe the potential benefit outweighs the costs and potential dangers? Absolutely, there is something about connectedness and learning that opens the mind to possibilities unimaginable before. This technology isn’t about the computer, although it is amazing!
Did you know that each one of these laptops doesn’t even require an electrical outlet? ( A foot powered pedal provides power without the electric outlet) In addition their built in Mesh Networking device allows interconnected Laptops to piggy back off each other and connect to the Internet from any other connected laptop!
Well that’s about all for OLPC for now, why don’t you check it out and if you are ready to give or to get goto http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php Glenn

Have you recently found yourself the center of attention? Did Stumbleupon, Technocratica and Delicious all tag your blog as a mecca of information for the masses. Did your traffic spike beyond levels that would make any reasonable server and host pull out their hair?

Here are 3 easy tips to help get you out of this mess!

1. De-activate ALL other plugins! (If you can get to the Wordpress Plugin Control Panel choose the “Deactivate All Plugins” from the options at the bottom. If you can’t get to the control panel but can still access FTP, you can move your plugins to a new subdirectory, this will deactivate them in WordPress.

2. Re-enable or Install WP-Cache2 (Preferably before the Storm)

3. Call Your Host and Ask for Mercy! ( ) All joking aside if you see you are spiking from an article and Digg and other Social Media are catching on, contact your host, and try to avoid the dreaded “THIS ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED!” Message.

Hope this has been very useful information. This may help in your case or it may not, but it is definitely worth a shot, in any case! Don’t try to go it alone. If you find yourself in the middle of a storm and would like some advice feel free to email glenn@interfaithnetworking.com!

Thanks for the tags and keep blogging. . .

Glenn