How true!
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
Are we too soft on our kids in church?
A man in Baltimore is facing arrest after he stabbed his son in the buttock for not taking his hat off in church. The stabbing occurred on Sunday in central Baltimore, after the father and son got into a row over the son's failure to remove his headgear. According to police reports, the 58-year-old father ended the row by leaving the scene, going to his car to fetch a knife, then returning and stabbing his son in the left buttock. The 19-year-old was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center to have his injuries treated. The father was not identified in reports, as has not been arrested yet.
Some people are just naturals!!
What a great children's story and what an awesome cast! Thank you to the cast of the Panto and our church robber, ahh, I mean treasurer for helping out! Don't click the picture unless you want to see Chris going beyond the call of duty with his method acting!
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| From Church of the Nazarene Broadwalk Knowle Park Bristol BS4 2RD |
Psalm 27:10
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me.
Shrove Tuesday - Pancake Day
Delia Online!!
Ingredients
For the pancake mixture:
110g/4oz plain flour, sifted
pinch of salt
2 eggs
200ml/7fl oz milk mixed with 75ml/3fl oz water
50g/2oz butter
To serve:
caster sugar
lemon juice
lemon wedges
Raisens!!!!
Method
Sift the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl with a sieve held high above the bowl so the flour gets a airing. Now make a well in the centre of the flour and break the eggs into it. Then begin whisking the eggs - any sort of whisk or even a fork will do - incorporating any bits of flour from around the edge of the bowl as you do so.
Next gradually add small quantities of the milk and water mixture, still whisking (don't worry about any lumps as they will eventually disappear as you whisk). When all the liquid has been added, use a rubber spatula to scrape any elusive bits of flour from around the edge into the centre, then whisk once more until the batter is smooth, with the consistency of thin cream. Now melt the 50g/2oz of butter in a pan. Spoon 2 tbsp of it into the batter and whisk it in, then pour the rest into a bowl anduse it to lubricate the pan, using a wodge of kitchen paper to smear it round before you make each pancake.
Now get the pan really hot, then turn the heat down to medium and, to start with, do a test pancake to see if you're using the correct amount of batter. I find 2 tbsp is about right for an 18cm/7in pan. It's also helpful if you spoon the batter into a ladle so it can be poured into the hot pan in one go. As soon as the batter hits the hot pan, tip it around from side to side to get the base evenly coated with batter. It should take only half a minute or so to cook; you can lift the edge with a palette knife to see if it's tinged gold as it should be. Flip the pancake over with a pan slice or palette knife - the other side will need a few seconds only - then simply slide it out of the pan onto a plate.
Stack the pancakes as you make them between sheets of greaseproof paper on a plate fitted over simmering water, to keep them warm while you make the rest.
To serve, spinkle each pancake with freshly squeezed lemon juice and caster sugar, fold in half, then in half again to form triangles, or else simply roll them up. Serve sprinkled with a little more sugar and lemon juice and extra sections of lemon.
Fairtrade Fortnight 2009 (but why not threehundredandsixtyfivnight?)
Thousands of events from banana-eating competitions to fashion shows will take place across the UK over the next two weeks to encourage more people to buy Fairtrade and support farmers in the developing world.
Organisers of Fairtrade Fortnight, the Fairtrade Foundation, say that the credit crunch is making it even more difficult for poor families to cope with rising global food costs and even more vital that people buy Fairtrade.
“The Fairtrade Foundation’s message for Fairtrade Fortnight 2009 is that, while sales of Fairtrade products and awareness of Fairtrade has been growing apace in recent years, change is still not happening nearly quickly enough for the millions of the world’s poorest farmers who remain trapped in trade poverty,” said Harriet Lamb, CEO of the Fairtrade Foundation.
“The challenge now is to urgently scale up the reach and impact of Fairtrade so that by working together, we can succeed in tipping the balance of trade in favour of marginalised farmers and producers. Fairtrade Fortnight is an opportunity for us all to do something too by holding events at work, at home or in the community.”
The sale of Fairtrade products currently benefits 7.5 million farmers, workers and their families who live in impoverished rural communities in the developing world.
Over the next two weeks, debates on trade, climate change and ethical shopping will be held in Oxford, Cardiff, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Leeds. The Great Trade debates will explore the various issues in relation to marginalised farmers and workers and the role that Fairtrade is playing.
In addition, more than 20 farmers from Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and St Lucia will visit schools, businesses and community groups across the UK to explain more about the impact Fairtrade is making on global poverty.
Staff at the headquarters of the United Reformed Church are supporting Fairtrade Fortnight by taking part in a worldwide banana-eating event which will see Fairtrade producers and supporters all around the world will eat bananas on Friday 6 March.
The URC’s Commitment for Life programme coordinator, Linda Mead, said the effort would highlight the plight of banana growers and show the Church’s support for the Fairtrade Foundation’s campaign to see the number of fairly traded bananas bought in the UK double by 2012.
“The trade has made big profits for banana companies, but this has declined rapidly. Most profit is now made at the top of the supply chain by increasingly powerful supermarkets. They squeeze farmers and plantation workers. A series of bitter battles between supermarkets has made conditions in the mainstream banana industry miserable,” she said.
“Fairtrade challenges these injustices, strengthens the position of marginalised farmers and workers and enables them to earn enough for today to invest in a better tomorrow.”
On the web: www.fairtrade.org
Interesting News
Ex-'hired killer' to ... 'man in a dog-collar'
Fri Feb 20 05:14PM
In the Vietnam war movie Full Metal Jacket, the bespectacled "Private Joker", played by Matthew Modine, is asked why he joined the US Marines. "I wanted to travel to foreign countries, meet interesting people and... kill them," he said.When I came to Baghdad last month and people asked me why I had come, I steered clear of the "interesting people" line.After five weeks in Iraq, however, I'd concede that such people are what makes the job most worthwhile.A few days ago, while interviewing people for a story on a women's charity, I met a man called Jusuf Bardilian, Father Jusuf Bardilian, in fact.A born-again Christian, he wanted to tell me his story, and what a story it was.As a young man in the 1970s he had lived what he said was 'a bad life', punctuated by alcohol, women and misdemeanours.Today, the smartly-dressed, rather rotund 56-year-old wears a dog-collar, and ministers to a congregation in the Dura district of Baghdad.I was interested to discover what had brought about the change."I was a hired killer," he told me, a response that stunned several people in the room and caused my interpreter to jump almost off his seat.He explained that one day in 1974 he had, for no apparent reason, entered a church, "felt the presence of God" and "experienced his power as if it was magic."The man had found faith and decided to follow God's will from then on, joining the church and eventually becoming a priest.Fast forward nearly 30 years. The toppling of Saddam Hussein, while welcomed by some, brought instability and lawlessness and saw fierce fighting between the country's rival Sunni and Shiite militias.Christians were targeted, and Jusuf, one of fewer than a million Christians in Iraq, was kidnapped, his church destroyed and his house ransacked.Eventually, a $12,000 ransom saw him freed. He declined to explain exactly who had paid. But, looking me in the eye with an intensity befitting a man who has suffered such an experience, he said it had only made his faith stronger."There is great pressure on Christians to leave the land of Iraq and go to Syria, Lebanon or Sweden and other European countries," he said."We say about Saddam that he was a dictator. But Christians did not suffer during Saddam's time as we are suffering now," he added, explaining that they had been allowed to live their lives as long as they obeyed the regime.To hear such talk may sound strange to some, but his words seemed sincere to me. Perhaps this is the reality of life in Baghdad -- a country at war, but not at war, and a people who live together, but don't.To a newcomer in Iraq though it was a reminder that wars affect individuals in different ways, uniquely to each, not all the same way.
"I am without a church but I am a servant. Each of us have our faith and I must serve God in my community," he said.
DL Moody - Love
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; patience is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and self-control is love in training.
D.L. Moody
Galations - Love
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
Will the real "Prawo Jazdy" please stand up
Irish police have solved the mystery of a Polish recidivist who clocked up 50 traffic offences on different addresses and who was never caught, after one officer noticed his name meant driving licence in Polish.
An internal police memo cited by Irish papers on Thursday said officers taking details of Polish traffic offenders had been mistakenly using "Prawo Jazdy," printed in the top right corner of the driving licence, as the holder's name.
"Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence," the police memo dated June 2007 said. "It is quite embarrassing to see the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities."
A police spokesman declined to comment on the reports.
About 200,000 Polish people flocked to Ireland during the boom years of its "Celtic Tiger" economy but a poll in November indicated a third of them planned to leave due to recession.
Can't argue with that!
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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