the lone ranger-ette

She lives in her own little world...

Lest we forget...

Colossians 1:21-23

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.

But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel.

This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

bees!

Hey all -- sorry bout bein so quiet. I/we have shifted more to facebook which is a bit more private. Feel free to send friend request to John Schwartz, Portland OR.

Hived some bees today. :)

Psalm 1

1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

4 Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.

5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

schwartz fam '09

our God is great!

Here's a great story from a guy in our church body today. I was really blessed by it!

Hi Everybody,

A really amazing thing happened today that I just wanted to share with you.

This morning a truck pulled into our ministry with a donated load of flour. It was a load that was promised a while back but never came(I had kind of forgotten about it). After we unloaded it I wondered who we could send it to. Flour is not something that we get too often.

When I got back to my office there was an email waiting for me. It was from a ministry in No. Korea that runs a bread factory which feeds orphans. They feed 4,000 children a day a least 1 slice of bread. They asked me if I knew where they could get some flour! They said that they were desperate, that they were having to buy flour in No. Korea and it is unbelievably expensive, and that China has stopped the exporting of flour. When I read that I was overwhelmed at how good our GOD is! He knew of their needs before I did and he met it!

I got very excited and send her an email back telling her the great news. The first line I put in my email was "Our GOD is Great!" I called her right away and I told her about what happened, she screamed and cried. She had not receive my email yet- the first words out of her mouth were "Our GOD is Great!". Now I don't know about you, if you find this experience as amazing as I do. I hope so.

I write this to encourage you. I know these are hard times for all of us, but always remember that Our GOD is Great!!!! He will never leave you nor forsake you. The same GOD that is watching over those orphans in Korea is the same GOD that is watching over you.

My prayer is that this year you would experience His love in ways that you never have before. We pray that you will be blessed.

Have a wonderful and Blessed New Year!

Eric for the family