Submitted by Sunset Alumni on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 00:32 from Omar and Tana Palafox, View Original Posting
La Libertad Church and their fellowship time
If we could imagine hearing this: "God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn't get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. And now I'm going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out"
Submitted by Sunset Alumni on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 16:03 from Omar and Tana Palafox, View Original Posting
Weeks have passed and the first month of the year is gone. Ministry has not been a routine for some time now. It is remarkable to realize that in God's kingdom we are moving forward every day to loving people, serving people, and to fight a broken world. In the summer of 2003 we started the process of moving to Leon. And since we started thinking and praying for Leon our prayers were very specific. And God answered every one of those prayers as he saw best. Today we praise His name for the work AIMers, missionaries, churches, and friends have done to achieve what we have now. See it is more than just baptizing people. (Although that is very necessary!) What we mean is that we are commanded to follow "and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." It is this part of the great commission where many missionaries have lacked commitment. Our trust in Jesus' words to build his church is key here.
Submitted by rondowney on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 11:40 from Ron Downey - Dean of Asia, View Original Posting
After a long journey and a short night in Manila we have arrived in Naga City. It certainly has been a place of Mabuhay…Welcome! Our journey began with the long flight from San Francisco to Manila via Seoul, Korea. We landed in Manila at midnight and got a quick 5 hours sleep before heading here to Naga City. Naga is the southernmost school our four in Luzon (the North Island of the three major island groups in the Philippines). It is a place of great beauty and fertile farm land. They grow mostly rice and plant and harvest it the old fashioned way…with hands and plows pulled by water buffalo. The Bicol region (like our counties) is also home to many volcanoes and mountainous areas.
Submitted by Sunset Alumni on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:05 from Zack Blaisdell, View Original Posting
Greetings everyone! I want to say something, if that’s OK.
I’ve been reading a lot the past few days of friends who are indebted to Dr Charles Siburt. He’s been sick for a long time. He could be near the end of his life. His family and friends have picked today to pray and fast for him, to plead with the Great Physician God to heal him.
I have heard him speak at least once and read a book or two that he wrote or edited. This man is a great servant of God, teacher, and mentor. Dr Siburt and his wife live in Abilene. They have two sons, both of whom have families of their own now.
Submitted by Sunset Alumni on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 20:28 from Zack Blaisdell, View Original Posting
Greetings everyone! I just read a story earlier today about a couple who are in the process of adopting a child overseas. That is just amazing to me. My family and I have friends who have adopted children from the same country as this couple.
These couples (and lots of others as well) have physically adopted children. Some are from overseas and some are from the United States. This touches my heart in a tremendous way. Definitely praying for these families.
While these adoptions are physical in nature, our heavenly Father, God has also adopted us spiritually speaking. The apostle Paul told his readers (and us also) in Romans and Galatians that God has spiritually adopted us, that we have this adoption as His sons and daughters.
These families who have adopted these children have granted a father to the orphaned and abandoned. That is such a beautiful thing! God also has given all who follow Jesus a Father and an advocate.
Submitted by Trey_M on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 14:47 from Trey Morgan, View Original Posting
Dump Day 2012 is three months from today (May 2nd). For the past three years we’ve helped raised money for the ministry that takes place at the dump in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Dump Day 2012 is necessary to replenish the dump fund because the dump fund provides…
Submitted by Sunset Alumni on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 20:04 from Nick Perez, View Original Posting
“See you tomorrow.” “See you next week.” “See you next time.” We say these things so effortlessly and (sometimes) thoughtlessly. We take for granted that we will be alive to see so-and-so tomorrow, next week, next time. Someone has said, “Man proposes, but God disposes.” James addresses the thoughtlessness of first century Christians who assumed too much. Since they made such a grand assumption, they became arrogant and over-confident in self. This section of Scripture “prohibits an arrogant, boastful attitude that neglects to take into account the transitoriness of this life” (Moo 153). James’ typical style is to ask pointed questions. In honor of that, the following outline is presented in question format.
James 4.13-17 (ESV)
13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—
14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
