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“Let the redeemed of the Lord say so …” (Psalms 107:2)
Power,
Redemption,
Affirmation,
Inspiration,
Sanctification,
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Volume 5 Issue 1
March 2004 |
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THE ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
The
Servant Team – Leaders:
Tom Meadows, Ruth
Johnson, Ivan Pope, Delois Maddox, Ralph Brown, Roy Campbell and
Jackie Hager
Richard Hatcher,
Emeritus
The
Twelve Disciples – Prayer Team
Deborah Whitener, George Foreman, Ivan Pope, Janet Taylor,
Juanita Langley, Margie Jasper, Denise Warren, Karen Page, Pam
Barden, Ronnie Waddell, Deedre Dickerson and Tee Williams,
Love
Fund Coordinator:
Mary
Tinnell
Newsletter Staff:
Sandra Witherspoon and
If you would like a copy of this
newsletter, contact Tom Meadows and give him your home and/or
e-mail address. The Newsletter staff is always looking for roving reporters, writers and publishers. Anyone interested in serving God through this publication, please contact us. |
FROM THE SERVANT STAFF:
PRAISE
the Lord!!
Seeking In 2004 –
God Has A Presence
As John the revelator was in the presence of Jesus, our Lord
spoke these words. “And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.” Revelation 21:5
It is interesting in John Chapter 5 that Jesus was speaking to
the man at the pool at
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Seeking In 2004 –
God Has A Presence
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from page 1)
The Holy Spirit recently spoke these words into my heart.
“Pain without purpose is just pain.
Pain with purpose has promise.”
Sometimes we go through pain in order that He can mold
us. (Consider Joseph)
Sometimes we go through pain in order that God can touch
others through our faithful endurance of such pain. (Consider
Job) Sometimes we go through pain because God will be glorified
through it. (Consider the blind man in John 9)
Psalms 37:23
- The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way.
If you are walking through a season of pain then know
that it has a purpose and when that purpose is revealed then the
result has promise.
Revelation 21:4
- And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away.
Oh that God would do a work in us in order that He might do a
work through us.
Philippians 1:6
- Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a
good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Behold I make all things new.
By Tom Meadows
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Are You Available?
Hands Up Meetings
Tuesdays:
United
Christians of Alleghany Warehouse Company:
12:15 PM – 1 PM
“The Light” at Park
500: 12 PM – 1 PM
Wednesdays:
M/C “C” Shift:
2 AM – 3 AM
M/C “B” Shift:
7 PM – 8 PM
Thursdays (Noon – 1:00 PM):
Alternates between Operations Center, Finance Center and
Manufacturing Center
April 8th
– Manufacturing Center
April 15th
– Operations Center
Gateway Center
Coming Soon:
Hands Up Ministry
West Broad at the Corporate Office.
For this to happen God has to raise up a leader.
Pray, then pray some more.
The nucleus
of the group is moving there by the Hand of God.
PRAISE THE LORD
Hands Up Ministry held its first meeting at the Finance Center
on February 5, 2004.
This is a historical milestone in the building of God’s work at
PM through His favor.
We do not take for granted that God is glorifying Himself
by using His servants.
People need the Lord.
At the end of broken dreams
He
is the open door.
We are the light of the world
and we possess living
waters so that no man or
woman should walk in darkness or be thirsty for spiritual life.
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What does Hands Up mean to you?
I
thank and praise God for choosing me to be a part of the
Hands Up Ministry. I
thank Him for giving me an opportunity to be a part of this
ministry. I’m going
to be obedient to this ministry.
We
are where we are today with
Hands Up because of
the awesome price Jesus Christ paid and for Brother Tom Meadows
obeying the direction he received from the Lord at the Homestead
four years ago. I witnessed Tom standing before the group
without fear of man, and told everyone what God had put on his
heart and what he was going to do about it.
I
thank God for Tom’s obedience.
Because of this, God gave us favor with man to be able to
pray and fellowship during our lunch hour for the past four
years.
I
used to spend my Thursday lunches eating fried chicken, but now
I spend them praying, praising the Lord and fellowshipping with
Hands Up members.
In
order for us to accomplish all that God has planned and purposed
for us in our lives, we must present ourselves as living
sacrifices unto Him. We must do things God’s way and not our
way, so that we can receive the blessings of God.
God
has given us the Hands Up
Ministry so we would fulfill His purpose and His destiny.
Margie J. Jasper
We invite you to eat . .
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So What?? continued . . .
Being
a
part of the Hands Up prayer ministry has been a blessing in my
life. To stand with
the Lord and intercede for the needs of others is a
great privilege and honor.
The Lord called me into intercessory prayer several years
ago. I had gotten
away from this ministry until I answered the call to be part of
the Hands Up prayer team.
It is my prayer that in some way I can touch the people
on the Lord’s heart.
We are one body, and when one member suffers, we all
suffer. Jesus died
that we might have life more abundantly.
We can also rejoice in the Lord because He has done great
things in our midst.
Through prayer, we have witnessed spiritual growth,
healings, salvations, restorations, and the working of miracles.
If you have a need, the Prayer and Servant Team members
are here to serve you.
“May the Lord bless you and protect you.
May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you.
May the Lord show you His favor and give you His peace.”
Numbers 6:24-26
In
His service
Karen Page
We Invite you to pray…
“Therefore confess your sins to
each other and pray for each
other so that you may be healed.
The prayer of a righteous man is
powerful and effective.”
James 5:16
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“THE LIGHT UPDATE 1st
QUARTER 2004”
An Outreach Ministry of Hands Up
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PRAYER MINISTRY
Please pray for the following:
PMUSA Management
Fellow Co-workers
Hands Up Staff
Family & Friends
America
Pray for these needs:
Revival of God‘s people
An outpouring of the Holy Spirit
The Holy Presence of God
Workers for the harvest
Hands Up Meetings at Corporate
Hands Up Meetings at Cabarrus
Manufacturing Center “B” Shift Leader
1 Peter 5:7
"Cast
all your anxiety on him,
because he cares for you"
If you need prayer
contact Karen Page
and Margie Jasper or any
member of the Twelve Disciples or the Servant Team
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The Certain Presence
By Mona Eno
The fingers of a newborn baby
The family gathering when we mourn
The tears of joy at a wedding
The certain shelter from the storm.
The strength of a loving Father
The high ground in the flood.
There is nothing as real or as solid as
My invisible God.
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INVESTMENT FOR AN ETERNITY
By Tom Meadows
Tami Marshall has been my friend
and sister in the Lord for 27 years. Her mother Adeline
was both a mentor and Saint that God put in my life. Tami
played softball for me as a teenager. This past year Tami
took her first Work & Witness trip overseas with us to the
Dominican Republic and has since gone on this African Work &
Witness trip. God has multiplied many seeds sown in both
of our lives and I thought it would be great to share an article
written by one of Tami’s students.
As you read the article, I hope you might be moved by the
Holy Spirit to follow God's call to "Go Ye into all the world".
Catch the vision to serve others in another country.
I promise it will change your life.
There is a trip to the Dominican
Republic being discussed now for next spring. Please
contact me for more information if you are interested.
Miss
Marshall’s African Sojourn
By Lauren Alleyne
I had the
privilege of sitting down with Miss Tami Marshall and asking
about her trip to Africa.
Before she even left the ground, Miss Marshall had to put
out a lot of money to endure a whole lot of pain.
She had to go to the doctors and spend several hundred
dollars on shots that she had to have to go to certain parts of
Africa. She had to
get Typhoid, Jungle Fever, Hepatitis A and B shots, and take
Malaria pills.
I also found
out that Miss Marshall went on her trip for business and not for
all play. She and
her church group took the long trip to Africa for a work and
witness program.
The work and witness program is a program in which Miss Marshall
and her church group went to African Nazarene University and
helped turn offices into classrooms.
They also built sleeping quarters for workers at the
university; they did not want the workers in the dark and being
subjected to bandits, hyenas and other wild animals.
The volunteers worked twelve-hour shifts: 6 A.M. - 6 P.M.
and 6 P.M. - 6 A.M.
Having quarters to sleep in keeps them from having to walk home
late at night.
I asked Miss Marshall if
she took a Safari ride into the jungle, and she said they had
taken one for three nights. They slept in big, green army tents
that had hard concrete underneath them.
Their campsite was on the riverbank, and there were big,
beautiful trees as far as the eye could see, and there were tons
of monkeys hanging from the trees right above their heads.
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(African Sojourn continued)
On her wild
Safari trip, Miss Marshall saw all kinds of different animals:
an elephant, a leopard (that did not like their being there),
and cheetahs. Did
you know that cheetahs have holes they get into and you can only
see their heads?
They also saw a
lioness kill right after the attack.
The next day they saw the lions eating on the dead
carcass, and off to the side, jackals were waiting patiently
until the lion was finished so they could feast next.
The workers
also saw elephants, giraffes, lions, topi, gazelles, and hippos.
They saw a lonely male elephant.
He was very aggressive, and because he was, the pack had
left him all by himself.
Here’s a fact: Did you know that there are no tigers in
Africa? They are
all in India.
Miss Marshall
and her church group visited the Masai village.
This tribe is one of the largest tribes in Kenya. The
village they visited was on the outskirts of the Rift Valley.
The Masai people are very tall and very dark people; they
wear huge crocks and sticks in their ears for earrings.
The visitors had to pay
money to take a tour of the Masai village.
Their guide told them all about the village and took them
to a family’s house to show how they live.
The houses they live in are made of cow dung and sticks.
Masai people use animal dung for a number of things.
They also use elephant dung and two sticks to start their
fires with because elephants do not digest their food, so there
is much straw in the dung.
The doorways
are very small, and you have to duck to go in. Miss Marshall had
to sit on a very tiny bench made of a thin piece of wood.
As you walk in the front door, there is a little stable
for the baby animals to live in.
The Masai people let the animals live in their village
and their houses with them, and at night, they gather all the
animals up into this huge fence that they have built around
their village.
Masai men
believe in having more than one wife and family.
The husbands and wives do not sleep in the same bed or
even the same room. The wives sleep in a room with their
children. If the man is not home at a certain time, the wife
knows he is with his other family.
For their beds, they use
sticks and straw with a cowhide placed over the sticks.
If Miss Marshall or any of the members of the church
wanted to take pictures of any of the people that live in the
villages in Africa, they had to ask first because the people
believe that when the camera snaps, it takes their spirit away
from them.
While in
Africa, Miss Marshall and the church group ate at a place called
Carnivore. They served all kinds of game food.
For example, they had ostrich, crocodile meat, pork ribs,
parts of chicken, and any other gaming food you can think of.
Everyone ate the ostrich meat, and they said that they
loved it and that it tasted like sweet steak.
Did you know that
whatever a crocodile last eats, it will taste like that when you
eat it? In Miss
Marshall’s case, the crocodile meat tasted like fish. Luckily,
the crocodile had not eaten a human for his last meal.
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At the Foot of the Cross
Submitted by Sandy Witherspoon
Fearing the battle was over
and
I’d already lost the war,
I
was tired of trying and failing.
I
just couldn’t fight anymore.
So,
dragging my battle-scarred body,
I
crawled to the foot of the cross.
And
I sobbed, “Oh please, Father forgive me.
But
I tried . . . I tried . . . and still lost.”
Then
the air grew silent around me.
I
heard his voice just as clear as the dawn:
“Oh,
My child, though you are tired and weary,
you
can’t stop, you have to go on.”
At
the foot of the Cross, where I met Him,
At
the foot of the Cross, where He died,
I
felt love, as I knelt in His presence.
I
felt hope, as I looked in His eyes.
Then
He gathered me lovingly to Him,
as
around us God’s light clearly shone.
And
together we walked through my lifetime
to
heal every wound I had known.
I
found bits of my dreams, long forgotten,
and
pieces of my life on the floor.
But
I watched as He tenderly blessed them,
and
my life was worth living once more.
I
knew then why I had been losing.
I
knew why I had not grown.
At
the foot of the Cross came the answer:
I’d
been fighting the battle alone.
At
the foot of the Cross, where I met Him,
At
the foot of the Cross, where He died,
Then
I knew I could face any challenge
Together – just my Lord and I.
-
Marcia Krugh Leaser
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Springing Into God’s Word
By Sandra Witherspoon
Search for the words in the puzzle below.
Once all words
have been located, place the remaining letters/numbers
that were NOT used in a
word into the blanks below to
reveal God’s will for
your life.
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RENEWAL
BIRTH
SPRING
SOW
SEED
PLANT
FLOWER
ANT
GREEN
CULTIVATE
SUN
EYE
SEASON
RAIN
PRUNE
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