Our World

I just finished reading the post from Jim Daly's post of Not In My Shower regarding the laws changing in towns as to whether a man feeling his feminine side can go into a ladies restroom or visa versa. My mind wonders and tries to picture, what is in store for us as society seems to slip to new lows in our moral state. Thinking of my background and how I have been raised in the church, and knowing how the church has been in the past 30 years. I feel it is time we stand up as Christians and let our voice be heard.

I know, you are thinking, I can't do anything and my vote doesn't really count. Well pull your head out of the sand, and take responsibility for the future of your children, your grandchildren, and the future of the church. Get ready for a battle and let us all stand together and push forward for Christ.

You may ask, how can I get involved? First, call your local politicians, your senator, your congressman, and do whatever it takes to get involved. Second, call Focus on the Family at 1-800-A-FAMILY and get your voter registration toolkit for your church. The item number is X00413M and the brochure # is X00412M.

Please, let us all STAND TOGETHER for our FUTURE!

God Bless You.

J. Powell

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Recession Proof

On every one's mind seems to be the gas prices, rising food costs and the question, Is our economy in a recession or not? What about our future, what is going to happen with the war. Each one can come up with questions that seem to never end. There is one thing I know...I know who I have believed and am persuaded.

When your foundation is eternal and not of this temporal world, there is a bright outlook.
2Co 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Praise God for His eternal plan!

God bless and have a great day,

J. Powell

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New Life in the Air

Spring brings to us, who live in the "Chilly North" a sense of new life and some firsts for the new year. Just this week the yard was mowed for the first time, we have our windows open for the first time and feeling the nice breeze and hearing the wonderful sounds of spring. It is great seeing the buds on the trees, and the grass turning from brown to green.

All this brings to mind when you find a new truth in your devotions or something in your walk with Christ come afresh and anew. I know I need to be careful and not be giving a sermon on this blog, but it is so great to see new life. While we all have our ups and downs in our spirtitual walk, I want to say; it is great to feel as there is new life in my spirtitual walk.

Not only in my life, but in our church, in our ministries. God is doing great things, no all of them are not visible, but it seems to be felt underneath all. God is going to do something big and I am just thrilled to be part of God's plan. Keep looking up.....God is in control. If you don't know Christ, get with someone and hear about the "New Life" only He can give. If you don't have anyone you know, feel free to email me @ pastorpowell@netzero.net

From the Hills of WV,

J. Powell

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In a Whirlwind

I have become very delinquent in the posting of this blog again. We returned from Hobe Sound Bible College welcome week on Sat. before Easter. We have an enjoyable time and was able to steer one of our youth to the right people and they are planning to go to college to Hobe Sound next year. We are so happy to see young people following Gods leading.

We are starting up our skateboarding again this year and God gave us a good number Wed. evening. We had a total of 28 including our church youth present. We are in the midst of stepping up to the next level in this ministry. We are looking for picnic tables, donations to help with food, and expanding our concrete among several other things. If anyone would like to help out please email me at pastorpowell@netzero.net

Have a great day and we are looking forward to what God has in store for us this year.

From the Hills of WV,

J. Powell

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Going to the repair shop

Today I got to experience what I have heard from so many people at different times. You know, when there is something going wrong with your vehicle and you just can't exactly figure out what it is. We have had a noise for several month now with our van and today I finally went to get it checked out.
Well as you probably have guessed it, as I pulled up to the shop and got out I noticed it was a little quieter but I didn't really think to much about it. I went in and brought the mechanic out, opened the hood and he looked all around and found nothing making me look like a fool. Not that nobody thinks that anyway...ha ha. This just is another day in the crazy life of the Powell family. I just have to laugh, you always hear stories about this happening, but this is the first time it happened to me. The mechanic looked at me as if I was imagining things. Oh well, maybe if I have something happen on the way to Florida this next week, I can call and ask for a free tow.
I had better stop rambling, I hope all of you have a great day and if you are going to be at Hobe Sound Welcome Week, we will see you there.

From the Hills of WV,

J. Powell

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Heading to Florida

Its Monday and it is the typical feeling of any pastor....blah. We are scheduled to be in a meeting with one of our people today regarding their child and school. This year has seemed to be flying by and I know it will even get busier when it warms up. We are heading to Florida for welcome week in Hobe Sound and we will be sponsoring two youth. I am ready to thaw out a little.

As for the family, Pamela is busy trying to help the kids get caught up in school after being in Indiana for her grandfathers funeral and plus she is trying to get them ahead for the upcoming days from IHC. So as normal, our life is flying by, but I know that God is with us. Have a great day and God Bless.

From the Hills of WV,

J. Powell

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Its been a whirlwind

Hello again,

We just returned from Indiana from my wife's grandfathers funeral. It is amazing how life can change so quickly. It seems to me that 2008 has been quite a whirlwind so far. The great thing is that I know God is always with us. He has kept us safe and I thank him for that.

A couple weeks ago we went with some members of our church for a day, and while driving two different vehicles it seems only when we are with them, crazy things happen. I was leading the way and missed my turn. I pulled into a business real quick and turned around, and while doing this I hit the curb. It seemed to be no big deal, until we made it out to the interstate and that is when I realized I had a flat tire. Pulling to the side of the road, and of course it was raining I examined it and found I had scraped the tip of the valve stem thus the leaking, now flat tire. We put the donut spare on and made our way to a nearby Walmart. We were blessed with one that didn't have a tire change, so we made our way on over to K mart which we had the same result. We did finally find a Pep boys, but by the time we arrived there my spare was flat. It is great to just enjoy the experiences in life that we can look back on and laugh later. The funny thing of it is, the last time we were with the folks from my church, they had a flat tire. As I said, it seems something always happens when we are with them, but we just all laugh and continue on.

Enjoy your day.

From the Hills of WV,

J. Powell

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