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One of the most important principles of the activities of WALTER Construction since its inception has been the careful attitude to the interests of society. Fully justifying the status of a socially responsible company, WALTER Construction aims to support such areas of public life as sports, culture, education, science.
TERRITORY OF GOOD BUSINESS!
According to the goal, we are creating a world of unique and large-scale industrial facilities, while #the Walter team is always ready to do small good deeds!
Last week in the residential area “Novoznamensky” we held a # peppy community work day and restored the children's playground, updated the cover, planted trees, set up a sandbox and a bench.
According to the reviews of the employees of the fitness center in the territory of which we carried out the work, the children are delighted!
#DariDobro and it will return to you!
An article about us was posted on the website of the Administration and the City Council of Krasnodar, read the link:
Church of St. Nicholas.
Church of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of the World of Lycian, Wonderworker
Bakhchisaray, Komsomoltsev Podpolshchikov street, 9
Rector: Priest Stefan Linsky
Schedule: daily from 9:00 to 16:00
Currently, there are 30 churches in the Bakhchisarai deanery, however, in the Soviet post-war period, only one remained open for worship in the Bakhchisarai region - the church of St. Nicholas. This temple is a continuation of the history of St. Nicholas Cathedral, built in 1798 (1799) by the Greek diaspora. During the war, the Cathedral was destroyed. After this, a living room was adapted for the temple, which dates back to the end of the 40s of the XX century. Over the years, the Church of St. Nicholas has become native not only to residents of Bakhchisarai, but also to many residents of Sevastopol and other villages who continue to come here to pray, be baptized, and get married.
In order to attach to the relics of St. Nicholas, you do not need to fly to Italy or stand in kilometer-long queues. Come to Bakhchisaray! WALTER Construction provides assistance in the reconstruction and construction of a new church.
I try to be not indifferent to what is happening in the world around me, I help those in need with joy and opportunity.
I support the Kuban Family Union of Large Families and help children with cancer.
More than a year ago, I learned about a baby with a diagnosis of stage 5 nephroblastoma with metastases in both lungs and my family and I decided to help him! The treatment was not easy for the child and his parents! More than five operations and more than ten chemotherapy sessions have been performed. Moving to different cities, sleepless nights, oceans of tears and shaken nerves for the sake of defeating the disease - the son’s recovery was not in vain! The kid got better!
Take care of your children !!!
More information about the child we helped on @pomosh__ilya
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I can not help but share another victory побед # Walterconstruction - we were able to make the lives of 300 children on the eve of #the new year happier and sweeter!
On the eve of good and magical holidays - I decided to traditionally support a charity event together with @kubanskaya_semya
and we helped fulfill the dreams of children who were looking forward to the New Year holidays.
Santa Claus gave the children magical and sweet gifts that they had been dreaming of for a year and a wonderful mood. ✨
I sincerely wish the children and their parents health, well-being and more joy in the upcoming 2019!
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I gladly supported the good initiatives of wonderful staff and volunteers @kubanskaya_semya
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Essential to the success of St. Pius X Catholic School is the partnership between educators and parents. This partnership is built on a foundation of mutual trust, respect, and honesty. When parents enroll their children at St. Pius X, they have certain expectations of the school, its teachers and administrators. St. Pius X has certain expectations of parents.
Parental Rights include:
- To have your children's safety be a priority.
- To have your children receive an academically sound education in a Catholic environment.
- To have your children taught by competent teachers who respect and care for them.
- To participate in the life of St. Pius X.
Parental Responsibilities include:
- To be a partner with St. Pius X in the education of your children.
- To understand and support the religious nature of St. Pius X.
- To read all communications from St. Pius X.
- To discuss concerns and problems with appropriate personnel.
- To be as actively involved as you can be in the life of St. Pius X and to volunteer assistance when possible.
- To meet your financial obligations in a timely manner and to support fundraising efforts.
Parents are encouraged to stay connected by using the tabs on this page, and visiting the school website often for the latest information.


Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Lent draws near and I feel it while wiping down the kitchen on a Monday night...unprepared. I start the dishwasher and leave the pots and pans drying on the counter before flopping down on the couch, exhausted. I'm not ready for Lent.
At 34 weeks pregnant, I'm not ready for this new baby. The crush of each day bears down on me and I hardly get my breath before another begins. But Lent ends right at my due date and I'm not ready for either.
In the past, I've given up sweets or coffee. I've focused on deeper, more frequent prayer, specific intentions, growing my faith. This year, I'm growing another person and in the midst of deep pelvis pain, sleepless nights and aching back, I can't seem to focus on anything else. When I hardly have the energy to live our very basic, simple life, I realize it: I don't have the energy for Lent this year. Babies, like faith, are easier when living on the inside, in a dark and secret place, held carefully and quietly. It's when they are on the outside that things begin to get tough.
Truth be told, it snuck up on me. Lent means more this year - it means forty short days before I am supposed to somehow be ready. Maybe that is what is so hard for me to acquiesce to...that it's time to slow down and accept. That it's time to draw in, to reach up. That, perhaps, is what God calls me to this year: it's time to settle in and prepare.
So for this Lent, I'm gestating. Growing a baby inside and using these 40 days to allow myself to rest there. The temptation to take it all on and dash from one thing to the next is strong with me, so my Lenten path will be to let it be, and fully be in the space that God has placed me at this moment in time. With every pop of my hip and ache of my back, I'll be reminded to pray gratitude for His sufferings and for the new life He gives.
Do you participate in Lent?
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First and foremost, "Happy Easter Readers! I hope you all will have a wonderful Easter." Elder Wehi didn't ask me to do a blog post based on Easter and that was okay with me.
I gave myself a few hours to 1 day to decide if I should go ahead and do a blog post or not. It came up to mind that I should go ahead and do a blog post based on Easter.
Before I read this week's update; I was hoping Elder Wehi will mention something about Easter such as the true meaning of Easter for this week's update. After I read this week's update; I felt a little disappointed but that's okay.
Readers, I hope you all will stay safe during this Easter Break and acknowledge the true meaning of Easter. If you don't know the true meaning of Easter, you can find out on
www.mormon.org website. Happy Browsing!
I encourage you to continue being patient with me and Elder Wehi for waiting each week for a weekly update. I really appreciate it and I am sure Elder Wehi appreciates it too. I do encourage you to always remember this as a few friendly reminders.
Those friendly reminders are; you can always facebook message me or email me to ask me for Elder Wehi's mission email and/or his mission home address. I will provide that information for you if you know him and he knows you.
I can't share those details to everyone because I don't want a stranger who doesn't know him to email him randomly and he will be surprised. He probably would ask how did that stranger got his email.
Stay Tuned until next time.


Beloved bearer of the light of God that Always Prevails,
we want to tell you something about the RITUAL OF THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, which we are carrying out in Argentina since 2017, with the loving accompaniment of our brothers and sisters from Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain and the United States. This year -2022- we are especially grateful to our sister Mariela who is going to take care of the technical part from Costa Rica.
We created it at the behest of Master Morya, who came to visit us on December 12, 2017 in a very special moment for us and told us new facts about the Three Wise Men. For us it was a before and after in the Heartscenter, because the personal love with which he spoke to us left an indelible mark on our consciousness, impelling us to do our part in the work of the Hierarchy to bring light to this planet.
These three wise men were High Initiates, astrologers, astronomers and alchemists who brought sacred gifts to the child God, prepared with all care. They put in the gold, frankincense and myrrh their whole being, which was part of their white magic and a true alchemy made with all the intention of helping the child Jesus in his mission as Christ, which they did from the moment of his birth until the end of his life on this earth.
We have to take the example of what the Three Wise Men did and every Christmas decide what gift we are going to give to the baby Jesus. We can put it in the tree along with the gifts to all our relatives, or we can precipitate through our minds, hearts and hands something that can help Christ in his mission. It can be a poem, a song or something created in the heart.
El Morya recommends having a small ritual offering something to the Christ child and the Holy Family. By doing this we honor the Three Wise Men and what they did, and we participate in their alchemy, recreating their sacred experience.
We celebrate Epiphany, the coming of the Three Wise Men on January 6. There are 12 days between Christmas and January 6. These are really the 12 days of Christmas. And if we so choose, we can do a ritual around the 12 lines of the clock, offering something on each line. By participating in this ritual we establish a foundation for the new year.
Of course, we offer our gifts to the Christ, but we also give them to all Humanity, because the Christ offers himself to all.
This was all part of what El Morya told us, through David, in December 2017. That same year we created this little ritual with:
- A prayer of thanksgiving for the coming of the Christ to earth.
- An invocation to the Hierarch of the day we are passing through in the Cosmic Clock.
- An Our Father
- A poem to the Christ Child
- A prayer of sealing
All tinged with songs from the Heartscenter.
Some time later David told us that thanks to our obedience to El Morya's suggestion, the Three Wise Men had been able to walk during those 12 days through Argentina and the world spreading their blessings.
Join us and bring your light and love during these 12 days of Christmas.
Receive our embrace and blessings for your life in this new year that is already at the doorstep.


There was, however, one obvious possible candidate: According to the Preface to the Spanish translation of the Gospel of Barnabas, Fra Marino – the monk who is said to have stolen the Pope’s copy of the Italian version – had subsequently embraced Islam. ‘If we can only prove that he did not really steal the Pope’s copy at all,’ we can see David Sox thinking, ‘but that in fact he actually wrote it himself – then we will have succeeded!’ Naturally this hypothesis would depend heavily on establishing beyond any doubt that not only the binding, but also the Italian manuscript itself was written between approximately 1580 and 1600 any proof of which is very conspicuous by its absence.
Of course, short of having access to an authentic and voluntary confession by Fra Marino, it would be impossible to ‘prove’ such a thesis, some four centuries after the alleged event, even ‘on the balance of probabilities’, and let alone ‘beyond any reasonable doubt’, – as David Sox in a roundabout way himself accepts, when he admits that ‘the reader is faced with a great amount of speculation’ in his book. However he nevertheless attempts the impossible, perhaps in the hope that, by at least raising this possibility and making it seem plausible, any version of the Gospel of Barnabas might as a result be sufficiently discredited not to be taken too seriously by anyone who happened to come across it.
We are accordingly presented with the fruits of David Sox’ s laborious searches through the official records for the period within which the Italian manuscript was probably bound to see if there is any mention of a Fra Marino who not only had the requisite talents to be able to produce such an interesting ‘forgery’, but who also would have had the necessary motive needed to sustain what would have been such a demanding and, if he were to be found out by the Inquisition, such a dangerous, task.
David Sox was only able to come up with one possible candidate: a former Inquisitor of Venice – who probably would have been more likely to have burnt the Gospel of Barnabas than written it! – who according to the records was officially reprimanded on two occasions for being too lenient with heretics, and who was subsequently demoted from his position and replaced.
From these scant details, David Sox concludes that Fra Marino was not only somehow driven to embrace Islam, but also must have decided to forge the Italian version of the Gospel of Barnabas as an act of revenge against his successor – although how such an act could have actually adversely affected his successor (who probably would have been delighted to burn the offending ‘forgery’ had he ever come across it) is never clarified.
This scenario is extremely tenuous, to say the least, especially when in fact the Italian manuscript receives hardly any publicity whatsoever for the next four hundred years – and not until the English version of it begins to be widely circulated some seventy years after the Italian version has been translated into English by Canon Lonsdale and Laura Ragg!
Unfortunately for David Sox there are no contemporary records which depict the successor of an ex-Inquisitor (who happens to be called Fra Marino) tearing his hair out in desperation as hundreds of gullible Italians inexplicably embrace Islam after reading the infamous Gospel of Barnabas.
Indeed there is no real ‘proof’ that the Fra Marino to whom the Preface to the Spanish version refers is none other than our ex-Inquisitor from Venice. In all probability there were literally tens, if not hundreds, of Fra Marinos in Italy during the time of Pope Sixtus V not all of whom would have been recorded in what few records have survived up until today, and any one of whom might have been the Fra Marino who stole the Pope’s copy of the Gospel of Barnabas.
Furthermore, as regards the Fra Marino selected by David Sox, although it is recorded that he was an Inquisitor, and that he was reprimanded, and that he was demoted (but not dismissed), there is no record that he either subsequently embraced Islam, or that he was burnt at the stake for embracing Islam, or that he fled the country in order to avoid the clutches of the Inquisition after accepting Islam. If, as David Sox has attempted to argue, Fra Marino himself wrote the Gospel of Barnabas ‘in revenge against his successor’, surely the Gospel would have been publicised at the time, and surely there would have been a public outcry as a result. It appears that David Sox could find no such record.
Thus in spite of all his long hours of research, his carefully arranged footnotes and cross-references, and his lucid style, David Sox’s hypothesis remains unlikely, implausible and unconvincing. It is highly unlikely that any impartial court of law today could possibly conclude, on the ‘evidence’ presented by David Sox, that the link needed to substantiate his allegation of forgery which he seeks to establish in his book has been proved.
Indeed one cannot help concluding that perhaps the main reason why he has gone to such great lengths in his attempts to prove the highly improbable, may well be that it is because the contents of the Gospel of Barnabas are in fact true.
It is however to his credit that in spite of all the farfetched speculation – of which, as we have already seen, he admits there is ‘a great amount’ – David Sox does have the intellectual honesty to admit that, ‘The Jesus of the Gospel of Barnabas is on many occasions similar to that of the canonical Gospels,’ – although he then adds, ‘ because, of course, the former book depends on material contained in the latter.’ It is possible, however, that it is in fact the converse of that statement which is nearer the truth:
It is possible that the reason why there is in fact such a marked similarity between the contents of The Gospel of Barnabas and that of the other Gospels is that the Italian translation is not a ‘forgery’, but rather a faithful translation of a much earlier Greek or Hebrew or even Aramaic version, which was in existence long before the Quran was revealed, and on which the writers of the four officially accepted Gospels perhaps depended – for it is now generally accepted that the three earliest accepted Gospels, known as the Synoptic Gospels, were in part derived from an earlier unknown Gospel which today’s researchers often refer to as the ‘0’ Gospel, for want of a better name.
It is possible that this earlier unknown Gospel could be the original Gospel of Barnabas, although it is clear from the following analysis contained in Dr. Maurice Bucaille’s book, The Bible, the Quran and Science, that the ‘Q’ Gospel may well have been a collection of different narrations, rather than one complete document:
The problem of sources was approached in a very simplistic fashion at the time of the Fathers of the Church. In the early centuries of Christianity, the only source available was the Gospel that the complete manuscripts provided first, Le. Matthew’s Gospel. The problem of sources only concerned Mark and Luke because John constituted a quite separate case. Saint Augustine held that Mark, who appears second in the traditional order of presentation, had been inspired by Matthew and had summarised his work. He further considered that Luke, who comes third in the manuscripts, had used data from both; his prologue suggests this, and has already been discussed.
From the Fathers of the Church until the end of the Eighteenth century AD, one and a half millennia passed without any new problems being raised on the sources of the evangelists: people continued to follow tradition. It was not until modern times that it was realised, on the basis of these data, how each evangelist had taken material found in the others and compiled his own specific narration guided by his own personal views.
Great weight was attached to actual collection of material for the narration. It came from the oral traditions of the communities from which it originated on the one hand, and from a common written Aramaic source that has not been rediscovered on the other, This written source could have formed a compact mass or have been composed of many fragments of different narrations used by each evangelist to contradict his own original work.
Thus the question inevitably arises as to whether the Apocryphal Gospel of Barnabas is, in fact, either this missing Gospel or at least a part of the possible collection of different narrations.
It must be remembered that John Mark, whose Gospel is the earliest of the four accepted Gospels, was the son of the sister of Barnabas. He never met Jesus. Thus, what he related of Jesus’s life and teaching in his Gospel must have been related to him by others.
It is known from the books of the New Testament that he accompanied Paul and Barnabas on many of their missionary journeys up to the point when there was a sharp conflict between them, resulting in Barnabas and Mark going to Cyprus together. It is unlikely that Mark relied on Paul as a source of information since Paul had never met Jesus either.
The only reasonable conclusion appears to be that he must have repeated what his uncle Barnabas told him about Jesus. It is said by some that he acted as Peter’s interpreter and wrote down what he had learned from Peter. This may be correct, for Mark must have had some contact with the other apostles when he was not journeying with Barnabas or Paul. However, Good speed shows us from his research that anything he did learn from Peter was by no means comprehensive:
He had been an interpreter of Peter and wrote down accurately, though not in order, everything that he remembered that had been said or done by the Lord.
For he neither heard the Lord, nor followed him, but afterwards, as I said, attended Peter who adapted his instructions to the needs of the hearers, but had no design of giving a connected account of the lord’s oracles.
Luke, who also wrote the Acts of the Apostles, never met Jesus. He was Paul’s personal physician. Matthew, who also never encountered Jesus, was a tax collector.
It has been argued that Mark’s Gospel might be the ‘Q’ Gospel and that Matthew and Luke used his Gospel when writing theirs. However, they record details which Mark does not, which implies that Mark’s Gospel could not have been their only source. Some have said that this is not important, since it is known that Mark’s Gospel was written in Hebrew, then translated into Greek, and the Greek translation then translated once again into Latin.
All the Hebrew and early Greek versions of Mark’s Gospel have been destroyed, and people can only speculate as to how much of the Gospel was changed or altered during these transitions from one language to another, although it has now been generally accepted that the final section (Mark 16: 9-20) was tacked on to the end of the basic work at a later stage in order to round it off, which is why it is not to be found in the two oldest complete manuscripts of the Gospels, the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus which are said to date from the late 4th or 5th century AD.
It is interesting to note in passing that there have even been attempts to return to the source by synthesising the Gospels, since the contradictions that arise between them have, at times, proved a little awkward for the established Church.
Titian attempted to synthesise the four accepted Gospels, which had already been earmarked by the Pauline Church as their official Scriptures during the second century AD. In this Gospel, Titian used 96% of John’s Gospel, 75% of Matthew’s Gospel, 66% of Luke’s Gospel, and 50% of Mark’s Gospel. The rest he rejected. It is significant that he placed little trust in the earliest Gospel and relied most heavily on the last Gospel to be written. His synthesised Gospel was not a success.
Thus it is debatable whether Mark’s Gospel can be regarded as the common source of the three Synoptic Gospels, whereas most of the events recorded in these three Gospels are contained within the Gospel of Barnabas – although, as has already been remarked, there are some notable and deeply significant differences – which is why, according to the Introduction to the Gospel of Barnabas, Barnabas wrote his Gospel in the first place:
“Dearly beloved, the great and wonderful God has during these past days visited us by his Prophet Jesus Christ in great mercy of teaching and miracles, by reason whereof many, being deceived of Satan, under pretence of piety, are preaching most impious doctrine, calling Jesus son of God, repudiating the circumcision ordained of God for ever, and permitting every unclean meat:
Among whom also Paul has been deceived, whereof I speak not without grief; for which cause I am writing that truth which I have seen and heard, in the intercourse that I have had with Jesus, in order that you may be saved, and not deceived of Satan and perish in the judgement of God. Therefore beware of every one that preaches unto you new doctrine contrary to that which I write, that you may be saved eternally. The great God be with you and guard you from Satan and from every evil. Amen.”
If the Italian version of the Gospel of Barnabas is a faithful translation of an earlier manuscript which actually did contain what Barnabas originally wrote – and there is no way of conclusively ‘proving’ this, just as there is no way of conclusively ‘proving’ that the contents of the four officially accepted Gospels which exist today actually contain what their original authors in fact wrote – then it does follow that the Gospel of Barnabas could well be the ‘Q’ Gospel, the common source of the synoptic Gospels, although as yet no one has ventured to make a verse by verse comparison between the contents of the Gospel of Barnabas and the contents of the four official Gospels in order to establish exactly which verses are shared and which verses are unique.
If the Gospel of Barnabas is the ‘Q’ Gospel, and given the manner in which Paulinian Christianity developed, it then makes it easier to understand why not only the manuscripts of all the other Gospels – which are known to have existed in the early years of Christianity and which were rejected at the Council of Nicea were destroyed, but also all the early manuscripts of even-the four official Gospels, probably after the original texts had been radically altered. It should be emphasised that as regards the four officially accepted Gospels, there are no versions in the original Hebrew or Aramaic, and that, as Dr Maurice Bucaille confirms, the earliest Greek versions date from after the Council of Nicea:
Documents prior to this, i.e. papyri from the Third century AD and one possibly dating from the Second, only transmit fragments to us. The two oldest parchment manuscripts are Greek, Fourth century AD. They are the Codex Vaticanus, preserved in the Vatican Library and whose place of discovery is unknown, and the Codex Sinaiticus, which was discovered on Mount Sinai and is now preserved in the British Museum, London. The second contains two apocryphal works.
According to the Ecumenical Translation, two hundred and fifty other known parchments exist throughout the world, the last of these being from the Eleventh century AD. ‘Not all the copies of the New Testament that have come down to us are identical’ however. ‘On the contrary, it is possible to distinguish differences of varying degrees of importance between them, but however important they may be, there is always a large number of them. Some of these only concern differences of grammatical detail, vocabulary or word order. Elsewhere however, differences between manuscripts can be seen which affect the meaning of whole passages.’ If one wishes to see the extent of textual differences, one only has to glance through the Novum Testamenturn Graece (Nestlé-Aland, Pub., United Bible Societies, London, 1971).
This work contains a so-called ‘middle of the road’ Greek text. It is a text of synthesis with notes containing all the variations found in the different versions.
Thus not only is it possible – indeed it is highly likely – that significant changes were made to the original texts which pre-dated the Council of Nicea and which have all been destroyed, but also even the texts which date from after the Council of Nicea do not fully agree with each other, cannot therefore be entirely accurate, and in fact have themselves been altered:
The authenticity of a text, and of even the most venerable manuscript, is always open to debate. The Codex Vatîcatlus is a good example of this. The facsimile reproduction edited by the Vatican City, contains an accompanying note from its editors informing us that, ‘several centuries after it was copied (believed to have been in circa the Tenth or Eleventh century), a scribe inked over all the letters except those he thought were a mistake.’ There are passages in the text where the original letters in light brown still show through, contrasting visibly with the rest of the text which is in dark brown.
There is no indication that it was a faithful restoration. The note states moreover that, ‘the different hands that corrected and annotated the manuscript over the centuries have not yet been definitively discerned; a certain number of corrections were undoubtedly made when the text was inked over.’ In all the religious manuals the text is presented as a Fourth century copy. One has to go to sources at the Vatican to discover that various hands may have altered the text centuries later.
One might reply that other texts may be used for comparison, but how does one choose between variations that change the meaning? It is a well known fact that a very old scribe’s correction can lead to the definitive reproduction of the corrected text. We shall see further on how a single-word in a passage from John concerning the Paraclete radically alters its meaning and completely changes its sense when viewed from a theological point of view.
O. Culmann, in his book, The New Testament, writes the following on the subject of variations:
“Sometimes the latter are the result of inadvertent flaws: the copier misses a word out, or conversely writes it twice, or a whole section of a sentence is carelessly omitted because in the manuscript to be copied it appeared between two identical words. Sometimes it is a matter of deliberate corrections, either the copier has taken the liberty of correcting the text according to his own ideas or he has tried to bring it into line with a parallel text in a more or less skillful attempt to reduce the number of discrepancies. As, little by little, the New Testament writings broke away from the rest of early Christian literature, and came to be regarded as Holy Scripture, so the copiers became more and more hesitant about taking the same liberties as their predecessors: they thought they were copying the authentic text, but in fact wrote down the variations. Finally, a copier sometimes wrote annotations in the margin to explain an obscure passage. The following copier, thinking that the sentence he found in the margin had been left out of the passage by his predecessor, thought it necessary to include the margin notes in the text. This process often made the new text even more obscure.”
The scribes of some manuscripts sometimes took exceedingly great liberties with the texts. This is the case of one of the most venerable manuscripts after the two referred to above, the Sixth century Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis. The scribe probably noticed the difference between Luke’s and Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus, so he put Matthew’s genealogy into his copy of Luke, but as the second contained fewer names than the first, he padded it out with extra names (without however balancing them up),
Is it possible to say that the Latin translations, such as Saint Jerome’s Sixth century Vulgate, or older translations (Vetus Itala), or Syriac and Coptic translations are any more faithful than the basic Greek manuscripts? They might have been made from manuscripts older than the ones referred to above and subsequently lost to the present day. We just do not know.
The truth of the matter is that there are no complete pre Council of Nicea manuscripts of any of the writings contained in the New Testament extant today – nor of the Gospel of Barnabas for that matter or if there are, then whoever has them has been keeping very quiet about them for a good many centuries, and probably for not the right reasons.
It must be emphasised therefore that the contents of the earliest Greek manuscripts of the four officially accepted Gospels are in fact just as capable of having been ‘forged’, albeit during an earlier period, as are the contents of the Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas. We just do not know.
The converse possibility, however, is equally true, and although, to quote the Introduction to the Ecumenical Translation, ‘there can be no hope of going back to the original text itself,’ there is still the possibility that on the whole all the Gospels – including The Gospel of Barnabas – in their present form do contain a certain degree of accuracy and truth. It is possible to read all of these Gospels and find elements of what must be true in all of them – but it is impossible to claim that any of them are entirely accurate or to rely completely and unreservedly on any one of them.
Furthermore, the one Gospel which we do not have is the Gospel of Jesus, the original revelation that he received, in the original language in which it was revealed – so that the accuracy and authenticity of any translation of that original text could always be ascertained and assessed simply by referring back to that original text whenever the occasion might arise.
It is interesting to note, as has already been stated, in this context that according to the Gospel of Barnabas, the revelation which was given to Jesus – ‘The Ingeel’ – was never preserved as a written text at any stage, but was more in the nature of a well of wisdom which was placed in the heart of Jesus by the angel Gabriel, and from which he could draw as he needed:
Jesus having come to the age of thirty years, as he himself said unto me, went up to the Mount of Olives with his mother to gather olives. Then at midday as he was praying, when he came to these words: ‘Lord, with mercy …,’ he was surrounded by an exceeding bright light and by an infinite multitude of angels, who were saying: ‘Blessed be Cod.’ The angel Gabriel presented to him as it were a shining mirror, a book, which descended into the heart of Jesus, in which he had knowledge of what God has done and what has said, and what God wills insomuch that everything was laid bare and open to him; as he said unto me: ‘Believe, Barnabas, that 1know every prophet with every prophecy, insomuch that whatever I say the whole has come forth from that book.’
This account of the nature of the revelation which Jesus received is not contradicted by any historical record which states otherwise. There is no record of Jesus being presented with inscribed tablets as happened with Moses, for example, or of his receiving a series of revelations like Muhammad, blessings and peace be on all of them, with certain disciples being appointed to record these revelations as they occurred – but not any of Jesus’ s own words – in order to ensure that the revelation was preserved exactly as it was revealed.
There can be no doubt, however, that Jesus was an illuminated being whose words contained a clarity and directness which reflected all the qualities of light – and which must have entered people’s hearts and remained in them just as light does when it enters a room.
And when these words came to be recorded in writing, then surely at least some of these words – together with the accounts of the situations in which they were uttered – must have survived intact, even if the darkness in other people tried to cloud some of them up or shut them out by changing or removing them.
In spite of all the imperfections which exist in the present contents not only of the Old and the New Testaments, but also of The Gospel of Barnabas and other similar works, there can be no doubt that at least some of their contents must accurately record at least some of the words and actions of Jesus, peace be on him – although it will never be possible to actually differentiate between what is reliable and what is not with complete accuracy or certainty.
It does remain a great pity, therefore, that there is no complete original authentic text of the Gospel of Jesus, which has been verified beyond any reasonable doubt, in existence today.
It therefore follows that what David Sox says of the four officially accepted Gospels applies equally to the Gospel of Barnabas:
The differences, even the contradictions, between the Gospel accounts do not detract from the spiritual truths that they contain; if anything, they give us a better understanding of the world in which they were written.
Nevertheless, there is still the necessity – wherever fundamental contradictions between the various accounts do exist – of having to decide which account is the most accurate and the nearest to the truth of the matter:
Was Jesus a Prophet of God or a ‘son’ of God? Was it Jesus or Judas, or someone else, who was crucified? Did Jesus tell his disciples that there would be a Prophet who would come after him who would be called Muhammad, and are the references to the Paraclete in John’s Gospel in fact references to him?
And the answers to these questions can only be sensed if the reader does indeed understand the world in which they were written – and accordingly the nature of the disagreement that dearly existed between the two groups of Christians whom Cardinal Daniélou termed the Judeo-Christians and the Pauline Christians, between those who sincerely followed the example of Jesus and those who followed Paul, putting words into the mouth of Jesus that he, peace be on him, never himself uttered, and granting him a divine status which he neither claimed nor possessed.
Even though none of the contents of either the New Testament or the Gospel of Barnabas are capable of being fully authenticated; and even though it is impossible to establish exactly what has been altered, or added, or removed, or allowed to remain intact; and whether or not the authors of the officially accepted Gospels, each with such a differing background, derived their knowledge from the same source or not; and if they did, then whether or not that source was in fact The Gospel of Barnabas, about Barnabas the commandment is: “If he comes unto you, receive him.” (Epistle To The Colossians 4:10).


‘Carols at the Cross’ is a long-standing Lymm tradition hosted by Lymm Parish Council. Several thousand people usually gather in the Village Centre on Christmas Eve to sing carols and traditional Christmas songs accompanied by Warrington Brass.
Last year the Covid-19 pandemic unfortunately made the traditional event impossible, so the Parish Council worked with Lymm Radio to create a virtual event so that the community could come together safely.
This year we’re happy to say that the Carols returns to the village cross between 7.00 pm and 8.00 pm on Christmas Eve. We are also working with Lymm Radio who we anticipate will broadcast the event live for the benefit of those at home or further afield.
Please note: Plans are subject to change depending on Government guidance for social distancing and community events.
We hope that this year’s hybrid ‘Carols at the Cross’ and on LymmRadio will bring the community together in our traditional way and provide a way for all to be able to join in, whether you choose to join in in the village or at home.
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In the meantime why not enjoy some of the wonderful Christmas lights around Lymm and a selection of photos from this years illuminated canal barge flotilla. Video thanks to Andy Openshaw.


Right now we are waiting for a piece of paperwork to be dropped off (we think tomorrow). Then we will wait for two more steps (JUST TWO!!!):
1. Travel approval from China
2. an appointment at the consulate.
That's it y'all! That's it! Then we can travel to China to meet these two precious boys!
Josiah: Please pray that Josiah's transition is easy especially with sleep. Our last update indicated that he takes a very long time to go to sleep and can be very stubborn about it. Jet lag and all the travel we have to do within China could make this worse. Please pray that God prepares him to sleep well and to adjust to his new family well.
Brian and I: Please pray for safe travels. We will be doing a LOT of it next month. Will you pray that our connections are smooth and uneventful? (This is the MOST stressful part of traveling for me!) Will you pray that we handle our boys' grief with grace and patience? We've waiting so long to call them our sons, but they will likely be afraid and grieving. They won't know who we are or that we love them dearly.
Finances: We still have a large financial need. We know that God can and will provide. We are holding on to that faith. He's such an amazing God and has provided just what we needed when we needed it. He's used many of your prayers and gifts to accomplish this and we are so thankful.


Richards Bay, South Africa :: 18 crewmembers with many different skills showed up to be bridges of the Gospel.
In everything that Logos Hope crewmembers strive to do, it is with the purpose to use it as a bridge to share the Gospel with others. In an outreach to a local village, the Help Ministries department organised a team comprising of 18 crewmembers to provide a wide range of services including dental checks, hygiene education, HIV and AIDS education, eyeglass testing, and construction of a 'jungle gym' and library. In addition, five water purifiers, two water pumps and more than a hundred books were donated to an orphanage there.
“This is one of the biggest ministry teams I have organised, involving so many different skills,” shared Dirk Kooij (Netherlands), part of the Help Ministries team who started planning for the day weeks before arrival in Richards Bay. “I’m thankful that there is so much passion from crewmembers to help and they bring with them diverse skills. What’s left for me to do is to put the right people in the right places to make the most of it.”
The crewmembers worked together in unity, and blessed more than 100 villagers in multiple ways over the course of the day. More importantly, the team used creative ways to bridge the Gospel. One team member, Mirte Jorine ter Wal (Netherlands), who gave hygiene training, used hand-washing as an analogy of how God can wash away one’s sins completely. “If we don’t wash our hands properly with soap, dirt gets stuck between our fingers and under our fingernails,” shared Mirte to the crowd. “Similarly, if we don’t ask the right person to wash away our sins, we might look clean on the outside, but we continue to be ‘dirty’ inside.”


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“Voice of God Weapon” Makes People Think God is Talking To Them
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During the summertime, Bill used to climb into his chest freezer to cool off. We warned him that it was dangerous but he said that he never let the lid close entirely. Bill loved the Lord and frequently handed out Christian literature to anyone who would take it.
William H. Conibear, 68, of Burlington, formerly of Morton, Illinois, died Friday, September 1, 2017, at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington. He was born August 21, 1949, in Peoria, Illinois, to William Grant and Mildred Genevieve Mennarey Conibear. He attended school in Eureka, Illinois and was a member of Grace Mennonite Church in Morton, Illinois. He was a construction laborer and a member of the Labor Union Local 231. He was especially proud of the fact that he did several mission trips; many during Katrina. He loved cars and the Chicago Bears. He is survived by one sister, Carolyn (Ken) Ditzman, of Burlington; nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Graveside funeral services for his cremains will be held Saturday, September 16, at 10:00 am at Robert's Cemetery, 300 W. Jefferson, Morton, Illinois. Reverend Doug Habegger will officiate. A memorial has been established for his church. Elliott Chapel, New London is assisting the family with arrangements. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting William's obituary at www.elliottfuneralchapel.com.
Bill loved the Lord and rarely missed Bible Study or Church. We were thankful to have spent several years together in the same Bible study group. We loved you Bill and know that he is at peace with Jesus now.


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GUEST POST- by John Kupitz
I love you. You may be Western Civilization’s first published critic of just about everything. From institutions to people to entire fields of study, you had more opinions about the world than Donald Trump has tweets about it. You criticized your law school, the University of Erfert, not for having the silliest name in Christendom, but for being a center of debauchery. Apparently University’s haven’t changed much in five hundred years.
You hated being a lawyer. You were wearied by philosophy. You even struggled as a monk. And yet, the “wasted education” that your father secured for you would eventually earn you a place at the University of Wittenberg as a theology professor. That would be an exciting classroom experience. I wish those lectures were available on itunes.
Many people are so taken by your personality and place in church history, that we have overlooked the critical role of your not-so-secret weapon: the printing press. You had the latest technology. For the first time in human history, somebody with a new idea could actually share it with nearly every literate person in Europe. With the printing press, even the gates of the Vatican could not prevail against your ideas. As Leonardo Dicaprio once said, “Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate.” Of course, he was borrowing language from an old French author:
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo.
I wonder what you would have done with newer tech, perhaps as a blogger. Or better yet, a vlogger. What would the great reformer Martin Luther do with his own Youtube Channel? What if the internet and social media had been a thing back in the early 16th century? I’ve decided to speculate with a mock Wikipedia entry:
“Martin Luther came out of nowhere with 95 Youtube videos on his channel, Buzzcreed, on October 31st, 1517. Each video is a funny, irreverent, cutting social commentary against that oldest of world powers, the Roman Catholic Church. Sure, admits Luther, the Church has a lot of wonderful things to offer (especially the sacred truth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ). But the pope sits in his ivory tower, surrounded by yes men who follow his every whim. In spite of being the richest man in all of Europe, the pope still insists on taxing the poor in order to build his empi—err…cathedrals. Luther’s wit and informal style have endeared him to the masses. His ideas have gone viral. Among his most popular uploads are What does the Pope Say?, The Indulgence Shake, and How the Diet of Worms Should Have Ended.”
That would be amazing.
Speculation aside, there are some things that you contributed to Western Civilization which really don’t get enough credit. After you, nations could choose their religion. That was new. We learned that we don’t have to bow to authorities in our government, our communities, or even our own homes, if they go against Christ. For better or for worse, we can write our own theses and post them on Facebook whenever we’d like. It doesn’t matter how silly, or stupid, or wrong they may be. The internet is our door of Wittenberg. We’re not fighting the abuses of a hypocritical centuries-old regime. Our fight is much smaller and less significant. We just want all of our friends on Facebook to know when they’re wrong about something. I’m so glad we can all do that publicly, even if some people post nothing but inspirational vomit-inducing memes with puppies frolicking in a grassy field. At least they aren’t burned at the stake for it. I’m glad we’ve moved past that. Being unfriended is so much better than being burned at the stake.
I praise God that you didn’t shy away from the controversy and post a funny cat picture on that famous door. No, you posted ninety-five brutally honest, “in-your-face”, hope-your-sitting-down-‘cuz-you’re-‘bout-to-get-served-indictments against a corrupt institution. You did it with honor and with class (and a healthy dose of sarcasm). But you also did it with hope. That’s what made your words so legendary.
You hoped for a better church. You longed for a more loving, more compassionate, more Christ-like institution. You saw the truth in God’s word and you desperately sought to bring those truths into the lives of your students, parishioners, and friends. You toiled long hours under the threat of death. You passionately stood up for truth in a time when most like-minded men chose not to rock the boat. You gave them hope. And they started to rock.
Rather than split the church, you hoped for a reformed church. You believed the Roman Catholic Church insofar as it preached the gospel and sought only to correct its immoral overreach that plagued believers across Europe.
A church was birthed from that reforming spirit. Before the end of the century, entire nations had abandoned the notion that the Roman Catholic Church was a Christian institution at all. Three “solas” were coined to counteract the abuses of the medieval church. A new way to be Christian had emerged.
A nation was birthed from that reforming spirit. By the middle of the 18th century, a group people sought to gain independence from a country that simply didn’t represent them. A constitution was drafted and a declaration ratified. A republic with three branches of government was created to counteract the abuses of previous kingdoms and empires. A new way to be a nation had emerged.
A global phenomenon was birthed from that spirit. Before five hundred years had passed, every individual with access to the internet had a voice they could use to list their grievances with every authority under the sun. People no longer required a printing press to rally the masses. There was radio, television, film, and finally, the internet. A new way to post our theses has emerged.Oddly enough, so many reformations and revolutions have relied upon the 'bergs'- Gutenberg, Wittenberg, Zuckerberg- weird.Click To Tweet
Martin Luther, your spirit is a double-edged sword. To those who follow Christ, we are indebted to God’s work in and through you. Even those who do not follow Christ owe many of their freedoms to your rejection of an infallible human authority. Honestly, I like living in a world where atheists are free to reject Christ more than a world where they are forced to pretend. In many ways, you paved the way for authenticity. Let us be real, even if we’re wrong.
For that, I thank you.
Your friend, John Kupitz


What is the discipline of silence?
Donald Whitney reminds us why both disciplines are spiritual disciplines: “The Discipline of Silence isthe voluntary and temporary cessation of speaking in order to pursue specific spiritual goals.
Intermittent times of stillness and solitude are essential for people to function at their best mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually in their daily lives.. Sure, loneliness can be used as an escape or hiding place from reality, but it can also help you accept it more effectively.
Be silentallows us to let God come to us. Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God." My prayer for us in the remaining days of Lent is that we consciously take time out from the busyness of our lives so that we may hurry to God, the speaks to us in the silence of our hearts.
Go into stillness by turning off the TV and phone and sitting in your living room with no books (other than the Bible) and just breathing. After five minutes of silence, take the daily quiz. Make a personal retreat of silence and solitude. Spend a night or two alone in a beautiful place.
Bruneau (1973) spoke of three forms of silence:(1) psychological, (2) interactive and (3) sociocultural.
Scripture tells us thatSilence can help us avoid sin (Proverbs 10:19), gain respect (Proverbs 11:12), and be seen as wise and intelligent (Proverbs 17:28).. In other words, you can be blessed if you keep your mouth shut. Ultimately, not speaking in certain situations means that we are practicing self-control.
The purpose of silence as a spiritual discipline is not to hear God's audible voice, but so that we are less distracted and can hear Him speak His Word more clearly. Getting off quiet and alone is not a special grace in itself.
Hehelps us to see the empty, disinterested, uncertain and transitory nature of all experiences and patterns of consciousness. The sound of silence is also useful for developing attention and continuity of mindfulness. When the mind becomes very calm and focused, the breath can become calmer and calmer.
Many of these publications acknowledged the silence.a powerful means of communication; and that it is not peripheral to language, because any form of analysis applied to language could also be applied to the analysis of silence.
:speech or noise tolerance: stupid. often used as an interjection. : absence of sound or noise : stillness.
What two types of silence are there?
He categorizes silence into two broad categories:Communicative and non-communicative. Jaworski believes that not all types of silence are communicative.


Welcome to New Vine Church!
It is our heartfelt desire that you come to know and believe the amazing love Jesus has for you and to experience the fullness of His grace – His unearned, undeserved favor – towards you. Jesus welcomes you with open arms, and we invite you to come and see the love and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ freely poured out for you.
There will be no services on June 4th and June 11th!
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Listen carefully to Me, and eat [what is] good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance. (Isaiah 55:2)


Hello~ and Happy Easter to everybody the holiday where kids get to find decorative eggs and stuff candy in their face, and the day where most religious people remember when God came back to life. Now I’m not that religious, but I do dabble with scriptures in the bible here and there. So I would like to share a scripture from the bible, and you don’t have to believe to read this, it should be shared with all 🙂
“I have told you these things, so that in me you have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
When you think about it, it’s sort as if God or someone is giving you hope to carry on, because out of all the evil in the world, the despair if someone has overcome this world before, then surely you should be able to do the same. Happy Easter everyone 🙂 again I’ll be writing drafts to post at later times so to be honest I have absolutely no idea when I’ll post them or when I’ll update the pages again today.


Be warned. This may contain what some consider to be negativity and too much information, but I want to be transparently honest. I struggle with pain. I hate it. It wears me down. Some nights are worse than others, but the other night was a doozy and left me crying in exasperation. To top it off, when I did manage to sleep, I had a nightmare.
In the dream, someone close to me went to the authorities and accused me of a horrendous crime I would never commit. The police came and arrested me, and I was dragged into court. I was innocent! In fact, I am a fierce defender of the safety of the ones I was accused of hurting! I have sacrificed years of my life for them! I passionately defended myself. But no one would listen in this crazy kangaroo court.
In the dream, I felt anger and rage that anything so ridiculous could happen. Strangely, the awareness of real-life pain wove in and out of my sleep and it felt like the dream cops were the cause of the electric shock-type pains that travel through my body and the severe muscle spasms I get in my legs. I couldn’t stand. I was so angry I tried to bite the officers restraining me.
When I woke, I was still angry. I knew I was innocent! I wanted to give those people in my dream the same treatment they had given me. I’d shoot them all with tazers! I’d twist their joints with ropes! I’d jab their guts with a bowie knife! It took a while to calm down and convince myself it was just a dream.
My body still hurt though. I was grumpy all day. I’m a little slow sometimes, and not just due to coping with pain and lack of sleep. Sometimes I just don’t get it.
Two of the words I’ve been thinking about for Creative Meditations for Lent this week are passion and innocent. In the dream I knew I was innocent. In the dream I fought passionately against the injustice of the whole thing. It didn’t dawn on me until I was looking at photos I took of a place called “Ecce Homo” in Jerusalem, that there could be a message in the dream. I have prayed Philippians 3:10 many times. “I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection [and the part I’m not as fond of but include because it’s a part of the whole picture] and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death…”.
Jesus was innocent. Jesus was not emotionless. He was tempted in every way we are. “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.” (Hebrews 4:15) God created us to naturally want to protect our bodies and souls from harm. If he was also human, how could Jesus control a passionate drive to defend himself from the false accusation from a disciple he loved? Did Jesus feel the powerful urge to strike back at those striking him? How could he love these people? How could he say, “Father, forgive them…?”
Jesus was fully God and fully man, but he emptied himself to live as a human, subject to the limitations of humans. [Christ Jesus] “who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:6-8) It was his connection with the Father and Holy Spirit that demonstrated what it is to be fully human living in right relationship with God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. He came to reconnect us to the Father. He left the earth so the Holy Spirit could come and fill us, comfort us, and renew us.
The worn stone pavement thought to be the location of the old Roman garrison under an ancient building in Jerusalem is called Ecce Homo – “Behold the Man.” These were Pilate’s words as he handed Jesus over to the soldiers who were no doubt demonically inspired to do their worst to him there.
The song, “Behold the Man” comes to mind today.
Like a lamb to the slaughter
They led Him away
He was battered, bruised, and beaten
For the sheep who’d gone astray…
Through the scourging and the beatings
He never said a thing…
Behold the Man
Really look at Him
And then you’ll understand
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus tis now.
2 thoughts on “Innocence, Passion, and Sacrifice”
The name of one of the books I am reading is “Ecce Homo”. May we so walk with Him that such a thing may be said of us… behold the Man in our fragile earthen vessels.
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
Will hold you up before Him; as pain is a relentless reality for many.
Thank you, BT.


Franciscan Outreach Volunteers live in intentional community with one another. Community living unites volunteers in a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle that reflects their shared commitment to the core values of service, spirituality and simple living. Community life offers volunteers a wealth of resources and support in the daily struggles and triumphs that come with serving those in need. Volunteers share household responsibilities and take part in weekly community meetings and community nights. Tour here.
Franciscan Outreach Volunteers provides opportunities for direct service to people who are homeless. Volunteers encourage a welcoming spirit of hospitality that respects the dignity of each person regardless of their situation in life. Volunteers are placed at one site for the year; either the Marquard Center Soup Kitchen or the House of Mary and Joseph Shelter. Volunteers serve full-time at 40 hours per week.
Franciscan Outreach Association is rooted in the Catholic faith, Gospel values and Franciscan tradition. The Franciscan Outreach Volunteer Program recognizes and welcomes that volunteers come with various experiences of spirituality. Volunteers are given opportunities throughout the year to explore, develop and enhance their individual and communal spirituality primarily through three retreats and weekly reflections. Reflections are led by each community member to help lay the foundation in which volunteers explore and grow in their spirituality. Additional opportunities for faith-sharing, celebration, and prayer are offered as optional events throughout the year.
Franciscan Outreach Volunteers are called to live simply, both individually and as an intentional community. Simple living joins personal lifestyle choices with experiences at each service site. Simple living is about more than money and possessions; it is primarily focused on building relationships and fully immersing oneself into the year-long experience. By pledging to live simply, volunteers develop a greater commitment to service and solidarity with those they serve.


Samantha Brown – Our Founder
Samantha Brown is a 21 year recovering addict saved by the precious grace of God. After 5 years of addiction and imprisonment she is now a well-known leader of the community and operates ULOC Corporate office, 6 transitional houses and is senior pastor of The Place-FWDC, and has hosted 14 annual Unique Ladies of Character conferences. She has an associate’s degree in addictions counseling and is currently furthering her education with a bachelor’s degree in Christian and Addictions Psychology. She is highly requested at the faith based prison in Brooksville and she mentors for ladies in drug treatment facilities across Florida. Weather in church, prison, group, or the streets, Ms. Brown is a beacon of light and her messages are life, hope and inspiration for those who come in contact with her.
She takes a personal interest in each and every lady that comes across her door step. She strives to help as many people as possible every day. Her message is heard not only here locally in Tampa, but is spread across Georgia as well. Knowing just how cruel life can be to people, she strives to make things easier as they get their lives back on track.
Because of her rough transition into society, Ms. Brown is determined to help those who struggle with every day issues. She has set up a network of referring professionals to assist people with needs that her program does not cover. She puts everything she has physically, financially and emotionally into her program and her church. She has set up a food bank to assist with food needs. She sets up donations for hygiene and clothing needs as best as possible. She is a very selfless and loving woman who simply wants to give back to society in every way she can. She is so very loved by everyone whose life she has touched.
She has a wonderful mother and father as well as 3 beautiful children in Georgia. She has 4 grandchildren that she dotes on endlessly and who all love her very much. Each and every woman currently in, and many who have long since graduated her program, celebrate her as if she were their mother as that is how she treats them.
At the end of the day she is just a simple God loving woman who wants to help everyone she can.
Founder & CEO, ULOC Tampa


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English speaking visitors and students learning French are very welcome to join in all our activities. The church includes several English people and English speakers. Every effort will be made to provide help and friendship whether or not you are a regular church goer.
We are an evangelical fellowship affiliated to the Communautés et Assemblées Evangéliques de France.
Our base for Sunday morning worship is 183 avenue des Hauts de Saint-Aubin, 49100 Angers. Services begin at 10h00.
If you do not have a car and live in Angers, you can take the tramway to "Terra Botanica" stop (150 meters). In case of difficulty do not hesitate to contact email@example.com.
Amongst our activities there are Sunday morning groups for children, events for teenagers and young people, weekly prayer and Bible study groups, regular fellowship meals, a Christmas event and an annual houseparty.
The church is in regular contact with other churches in Angers and the region.


Signs, wonders and miracles were a big part of Pastor Naboth’s charismatic church, which was built on prayer and firmly steeped in the awe of God. The gatherings were lively and God’s Word went forth powerfully, resulting in healed minds, changed hearts, and saved souls. For the deaf to hear and the blind to see was commonplace. But to see the way the rich shared with the poor was a true miracle indeed.
“Miracles are normal when you connect with Jesus, the divine vine,” the pastor liked to say. “For those who question the validity of these miracles, look at the fruit. With God all things are possible.”
“Yeah, right. Be realistic. You’re a phony through and through,” grumbled old Ahab, the minister from the glitzy church two blocks down the road. Ahab did not believe in miracles.
“There’s something fishy about that pastor and his group of wild fanatics,” he muttered as he dipped his hand into a can of stinky sardines. “I don’t trust the holy laughter. I know he pushes those people down. Someone ought to teach them to take God more seriously!”
As Reverend Ahab grumbled, his wife Jezebel strode in with a pot of nasty tea and a plate of soggy sauerkraut to match her wrinkly face.
“What is it now?” she snapped. “I could hear you whining from all the way down the hall.”
Ahab burst into tears. “I offered Pastor Naboth half my cash stash to lay hands on me and anoint me to do miracles like he does. but he had the nerve to tell me my heart wasn’t right with God. It isn’t fair. I didn’t slave and sweat for all those years to put MY church on the map only to lose half of it to him. Attendance has taken a nosedive and no one cares.”
Jezebel groaned. “Enough of this complaining. I’ll drum up a scandal that’ll bring the pastor and his congregation to their knees.”
And so, the wicked woman hired numerous lying lawyers to take Pastor Naboth to court. They accused him of pushing people down on purpose and performing false miracles for show. Lying witnesses accused him of all sorts of abuse and made it appear as if he’d visited internet sites he never even heard of.
With many a false testimony dipped in poisonous words, Jezebel and her cohorts dumped tons of dirt on the good fruit of the Holy Spirit that Pastor Naboth’s congregation was experiencing.
But though Pastor Naboth’s reputation did get buried, the good fruit of the Spirit still remained. The miracles, signs and wonders that took place in his church could not be denied. For God would not allow the bitter herbs of Jezebel’s wrath to overtake His “vineyard.” He can bring new life out of the deadest circumstance.
As for Pastor Naboth, he praised God amid the fiery trial Jezebel and Ahab put him through. Instead of taking vengeance into his own hands, he died to himself and, in a sense, was resurrected. The bad guys killed him with their words but couldn’t keep him down.
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” (Matthew 5:12)


Plan of Salvation in Gospel Film
Gospel Film of Bible on video,
Jesus Christ used the term "born again." The Gospel film in video format, God's Story: From Creation to Eternity, makes plain the definition and need of that born again experience.
The Bible used by Christians comes from 66 ancient manuscripts divided into two sections called the Old and New Testaments. Over a period of 1,500 years, 40 different authors wrote down messages from God. These combined messages contain important information on history, science, health, psychology and a number of other topics.
However, the central theme of the Bible, seen in this Gospel movie video is—the all-powerful, ever-existent God created mankind for His glory and for His pleasure. This God, in His divine foreknowledge, knew that the people He created would use their gift of free will to rebel against Him and His leadership. This rebellion, called sin, would separate people from their relationship with God.
But God, in His great love for the people, had already devised a solution. He planned to come to the world, and to reveal Himself in the form of a human, as a Savior, so that He could provide a way to reunite the fallen, separated people back to Himself.
The video, God's Story: From Creation To Eternity, presents an overview of the whole Bible, highlighting God's promised plan. The promised Savior, Jesus did come. While on earth, He stated and His life showed that everything recorded about Him in the Old Testament writings, including even the smallest of details, would all be fulfilled, 100 percent...and it was.
One significant proof of the Bible's divine authorship comes from it being the only book in the world ever written that contains predictions (prophecies) which have proven to be totaly accurate.
As an encouragement to those not too familiar with the Bible, the God's Story video presents many of the Old Testament prophecies which point to Jesus as that Savior promised from God.
Although most of the Bible was written through people who descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (known as the Children of Israel or Jews), a clear reading of the Bible reveals that God is no respecter of persons. No matter the age or gender, the race or ethnic background, or the educational, social or economic status, God reaches out with His offer of love to all people.
The Bible states that God's requirement for all mankind is the same. It says people must depend on Jesus as their only way of access back to God. God's message teaches that no human deeds however noble, no religion however moral, can span the gap between fallen mankind and God.
God shows that everything we design or do is still imperfect and brings glory to us and not to Him. He asks us to place all of our faith in the perfect God-Man, Jesus, as our Savior. Jesus, who on the cross paid the penalty for our sin and rebellion against God, offers us the only way to receive forgiveness and be reunited with God.
As shown in the God's Story video, Jesus Himself declared in the Bible, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man comes to the Father, but by me." John 14:6. Jesus even told a religious leader who came seeking truth, "You must be born again." John 3:7.
No matter how good people may appear to be by their society's standards, no matter how religious, God requires, new birth, through faith in Jesus.
If you would like to know more about the plan of salvation, how to have a relationship with God, and what Jesus meant by "born again," click here.
If you have an audio card in your computer, you may hear the whole video, Genesis to Revelation, including the words Jesus spoke about the plan of salvation. Listen to God's Story.
If you want to have this Gospel film, the whole video, visual as well as the audio, you may either go to our page on How to Obtain a Video or Distributors Outside of the USA.
For further information on language translation and distribution either go to The God's Story Project site or click here to contact by email.
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This Georgian architectural wonder dating back to the XI century has served as the religious center of the country for hundreds of years. The complex includes the church, a gate, a bell tower, castles, and clerical residences. The mantles of Christ and of the Prophet Elijah are both preserved in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral. The tombs of Tbilisi’s founder, King Vakhtang Gorgasali is also inside the building. The cathedral is included on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
The VI century Georgian Orthodox monastery is built on a hill opposite Mtskheta, at the confluence of Aragvi and Mtkvari rivers. Shortly after the adoption of Christianity, King Mirian III erected an enormous wooden cross on this site. In the 2nd half of the VI century Guaram, the ruler of Kartli, built a small church beside the Holy Cross. The church is included on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
The cathedral is situated 11 km westwards from Kutaisi. The Gelati Monastery, with its main buildings erected between the 12th and 17th centuries, was an important religious, cultural and educational center of Georgia. The monastery complex is included in UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage list and its architecture is well known for wonderful mosaics and frescos. King David the Builder, the most celebrated King of Georgia, is buried in the yard of the monastery.
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Meeting at Tbilisi/Batumi/Kutaisi Airport - Transfer to the hotel, check in hotel - Overnight in hotel in Mtskheta.
Mtskheta City Tour - Overnight in Mtskheta
- Svetitskhoveli Cathedral- is the main Christian Orthodox Cathedral in Georgia, built in 1010-1029 cc by the Georgian architect Arsukisdze and represents the high artistic value of Feudal time’s architecture. It was the main pilgrimage place on the Silk Road, the burial place of the Christ’s Robe, the tomb place of Georgian Kings and the most frequently visited place in Georgia. It is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Jvari Monastery- is the masterpiece of Early Christian Orthodox architecture, which is dated 585-604 cc AD. Located on the hill top near the town Mtskheta, it is listed in UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1994. The name is translated as the Monastery of the Cross.
- Samtavro Convent is located in the spiritual center of Georgia, Mtskheta, and is considered the famous landmark of the town. The monastery was built by King Mirian near the blackberry, after the death of St. Nino.
Imereti Tour- Overnight in Kutaisi.
- Gelati Monastery is a masterpiece of the Golden Age of medieval Georgia. Gelati was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and in 2006 was included on the list of Unmovable Monuments of Georgian Cultural Heritage.
- Bagrati- symbol of united Georgia. The Cathedral of King Bagrati in Kutaisi ranks among the best monuments of Georgian architecture. The constructions began in the last quarter of the 10th century. Now it’s in UNESCO World Heritage.
Trip to Mestia- Overnight in Mestia.
Mestia- the most original and mysterious area of Georgia hiding high in the mountains. This wonderful little town lying at an altitude of 1,500 meters in an area of steppe that rises gradually up towards the surrounding Greater Caucasus Mountains.
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Georgia is situated on the Black Sea coast between the mountain ranges of the Greater Caucasus in the north and the Lesser Caucasus in the south. The architecture of the country has been influenced by different architectural styles with some from the medieval period. The country is home to UNESCO World Heritage Sites. They are namely; Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery, Mtskheta Historical Monuments, and Upper Svaneti Caucasus mountains, villages, and tower houses.


Monday, March 20
Newsletter Items Due
Wednesday, March 22
8:00 AM Prayer Group
5:30 PM Supper—Walking Tacos, Fruit. Worker: Lori Dyce
6:00 PM GLOW/Confirmation
7:00 PM Lenten Service
Sunday, March 26
9:00 AM Praise Band Worship—Walk Around Offering: Food Shelf
10:00 AM Coffee and Fellowship
10:00 AM Altar Guild Meeting
10:00 AM Executive Committee Meeting
Congratulations To Those Receiving
Easter Sunday is April 16th, 2017. Contributions will be used to purchase Easter flowers. Please complete the form in the bulletin and return it to the church office by Saturday, April 1st. You may also place this form in the offering plate at any worship service. Please make checks payable to Hope Lutheran Church with “Easter Flower Fund” on the memo line.
If you prefer to share a plant of your own, please bring it to the church by Saturday, April 15th.