It's NAKED!

Yep, that is a naked building. Stripped of the siding, it is exposed for some additional support to be added for the roof and then sheathing and siding. It has taken so long to get to this point it is almost hard to believe we are here.

That could be said of November and Thanksgiving week. It was just Halloween the other day and now Thanksgiving. We are off to the races to Christmas and the New Year. It come so fast. Well not really. Time moves not at a new tempo but rather we fill our days with activities and friends and family. It’s best that Thanksgiving comes first.

This week allows us to consider our blessings. Just last night I read some figures form James Merritt in his book 52 Weeks with Jesus. He wrote that the mean income of the average American household is $50,000 per year. That being true then the average household in America would be ranked in the top 0.98 percent of wealthy people in the world. Did you see that? The average family in the USA is in the top 1% of wealth in the world. I know, you say I don’t make that much. Well, if you earned minimum wage ($7.25) per hour your annual earnings would be $15,080 per year. That would put you in the top 12.2% of earners in the world. 87.8% of the world’s population makes less than you do at the current minimum wage. We are blessed! Most of us have done NOTHING to be blessed. We were born here and in that had no choice. In fact, many of us just complain about what we don’t have or that the cable went blank for 15 seconds or our cell coverage is spotty or worst of all the internet is down. As you begin to “count your blessings name them one by one” we need to start with the basics, clean water, a roof over our head, food daily. Most of the world does not have that. We take it as a right. Don’t we? Not as a blessing and yet it is a blessing.  

       

Just got the call today that the roof trusses will be delivered Monday, Nov. 23^rd to our site. We will install and hopefully sheathe them Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving. That’s where we need help. If you can help just show up and we will put you to work and feed you in the middle of the day. Questions, contact me at the church office or by phone 912-441-0004. God uses all kinds of people to accomplish his purposes in his time. You can be part of his purpose and time.

Thank you from our family for all of the thoughts and prayers for us as Dad was ill and died. Prayer is the most you can do and then many have done more with cards and food and other kindness. We know we are loved. Thank You for that!   

Bro G