Wednesday, July 29, 2009

MORE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM MIKE DARBY

Way to GOOOOOO, Paulette! Good for you for hanging in there!

Be encouraged dear ones--we have NOT failed--and darkness has NOT prevailed.

God clearly said HE had a "few tricks up His sleeve," and darkness is about
to meet head on "the SON of Righteousness!" Oh what a glorious collision
this will be!

Let's Pray On!

So-----Be encouraged....God is STILL in control! Ro: 8:28
forever!.....Michael




"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

Michael Darby

1810 Murray Cove Rd-Tiger, GA 30576
(H)706-782-7425;(Cell)706-490-0549

GOD & GROCERIES - ENCOURAGING!!!

Lynette,





Girl, I wish I could type as fast as I can talk because I have such fun and AWESOME news to share. (yes you can blog it). Today I was given an opportunity to put my Kingdom Assignment Plan B into action (Big Thanks to my friend Eden). I met with a videographer who represents the Time Union and Jacksonville.com. She interviewed me on camera allowing me the opportunity to share my Kingdom Assignment. Then she followed me around while I was shopping at the grocery store. We spent an hour and a half together and had the best time. I’m not sure how she will represent my story. I’m not even clear on which venue she will use to share my story, but I have given her every piece of information and plenty of video footage for her to spread my story all over the place. I was starting to feel disappointed in the fact that my Kingdom Assignment Plan A wasn’t falling into place the way I had hoped. I’ve been disillusioned thinking I was going to be the only person who couldn’t make something happen before July 31st. Then I re-read my Kingdom Assignment book and prayed and prayed like crazy knowing there were a bunch of hurdles to cross before getting to the finish line. As I was praying yesterday in anticipation over the opportunity that might come my way today, God showed me this verse through a devotional. It’s made me crack up laughing over and over. It doesn’t start with my name in the first line, but it might as well. Jeremiah 32:27 “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is there anything too hard for me?”



APPARENTLY NOT! As of last night there were speed bumps and road blocks, but by 10 am, we had a green light and smooth sailing up ahead.

I’ve always known God to be faithful, and sometimes he tests me just to see if I’m going to be trusting of his faithfulness. This is just another great example of how God works things out in his time for his goodness to be seen. Again this is not my $100.00 or My great idea, It’s God’s and today he allowed me to be his voice. I can hardly wait to see where it goes from here. If Plan B was so awesome, one of two things can be said. Plan A wasn’t God’s plan after all, or Plan A is going to rock it bigger than I can ever fathom. Either way, it’s all GOOD. Thanks for praying me through.



Paulette Waterman

CHRISTIAN CARE MINISTRY UPDATE

July 28, 2009

Lynette, I just received the email below from the president of Christian Care Ministry, along with the precious letter attached to it ...... You've got to read that letter......What a great God we have.

Bill Flemister



NOTE: Please copy & past the link below in your browser to read Bill's email & see the attached letter.

http://webmail.aol.com/43792/aol/en-us/mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=1.23154916&folder=NewMail&partId=2&saveAs=doc07282009122026.pdf&a=2357&z=24249

Friday, July 10, 2009

Christian Care Ministry - Bill Flemister

Is the “KINGDOM ASSIGNMENT” calling YOU?

God charges us to be good stewards of all the blessings He bestows on us.

Following a recent Sunday morning sermon by Dr. Denny Bellesi, author of The Kingdom Assignment*, one of Christian Care Ministry’s members was given a $100 bill by his church with three instructions: (1) This is God’s money. (2) Grow this blessing as God has told us in the parable of the talents and, within 90 days, see what God can do, and (3) Use the multiplied blessing for the kingdom.

This member, Bill Flemister, came to Christian Care Ministry with the $100 and said, “I am praying that not less than 100 members of Christian Care Ministry will come forward and join the ‘Kingdom Assignment,’ each with an additional gift of $100 or more to support CCM families who have lost their jobs and incomes.”

CCM regularly encounters members who are out of work and can no longer afford to send in their monthly share for Medi-Share or Manna, or even pay for the basic necessities of food and shelter.

Is He calling your name? The resources are God’s. The decision is yours.

Please pray, and ask God if YOU should come forward and be one of those 100 to join the “Kingdom Assignment”. Together, we can multiply that $100 into $10,000 or even more, to help these families who need our help right now. We join our fellow member, Bill, in praying that God will answer and that YOU will come forward and join the “Kingdom Assignment” to support those who need our help. Every “gift,” in any amount, is welcome and appreciated.

The amount you give toward this appeal will be tax-deductible and restricted for the purpose described in this letter. You can respond to Bill’s challenge by sending your donation to: Christian Care Ministry, attn: Kingdom Assignment, PO Box 120099, Melbourne, FL 32912. Please include the form on the back of this letter but do not send it with your share payment, as that is mailed to a different address.

If you are a CCM member-household in need of this type of assistance, please lift up this project in prayer and use the form on the back of this letter to let us know about your need.

Blessings,

Christian Care Ministry

*For more information about the Kingdom Assignment Project or author, visit their website at http://www.kingdomassignment.com/ .



I want to be a part of Christian Care Ministry’s

Kingdom Assignment!



Member Name:________________________________________________________________



Member Number:______________________________________________________________



Member Address:______________________________________________________________



_____________________________________________________________________________



Choose your part of the Kingdom Assignment below!



______I am committing now to pray for this project and for the Lord’s guidance in the distribution of these blessings to my fellow Medi-Share members.



______Enclosed is my tax-deductible donation for $________ to the CCM Kingdom Assignment. My check is made out to Christian Care Ministry and I am mailing it to CCM, PO Box 120099, Melbourne, FL 32912. (Please do not enclose this form with your share payment as it goes to a different address.)



_______Please consider my/our need for assistance. I am entrusting the Ministry staff to make the best decision regarding distribution of any funds collected and will abide by their decisions, even if I am not selected for assistance.



Need Amount:______________________________

Situation (use this area to briefly outline your need and the circumstances regarding your financial situation that have led you to request assistance):



______________________________________________________________________________



______________________________________________________________________________



______________________________________________________________________________



______________________________________________________________________________



______________________________________________________________________________



Return this completed form to:

Christian Care Ministry, ATTN: Kingdom Assignment Assistance Request

PO Box 120099, Melbourne, FL 32912

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Paulette's Celebration Time!!!

Friends,

I’m about to wet my pants with elation!!!!!!! The Grocery guy called me today! I was supposed to be on the Ichetucknee River, and bailed out at the last minute due to the weather. I’m so very excited, even if nothing happens from here, at lease finally I got to speak with someone. He said he had not received any e-mails from me and once I checked I had missed placing a dot in his address, so my info wasn’t getting to him. Thank God I followed up with a phone call last Friday.

It’s so crazy!!!!! I hired a photographer to take some photos for me so I could go on with plan B solo, and she only had one day to work with me before she had to go out of town, so I whipped together some clothes and groceries and met with her only two days ago. She left me a CD with some of the images on her porch yesterday on her way to the airport. I buzzed by and picked them up not thinking twice about taking an action until she return ed later in the month.

Then, as I sit here sad in the rain…… my cell phone rang and it was him!!!!!

Please start praying now that the emails and images will be well received. He plans to pass it along to the Marketing Department.

I need to scream really loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Paulette
July 8, 2009

Ben Goldsmith, Campus Crusade for Christ KA

BEN GOLDSMITH IS 'ON ASSIGNMENT' FROM THE JACKSONVILLE BUSINESS FELLOWSHIP KA LAUNCHED BY JIM WHORTON, CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES.



We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into….Who would have thought that when I and nine others went forward to volunteer at the Jacksonville Business Fellowship Bible Study we would each be handed a crisp $50 bill by our teacher Jim Whorton of Crown Financial Ministries and given the assignment to multiply it and invest it to bless people and extend the kingdom of God.

As my wife, Diane, and I prayed about this assignment, I knew it was from God and felt it was serious. I thought about individual needy families, at-risk children, assisting evangelistic efforts, giving out Bibles, and equipping Christians as possible assignments.

After about three weeks, God showed me that He had already given me my assignment and that it included all of the above. In May after prayer, our Here’s Life Inner City Jacksonville ministry had set the goal to train 1,850 Christians from 120 churches to evangelistically distribute a Box of Love to 3,700 un-churched needy families. Likewise, God had given us the faith goal of 1,600 people committing their lives to Christ during the distribution and being followed up by those distributing the Boxes of Love.

Yes, God had already given the assignment, with the cost of the project being $125,000. The Lord also showed me that as we sought to complete this assignment, He would cover an anticipated $25,000 short fall in our ministry operating budget between now and August 31.

Therefore, Diane and I have given $1,000 to the ministry to multiply the $50 we received with the assignment. Now I would like to ask you to join me in multiplying it and fulfilling the exciting assignment God has given us. Your check and those of others you may invite to multiply the gift would be made payable to Campus Crusade For Christ and mailed to me at 5860 Mount Carmel Terrace, Jacksonville, FL 32216. I am really thrilled to think how God is going to use this assignment He has given to help people and advance His Kingdom.

Ben Goldsmith
Jacksonville, FL
June 2009

Another Kingdom Assignment Launch!!

In November 2008, my 90 year old mother went home to be with the Lord and I had the responsibility of settling her estate between my sister and myself. The estate was pretty small, but I committed to giving off of the top of my portion to Kingdom work. I knew that my church and a few ministries that my wife Christy and I felt were important would be recipients of this financial blessing, but I kept sensing that God wanted me to do something special and radical with a portion of it. As we got closer to the time that the estate was probated and that funds would be available for distribution, the question of “what and how much” kept gnawing at me. I really wanted to do something out of the ordinary that would maximize the impact of the gift. Quite frankly, one of my concerns was that I didn’t want it to be about me or bring any attention to me. Although it wouldn’t be a significant amount anyway by the world’s standards, my prayer was that the gift could be given in a way that would please God and multiply His Kingdom.

In early April, my friends Robert and Lynette Brown invited me to attend the 20th Anniversary celebration service at Ponte Vedra Presbyterian Church. Robert told me that Denny Bellesi, a pastor from California who had become known for the Kingdom Assignment, would be speaking and that they’d be launching a Kingdom Assignment at the service. I remember that my church, Christian Family Chapel, had conducted a “reverse offering” a few years ago, where people actually removed envelopes of cash from the offering plate, rather than placing money into the plate. Each envelope contained a $10, $20 or $50 bill, and we were instructed to pray about how God might want us to use it and report back what was done. From my recollection, there was about a 5x – 10x return on the amount of money “given back” to attendees. All of this got me thinking about how my gift could be multiplied.

I was scheduled to speak and teach at a local bible study meeting about six weeks after the Ponte Vedra Presbyterian celebration service and I found myself thinking that perhaps God wanted me to use this Kingdom Assignment concept as part of the teaching. I had already selected the topic and had entitled it “Everything in Order and Finishing with a Flurry”, discussing our responsibility to get our financial houses in order and leave a legacy through our successor stewards. God made it very clear that this concept of leaving a legacy fit perfectly into the Kingdom Assignment. So, there it was. I began re-reading the Kingdom Assignment book that I received through Robert, sought counsel from several folks, including Robert and Lynette, who had been intimately involved with the Kingdom Assignment effort at PVPC, and prepared diligently for how I would present this assignment to the Jacksonville Business Fellowship group on Friday, June 12th. When I shared this with my wife Christy, her initial reaction was “Are you crazy?”, which didn’t exactly confirm what I thought God was telling me to do. Once she read the Kingdom Assignment book, it became clear to her that this was the path that God wanted us to take.

On June 12th, I shared the lesson about preparing for eternity with the Jacksonville Business Fellowship group and intertwined the parable of the talents from Matt 25:14-30. I emphasized the importance of faithfulness in using what we know is not our own, and that one day, we’ll all have to give an account of what we did with the Master’s resources. Then I asked for 10 volunteers to come forward and gave each one an envelope with $50. I explained the Kingdom Assignment and how each of us has opportunities to multiply the Master’s money for His purposes. In the week’s that have followed, stories have been shared of how the Lord has been leading those on assignment with different ideas of how to use God’s money. One person has already reported that the $50 has grown to well over $1000! We’ll have our celebration meeting on Friday, September 11th and it will be exciting to hear how God has worked in and through each of these 10 volunteers in different ways.

I believe that this experience with the Kingdom Assignment has confirmed in me the desire to help others understand money’s role as a tool in our lives to fulfill God’s purposes and calling and not to be the goal itself. In my role as Area Director of Crown Financial Ministries, we teach God’s principles of handling money, and I am more convinced than ever that a greater understanding and application of the Bible will help defeat the bondage of materialism in the lives of both Christians and non-Christians alike. What an awesome assignment that is!!!

Jim Whorton
St Augustine, FL
July 2009

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Encouragement from Pastor Denny Bellesi

Great to hear from you. I think you're experiencing the "normals" of this project. I think an encouraging phone call or even a prayer from the pulpit in church for all those people "on assignment" from the pastor could be very helpful. More than likely, some people are having that "panic" or "frustration" time between having a good idea, but now not knowing how to pull it off. This is a time to encourage them to listen to God. Remind them this is not a contest or a competition. This is about hearing from the Lord and being faithful with what God has entrusted to them. So, yes, encouraging calls / conversations/ prayer is great!!!

Denny Bellesi
Kingdom Assignment
www.kingdomassignment.org

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Small Group's Kingdom Assignment

If you were not in church on Sunday, you missed hearing Sharon Hawes provide an inspiring report of her Kingdom Assignment. She let the congregation know that she was touched when she met a mother of 4 who was soon going to move into a habitat for humanity home and all of the furnishings that the mother was going to bring to this new home fit in the back of her car.

Suffice to say, that God worked through Sharon with plans to brighten the hearts of this otherwise stranger and her four children. The dedication of this woman's home was this past Saturday and Sharon, with the generosity and support of others, was able to multply her $100 into fully furnishing this home as well as provide for many of the soft goods.

It is now time for us to get serious about our small group's Kingdom Assignment. A few things have happened over the last three weeks that I should report back to the group. First of all, the pastor has spoken with Richard and Diana regarding the Kingdom Assigment concept for his church and he is happy to have this brought to his church. He now has a copy of the book and is planning to be at our worship service on September 13th when we hear from Denny Bellesi and also from several of our members who have been "on assignment". Afterwards, this message will be preached at Chuck's church and we will be the catalyst for their Kingdom Assignments.

John Kunkel