Pastor's Blog

Last year I asked folks to consider giving toward helping pay the salaries for our teachers at Colegio JET on GRACE Mountain.  The annual cost for a teacher is around six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500).  We have some churches and others who sponsor at least one of those salaries.  Some give even more.  Thank you!  However, I fully realize that not everyone can give $6,500.  I am fine with that and deeply appreciate each cent given to this cause.

So, we began our “A Baker’s Dozen” emphasis last year.  God blessed and it worked well as folks responded.  I am little later in the year this year but I am asking folks on this thirteenth day of March to prayerfully consider being a part of a baker’s dozen.  Simply means that you will commit to giving at least five hundred dollars ($500) between now and September 13, 2025.  It can be given any way that works for the giver – all at once, monthly, two gifts of $250, et cetera.

One can give online at aglimpseofgrace.com or by mailing a check made payable to GRACE Ministries and mailed to P.O. Box 223 Grand Bay, AL 36541.  Friendship family members, you can just give a check to me at any time if you are not giving online.  Or, you can give it to Heidi Butler.  If needed, Heidi can help with the “how to” of giving online.

Will you help by sharing this information with others?  I do no social media so if you could share it with churches, small group Bible studies, other ministries, et cetera then that would be awesome.

Colegio JET cannot operate without our teachers.  Our teachers cannot teach without folks giving to support this ministry.  Thank you for making this a matter of prayer.

We will end this emphasis on March 31 but folks can give at any time even if they do not commit/pledge to do so.  Lisa and I are committed to helping pay our teachers at Colegio JET.  Will you join us and others?

One final note – any gifts given to this effort must be in addition to your regular offerings to your church.  That should go without saying!

The work day scheduled for this Saturday, 3/15, is a GO!  One minor change – breakfast will be served at 7:00AM and the work will begin no later than 7:30AM.  We will finish by 11:30AM or so.  Cannot come for the entire time?  Come when you can and help as long as you can.  Allen Glover will be changing light fixtures in our adult SS building.  I would imagine he could use some other electricians to help him.  We need mowers, weed eaters, edgers, rakes, hoes, shovels, blowers, pole saws, chainsaws, et cetera.  We will not have a roll off container here but will have a dump trailer.  Men, come help us!

We have thirteen readers for this blog.  So, I was thinking that asking five of them to bake a cake for Friday, 3/28, would not be too much.  I think I was thinking wrong.  Not even my wife responded.  The “you have not because you ask not” did not work in this situation.  No store bought cakes unless they are coming from Anderson’s Bakery, Loaves & Fishes or some place along those lines.

I am asking the members of the Friendship family to pray fervently and then to show up in strong numbers for our 5:00PM service this Sunday, 3/16.  Pastor Roy Crouch will be preaching.  His family will be leading us in musical worship.  May we pack the house.

Obviously, I am praying for a mighty move of God among us the dates of Sunday, 3/23, through Thursday, 3/26.  Evangelist Michael Mason will be our guest messenger.  Friendship family, pray, attend and bring others with you.

Clinton Stringfellow is in the hospital.  Pray for him.  He has been having issues for some time now.  Clinton is a great guy!

Still rejoicing over what God is doing in the life of Tim’s brother.  Praise the Lord!

Will you join me in continuing to pray for Dr. Mike & Dottie Clark in Guatemala, please?

There are other prayer needs that I cannot share at this time.  Just pray!

I pray that you will have a great Thursday with Jesus.