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Many Members, One Body

Many Members, One Body By Ed Lyons "For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also  is Christ. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually." - 1 Corinthians 12:12, 17 By its very name, a divine appointment is when an individual or a group of individuals meet one another not by chance, but by an orchestration of events governed by our heavenly Father. We've all experienced divine appointments at some juncture in our lives. When we met our spouses, when we found the perfect job, and even when ...

Gift of Water at Christmas

Gift of Water at Christmas January 11, 2010 Dear Friends, Each year for Christmas, I give my family's "gifts" to a ministry that would be of interest to each one. There are 26 of us, and when we get together, I tell them where their gift went, and give them some literature about that project and ministry. This year, the gifts for the married men (6 plus my husband who lives in heaven) were sent to PPF for the well project. I said I knew how they would feel if they couldn't even provide safe water for their families, then each one (all 24 who were there) received ...

An “Advent Conspiracy” Christmas

An “Advent Conspiracy” Christmas Dear PPF, It's amazing the way God works things out in His own way and time. We are able to look back on the sequence of events and see that His hand and His perfect timing were involved even while we could not see it. Christmas this year was a wonderful example of this for my husband and me. First of all, in October, my brother deployed to Afghanistan with the Air Force and has been telling my family stories of all the need there is among the Afghan people. The faces and stories of those who have less than I do ...