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By Judith Ryder

“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband...” Proverbs 12:4

Just 16 days short of their 60th wed-ding anniversary, Dr. Harold Burchett

and his wife Jane were parted by death on August 22, 2010. Four months earlier, Jane’s lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s looming imminent, the Burchetts left VA for RI to be near their four children, 10 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren (two are on the way).

For thirty years, Pastor Burchett pastored in NH and RI and worked with missionar-ies in Brazil, Argentina, India, and Central America. Then, in 1979, after 20 years as a visiting professor at Columbia Graduate School of Bible and Missions in Columbia, SC (now Columbia International Univer-sity), he left his 12 year pastorate at Quid-nesset Baptist Church in North Kingstown, RI to become Director of Pastoral Studies at Columbia.

“...in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish until death do us part”Between 1979 and 2008, he authored six books including Last Light (2002, avail-able at www.Amazon.com), in which he painstakingly chronicled his life with Jane after her 1995 diagnosis with Alzheimer’s. The struggle would con-tinue 8 more years. In 1999, following weeks of silence when asked to pray, Jane uttered her final prayer: “Father in Heaven, I thank you for what you have made us.” Seven years ago, she spoke the last words Harold would ever hear from her lips: “Oh, I do love you!”

For the past fifteen years, Harold cared for his wife at home, 24/7, accepting increasing amounts of help from friends and caregivers. He’d had the first inkling something was wrong in 1991, when Jane experienced a strange “halluci-nation” involving insisting that Harold had

pre-arranged for a caller to phone. Unchar-acteristically, she became easily offended and quick to anger. Intermittent incidents continued, sometimes months apart, until

in late 1991, during preparations for a temporary move from Toronto to RI, Jane began unpacking what Harold and friends had already packed. To facilitate the move, Harold had to send her ahead, then repack and move everything to RI himself. Between 1993 and 1995, Jane’s con-dition deteriorated fast, yet she still managed an occasional speaking engagement, parlaying any loss of focus into a good story.

After a hiatus in RI, and eager to resume pastoring, Pastor Burchett could hardly wait to go when a call came from Commu-nity Chapel in VA Beach, VA, the largest

church he would ever pastor. But on the drive to VA, Jane was obstinate, accused him of off-the-wall things, and acted gen-erally strange. Harold blamed it on move-related stress and Jane did well after they arrived -- for awhile. However by July, 1995 Harold became convinced she needed help, and testing revealed Alzheimer’s. For two days they wept together, then stiffened their resolve and decided from the outset to announce the findings to their new congre-gation from whom they received immediate warmth, understanding, and help. Soon Harold’s marathon of homemaking and caregiving, neither of which he had ever tackled before, began.

What insights may be gleaned from how God prepared Harold from childhood for a life of service to Him, and then, seemingly at the peak of a successful pastoral ministry, called him away to an even more demanding one: faithfully providing the ever-expanding caregiving needed for his beloved Jane? During a far-ranging interview Harold, concerned

By Fred Comella

As an avid baseball fan, Spring always means just a little more to me, renewal

not only of our souls, but of the outfield grass and pitcher’s mound. My son begins his second season as a little leaguer as well and I’m one proud Dad. This brings me to the subject of my article t h i s m o n t h and that is the second annual “Fuse Festival” at McCoy Sta-dium, Memorial Day Monday, May 30, 2011. I mean what better way to ge t ou t and enjoy the early baseball season than to kick it off with a spectacular Christian concert? Well, I was asking the same question, so I decided to go right to the source for the straight skinny on this excellent outreach initiative, Brian Sawyer of “Fuse Christian Concerts”.

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27 year old Brian Sawyer was raised a Christian and while he readily admits he’s not the best church band drummer in the world, he is a music lover just the same. A marketing professional by day, he and his

team of like-minded Chris-tians are con-cert promoters by night. Brian and his wife A n d r e a a r e part of a board of directors whose min-istry centers on putting the Christian mes-sage squarely in the concert arena of youth.

Some three years ago Brian took the idea that young people will receive the “mes-sage” with far less static if it is presented in a format that allows a certain freedom of spirit. So he and his crew rented the local

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When Jacob Barnett first learned about the Schrödinger equation

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From within h is 12-year-o l d , m i l d l y autistic mind, there gradually f lowed long s t r i n g s o f pluses, minuses, funky letters a n d u p s i d e -down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand.

He grabbed his pencil and filled every sheet of paper before grabbing a marker and filling up a dry erase board that hangs in his bedroom. With a single-minded

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Strange, say some. Genius, say others. But entirely normal for Jacob, a child

p rod igy who used to crunch his cereal while calculating the volume of the cereal box in his head. “Whenever I t ry t a lk ing about math with anyone in my family,” he said, “they just stare blankly.”

So do many of his older classmates at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, who marvel at seeing this scrawny little kid in the front row of the calculus-based physics class he has been

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“When I first walked in and saw him, I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to school with Doogie Howser,’ “ said Wanda Anderson, a biochemistry major, referring to a television show that featured a 16-year-old boy-genius physician.

Elementary school couldn’t keep Jacob interested. And courses at IUPUI have only served to awaken a sleeping giant. Just a few weeks shy of his 13th birthday, Jake, as he’s often called, is starting to move beyond the level of what his professors can teach.

In fact, his work is so strong and his ideas so original that he’s being courted by a top-notch East Coast research center. IUPUI is interested in him moving from the classroom into a funded researcher’s position.

“We have told him that after this semester . . . enough of the book work. You are here to do some science,” said IUPUI physics Professor John Ross, who vows to help find some grant funding to support Jake and his work. “If we can get all of those creative juices going in a certain direction, we might be able to see some really amazing stuff down the road.”

Te e n a g e c o l l e g e s t u d e n t ? Developer of his own original theory on quantum physics? Paid researcher at 13? This is not what Jake’s parents expected from a child whose first few years were spent in silence.

“Oh my gosh, when he was 2, my fear was that he would never be in our world at all,” said Kristine Barnett, 36, Jake’s mother. “He would not talk to anyone. He would not even look at us.”

Child psychologists assessed Jake at the time and diagnosed behavioral characteristics of a borderline autistic child. He was impaired, they said, and had a lack of “spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment,” difficulty showing emotion and interacting with others. Diagnosis: mildly autistic.

“My biggest fear,” his mom said last week, with tears welling up in her eyes, “was that he had lost the ability to say, ‘I love you’ to us.”

By age 3, Jake was the focus of a more intense evaluation from a team of psychologists, therapists and a diagnostic teacher. Their report indicated that while Jake continued to struggle with social activities and physical development, he was showing signs of academic skills that were above his age level. Diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome, a somewhat milder condition related to autism.

After hearing this, Jake’s parents decided to pay closer attention to the things their first-born son was doing -- rather than the things he was not. For example, Jake often recited the alphabet -- forward and then backward. He used Q-tips to create vivid geometrical shapes on the living room floor. He solved 5,000-piece puzzles (rather

quickly). And he once soaked in a state road map and ended up memorizing every highway and license plate prefix. And perhaps most amazingly, he could recite the mathematical constant pi out to 70 digits. “I’m at 98 now,” Jake said, interrupting his mom during an interview. And then, a week later, he was up to 200 digits after the decimal point -- forward and backward.

The Barnetts decided it was time to follow Jake’s lead, adopting a method that some parents of children with autism use -- floor-time therapy -- to help foster developmental growth. They let their children focus intently on subjects they like, rather than trying to conform them to “normal” things.

For Jake, that meant astronomy. As a 3-year-old, he loved looking at a book about stars, over and over again. So off they went on a tour of the Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium at Butler University.

Kristine Barnett will never forget the day. “We were in the crowd, just sitting, listening to this guy ask the crowd if anyone knew why the moons going around Mars were potato-shaped and not round,” she recalls. “Jacob raised his hand and said, ‘Excuse me, but what are the sizes of the moons around Mars?’ “

The lecturer answered, and “Jacob looked at him and said the gravity of the planet . . . is so large that (the moon’s) gravity would not be able to pull it into a round shape.” Silence. “That entire building . . . everyone was just looking at him, like, ‘Who is this 3-year-old?’ “

By the time he was in fifth grade, Jake had become bored with elementary math. “The first couple of years were great, but then eventually the math started being, like, OK, we’ve been discussing this for a while, and it really isn’t that hard,” Jake said. “Can I move on to calculus now? Can I move on to algebra now?”

The boredom did not go unnoticed at home. Jake was coming home from school quiet, huddling in a safe space in the house and starting to show signs of withdrawing. “I was really afraid we were going to lose him back into the world he was in when he was 2,” his mom said.

That did not happen to Jake, thanks in part to a third psychological evaluation done nearly two years ago. It showed that this fifth-grader was not regressing but was simply bored and needed to be stimulated -- in a very big way.

As in dropping out of school. The evaluation revealed, “He needs work at an instructional level, which currently is a post college graduate level in mathematics, i.e., a post master’s degree. In essence, his math skills are at the level found in someone who is working on a doctorate in math, physics, astronomy and astrophysics.”

The Barnetts were blown away. They knew Jake was smart, but

doctorate-level smart? “I flunked math,” Kristine said with a laugh. “I know this did not come from me.”

E n c o u r a g e d b y t h i s n e w assessment, the Barnetts made the tough decision to pull Jake out of Westfield Washington Schools and enroll him in IUPUI’s early college entrance program.

As he prepared for the more rigorous work of a college class, Jake decided he ought to make sure he could master all high school-level math that would be required in college. “In one two-week period, he sat on our front porch and learned all of his high school math,” Kristine said. “He tested out of algebra 1 and 2, geometry, trigonometry and calculus.”

At this point, Jake’s math IQ -- which has been measured at 170 (top of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) -- could not get any higher.

Ross, who, at age 46 with a Ph.D. from Boston University, has never seen a kid as smart as Jake. “When he asks a question, he is always two steps ahead of the lecture,” Ross said. “He will come to see me during office hours and ask even more detailed questions. And you can tell he’s been thinking these things through.”

“A lot of people come to him for help when they don’t understand a physics problem,” said Anderson, his class partner. “People come up to him all the time and say, ‘Hey Jake, can you help me?’ “

Despite this new experience, his parents insist that Jake remain close with his friends in Westfield. Social activity is important, they know. For Jake, life is not all centered on math and astrophysics. He likes music -- classical, which he plays by memory on a piano, but he also plays some contemporary songs he hears on the radio. He loves sci-fi movies and the Disney Channel. He watches documentaries on the History Channel. A normal kid.

But then, late at night, when the TV is off, the homework is done and everyone in the house is sleeping, the numbers start to percolate again. They percolate so much that he has trouble sleeping. His parents got so worried a few years ago that they took him for medical tests, but no malady was diagnosed. He just can’t fall asleep easily.

“A lot keeps me awake,” Jake said. “I scare people.” The numbers that keep him from snoozing are the same that led him to develop his own theory of physics -- an original work that proposed a “new expanded theory of relativity” and takes what Einstein developed even further.

His mom, still not sure whether her son was truly a genius at work or a kid at play, decided to send a video of Jake explaining his theory to the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University, one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.

That ’s where as t rophys ics Professor Scott Tremaine does his work. Tremaine is one of the world’s leading scientists and is an expert in the evolution of planetary systems, comets, black holes, galaxies -- all the stuff Jake really likes.

In a letter to the Barnetts, Tremaine confirmed the brilliance. “I’m impressed by his interest in physics and the amount that he has learned so far,” Tremaine wrote in an email, provided by the

family. “The theory that he’s working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics. “Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize.”

Meanwhile, Jake is moving on to his next challenge: proving that the big-bang theory, the event some think led to the formation of the

universe, is, well, wrong.

Wrong? He explains. “There are two different types of when stars end. When the little stars die, it’s just like a small poof. They just turn into a planetary nebula. But the big ones, above 1.4 solar masses, blow up in one giant explosion, a supernova,” Jake said. “What it does, is, in larger stars there is a larger mass, and it can fuse higher elements because it’s more dense.” OK . . . trying to follow you.

“So you get all the elements, all the different materials, from those bigger stars. The little stars, they just make hydrogen and helium, and when they blow up, all the carbon that remains in them is just in the white dwarf; it never really comes off.

“So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it’s really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don’t care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn’t there have to be some sort of carbon?” He could go on and on. And he did.

“Otherwise, the carbon would have to be coming out of the stars and hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon, we wouldn’t be here. So I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn’t gonna happen.”

“Because of that,” he continued, “that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We’d have to be 21 billion years old . . . and that would just screw everything up.”

So, we had to ask. If not the big bang, then how did the universe come about? “I’m still working on that,” he said. “I have an idea, but . . . I’m still working out the details.”

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only that undue flattery might be extended, was forthcoming about his role, underscoring his constant dependence on the Lord to answer his often desperate prayers. Jane’s personal hygiene, bathing, dressing, feeding, and lifting, plus accident clean-ups, cooking, cleaning, laundry, dish-washing, errands, and doctor’s appointments increasingly fell to him and, until his resignation in 1998, were undertaken while con-tinuing his VA pastorate. Harold’s responses to questions about his childhood, testimony, motivation to become a pastor, his family, and “pre-Alzheimer’s” Jane revealed a remarkable life full of God’s grace towards a man He truly loves and who truly loves Him.

Growing up in Clarksville, TN, the middle child of three, Harold describes his mother as faithful, loyal, and loving. His father, a banker and “the best-liked man in town”, was active in their Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He would teach Harold and his friends to play ball, take them hiking between Sunday services, and talk to them about living right. All Harold’s relatives were active Christian leaders in their churches. His early life was an admixture of learning responsibility at an early age (by 8 or 9, he was already delivering newspapers and raising chickens in an electric brooder in the basement and pens outside), participating in kid-organized sports teams, and attending church whenever the doors were open. By peddling eggs and fryers to the neighbors, Harold began paying rent at 15, and bought his first car. After high school graduation at 16, he worked running a supermarket. Then, hoping to write for the local newspaper, he gave himself a crash typing course just in time to pass muster at his interview with The Chronicle, which hired him as a reporter and Sports Editor.

Harold can’t remember ever not loving the Lord. His parents read Bible stories and prayed with him nightly. Frequently retreating for prayer to the long cornfield on their property, Harold listened to Naza-rene evangelists preaching hellfire and brimstone outside the church around the corner. Both fearing judgment and anticipating seeing Christ, Harold earnestly sought God. One night, when he was about 5 or 6, he sobbingly told his parents he was not a good boy, and knelt to ask Christ into his heart. God prepared Harold’s heart and called him into the ministry through a series of circumstances.

In late 1942, at 18, Harold enlisted in the Navy, for the first time leaving his idyllic home aboard a

troop train to San Diego. Trained in sonar, he was assigned to the destroyer U.S.S. Hopewell, and headed to the South Pacific. The Hopewell acted as draw-fire in the invasion of the Marshall Islands, exposing locations of enemy bat-teries. The mission was highly dan-gerous and frightening, with shells flying all around. In the absence of a chaplain, the tough sailors, who had previously taunted Harold for carrying the only Bible onboard, now anxiously asked him ques-tions. Thus prompted to witness to his greatest agitators, Harold kept a list of which tract he had given whom. If approached individually, seve ra l l i s -tened, some-t i m e s a s a matter of “fox-hole religion”, o the r t imes m o r e s e r i -ously. A defin-ing moment c am e o n ce , after an infre-quent mail call when Harold had just read a slew of let-ters from home and felt lonely and aching inside. He prayed asking God (1) to go home just once more, (2) for more training in his job since he felt inadequate to handle equipment breakdowns, and (3) how to wit-ness to needy, lost men.

The next day a sea plane touched down, signaling a message for the Captain. Soon after retrieving it, the Captain chose Harold, whom he respected, to leave immediately for advanced electronics training in Chicago, dropped him off at Treasure Island, and told him to get to Chicago in three weeks, on his own! Finding a decrepit military plane to fly him to Guadalcanal, Harold next boarded a navy troop ship bound for San Diego, and eventually arrived in Chicago early. Granted his first leave in a year before starting training, Harold hitchhiked day and night for three weeks to get home, arriving sunburned to a crisp, 35 pounds lighter, and with a tongue too swollen to speak. He slept nearly 36 hours before awaken-ing to experience the inestimable comfort of his mother’s presence. Retreating to the cornfield, Harold prayed to be released from the war so he could learn how to help dying men.

Upon returning to Chicago for electronics training, Harold found the Moody Bible Institute and the Moody Church his dad had told him about. Seeing hundreds of attractive young people sold out

for Christ and testifying about going into Christian service greatly impressed him. At his training’s end, Harold was assigned to a destroyer escort in Boston, but the war was winding down, it was never commissioned, and he taught electronics instead. (Meanwhile, news came that the Hopewell had been shot up, most of its crew lost...) While in Boston, Harold formed a gospel team which sang and preached at a servicemen’s center. There he met Pastor Staf-ford Scott, who was looking for a testifying sailor to preach at First

Baptist Church i n Wo b u r n , MA. Eventu-ally, Harold became Sunday School Super-intendent, led Sunday eve-ning singing and testifying, and Bible stud-ies and prayer meetings for youth. Pastor Scott told him good things about Gordon College and Seminary, then tiny and con-servative with

a fine academic reputation.

In early 1946, Harold left the Navy and went home for some time off. Although excited to return to his newspaper work, in his mind’s eye he kept seeing those helpless men in the war who needed God. After three days he told his editor, “I can’t stay here -- I’ve got to preach and teach people the way.” Despite it being April and near the end of the semester, the next day he left for Gordon to begin his studies. The Dean, incredu-lous, agreed to allow the late entrant to take the New Testament and Old Testa-ment courses, promising full credit provided Harold could pass the finals with his class. After studying literally day and night, Harold passed both N. T. and O. T. finals (with A’s and B’s), obtained a three week extension to write the required summaries of every book in the Bible, attended summer school, and took GED equivalency courses. The following year he entered as a sophomore, having never been a freshman. Later he would earn advanced degrees from Gordon-Conwell Semi-nary (M. Div.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in IL (D. Min.).

During his sophomore year, Harold began vocal training and resumed his youth work at the Woburn church. Becoming restless to serve in a more focused way, he resigned from the church to do solo gospel evangelism. But by his early 20’s, he still lived in a college dorm, was just starting seminary, and had no time for dating due to constant traveling. (In summers he traveled full-time, and during the school year, part-time under the auspices of the N. E. Evangelistic Association, the N. E. Fellowship, and Gordon College.) But Harold began feeling lonely and desirous of a life’s partner so, typically, he prayed for one! Two weeks later,

he and his pianist were invited to take over a morning radio program, “Fellowship Hour” on WMEX in Boston. The program featured a ladies’ trio and organist, and Harold was to preach and be the soloist. But after he and his pianist arrived, his pianist met, married, and left for the missionary field with one of the ladies, thus breaking up the trio.”

Also in the trio was Jane Finch, whom Harold had noticed while at Gordon, but never known. Initially attracted by her contralto voice which he first heard on tape and later attached to the familiar face from school, Harold often practiced for the radio program with Jane. She invited him to speak to the youth at the Inner City Mission at Scully Square where she worked, a rather dan-gerous atmosphere for a young woman. One night while driving her home, he discerned that Jane was unusually realistic about life, and helped her with some personal challenges. Soon she began help-ing him by typing his school work, and he discovered more about her character: self-disciplined, sober, and not self-pitying, she earned his admiration for her talent as a vocalist and pianist, not to mention her beautiful brown eyes.

During time off from Jane’s summer work at the Rumney (NH) Bible Conference, Harold invited her home to meet his parents. While listening to mockingbirds, smelling honeysuckle, and hold-ing her hand he thought, “Man,

I sure need a pianist!” However, since they were always on Chris-tian assignments, it wasn’t until later, when Jane was at Rumney and Harold was itinerating in the Maritime Provinces, that he indirectly broached the subject in a letter, inquiring if she thought two people could live on a certain income. There being no reply, he wrote again, repeating the ques-tion. This time she wired back: “Your proposition accepted.” Fol-lowing an abbreviated courtship and giving her an engagement ring, Harold married Jane on Sep-tember 7, 1950, in her hometown of Everett, MA. They sang “We’d Rather Have Jesus” at their wed-ding, had a 72 hour honeymoon,

and returned to seminary where Harold graduated in 1951. Due to scheduling crunches and finances, Jane dropped out after her sopho-more year, and several months later was expecting their first child, Jonathan. Next came Karen, Rebekah, and Stephen.

Throughout his career, Harold received Jane’s utmost loyalty and support. She’d call him “the pastor” in front of the youth, thereby dignifying him in their eyes. When interviewing with prospective churches, she was up front about her first priority: caring for her husband and family. Should Harold call about bringing home a derelict to supper, Jane, being flexible and resourceful, wouldn’t mind. Very strong, she possessed a certain spiritual authority, though wasn’t a bit bossy. Besides being in great demand as a gifted public speaker, she mentored many women who gratefully remember her as their spiritual mother in the Lord. Jane also had a unique abil-

ity to help Harold keep God first in his life. Once after he performed a wedding, she discovered him escaping from mingling at the recep-tion by dawdling over filling out forms. She said, “Honey, what are you doing? You’re hiding. Do you realize that’s selfish? Those people need you!”

Harold knows it’s disarming for some to learn that Jane spoke her last words to him seven years ago. But she could still understand and, he notes, “tedious spooning (of food) creates a bond”. To the very end, he got her dressed every day, thus preventing bedsores, and positioned her wheelchair near the window for birdwatching. Transport-ing Jane meant moving dead weight from the bed to the commode and back again, so Harold developed exclusive leveraging techniques for accomplishing this. Although Alzheimer’s has its built-in,

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In 1998, Harold resigned from the VA pastorate to assume added duties as Jane’s primary caregiver. His perspective gradually changed from preaching to big crowds, to doing work that no one could see, experiencing afresh the truth of “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” In God’s economy, we are often unaware of the countless blessings God constantly weaves together in our lives. Nevertheless, Harold read-

Last Light from Page 4 ily testifies that Alzheimer’s, like other terminal illnesses, though heartbreakingly, almost unbear-ably difficult at times, brings God’s sweetest mercies into play. Even in this trial, “...all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose.”

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DALLAS, TX (ANS) -- While bolting the roof of a coal mine in western Kentucky, miner Jay Wright found an 18-inch-long fragment of a fossil shark jawbone with teeth still attached. The local National Public Radio affiliate WKMS reported that “Wright has seen smaller fossils and sea shells in the mine, but nothing like an ancient shark bone.”

The standard text-book story is that coal seams were formed when mil-lions of years of plant debris accu-mulated into peat bogs at the bottom of ancient swamps.

“The partial decomposition of plant remains in an oxygen-poor swamp creates a layer of peat, a soft, brown material in which plant structures are still easily recognized. With shallow burial, peat is changed to lignite, a soft, brown coal,” according to one

By Kimberly Schwandt

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said comments by Rev. Franklin Graham that there were issues surrounding President Obama’s birth were “preposterous charges.”

Graham, who has met with Obama before, appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and was asked about people like Donald Trump bringing up questions about the president’s birth. “Well, the -- the president I know has some issues to deal with here. He can solve this whole birth certificate issue pretty quickly. I don’t -- I was born in a hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and I know that my records are there,” Graham said.

“You can probably even go and find out what room my mother was in when I was born. I don’t know why he can’t produce that. So I’m not -- I don’t know. But it’s an issue that looks like he could -- he could answer pretty quickly,” he added.

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President Obama’s BirthCarney, in an abrupt answer, reacted and said, “It’s interesting that a minister would use Easter Sunday to make preposterous charges.”

A reporter in the daily White House briefing had asked for reac-tion to Graham’s comments that

aired Sunday and also for other charges that Graham has made about the Muslim Brotherhood [2] infiltrating all parts of the Obama administration.

The interview with the influential

evangelical pastor took place late last week, but aired on Easter Sunday.

The issue of the president’s faith also came up. As recently as last week, President Obama professed his Christianity, also going to church services with his family in D.C. on Sunday. However, the president still battles mispercep-tions that he is a Muslim.

“Now, he has told me that he is a Christian. But the debate comes,

what is a Christian? For him, going to church means he’s a Christian. For me, the defini-tion of a Christian is whether we have given our life to Christ and are following him in faith and we have trusted him as our lord and savior. That’s the definition of a Christian. It’s not as to what church you are a member of. A membership doesn’t make you a Christian,” Graham said.

The reverend said he does take the president at his word on that. “Well, when he says it, of course, I can’t -- I’m not going to say, “Well, no, you’re not.” I mean, God -- God is the only one who knows his heart.”

Shark Jaw Opens Questions about Coal Formationtextbook.

But if that’s the case, then how did a huge shark find its way into a swamp?

The standard coal-formation sce-nario presents other unexplained puzzles. For example, modern peat bogs are thoroughly penetrated by roots. Coal seams show no trace of these root masses. And today’s

swamp peats do not contain sea shells!

Geologist Stephen Austin pro-posed an alternative scenario for coal formation, one that fits the data much better than the swamp idea: A catastrophic flood event ripped up whole ancient forests, and then transported plant and animal debris into low-lying areas.

A subsequent series of tsunami-like waves then carried sediments over the top of the plant debris.

In the context of a worldwide flood, as described in Scripture and relayed in countless legends among people groups around the globe, sea creatures would have mixed with land plants as seawater flooded onto the conti-nents. And the associated rapid

transport and deposi-tion of plant material would explain both the absence of peat-like roots in coal depos-its and the flat, sharp contac ts be tween coal seams and sedi-mentary rock layers immediately above

and below them. These flat layers look nothing like the cross-section of swamp peat soils, but they could have been deposited together as part of a single massive watery catastrophe.

The plausibility of this explanation is demonstrated by a fairly recent geologic event.

A layer of peat comprised mainly of tree bark accumulated in the bottom of Spirit Lake below Mount St. Helens after its 1980 eruption. It was the product of a catastrophic steam blast and is not penetrated by roots. This shows that plant matter can accumulate rapidly into layers that resemble coal seams. If Spirit Lake were to drain and a heated mudflow were to cover the peat, one wonders if the resultant coal would look any different from that found in earth’s sedimentary layers.

One continuous Pennsylvanian coal seam, the largest in the world, extends from where Mr. Wright was working in western Kentucky across Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, southern Iowa, Kansas, and into northeast Oklahoma. Transporting

that much plant matter seems to demand a watery catastrophe on the scale of a worldwide flood as a sufficient cause.

The chief characteristics of coal seams-including their composi-tion, layout, and extent-are amply explained by the massive energy associated with a global flood as described in Genesis. And what clearer indication could there be of the insufficiency of regional swamp models than marine fos-sils such as a shark jaw embed-ded in the coal? The Genesis flood account still holds the best answer.

Brian Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research (www.icr.org).

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(WNS)--The Indiana Senate voted 36-13 April 18 to cut state funding of Planned Parenthood, which reportedly aborted more than 5,500 preborn babies in the state last year. Supporters of the amendment to H.B. 1210 say it would save the state at least $1.7 million annually. The bill, which still needs to be reconciled with the House, also would require a pregnant woman to be informed that her preborn baby might feel pain during an abortion. She also would be offered an ultrasound image. “I wholeheartedly believe that Hoosiers’ hard-earned tax dollars should not be used to support abortion providers,” said Republican Sen. Jim Banks, who sponsored the legislation. “I am encouraged by this amendment as it marks a positive step toward our goal of reducing the number of innocent lives taken each year through abortions.” The U.S. House of Representatives voted to

cut off federal funding of Planned Parenthood. The measure was rejected in the U.S. Senate.

49 U.S. Representatives Ask Court to Toss ObamaCare

(WNS)--Forty-nine members of Congress, including House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, have signed on to a brief asking the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out President Obama’s health care law as unconstitutional. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) submitted the brief in support of Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the law. In December, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson struck down the health care law’s “individual mandate” provision that requires all citizens to pur-chase health care insurance or be fined. The 4th Circuit will consider the case in May. In November, the ACLJ filed a similar brief sup-porting the Florida federal lawsuit brought by 26 states and set to be heard in May at the 11th Circuit.

(WNS)--Marriage advocates were thrilled when U.S. House Speaker John Boehner announced April 18 that Paul Clement, who served as solicitor general during the George W. Bush administration, had been selected to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.

Two months ago, President Obama ordered his Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop defending the law that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman for federal purposes. Within the week, Boehner announced the House would step up to defend DOMA. As many as 10 federal lawsuits are challenging the 1996 law.

Clement hit the ground running, filing lengthy legal papers in federal court in New York. Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for CitizenLink, called Clement “a superbly qualified appellate attor-ney.”

“The DOJ’s intentional undermin-ing of the pending DOMA cases was extremely disappointing and disheartening for the millions of Americans who believe that the definition of marriage should remain between one man and one woman,” Hausknecht said. “Paul Clement’s arrival assures us that the defense of marriage is finally in capable legal hands.”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The ‘Old King James’ is turning 400 years old in May of this year. This popular translation of the Bible has endured for centuries now and is still gaining strength. A national expo will be held in the Nation’s Capitol on May 2-3, 2011 to honor the influential book that some believe to be the Word of God to the English speaking world. A con-current resolution has been entered into the House of Representatives by the bipartisan team of Republi-can Representative Aderholt, from Alabama, and Democrat Represen-tative Rahall, from West Virginia. “The King James Bible deserves to be recognized for its contribution to American society,” says Doug Levesque, of the Bible Nation

By Brian Camenker

Massachusetts governor Deval Pat-rick has nominated a well-known lesbian judge, Barbara Lenk, to the Supreme Judicial Court. Lenk is currently an appellate court judge. She was appointed to the Superior Court by Bill Weld in 1993 and elevated to the appellate court by Weld in 1995. This also appears to be part of a recent national push to appoint openly homosexual judges. Lenk’s confirmation hear-ing before the Governor’s Council will be Wednesday, April 27 at the State House.

The nomination has been cel-ebrated by the liberal establish-ment as well as the homosexual movement in Massachusetts. But Lenk’s activities as a self-identified lesbian, “married” to another woman, with two chil-dren, who clearly supports the homosexual movement has fright-ened and outraged conservatives. Lenk’s apparent support for a dis-gusting homosexual-themed anti-Semitic play presented in Concord has caused big concern. The play, “Falsettos,” is a homosexual love story which obscenely mocks Jewish ethnicity and denigrates traditional Judaism, presented in a crude and vulgar manner.

In 1998 homosexual activists tried to push domestic partner-ship legislation through the Massachusetts Legislature. But

PROVIDENCE, RI, - Volunteers from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) visited Brown University during their state-wide tour for traditional marriage in Rhode Island. While peacefully demonstrating on the Ivy League campus, their pro-family banner was vandalized and a volunteer was spat upon in the face.

“What we faced at Brown Uni-versity, an Ivy League univer-sity, had the flavor of a religious persecution,” said TFP Student Action Director John Ritchie. “Dozens of pro-homosexual stu-dents screamed, spat, taunted, and even attempted to destroy our

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Boehner is calling on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders to divert funding from the DOJ to cover Clement’s legal services. “Obvi-ously, DOJ’s decision results in DOJ no longer needing the funds it would have otherwise expended defending the constitutionality of DOMA,” Boehner wrote to Pelosi on Apr. 18. “By the President’s action through the Attorney Gen-eral we have no choice; the House now faces that additional burden and cost.”

Also on April 18, later in the day, Pelosi responded in a letter by asking Boehner to drop the entire thing. “The House of Represen-tatives need not enter into this lengthy and costly litigation,” she wrote.

Boehner spokesman Michael Steel replied: “Obviously, this whole thing would be unnecessary if the White House and the Justice Department would do their job and defend a law that was passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by the President of the United States -- a Democratic President, at that.”

Congressional Resolution on the King James BibleSociety, a sponsor of the event. “It really has been the vehicle that formulated our language and programmed our thinking for centuries. There is no equiva-lent piece of English literature.” This particular translation of Scripture is the best selling, most purchased, and most distributed book of all time. All but one President of the United States, Franklin Pierce, is believed to have placed his hand on this version of the Bible while taking the oath of office. Its well known prose has instilled itself into the every day vernacular even in the 21st century. An excerpt of the resolution reads: Whereas many national leaders, have paid tribute to the surpassing influence of the Bible in the United States development, among them

the words of Democratic President Andrew Jackson, calling it “the rock upon which our republic rests”; Whereas Republican President Ronald Reagan also said of the King James Bible, “Indeed, it is an incontrovertible fact that all the complex and horrendous ques-tions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book”;

The entire resolution and infor-mation about the King James Bible Expo can be found at King-James400.com. The Resolution will be read on May 3 from the Capitol Building at a rally at 5 p.m., along with an historical cer-emony. This event is free and open to the public.

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Gov. Paul Cellucci and Speaker Tom Finneran blocked it. So they tried a different approach. On Aug. 4, 1998, Boston Mayor Menino issued an executive order to create legal domestic partner-ships for municipal employees in Boston. On November 10 it was challenged in court by the Catholic Action League, headed by C.J. Doyle, and the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). In December 11, 1998, the Supe-rior Court agreed with the plaintiffs that the executive order was illegal and issued an injunction to stop it. The homosexual lobby appealed it, apparently having gone “judge shopping” for the right venue. On December 21, 1998, a single justice on the Appeals Court -Bar-bara Lenk - lifted the injunction, ruling that by not allowing domes-tic partnerships it would cause “irreparable harm” to the couples’ ability to get health insurance. The case then went to the Supreme Judicial Court. On July 8, 1999, the court unanimously overruled Lenk’s ruling, and ruled that the executive order was illegal. The decision, written by Mar-garet Marshall, stated that cities and towns could not re-define the family for group insurance purposes -- only the Legislature could do that. Marshall modified her views on that afterwards. Lenk has not been shy about her “identity” as a lesbian. In November, 2008 the homosexual magazine Spirit published a profile of homosexual judges in Massa-

chusetts, highlighting in particular Lenk and two others.

The article observed the “openly gay and lesbian judges” have helped make the court system “a much friendlier place for LGBT people.” It also quoted the legal director of GLAAD, a homosexual (and publicly funded) legal group: “We need out LGBT judge role models as emblems for our kids.” “Out gay and lesbian judges, just by their presence on the bench, create a shift in the culture,” says Katherine Triantafillou, a founder and former co-chairwoman of the Massachu-setts Lesbian & Gay Bar Asso-ciation (MLGBA), in the article If confirmed, Lenk’s status as a “married” lesbian with children will likely be used in the public schools to reinforce the normalcy and legality of “gay marriage.” Lenk told Spirit magazine that in her opinion . . .”The law evolves and develops. It is not carved in granite. Judges do not enact laws, but it is our job to interpret and apply them in specific circum-stances. Those circumstances change over time, and that has to affect how the law is understood and applied. . . . Members of minority groups [i.e. homosexuals] may see certain things differently based on their own experiences.”

For most councilors who will vote on Judge Barbara Lenk’s nomina-tion to the Supreme Judicial Court, Gov. Deval Patrick’s fourth nomi-nee to the highest court comes as a “blank slate.”

But her potential to become the first openly gay member of the Supreme Judicial Court has ran-kled at least one member of the Governor’s Council who accused Patrick on Wednesday of “catering to various constituent groups.” Councilor Charles Cipollini, a Fall River Republican and first-term councilor, questioned whether Lenk’s sexual orientation would inhibit her ability to rule fairly on certain cases, speculating that issues surrounding gay marriage could come before the court again.

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traditional marriage banner.”“Suddenly, a loud thud-rip noise was heard. I looked up and saw a pro-homosexual student literally crashing through our traditional marriage banner, attempting to destroy it,” explained Ritchie. Some students watching from a distance approvingly cheered the act of violence,” he said.“Brown University students recently held a protest against tra-ditional marriage at the same loca-tion where we held ours and their signs included the word ‘equal-ity,’” Ritchie said. “However, they clearly wanted to impede our right to equally assemble.”

“One of our youngest volunteers, age 17, was spat upon in the face,” explained Ritchie. “Seeing the violent attitude of the pro-homo-sexual students, the police wanted to escort us to our vans after the campaign was over to protect us,” stated Ritchie. “And thank God they did, because when we pulled away from the curb, many pro-homosexual students closed in to hit the sides of our vehicles with their fists or palms. A hard object, maybe a rock, was even thrown against one of the vans.”

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Muslim Mobs Kill At Least 100 Christians, Burn Over 40 Churches in Nor thern Niger ia (ANS) - International Chris-tian Concern (ICC) has told the ASSIST News Service that it has learned that Muslim rioters have killed more than 100 Christians and burned down more than 40 churches in an attack that began on Monday, April 18, 2011, in response to the election of Jona-than Goodluck, a Christian, as president of Nigeria. The rioters even destroyed the homes of many Muslims who supported President Jonathan Goodluck. ICC says that the Muslim attackers allege that the election was rigged and General Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim presidential candidate, is the rightful winner. Yet, impartial observers have called this election the fairest in decades. According to the Commonwealth observ-ers’ report, “The elections for the National Assembly and the Presidency were both credible and creditable and reflected the will of the Nigerian people.”

Chinese Christians Say Worship is Worth Threat of Harassment and Arrest

(WNS) - The leaders of the Shou-wang Church in Beijing have a simple explanation for why they’d rather relinquish their freedom than abandon their church services: “Sunday worship is the most basic necessity for Christians in their life of faith.” That conclusion led church members to gather outside for a Sunday morning service on April 10, which ended with police detaining more than 160 Christians armed with Bibles and hymn sheets. Authorities have since released all of the worshippers --

though at least two church leaders remain under house arrest -- but police may face round two on an upcoming Sunday: The Christians -- who say government officials have cut off access to their indoor meeting place -- declare they’ll meet outside for worship again, even if it means facing detention or arrest. They insist that Chinese authorities should let them worship freely, even if their church isn’t registered with the government. It’s an extraordinary declaration. Bob Fu, director of Texas-based ChinaAid, said, “There’s not a group of church members in China that have taken any steps like this before. It’s definitely bold.”

Mobs React with Murder to Destruction of a Quran

(WNS)--At least 21 people died in Afghanistan during three days of protests over a Florida pastor’s bizarre Quran-burning ceremony. Thousands of protesters mobbed a UN compound in Mazar-e-Sharif on April 1, protesting the March 20 Quran-burning by Terry Jones, the leader of Dove World Outreach Center -- a small, independent church in Gainesville, Fla. The Afghan mob killed three UN work-ers -- a Swede, a Romanian, and a Norwegian -- and four Nepalese security guards. Protests continued in cities across Afghanistan, kill-ing 14 Afghans, including a child. The demonstrations erupted less than a week after Afghan Presi-dent Hamid Karzai condemned the Florida Quran-burning as a “crime against religion” and called on the United States to punish the pastor responsible. Jones, who had threatened to burn a Quran in a public event last September, led his church in a five-hour mock trial of the Islamic holy book on March 20 that culminated with burning the Quran.

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A growing number of Egypt’s 8-10 million Coptic Christians are looking for a way to get out as Islamists increasingly take advan-tage of the nationalist revolution that toppled long-standing dictator Hosni Mubarak in February.

Egypt Daily News reported on Tuesday that “lawyers who spe-cialize in working with Coptic

By Ryan Jones

Israelis are growing anxious over the international community’s renewed rush to impose a peace settlement on Israel and the Pal-estinian Arabs. And the world’s impatience is being fueled by Palestinian threats to unilaterally declare statehood in September, even in the absence of a final status peace deal.

Palestinian leaders have pub-licly announced that they will declare independence in Sep-tember and seek UN recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state. “The admission of Palestine as a member to the United Nations has become an inevitable reality in September next,” Israeli Arab lawmaker Ahmed Tibi told Pales-tinian Authority reporters recently. Before he became an Israeli Knes-set member, Tibi was an advisor to former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

The UN itself on Tuesday sug-gested Tibi’s assessment is more than wishful thinking when it declared that the Palestinian Authority is capable and ready to function as an independent state, and is only being held back by the

By Mark Ellis

As Japan announced a break-through in stemming one of the leaks at the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, tons of contaminated water continued to flow into the ocean surrounding the nuclear facility.

Engineers at the plant still face a huge problem of how to store 60,000 tons of contaminated sea-water used to cool fuel rods. With-out a viable alternative they have been forced to pump 11,500 tons of lower-level radioactive water

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Baghdad, Iraq - During early evening on Dec. 30, an elderly Christian couple -- Fawzi Rahim, 76, and his wife Janet Mekha, 78 -- answered their doorbell at their Baghdad, Iraq, home. When they opened the door, a bomb placed on their steps exploded. Both were instantly killed. Rahim’s brother, Falah al-Tab-bakh, told the Associated Press: “When I went there, I found both of them cut to pieces near the gate of their house.” During that night at least seven other Christian homes in Baghdad were targeted, resulting in at least 13 people being wounded. The car-nage came a week after al-Qaeda-linked militants renewed their threats to attack Iraq’s Christians. The violence against Christians in Iraq has rapidly escalated in the past year, including a bomb attack on three buses carrying Christian students in May and the Oct. 31 siege at Our Lady of Salvation Cathedral in Baghdad in which 58 were killed. According to Asia News, a Christian doctor was shot and seriously wounded at a medi-cal clinic in Mosul last Saturday. As a result of the increase in vio-

Christians begin to flee EgyptEgyptians…say that in the past few weeks they have received hun-dreds of calls from Copts wanting to leave Egypt.”

“They are insisting on leaving Egypt because the risks of stay-ing here are too great,” Naguib Gabriel, a Coptic human rights lawyer, told Egypt Daily News. “Many Christians are afraid of the future because of the fanatics

in the mosques.”

At least 20 Christians have been killed in sectarian violence with Muslims since Mubarak’s ouster. And groups like the Muslim Brotherhood have been taking an increasingly visible role in forming Egypt’s next government. Coptic leaders have complained that they are being left out of the decision-making process, raising fears that the Egypt of tomorrow will be far less free and democratic than even the Egypt of Mubarak.

At least seven Japanese Christians are working at crippled plant

back into the ocean.

In the midst of this complex and dangerous crisis, at least seven members of Fukushima Daiichi Seisho Baptist Church have been working as part of the emergency team at the nuclear plant. “One of the seven workers had actually run away from the plant out of fear, then after becoming a Christian, he returned to work with a smile and Bible in hand convicted to share the Gospel with his co-work-ers,” according to Scott Eaton, I.T. director for CRASH Japan.

The seven workers and their families are aware of the possible consequences of working in close proximity to high and potentially lethal doses of radiation. “From now on Fukushima can never be the same,” Eaton laments. “My prayer for Fukushima is that they would not give in to fear. That they will find their source of strength in the only strength powerful enough for a time like this; strength in Christ.”

A Palestinian state by September? “Israeli occupation.”

At a donors meeting in Brussels a day later, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, together with representatives of nations that regularly finance the Palestinian Authority, agreed with the UN.

“The PA is above the threshold for a functioning state in key sec-tors,” said the donor nations. They urged the Palestinians to achieve independence via a peace deal with Israel, but signaled they will not oppose a unilateral declaration of independence.

With that kind of backing, Israeli officials estimate that even Amer-ica won’t be able to prevent the birth of Palestine in the halls of the UN later this year. “[US President Barack] Obama wants a Palestinian state and although the US is not interested in a unilateral declaration, it would be hard for it to stand alone in the General Assembly and vote against it,” an Israeli official told Israel’s Ynet news portal.

Another official noted that the US had blocked previous attempts to advance a unilateral Palestinian

declaration of independence, but that it had only slowed down what has now become an unstoppable trend.

Meanwhile, the Palestinians see all of this and know they can now play hardball and stick to even their most outrageous demands. Compromise is off the table as far, as they are concerned.

“The [Obama] administration has started to realize the situation in the Mideast is dangerous,” Pal-estinian spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeinah told Reuters. “It’s time for the American administration to move before September.”

US Secretary of State Hillary Clin-ton said her government is already on the job, and that Obama can be expected to launch a new peace initiative in the coming weeks. Obama’s previous high-profile efforts to jump-start the Middle East peace process were foiled by the Palestinians’ refusal to negoti-ate with Israel.

At the same time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly working on his own peace proposal, but it is expected to be rejected by the international community if it veers from estab-lished Arab demands.

Embattled Iraqi Christians Need Protection Now lence against Christians, Iraq moved from No. 17 to No. 8 on this year’s Open Doors World Watch List of the worst persecutors of Christians. The number of Christians in Iraq has decreased from an estimated 850,000 in 1991 to 330,000 today. Thousands have fled Iraq and now reside as impoverished refugees in Syria and Jordan. Of the Christians that remain in Iraq, more than half are internally displaced due to violence and constant threats against them by Islamic extremists. T h e I r a q i g o v e r n m e n t clearly has not made protec-tion of Christians a priority. “The U.S. government needs to strongly encourage and work with the Iraqi government to protect Christians and other religious minorities before they are all driven out of Iraq,” said Open Doors USA President/CEO Dr. Carl Moeller. “History continues to demonstrate that where religious freedom flourishes, stable democracies, strong economies and healthy societies develop. Considering the immense financial commitment the United States has made in Iraq and the tragic loss of American and Iraqi lives, it is imperative that we hold both the United States and Iraqi governments accountable to ensure religious

freedom for all people in Iraq.” Open Doors USA is not only urging your prayers for our fellow embattled believers in Iraq, but it is also asking people to sign a petition to Secretary of State Hill-ary Clinton. The petition is asking her to work with the Iraqi govern-ment to immediately form and implement a comprehensive plan of action to protect the vulnerable community of Christians in Iraq. To sign the petit ion, go to w w w. o p e n d o o r s u s a . o r g . “The church of Iraq is bleeding and crying tears. God collects the tears in His jar and one day He will use it to irrigate Iraq. But I think not yet,” said an Open Doors worker in Baghdad.

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By Ethan A. Huff (NaturalNews) A recent chemical spill at a water treatment facility in Rock Island, Ill., required the assistance of an emergency relief crew decked in the very same type of hazmat suits being worn by workers at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Except instead of radiation, the leaked chemical at the water plant was actually hydrofluorosilicic acid, a chemical fluoride component com-monly added to drinking supplies for the stated purpose of prevent-ing cavities. This fluoride chemi-cal is so hazardous that it actually began to burn through parking lot cement in Rock Island before emer-gency crews arrived on the scene. According to reports from WQAD News 8 in Moline, a tanker truck delivering the fluoride began

By Ethan A. Huff (NaturalNews) Within the past several months, numerous towns in Maine, and one in Vermont, have proposed or enacted food sover-eignty laws that declare, plainly, that the federal government has no business telling citizens what food products they can and cannot buy or sell locally. Representing the third town to successfully pass such an ordinance, Blue Hill, Maine, recently adopted a local food and self-governance bill that asserts the freedom of local citizens to choose their own food. In a near-unanimous vote, Blue Hill residents successfully voted to pass the food freedom ordinance

By Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) A crucial lifeblood to agriculture, bees continue to face threats of extinction by things like pollution and pesticides, both of which are implicated in caus-ing mass bee die-offs, also known as “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. Scientists say that because of this massive onslaught of toxins, bees are actually entombing, or sealing off, their hive cells in an attempt to quarantine pol-luted pollen and prevent it from destroying the entire colony. The Guardian writes that sci-entists began noticing differ-ences among hive cells containing normal pollen and others contain-ing tainted pollen. The tainted cells were sunken and covered with a waxy layer of propolis, a sticky resin substance with antibacterial and anti-fungal properties. Upon

Arsenic & Toxic Metals Found in

Baby FoodsSubmitted by Lois Rain

Significant levels of arsenic, cad-mium, lead, and uranium have been found in baby foods; even organic baby foods. Researchers found that babies eating twice a day on store-bought baby foods like porridge would have increased exposure to arsenic up to fifty times compared to breastfeeding. Although the levels didn’t exceed official safety limits, some sci-entists are worried about infant intake and warn of DNA damage.

Forget official food safety stan-dards! The accumulative effects of toxic heavy metals are dangerous to all humans and safety standards allowed by officials like the World

By Lois Rain

When disaster strikes, many rush out and buy the saving grace without exactly knowing its proper use or why they are buying it. We often don’t think of something like radiation exposure until there is a looming threat. But, there are steps we can take all along to minimize and reverse damage from the many forms of radiation we encounter everyday.

The following are some simple food choices that can help your body combat radiation exposure on a regular basis. Some of them aid your body in sweeping out toxins, while others are nutrient-dense in vital minerals. If you�d rather not memorize or print the list, then strive to add more raw, living foods and dark leafy veg-etables to your routine, but there are even more useful choices below. You can also go to a website like All Recipes and type some of the ingredients. The site will create a recipe that contains those ingredients.

With radioactive isotopes detected in rainwater in Minnesota and other states including Massachu-setts, some people are looking into iodine supplements and other ways to protect the long-term health of their families.

Bees ‘entomb’ pesticide-tainted pollen in effort to protect themselves from

extinctionanalysis, the propolis-cov-ered cells were found to con-tain high levels of pesticides and other toxic pollutants, indicating that the bees were purposely covering them in propolis to protect the hive.

“This is a novel finding, and very striking,” said Jeff Pettis, an ento-mologist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). “The impli-cation is that the bees are sensing [pesticides] and actually sealing it off. They are recognizing that something is wrong with the pollen and encapsulating it. Bees would not normally seal off pollen.”

Researchers also noted that while the sealing efforts are a type of emergency reaction by bees to being bombarded with toxins, they are not really all that effective in the end. According to Pettis, most of the colonies with entombed cells ended up dying off anyway. Though there are likely other factors contributing to CCD, pesticides play a considerably substantial role in the devastating phenomenon. In fact, a document leaked back in late 2010 revealed that a popular pesticide known as clothianidin, which was approved by the US Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) in 1993, is directly responsible for killing off bees -- and the EPA has known this for a while but has done nothing about it.

Health Organization are an affront to our intelligence. The keep the levels where they are until sick-ness ensues and then it’s “Oops! Guess we should lower the levels for safety…”

Two things the story leaves out. Could there be other factors such as the glass or factory conditions leading to the increased heavy metal levels? And, what are the usual trace amounts of these metals that could possibly be found in foods for various reasons, if any? Maybe that is irrelevant when the toxic amounts are present.

Why would we gamble the health and life of babies away based on current “safety” standards? It is suggested that parents breastfeed longer. There are plenty of ways to prepare baby food with the types of food processors, blenders, and more on the market. It’s cost-effec-tive, healthier, and cuts down on waste. When you grow or prepare the food you know where it comes from and what goes into it.

19 Foods to Naturally Detox RadiationWhile there are a lot of drawbacks to using iodine, there are plenty of foods that naturally protect our bodies from radiation. Here’s 19 of the best: Brown rice, Seaweed, Kelp, Miso, Pumpkin, Spirulina, Bee pollen, Wheat grass, Rose-mary, Blue-green algae, Beets, Garlic, Ginger, Alfalfa sprouts, Broccoli, Onions, Olive oil, Leafy greens, Apples and other sources of pectin.

These foods protect the body from radiation in different ways. For instance, brown rice is high in fiber and phosphorous, which help remove harmful toxins from the body. Sea vegetables contain a polysaccharide that binds to radio-active strontium to help eliminate it from the body, as well as being high in natural iodine. Pectin has also been shown to bind to radio-active residues, and Cysteine (in onions) binds with and deacti-vates radioactive isotopes. Alfalfa sprouts and greens are high in chlorophyll, which has been shown to help protect against radiation damage, as well. Keep in mind that you should aim for organic and be aware of the sources. For example, fresh sprouted alfalfa sprouts from your windowsill are preferable to those shipped from thousands of miles away (and possibly doused with those isotopes).

Blue Hill becomes third town in Maine to pass food freedom law

on April 2. Besides declaring sovereignty from government intrusion on local food policy, the bill exempts all direct sales of food from having to comply with state and federal license and inspection requirement. In other words, local residents who grow and sell pro-duce, for instance, will not be sub-jected to the tedious and expensive bureaucratic red tape that rightfully applies to factory farm operations. “[It] is a huge milestone in the struggle to protect the rights, not only of farmers to sell their prod-ucts, but also of all citizens to eat the food of their choice,” John Gandy, a local resident of Blue Hill and Master for the Halcyon Grange, is quoted as saying in the

Activist Post. “It is time citizens start defending our rights against big government and big business.” In early March, two other towns in Maine, Sedgwick and Penobscot, both passed their own food sover-eignty laws. And the town of Barre, Vt., will vote on its own food free-dom resolution sometime in May. Based on the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, the federal government has absolutely no authority to interfere with state and local food affairs. The Amendment specifically prohibits the federal government from exerting any power not specifically granted to it by the Constitution, and a group called the Tenth Amendment Center is working hard to help states break free from the chains of unlawful federal intrusion (www.tenthamendmentcenter.com).

Fluoride spill at water facility literally burns holes in parking lot cement

to overflow, leaking the chemi-cal directly onto the parking lot where it spilled down towards the street. And before emergency crews arrived on the scene in full hazmat suits and gas masks, the fluoride had actually begun to burn a hole right through the concrete. “It’s a corrosive agent that the water treatment plant uses,” said Rock Island assistant fire chief Jeff Yerkey, concerning the spilled fluoride. He explained that the crews had to use earthen berms, dirt, sand, and commercial broom equipment to stop the leak. Yerkey also added that there was no “inhalation hazard” from the incident, and no evacuation of local residents was required. A WQAD News 8 video report of the incident, which includes footage of hazmat workers being hosed off to ensure that no fluoride

residues remained is available at their website, www.wqad.com. What is truly amazing about the incident is that this very same fluoride, which fire chief Yerkey specifically called a “corrosive agent,” is deliberately added to drinking water supplies across the nation. This highly-toxic chemi-cal that, when spilled, requires similar protective equipment as does a radioactive fallout situa-tion, is being added to millions of Americans drinking water supplies every single day in the name of promoting health. In reality, the events surrounding this fluoride spill are more than enough proof for any rationally-minded person that adding this poison to water supplies is a bad idea. Anything that requires the use of a protective suit and gas mask in order to handle -- and that burns a hole directly through concrete -- simply cannot be good for the body when ingested.

Some wonder why we bother to serve fresh buttered rolls with our stew. In fact, why even take the time to create a nourishing, tasty stew or soup loaded with vegetables and stock; like “Mother used to make?” Why buy fresh fruit when we can get donations of fruit rejected by markets? Why is the hot chocolate rich tasting and piping hot? Why iced cold water; why not room temp-out of the case? Why do we refuse coats or other items that are stained, torn or with broken zippers? Why do we spend time speaking with intoxicated people; those that are obviously under the influence of alcohol or drugs? Why do we sit and gag on their cigarette smoke, or their poor personal hygiene? Why do we endure their objectionable language?

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STORRS, Conn. (BP)--When The Bridge church meets for Sunday worship at the University of Con-necticut, the gathering takes place in a room adjacent to the Husky Heritage Sports Museum.

“Sometimes during our church service, somebody will come to the sports museum and have to walk right through where we’re wor-shipping,” said Russell Atherton, church planter of The Bridge.

The museum now will boast a new attraction -- another NCAA national championship trophy the UConn men’s basketball team won by defeating Butler 53-41 in Houston April 4. “It wasn’t the prett iest game that has ever been won by UConn,” Atherton said. “ A f t e r t h e game ended, we could hear the celebrating on campus, and we l ive two miles north of the campus. They were happy people.”

Atherton and his wife Cynthia had a group of seven UConn students who are members of The Bridge over to their house for dinner and a Bible study before the group watched the Huskies win their third national title. After-ward, Atherton and his wife drove through the campus with some students to observe the celebration festivities.

Atherton and the members of his church were hoping for a sweep of the men’s and women’s cham-pionships, but Notre Dame spoiled those plans when the Fighting Irish knocked off the UConn women’s team April 3 in a national semifinal

By Lonnie Wilkey NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) - The beginning of baseball season has always been an exciting time for St. Louis Cardinals fans Tim Ells-worth and Scott Lamb.

Their new biography, “Pujols: More than the Game” from Thomas Nelson Publishers, makes this spring especially exciting for Ellsworth, director of news and media relations at Union Univer-sity and editor of BP Sports, and Lamb, director of research for the president at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Ellsworth and Lamb’s book details the baseball side of Pujols,

At UConn, church meets next to Husky sports museum

matchup.

“Those who attend the Bridge are much more fans of the women’s team than the men’s team,” Ather-ton said. “We support both, of course. UConn is spoiled because we’ve won so many champion-ships. It’s almost presumptuous that both teams will be in the Sweet 16.”

Atherton, a Texas native, came to Connecticut in 2003 as associate pastor of First Baptist Church in Manchester after serving with the International Mission Board in Nigeria for five years. But he said God kept pointing him to the need for collegiate ministry and church planting in New England.

“ I r e a l i z e d that those two things were not mutually exclusive at all,” he said.

So three years ago, Ather-t o n s t a r t e d The Bridge, a Southern Bap-tist congrega-tion, with a core group of

seven people. Average attendance now is about 35 in a church that invests heavily in both the colle-giate and local communities.

The church rents a room for worship from the UConn alumni association and is partially sup-ported by the Baptist Convention of New England and the Wacca-maw Baptist Association in South Carolina.

“It’s obviously very different from the Bible Belt,” Atherton said of ministry in Connecticut. “Even though there’s an evangelical church on almost every corner in the Bible Belt, that’s not the case here.” He said only 1 percent of the state’s population is in an evangeli-

cal church on Sundays.

“The soil here is much more dif-ficult,” Atherton said. “Growth happens much more slowly, and it takes longer to garner momentum and to build up to any goal you might have numerically.”

Atherton spends a lot of time reaching out to students at the University of Connecticut, where he said only a small percentage of the student body are believers. The university may be known for its basketball prowess, but “we haven’t found a way to tap into that passion and excitement for sports and for basketball into growing God’s Kingdom,” Atherton said.

He said Christians can help sup-port his ministry in a number of ways. Prayer support is crucial as are finances. Churches can send mission trips to New Eng-land, Atherton continued, and can encourage those in their congre-gations preparing for ministry to consider frontier ministry in a place like New England.

“The thing New England needs most,” he said, “is people and workers for the harvest.”

Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun hoists the NCAA championship trophy.

Pujols’ faith explored in new biography

arguably the best hitter in Major League baseball, but it also digs into the Christian walk of the Cardinals star.

While much has been written about Pujols’ baseball abilities, Ellsworth noted that little has been written about his faith and the top priorities in his life.

“I’ve always had an apprecia-tion for what Albert Pujols has done on the field,” Ellsworth said in describing his motivation to write about a player almost certain to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame after his playing days.

“But the more I fol-lowed him, the more I became aware of the man behind the persona -- a man who is a devoted Christian, a faithful husband and father and a generous benefactor who uses his status as the best player in baseball to enrich the lives of others,” Ellsworth said.

While Ellsworth and Lamb were unable to talk personally with Pujols, they researched numerous articles and interviews involving 30-40 people, including the direc-tor of Pujols’ foundation which helps a number of charities.

“He has used his position to be a blessing to others through his foundation,” Ellsworth observed. “He is a fine example for other athletes and young men to try to emulate. We thought his story should be told.”

Lamb said that while he has always been a Pujols fan, “my esteem of him grew” through the book-writ-ing process.

“There’s a lot of material that didn’t make it into the book -- for

one reason or the other - that, when added up, really made an impact on me,” Lamb said of Pujols, who attends West County Community Church near St. Louis, a Missouri Baptist Convention church.

Thomas Nelson, which released the book in February, calls it the first full-length biography about Pujols, tracing his early life in the Dominican Republic, his move to the United States as a teenager, his rise to stardom, his take on the steroid era in baseball, his philan-

thropic efforts and above all, the role his Christian faith has played in his life.

Joe Posnanski, senior wri ter a t Spor ts Illustrated, wrote the foreword for the book, which also has earned recommenda-tions from former Cardinals second baseman Tommy

Herr, World Magazine Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Union University President David S. Dockery and Southern Semi-nary President R. Albert Mohler Jr., among others.

“Lamb and Ellsworth have given baseball fans everywhere a truly outstanding baseball book about the greatest player in the game today,” Dockery wrote in a pre-release review that described the biography as “an inspirational book about character, commit-ments, faith and family.”

Mohler said that Lamb and Ells-worth “really help us to understand Albert Pujols, not only as the base-ball player, but as the Christian. And in that sense, they help us to understand the gospel as well, and how, indeed, in the life of a great athlete, the gospel of Jesus Christ can become so visible.”

By Good News staff

NASHVILLE, TN Four hundred years after it debuted as the first widely distributed Bible for the English-speaking world, the King James Version (KJV) still holds a place of distinction among Amer-icans, accord-ing to a recent study by Life-Way Research. The poll, con-ducted to mark the 400th anni-versary of the KJV, found that more than half of all Ameri-can adults (62 percent) own a KJV Bible. Among those who read the Bible regularly the percentage of KJV owners is even higher. A full 82 percent of Ameri-cans who read the Bible at

Americans Still Appreciate KJV, New Poll Findsleast once a month own a KJV. “Christians believe that God’s Word is truth and that truth is conveyed through language,” said Scott McConnell, director of Life-Way Research. “It is hard to over-state the influence of the KJV.”

More t han a quarter of adult Americans (27 percent) indicate they have never read the KJV for themselves. Women are more likely than men to own a KJV, with 72 percent of women who own a B ib l e having a KJV copy compared with 62 percent of

men. Women own an average of 4.7 Bibles compared with 3.6 for men. Age is also a significant factor

related to KJV ownership. While 76 percent of Americans 55 years and older who own a Bible have a KJV, only 67 percent of those ages 35 to 54 own a copy. Younger Americans also have less experience reading the KJV. Thirty-five percent of those under 35 have never read a KJV. Readers of all generations find the KJV’s language beautiful. However, Americans in the South are more likely to say they “have found the language to be beautiful” (44 percent). When all translations are included, 89 percent of American households own at least one Bible, with the aver-age household owning 4.1 Bibles. Yet there is a significant gap in Bible ownership between those who read the Scriptures regularly and those who do not. Americans who read the Bible at least once a month own an average of 5.8 Bibles while those who read it less than once a month own an average of 2.2.

Approximately half of all adult Americans (53 percent) indi-cate they personally read the Bible once a month or more. Women are more likely than men to be Bible readers, with 60

percent of women and 46 percent of men reading the Bible once a month or more.

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You see, Brian watched for years as Chris-tian bands and entertainers moved around from the Southern and Bible belt zones up to Northern New England, but kind of just blew by the middle here in Southern New England. In true Christian fashion he thought why not approach some of these headliners to see if they would stop by? At that point he could spotlight some eager and talented local acts as well. I must admit I was some-what surprised to hear of the abundance of local Christian talent, and how anxious they were to play and help spread the word. The national acts agreed to perform and the rest is well, history in the making.

More recently, Brian has even partnered with the popular and successful “SoulFest” New England’s premier Multi-day Music Festival and Family Retreat. Imagine four days and nights of inspiring music, activities, and fel-lowship, all in the safe and beautiful setting of Gunstock Mountain, New Hampshire. This event offers 5 stages featuring over 100 world renowned Christian artists and speakers drawing thousands of folks from all over the country.

Brian’s focus however is primarily on small to medium size events closer to home as he sees this as an untapped market of faith. His philosophy is a simple one in that much like any other concert, the headliner will be the draw, but that local bands will get the exposure that comes with playing a bigger show which does not come through regularly, thereby projecting the message of Christian music to a broader audience with more frequency. Brian admits that this is often a tough sell in these ideological times, but is persistent to succeed with his message, such is the case with the “Fuse Festival” at McCoy. My Capitalistic gut tells me Brian’s marketing side was quick to recognize the Southern New England “gap” and he seized the moment, with a little “calling” in there as well. OK, a lot of calling…

Now on a more serious note, let’s face it, our young people are exposed to a lightning storm of bad intentions and distractions daily. Their lives are bombarded with social media slime that would make our grand-parents physically ill if they were here. So I cannot think of a better way to reach out to our children than by way of music. Not just any music though, the music they love and will listen to. Think about it, Rock and Roll that speaks to love not sex, “Hip-Hop” that glorifies God and not violence against women, and Country music that harmonizes about Christ’s hope and forgiveness.

Over the decades since the “Fab Four” landed on the shores of the United States, music has been a vehicle for the emotions of America’s youth. Sadly, the message has often been co-opted by drugs and alcohol as well as questionable characters with a political and/or immoral agenda. This type of manipulation is inevitable when dealing with humanistic forms of communication, and music is not exempt. Not unlike any other form of artistic expression, the per-former is targeting his/her/their audience with a specific message however subtle the presentation, vocal, instrumental or other-wise. Early years of discipline and structure taught by protective parents often give way to breaks of freedom at which point our kids struggle with a balance of what is decent and what is the rush of a loud and often rebellious musi-cal onslaught, complete with “accessorizing dress codes”. While this may sound a bit melodramatic, it is certainly the uncon-scious thought process of adolescence and slightly beyond. So I ask you, during those moments of musical bliss, why not let that which is flowing into the eardrums of our still learning young ones be positive. For if we are true to our journey to things that are Godly, then why shouldn’t the message be one of unconditional love and forgiveness?

In my political writing I make many a reference to what I see as the crux of the argument about what ails our great nation in this time, and it is always about the Kids. Inevitably, their experiences will guide them through many decisions and affect their lives in often unpredictable ways. Now while we cannot control every single aspect of their lives, we who may have the opportunity to

influence some of those outcomes must not miss the opportunity to do so in a way that is in keeping with our faith and the prin-ciples associated with that faith. It should come as no surprise that there are those who would use the same vehicle to thwart the Christian philosophy wherever they

can. Should we not then utilize what means we can to counter? And what better way to do this than to focus on the younger generation so they may have a choice?

Though this may sound like the long way around the barn, it is much sim-pler than we know. Brian Sawyer gets it. Brian and his partners understand that with effort and initia-

tive, we can affect the thought process of many and point them toward a better and more rewarding life in Gods eyes, all the while using good and decent entertainment to accomplish that goal. Brian through his ministry, acknowledges his responsibilities to God and to his fellow man and has stepped forward using his marketing talent as well as his God given drive to bring about change for the better. In my continuing endeavor to rekindle my faith in humanity, as well as to find those “points of light” in a storm of daily doom and gloom, I am pleased and encouraged to find Brian Sawyer and his partners fighting the good fight.

With that said, I asked Brian if there was anything else I could communicate for him that he felt was a priority about his efforts. He told me simply, I need “help”. As you all can well imagine, these types of events and their production are an exercise of monumental proportions, and (Fuse Con-certs Inc.) welcomes any and all support for this worthy cause, whether it be financial, some muscle on concert day or just your prayers that they make budget and the show can go on.

So if you are a fan of Christian music, and frankly even if you’re not, make this Memo-rial Day a truly “memorable” one for you, your family and friends. Come on out to McCoy Stadium and share in an afternoon of hope, with Dove Award winning band “Stellar Kart” and a great line up of local Christian artists as well. Let the sounds fill your heart, and the emotions empower your spirit. And when you’re good and hyped on God, run on over and cheer on the Pawtucket Red Sox… Seems like they may be our best hope for “The Great American Game” at the moment… J

Gates open at 11:00 AM. Concert is from 11:30AM until 3:30PM with the game against Norfolk to follow at 4:00PM. Gen-eral admission tickets are $22.50 for adults and $15.00 for kids under 12, and that includes the game! Now that’s a good family value for Memorial Day Weekend… Go to www.fuseconcerts.org for more info.

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It was a night that paid tribute to gospel music’s veterans and

recognized the industry’s emerg-ing talents as the 42nd Annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards entertained a sold-out crowd at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre. Hos t ed by t he effervescent Sherri Shepherd, the show was broadcast on GMC.

Francesca Bat-tistelli was the eve-ning’s top winner. She was named Artist of the Year and collected her second consecutive Female Vocalist accolade. Her hit “Beau-tiful, Beautiful” was named Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year.

“What is wrong with you people?” a stunned Battistelli smiled and asked the audience as she took the stage to accept the artist of the year honor. “This is ridiculous. I don’t know what to say.” It’s been a big year for the talented singer/songwriter who became the mother of a baby b o y s e v e n m o n t h s ago. She also released her highly anticipated s o p h o m o r e a l b u m , H u n d r e d M o r e Ye a r s . Singer/songwriter Chris August collected three Doves, winning

in the Male Vocalist and New Artist of the Year categories as well as P o p / C o n -temporary Album of the Year for

his Word Records debut No Far Away.

“I love doing this. I love Jesus and I love making music,” August told the audience as he accepted the partially fan-voted award for New

Artist. Backstage, August told report-ers that the only award he thought he had a chance of winning was New Artist.

“I literally can’t believe it,” he said.

“As a Christian, I’m humbled. You don’t look for awards. You just want to make music and serve Jesus, but as a person who has been working at music for many years, to finally have someone say ‘hey, you did a great job on something and here’s an award for it...’ that’s a pretty cool feeling.”

Jason Crabb won two Dove Awards, and “Sometimes I Cry,” penned by his father Gerald Crabb was named Song of the Year. “ I t h i n k h e ’s one of the great-

est songwriters on the planet,” Jason said of his dad. “He writes from a place everybody can relate to. I’m glad he’s my father. I learned a lot from him.” Jason, who co-hosted the pre-show awards with Nicole C. Mullen, also won the Traditional Gospel Recorded Song category for “Go Tell It On the Moun-tain” and Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year for “Joseph.” Point of Grace’s recent success in the country genre was recognized as the trio won Country Recorded Song of the Year for “There Is Nothing Greater Than Grace,” Country Album of the Year for

No Changin’ Us, and Christmas Album of the Year for Home for the Holidays. This brings Point of Grace total Dove wins to 13. Shelly Breen, Denise Jones and Leigh Cappillino told the press corps backstage that they had texted pro-

ducer Nathan Chapman to share the good news about their wins. Chap-man also produces Taylor Swift, Sara Evans and other country acts. “God has always been so sweet to put people in our lives that love us well,” said Jones, citing their husbands, family and friends who help them balance life at home and on the road. “We don’t travel like we did 20 years ago. We’re not on the road all the time, but we just try to make every day count. We’re just thankful that we’re here and we’re still getting to do what God

let us do, and we love it. We’re just excited and to get an award on top of that. It is just icing on the cake.” Atlanta resident Chris Tomlin was joined by the Passion artists to open the show with the rousing worship anthem “Our God” and that was just the beginning of an impressive string of performances. The highlights were numerous. All of the Female Vocalist nominees Francesca Battistelli, Britt Nicole, Janet Paschal, Kerrie Roberts, Laura Story, Audrey Assad and Natalie Grant honored Sandi Patty by performing some of her best-loved classics such as “Via Delo-rosa,” “We Shall Behold Him,” and “In the Name of the Lord.” She joined the ladies on stage to perform her classic “Love In Any Language” before announcing Battistelli as the winner of the Female Vocalist award. It was obvious Patty had been moved by the tribute. “Didn’t they do a fabulous job? They were amazing,” said multiple Dove Aw a r d - w i n n e r Patty, who has won 11 Female Vocal-ist titles. She won her 40th Dove last night for Inspira-tional Album of the Year for The Edge of the Divine, which was executive-produced by her eldest daughter, Anna Trent.“I was sitting there thinking there has been a lot of life lived since the beginning,” she said back-stage. “I understand God’s grace and His forgiveness in a way that perhaps when I won my first Dove Award 30 years ago I didn’t understand.”

There were several artist collabo-rations during the night. Point of Grace teamed with Kenny Rogers on “Standing On the Rock of Your Love,” a song from his first ever gospel album, For the Love of God, which is available at Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores. One of the most touching collaborations was Steven Curtis Chapman and Casting Crowns’ Mark Hall join-ing Third Day on their powerful anthem “Children of God” from Third Day’s current album Move. During the song, all of Third

Day’s children along with Mark and Steven’s kids joined their par-ents on stage to sing. Third Day f rontman Mac Powell and his wife, Aimee; Cast-ing Crowns Mark

and his wife Melanie and Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman have all adopted children.

During the program, the Chap-mans were presented the Uplift Someone Award, marking the first time the honor had been bestowed by gmc. The Chapmans are found-ers of Show Hope, an organiza-tion that increases awareness of adoption and financially assists families looking to adopt. “He loves this industry dearly,” Mary Beth said of her husband. “Thank you for loving him so we can help these kids.”

The evening was filled with mem-

orable performances, including Tenth Avenue North’s riveting “You Are More,” Mary Mary’s soulful “Wave My Flag,” Jason

Crabb’s st irring “Sometimes I Cry,” Battistelli’s “This Is the Stuff” and Kirk Franklin who closed the show with his uplifting hit “Smile.” Through-out the evening, in between acts

and during set changes, come-dian Chonda Pierce kept the

crowd thoroughly entertained with her rapier wit and no-holds-barred comedic jabs at both her-self and a few of her brethren. This year’s show marks the first time in GMA history that the Dove Awards were held outside of Nashville. “Atlanta has been won-derful to us at every level,” says Ed Leonard, president of Daywind Records and outgoing chairman of the GMA Board of Directors. “Our home is in Nashville, but Atlanta has been a great host for the Doves this year.”

Francesca Battistelli

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Entertainment Catching Her Wave

Soul Surfer portrays the comeback spirit and faith of shark attack survivor and champion surfer

Bethany Hamilton

By Alisa Harris

(WNS)--Rich Peluso, vice presi-dent of Affirm Films, a Sony Pic-tures label that releases Christian films, was getting a cup of coffee when he noticed on the wall of the local coffee shop a poster of Bethany Hamilton, a girl who lost her arm in a shark attack but went on to become a professional surfer. Then a friend told Peluso he’d heard Affirm Films was going to make a movie about Hamilton’s story. It wasn’t true, but Peluso immediately inquired and found that the script was languishing at his office. No one else was inter-ested, but Peluso dug out the box of scripts, called his boss and said, “We have got to make this movie.”

Soul Surfer proves that a film with unabashed Christian elements can attract big-name talent like Carrie Underwood, Dennis Quaid, and Helen Hunt while win-ning at the box office. Although it was origi-nally going to appear at just a few hundred theaters, on its opening weekend in April Soul Surfer earned $11.1 million and the highest per-theater average of any new wide release. The project “lived and died” more than once, Peluso said, but like Hamilton herself, the film bounced back.

The film begins with Hamilton at age 13, already a champion surfer who has been winning trophies since she was 9. On an idyllic Hawaii day, she is practicing for her next competition when a shark strikes, ripping off her left arm. She makes a quick physical recov-ery and is back on her surfboard just weeks later, but her spiritual recovery is more complicated as she struggles to believe she can -- and should -- keep surfing.

Soul Surfer does not dilute the faith that keeps Hamilton and her family strong -- a priority for direc-tor Sean McNamara, who refused to work with writers who didn’t understand that faith was central to the story. Hamilton -- who is now a 21-year-old woman with tan skin and honey-blonde hair -- said that she and her family read and corrected scores of bad scripts, including some that downplayed their faith.

In one of the first scenes, Hamil-ton (Anna Sophia Robb) hurries out of the water and straight to an outdoor church service where her youth group leader Sarah Hill (Underwood in her film debut) is singing, “Blessed Be Your Name.” The film is true to the spiritual story even down to the small details, like the scripture the real Hill told Hamilton’s family on the day of the shark attack. At the New York premiere, Hill recalled that

the ambulance passed her just as Hamilton’s brother, Noah, called with the news. She followed it to the hospital, praying for the right words and sharing the scripture that eventually comforts Hamil-ton’s character in the film: “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’“ (Jeremiah 29:11).

Arlene Newman Van-Asperen, who plays the mother of Hamilton’s best surfer friend, said she now tells Ham-ilton’s story to the children she teaches at Vacation Bible School. It reminds her, “I can handle my little things.” Kevin Sorbo, who plays the family friend who saves the surfer’s life after the attack, says he remembers hearing the story of the attack in 2003 and being angry that something so ter-rible would happen to a young girl. The real story, he found, is her comeback: “She goes out there and shows the world she can be a beacon for God and a beacon for Jesus.”

Hamilton was the stunts double for Anna Sophia

Robb, the young actress who plays her, and filmed the surfing scenes herself. These scenes make some of the film’s best moments and its finest cinematography. As Hamil-ton runs her fingers along a wall of water while surfing straight through the “tube” of a breaking wave, we know why she wanted to jump back out there. And thanks to the film’s integrity in portraying her faith, we also know how.

By Dan Wooding

LONDON, UK (ANS) -- The missing violin played by the Titan-ic’s bandleader as the liner slowly sank could have been found. 99 years ago.

This was revealed in a story writ-ten by Mike Merritt, for Britain’s Sunday Mirror (www.mirror.co.uk/sunday-mirror), a newspa-per I once worked for. In it, Merritt wrote, “Wallace Hartley and his seven fellow musicians became an enduring part of the Titanic story - heroically playing on until waist-deep in water as they disappeared beneath the waves.

“According to some reports, Hart-ley’s violin was found strapped to his chest in its case when his body was recovered from the icy Atlantic. But the precious gift from his fiancée Maria Robinson wasn’t there when the 33-year-old’s body was repatriated to Britain for his funeral.

“And it has been missing ever since, baffling historians and tan-talizing Titanic treasure-hunters as to its whereabouts.

“Now, in a remarkable twist, the violin appears to have been found - and is undergoing tests at a spe-cialist auction house to ensure its authenticity. But experts are so sure it is Hartley’s violin they are planning to take it on a world tour before putting it up for sale next year - the centenary of the sinking. It is likely to fetch more than £1 million (UK pounds).”

He said that British Christian author, Steve Turner, who has dis-covered pictures of the violin, said: “Other than retrieving the bow of the ship, this must be the most symbolic artifact of the Titanic sinking ever likely to be sold.

“Everyone concerned has been

Found at last, the violin played by the Titanic bandmaster as the ship

went downsworn to secrecy. Other than admitting to me the violin exists and that the photos I saw were genuine, the auctioneers won’t be giving out any more information until an announcement is made about its sale.”

All eight members of Hartley’s band played on as the ship sank 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada, on April 14, 1912. Reports vary as to the last song they played, but most agree it was the poignant hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee.”

Merritt added, “Sur-vivors recall the

band striking up playful ragtime tunes, including Alexander’s Rag-time Band, as the liner began to go down. “The story became a defining image of British calmness in the face of adversity and was immortalized in the 1997 movie Titanic.”

“Reports at the time said Hartley, from Colne, Lancs, was found fully dressed still clutching his violin. But the Office of the Pro-vincial Secretary in Nova Scotia did not list it among the effects of Body 224. “It was not handed to Hartley’s father, Albion, who col-lected his son’s body at Liverpool docks after repatriation - two years after Hartley and Maria had got engaged.”

Mr. Turner said that he found photos of a violin, leather case and sheet music during research for his book “The Band That Played On.” He says: “Someone with a knowledge of the Titanic was trying to authenticate the story. The most convincing thing about the violin, which was in a brown leather case with the initials W. H. H stamped on it, is the inscription on the tail-piece, ‘For Wallace on the occasion of our engagement, from Maria’.”

The story stated that Maria was left bereft by Hartley’s death. She moved to Bridlington, East Yorkshire, UK, and never married. “Mr. Turner says the photos back up claims by the unnamed owner - believed to be a male relative of Maria’s - that Maria retrieved it,” the story added.

Among evidence is a draft letter

The missing violin played by the Titanic’s bandleader as the liner slowly sank reported to have been found after 99 years.

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to the Nova Scotia authorities in Maria’s 1912 diary. It says: “I would be most grateful if you could convey my heartfelt thanks to all who have made possible the return of my late fiancé’s violin.”

Steve Turner, who has written biographies of Cliff Richard, Johnny Cash and Marvin Gaye, says: “This seemed not only to explain why she wanted it back so badly and why it didn’t automatically go to Hartley’s parents, but perhaps why Hart-ley kept it with him.”

A spokesman for auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son said: “We are in the process of run-ning a number of tests.”

“The Band That Played On” by Steve Turner, is published

by Thomas Nelson.

A personal note from Dan Wood-ing: Steve Turner has been a close friend of mine for around 40 years

and is one of the most talented Christian authors and poets that I know. His latest book is a must-read for anyone interested in what happened to the Titanic.

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By Frank Rydwansky

ATTLEBORO – A seventh-grade student at Dayspring Christian Academy of Attleboro placed first in a local essay contest recently as part of National Volunteer Week in the United States and was feted during two events held in Attleboro.

Hannah Fayard produced an essay on her volunteer work at the Golden Crest Nursing Centre in North Providence, R.I., where she has assisted patients for the past three years in a variety of activities (her mother is an employee of the facility). Her work was deemed the best among those submitted by middle school and junior high school students at public and private schools in the Greater Attleboro region.In recognition of her efforts,

By Bill Wilson – The Daily Jot

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Virtually Dating

Phony on l ine facades j e o p a r d i z e g e n u i n e

relationships

By Randy Hicks

(WNS)--We’ve all heard the phrase “the eyes are the window to the soul.” In a similar way, some ideas are a window to the soul of our society.

A soon-to-launch company called “Cloud Girlfriend” will be offering a service where men can pay a fee to hire a fake girlfriend who will post on their Facebook page. They never actually meet the girl. They just interact romantically online to make it look like they’re in a relationship.

The company not only promotes the service as a way for a guy to dupe friends and family into think-ing he has a girlfriend, but also as a way to boost self esteem. Yes, you read that correctly. Company co-founder David Fuhriman said men “Can use the site to jumpstart the process of changing social perceptions about themselves. This interaction can…provide real training experiences in navigating a friendship and a relationship.”

He also explains that the site can have therapeutic values by fulfilling psychological needs for intimacy and friendship. And it can build self confidence. Seriously? Has it come to this? This idea seems better fitted for a Saturday Night Live skit than a real business venture.

And if it weren’t so sad, it would be funny. I know that sounds trite, but I really mean that. As a comedy sketch, it’s a very funny concept. But as a business idea, it’s depress-ing. Hopefully, few guys who use this will be under the illusion that their “girlfriend” is real. Most of us know that if you’re paying someone to be your friend, they’re not your friend.

What’s sad about this is that it points to the lengths that some people will go for relationship, even at this superficial level. Whether it’s an attempt by the guy to feel some type of romance, to improve self-esteem, or just to fool others into thinking he has a girlfriend, it shows that relation-ship matters.

But as others have said, we are our secrets, not our public relations. No matter what facades we put forward to make others think more highly of us, it doesn’t change who we are or what we need. Adding false layers to our identity just makes it harder for us to con-nect with others in a healthy way because we aren’t being ourselves. It doesn’t improve our self con-fidence; it diminishes it because at the end of the day we’re really worse off than we started.

We gain self confidence through accomplishment; by using our God-given skill and ability toward something productive. No matter what the folks at “Cloud Girl-friend” say, neither their ser-vice, nor any other online social network, can cure insecurity or

Walking for Water

Rhode Island Eighth Graders Work to Relieve Suffering in Sudan

“Imagine getting up in the morning and turning on the sink to find that no water will flow from the faucet; imagine going days without drink-ing, without bathing; imagine living on two gallons of water a day, or having to walk 4 miles to get the water you use every day. For men, women and children in Sudan and many other countries, this is a norm.” explains Warwick eighth grade student Sarah Grace Plante.

We often take our water and all our other luxuries for granted, but May 21st will be a day to change that. The eighth grade class at West Bay Christian Academy in North Kingstown Rhode Island is hold-ing an event to raise over $3000 dollars to build a well with clean

Dayspring Christian Academy Student Wins Essay ContestFayard received a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond donated by Rockland Trust.

Fayard’s essay was submitted through the 2011 “Volun-teer Day” Essay Contest sponsored by the Volunteer and Student Ser-vices department of Sturdy Memorial Hospital of Attle-boro. The theme of this year’s essay contest was “Vol-unteers: Touching Lives, Lifting Spir-its.” Fayard read her winning essay during an hour-long awards cer-emony held at Attleboro High,

during which representatives of more than 50 community service agencies in the region received

citations for their vol-unteer programs. She read it again during at an awards luncheon at the Attleboro Elks Lodge #1014. “I volunteer at Golden Crest because I think it’s fun to know people and to listen to their life experiences,” Fayard said. “I have a good time hang-ing out with people, listening to them talk about many things and learning so much from them.” Placing first among all

high school students who submit-ted essays was Olivia Hitchcock, a junior at Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro, who is a DCA graduate (Class of 2008). Fayard’s essay was part of a class project organized by Emily Gallo, DCA’s middle-school language arts teacher.

provide truly authentic human connections.

The Internet has already taken us a long way from genuine relation-ships. Social network site like Facebook have created a virtual world where users, particularly young people, are consumed by the desire to be perceived well by others, to have lots of online “friends,” and to constantly be seen and heard. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Facebook and use it often to connect with friends and family. It’s the site’s misuse that’s the problem.

Ironically, this constant “connec-tion” with one another has actually created more isolation. The Inter-net is replacing the interpersonal communication vital to building trust and closeness, and working through problems. Interacting in an online world can weaken or prevent meaningful connection between two people.

According to recent reports, young people are struggling with a new form of depression brought on by Facebook. They’re feeling infe-rior to their peers who have more online “friends,” constantly post fun-filled pictures, and appear to be so much better off. But the real-ity is, those kids are likely present-ing a skewed image of themselves too. And the cycle continues.

Facebook got you down? Here’s my suggestion: walk away from your computer, go engage with real people. Find something you’re good at and pursue it whole-heartedly. Perhaps even consider serving those less fortunate than you. It may not be easy; it may be awkward. But it’s a lot better than interacting with a virtual phony.

Randy Hicks is the president of Georgia Family Council, a non-profit research and educa-tion organization committed to fostering conditions in which individuals, families and commu-nities thrive.

The seeds we sow: When the government liesNew York Times report that the White House authorized the CIA to provide arms, and locate ammuni-tion dumps and weapons arsenals to the rebels. While CIA operatives are not considered ground troops, ground troops are on the way to Libya. This, despite consistent reports that the rebels were joined by al Qaeda operatives and Libyan mercenaries who fought against US soldiers in Iraq. Later the CIA was calling in coordinates for the US air strikes against the Libyan government’s forces advancing on the rebels. Yet the president promised in his Libya speech he was “going after al Qaeda wher-ever they seek a foothold.” The White House told the Ameri-can people, and the world for that matter, that it was assisting the Egyptian people in overthrow-ing the Mubarek government in the name of democracy. The president said that the people of Egypt wanted freedom and that was why they were rebelling. Yet democracy was only the platform the terrorist sponsoring Muslim Brotherhood used to take power. Now, in just a few days, Egypt has turned from a nation at peace with

Israel to one that is strengthen-ing ties with terrorists who seek Israel’s and America’s destruction. Egypt’s new Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Arabi says his country “will turn over a new leaf” and seek diplomatic ties with Iran and talks with Hezbollah. In recent weeks, the Congressio-nal Budge Office reports that the White House public projections of the budget deficit were understated by $2.3 trillion--or a mere $80,000 per American household. AP reported, “The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if Obama’s Febru-ary budget submission is enacted into law it would produce deficits totaling $9.5 trillion over 10 years - an average of almost $1 trillion a year.” Last November the presi-dent said, “American taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in GM.” A March 16 Congressional Oversight report, says however, that $25 billion of the deal will never be paid back to taxpayers. There are countless other exam-ples of bold face lies by this

Administration from health care to law enforcement to employ-ment figures and on and on. This is a direct result of the American populace buying in to the concept of separation of church and state. The Founding Fathers followed the guidelines provided Moses in setting up this Constitutional Republic. Exodus 18:21 says, “Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness and place such over them (the people)...” We have abandoned the principles of fear-ing God, of truth and hating cov-etousness in choosing our leaders. Therefore we get no wisdom, lies, and financial malfeasance.

water in Torit Sudan bordering the Darfur Region. The money raised will go to an organization called World Venture that builds wells in villages in mid and eastern Africa.

In order to do this the West Bay eighth graders are holding a Walk for Water in which participants will walk four miles carrying buckets of water. Participants are encouraged to find sponsors for their efforts to help raise the necessary funds. The event will be held at Wilson Park in North Kingstown on May 21st from 8:30-11:30. Snacks will be provided as well as other entertainment. T-shirts will available to anyone at a price of $8 before April 29th. You can also join us on Facebook at Walk for Water. If you wish to attend, donate, sponsor, have any questions or all of the above please contact us at wbcawalkforwater@gmail.com.

“Volunteer Day” Essay Contest winners Olivia Hitchcock, second from left, and Hannah Fayard, second from right, are shown flanked by Frank Rydwansky (administrator of Dayspring Christian Academy of Attleboro), left, and Emily Gallo (DCA middle-school language arts teacher).

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By James Moriello“I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you” (John 14:18,

NKJV)Jesus makes two promises here to His disciples. Although these words were spoken to the eleven in the upper room, t h e y r e s o n a t e with Christians of all ages. The Lord has not left us orphans in this hostile world. The believer is not left helpless, defense-less, and without an Advocate (1 John 2:1). In fact, Jesus has adopted us into His family. We are therefore called sons and daughters of the King (2 Corinthi-ans 6:18)! Jesus also promises to come to us in our time of need. It is true He is omnipresent—able to be

Author UnknownDear Mom,

We’re still in Bethlehem -- Mary and I and little Jesus. There were lots of things I couldn’t tell you about last summer. You wouldn’t have believed me then, but maybe I can tell you now. I hope you can understand. You know, Mom, I’ve always loved Mary. You and dad used to tease me about her when she was still a girl. She and her brothers used to play on our street. Our families got together for supper. But the hardest day of my life came scarcely a year ago when I was twenty and she only fifteen. You remember that day, don’t you? The trouble started after we were betrothed and signed the marriage agreement at our engagement. That same spring Mary had left abruptly to visit her old cousin Elizabeth in Judea. She was gone three whole months. After she got back, people started wondering out loud if she were pregnant. It was cloudy the day when I finally confronted her with the gossip. “Mary,” I asked at last, “are you going to have a baby?” Her clear brown eyes met mine. She nodded. I didn’t know what to say. “Who?” I finally stammered. Mom, Mary and I had never acted improperly -- even after we were betrothed. Mary looked down. “Joseph,” she said. “There’s no way I can explain. you couldn’t understand. But I want you to know I’ve never cared for anyone but you.” She got up, gently took my hands in hers, kissed each of them as if it were the last time she would ever do that again, and then turned towards home. She must have been dying inside. I know I was. The rest of the day I stumbled through my chores. It’s a wonder I didn’t hurt myself in the wood shop. At first I was angry and pounded my frustrations out on the door frame I was making. My thoughts whirled so fast I could hardly keep my mind on my work. At last I decided to end the marriage contract with a quiet divorce. I loved her too much to make a public scene. I couldn’t talk to you, or anyone, for that matter. I went to bed early and tried to sleep. Her words came to me over and over. “I’ve never cared for anyone but you.... I’ve never cared for anyone but you....” How I wished I could believe her! I don’t know when I finally fell asleep. Mom, I had a dream from God. An angel of the Lord came to me. His words pulsated through my mind so intensely I can remember them as if it were yesterday. “ J o s e p h , S o n o f D a v i d , ” he thundered, “do not fear to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.” I couldn’t believe my ears, Mom. This was the answer! The angel

PENNIES FROM HEAVENMINISTRY TIP

By Rev. Doug Forbes

Pennies From Heaven is a won-derful way to learn more about your students and it’s fun too. This game works well with your children, teens and adults. To play Pennies From Heaven you need: Bibles, Bible concordances, a cup of pennies and good memories.

Pass around a cup of pennies and ask each person to take one. (It is important to place pennies with dates that would work well with the ages of your students. For instance, a 1922 penny would not work well with a primary class.) After a young person takes their penny they must read the date out loud and tell the group how old they were that year.

Next they must try to think of a sig-nificant world event and personal event that took place that year. For instance they could say, “President Bush was elected president and I entered first grade that year.”

Finally, ask the child to read the inscription on the top front of the coin, which says: “In God We Trust.” If possible, have them share a situation where they espe-cially trusted God.

For a Bible study, instruct your stu-dents to use their Bibles and con-cordances to look up passages on money and have them share their findings with the group. Have your class turn to Mark 12:41-44 and ask for four volunteers to each read a verse. Explain that the widow generously gave all that she had and trusted God to take care of her. Just like the widow, we should share with others and trust God to take care of our needs. Close in prayer asking God to make us generous people. Thank God that we can always trust Him to take care of us.

A Mother’s Lovecontinued, “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” The angel gripped my shoulders with his huge hands. For a long moment his gaze pierced deep within me. Just as he turned to go, I think I saw a smile on his shining face. I sat bolt upright in bed. No sleep after that! I tossed about for a while, going over the words in my mind. Then I got up and dressed quietly so I wouldn’t wake you. I must have walked for miles beneath the moon less sky. Stars pricked the blackness like a thousand tiny pinpoints. A warm breeze blew on my face. I sang to the Lord, Mom. Yes, me, singing, if you can imagine that. I couldn’t contain my joy. I told Him that I would take Mary and care for her. I told Him I would watch over her and the child--no matter what anyone said. I got back just as the sun kissed the hilltops. I don’t know if you still recall that morning, Mom. I can see it in my mind’s eye as if it were yesterday. You were feeding the chickens, surprised to see me out. Remember? “Sit down,” I said to you. “I’ve got to tell you something.” I took your arm and helped you find a seat on the big rock out back. “Mom,” I sa id , “ I ’m going to bring Mary home as my wife. Can you help me make a place for her things?” You were silent a long t ime. “You do know what they’re saying, don’t you, my son?” y o u s a i d a t last, your eyes glistening. “Yes, Mom, I know.” Your voice started to rise. “If your father were still alive, he’d have some words, I’ll tell you. Going about like that before you are married. Disgracing the family and all. You.... you and Mary ought to be ashamed of yourselves.” You’d never have believed me if I’d tried to explain, so I didn’t. Unless the angel had spoken to you, you’d have laughed me to scorn. “Mom, this is the right thing to do,” I said. And then I started talking to you as if I were the head of the house. “When she comes I don’t want one word to her about it,” I sputtered. “She’s your daughter-in-law, you’ll respect her. She’ll need your help if she’s to bear the neighbors’ wagging tongues!” I’m sorry, Mom. You didn’t deserve that. You started to get up in a huff. “Mom,” I murmured, “I need you.” You took my hand and got to your feet, but the

fire was gone from your eyes. “You can count on me, Joseph,” you told me with a long hug. And you meant it. I never heard another word. No bride could hope for a better mother-in-law than you those next few months. Mom, after I left you I went up the road to Mary’s house and knocked. Her mother glared at me as she opened the door. Loudly, harshly she called into the house, “It’s Joseph!” almost spitting out my name as she said it.

My little Mary c a m e o u t cringing, as if she expected me to give her the back of my hand, I suppose. Her eyes were red and puffy. I can just imagine what her parents had said. We walked a few s t e p s f r o m t h e h o u s e . S h e l o o k e d so young and

afraid. “Pack your things, Mary,” I told her gently. “I’m taking you home to be my wife.” “Joseph!” She hugged me as tight as she could. Mom, I didn’t realize she was so strong. I told her what I’d been planning. “We’ll go to Rabbi Ben-Ezer’s house this week and have him perform the ceremony.” I know it was awful sudden, Mom, but I figured the sooner we got married the better it would be for her, and me, and the baby. “Mary, even if our friends don’t come, at least you and I can pledge our love before God.” I paused. “I think my Mom will be there. And maybe your friend Rebecca would come if her dad will let her. How about your parents?” I could feel Mary’s tiny frame shuddering as she sobbed quietly. “Mary,” I said. I could feel myself speaking more boldly. “No matter what anyone says about you, I’m proud you’re going to be my

wife. I’m going to take good care of you. I’ve promised God that.” She looked up. I lowered my voice. “I had a dream last night, Mary. I saw an angel. I know.” The anguish which had gripped her face vanished. She was radiant as we turned away from the house and began to walk up the hill together. Just then her mother ran out into the yard. “Wait,” she called. She must have been listening from behind the door. Tears were streaming down her cheeks. “I’ll get your father,” she called, almost giddy with emotion. “We,” she cried as she gathered up her skirts. “We,” she shouted as she began to run to find her husband. “We ... are going to have a wedding!” Tha t ’s how i t was , Mom. Thanks for being there for us . I ’ l l wr i te aga in soon . Love.... Joseph

When a mother offers sacrificial love its origin is God. Have you experienced this awesome love of God? He understands your needs like nobody else can and has been waiting for you to invite Him into your life. Why not do it today. The bible says; That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9 I know it sounds too simple to be true, but it is. Only believe and you will be saved. Say a simple prayer something like this:

Jesus, please forgive me for my many sins. I know I haven’t done everything that I should with my life and I regret it. I know that you died for me and that you have a plan for my life. Please teach me your ways and help me to live my life for you, free from the fears of this world and the next. Amen

Congratulations, if you have prayed this prayer, the Bible says, “ Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Cor. 5:17)

Believers are not Orphansat all places at all times—by virtue of the fact that He is God. How-ever, we so often miss that fact in the moment. Are you feeling lonely and depressed? The Savior will come to you. Do you feel disconnected from God? Christ

will come to you. Are you grieving today? The Lord will come to you and hold you in His everlasting arms. Are you rejoic-ing today? Jesus will surely come to you and rejoice a longside you. Wherever you are at in your Christian walk, do not leave Him out. He has not left you out.

“For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Hebrews 13:5).

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“The car won’t start,” said a wife to her husband. “I think there’s water in the carburetor.” “How do you know?” said the husband scornfully. “You don’t even know what the carburetor is.” “I’m tell-ing you,” repeated the wife, “I’m sure there’s water in the carbure-tor.” “We’ll see,” mocked the husband. “Let me check it out. Where’s the car?” “In the swim-ming pool.”

Words of Wisdom

Save money by using a facial tissue twice - first to clean your glasses and then to blow your nose. Be sure to remember which one to do first.Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall.Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others, whenever they go.

Time is a great healer, but a lousy beautician.

Storing treasures on earth

One lazy Saturday morning the wife and I were quiet and thought-ful, sitting around the breakfast table when I said to her unexpect-edly, “When I die, I want you to sell all my stuff, immediately.” “Now why would you want me to do something like that?” she asked. “I figure a woman as fine as yourself would eventually remarry and I don’t want some other jerk using my stuff.” She looked at me intently and said: “What makes you think I’d marry another jerk?”

Object lesson

In a grammar lesson in eighth grade, Mrs. Frobisher said,

“Dewey, give me a sentence with a direct object.” Dewey replied, “Everyone thinks you are the best teacher in the school.” “Thank you, Dewey,” responded Mrs. Frobisher, “but what is the object?” “To get the best grade possible,” said Dewey.

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1 . H o w d o y o u p u t a giraffe into a refrigerator? The correct answer: Open the refrigerator, put the giraffe in and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

2. How do you put an ele-phant in to a re f r igera tor? Wrong Answer: Open the refrig-erator, put in the elephant and close the refrigerator. Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the reper-cussions of your actions.

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference, all the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend? Correct Answer: The Elephant. The Elephant is in

Are you qualified to be a “professional”?Carefully consider these simple questions before reading the

answers beneath each onethe refrigerator. This tests your memory.

OK, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly you still have one more chance to show your abilities.

4. There is a river you must cross. But it is inhabited by croco-diles. How do you manage it? Correct Answer: You swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the animal meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

According to Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong. But many pre-schoolers got all correct answers. Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four year old.

Across1 A book of books (5)4 Shortest book in the Old Testa-ment (7)7 The number of chapters in Phi-lemon (3)8 This testament contains 39 books (3)9 Jesus’ brother, who wrote a letter (5)11 In authority before the kings (6)12 His epistle contains one chap-ter (4)13 Successor to Queen Vashti (6)14 David wrote many of these, set to music (6)17 Wrote about the restoration of the temple (4)18 Originator, writer of a book (6)21 Number of letters written by John (5)23 Number of chapters in 13A (3)24 Galilee, Dead, for example (3)26 Paul wrote many of these (7)27 He prophesied the birthplace of Jesus (5)Down1 There are 66 of these (5)2 Behold (2)3 Revelation comes in this part of the NewTestament (3)5 Donation of money to the poor (4)6 This letter lists the faithful (7)9 He prophesied of the ‘day of the Lord’ (4)10 A faithful Moabitess (4)13 He foretold the regathering of Israel inprophecy of dry bones (7)15 A prophet who was a herds-man (4)16 One of the gospel writers (4)19 A prophet, reluctant to go to Nineveh (5)20 Adam and Eve ate from this in the garden (4)22 The border of a garment (3)25 Joshua writes about this city near Bethel (2)

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Apostolic Pentecostal Church of RIAnd Ye Shall Know The Truth537 Elm Street • Woonsocket, RI 02895401-534-0172 • acts238@apcri.comService Times Sunday Morning: 10:00 amTuesday Evening Prayer: 6:30 pmTuesday Evening Interactive Bible Study: 7:30 pmThursday Evening: 7:30 pm

Faith Bible Chapel115 Ashaway Rd (Rt 3)Westerly, RI 02891(401) 348-9637

Pastor Bernie NormanSunday services:Adult Sunday School 9:00 amSunday Worship service: 10:30 am

~ Clayville Assembly ~7 Plainfield Pike - Foster, Rhode Island

www.clayvilleassembly.com

433 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI 02907Help Line: (401) 941-4357

Business Line: (401) 941-2051www.carenetri.org

Office HoursMonday 10 - 5:30

Wednesday 10 - 5:30Thursday 10 - 5:30

(508) 999-5683651 Orchard St Suite 302New Bedford, MA 02744

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Conquerors For Christ Church 972 Reed Road • North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Tel: (508) 999-1669 • Fax: 508-999-2314

Serviços em Português Domingos às 11:00 AMLouvor e Adoração Terças-feiras às 7:00 PMReunião de Oração Quintas-feiras às 7:00 PMEstudos Biblicos

English Services Sundays 9:00 AMPraise and Worship Service Wednesdays 7:00 PMPrayer and Bible Study Fridays 7:00 PMYouth Service

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FAMILY CHRISTIAN CENTERChurch of God

67 Prospect St. Pawcatuck, ConnecticutBishop Richard Morton Jr., Pastor

revrichardjr1966@yahoo.comService Times:

Sunday Morning Worship 11 amWednesday Prayer-Bible Study 7 pm

Phone 1-860-501-7023

Abundant Blessing Church (ABC)A “house of prayer for all nations.” (Is. 56:7)

825 Mineral Spring AvenuePawtucket, RI 02860Church Phone (401) 727-0311Prayer Line (401) 481-8004Sunday Worship Service - 9 am

Sunday Intercessory Prayer - 7 pmThursday Bible Study/Prayer Meeting - 7 pm

Friday Night Vigil - 11 pmabundantblessingchurch.org

1st Wednesday of the month:Courthyard Marriott Hotel32 Exchange Terrance (Kennedy Plaza)2nd Wednesday of the month:Radisson Hotel - 195E Exit 3, Gano Street 12:00-1:00pm401-821-8750 • jim.buford@fgbmfi-ri.org

Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International

Church of the Apostles170 Fairview Ave • Coventry, RI • 401-821-7609

www.churchoftheapostlesri.orge-mail: churchoffice@churchoftheapostlesri.org

The Reverend Mark R. Galloway, SuperintendentWorship Services:

Saturday 5:00 p.m. Holy EucharistSunday 8:00 am & 9:30 am

Worship & Bible Study 6:30 p.m.Our Mission is to Obey, Follow and Bear Witness to Jesus Christ.

Christian Community Bible Church130 Franklin St. • Warren, RI 02885

401-245-3178 • www.ccbiblechurch.orgSunday worship service 10:00 amThursday evening service 7:00 pm

Christian Counseling available

Pastor Michael J’ZenWorship Elder: Paul Gauthier

Administrative Elder: Emilio Volpicelli

Grace Community Baptist ChurchA Reformed Baptist Church

Preaching God’s Word, Living God’s Truth, All for God’s Glory! 621 Woonasquatucket AvenueNorth Providence, RI 02911

401 826 3121 • www.gcbcri .com

Service Times9:30 AM - Sunday School • 11:00 AM - Morning Worship • 3:00 PM - Afternoon Worship

(2nd and 4th Sundays of the month following the fellowship dinner)6:00 PM - Evening Worship (1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of the month)

Anchored in ChristFoursquare Gospel Church“A Mission Minded Church”Sunday Service - 10:15 AMPrayer & Bible Study - Wed 6:30

Howland Place651 Orchard St. # 304A • New Bedford, MA 02740

508-999-6429

CALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

126 Angell Road • Cumberland, RI 02864 Phone: 401-333-0355 • www.calvinpres.org

Sunday MorningOpen Prayer time - 8:00 a.m.Church School - 9:00 a.m.Worship Services - 10:30 a.m.Fellowship Hour - 11:30pmSummer worship - 10:00 a.m.

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Christian Recreational Youth Center

95 Hartford Ave, Providence RI 02909Tel 401-228-8915

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May 5th from 12 to 1 pm on the south lawn of the RI State House for the 60th National Day of Prayer.

Join us as we unite at the state house to pray together for our government, our church,our military, family, education, the media and business.

If you would like more information about this National Day of Prayer event,

please visit our website, www.prayri.org email us at prayri@cox.net or call 401-821-0389.

Cheryl Russell * Pray Rhode Island * National Day of Prayer(401) 821-3089 * prayri@cox.net * www.prayri.org

Prayer events for that day or evening are welcome and encouraged in all cities and towns.

If you need help coordinating an event please contact us.

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Providence Rescue Mission 627 Cranston Street

Providence, R.I. 02907

Serving Christ . . . Serving the Homeless and Poor of Our

Community Since 1999

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2011 NDP Theme

“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”“I will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress’,

My God, in whom I trust!” Psalm 91:2

May Highlights

Sunday May 1 • 1:30p.m. ~ 5th Annual Bless Israel Day. Worship • Praise • Dance Chapel at the Mill, 45 River St. Millbury, MA 01527 For diraction & more informaation www.chapelatthemill.org Link to Cafe Schedule. Barb 508-839-6159 or Marge 508-485-8665

May 5 • 12-1p.m. 2011 National Day of Prayer “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” Come & join us on the South lawn of the RI State House. www.prayri.org or call 401-821-0389

May 6 • 7p.m. ~ Opening Night: Bible Prophecy; Unlock the Mysteries of Daniel and Revelation. Crowne Plaza ,Warwick RI

May 6-7 • Outloud 2011 ~ A Deep Worship Conference. Church of the Living God 199 Deming St. Manchester, Ct. For more Info: www.clgonline.net 860-648-0520 Saturday May 7 • 9 - 11 a.m ~ Providence Rescue Mission’s “Walk of Faith” May Breakfast Fundraiser. All you Can Eat Adults $10 Children 6-12 $5, under 5 yrs old no charge

Friday May 13 • 7-10p.m. ~Men’s Night Out. Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Rob Reimer. The Halifax Country Club. fellowship worship dinner and speaker. contact info: Alan Siegel508-238-0406 or alan@siegelfinancial.com Register by 5/10

Walk for Life • CareNet Pregnancy Center of RI. Thursday May 12 or Sunday May 15th. Walk for life to support women who are facing unplanned pregnancies. More information: www.walk.carenetri.org

May 20-21 • Come Join Terry MacAlmon Night of Praise, Worship and healing service. Recipient of GMA - UK 2010 Lifetime Achievement award for outstan ding contribution to worship music The Mill Church. 45 River Street Millbury, MA 01527 For more info. www.millchurch.org.

Saturday May 28 • 9am-3pm ~ First Annual Church Bazaar Lighthouse Assembly of God. 522 American Legion Hwy. Westport, MA, vendors, a yard sale, face painting for the kids, door prizes, bake sale, food and lots more. A portion of the proceeds go towardsour building fund. Please join us! 508-636-4470 or sborrows7@hotmail.com for more Information

May 28• 8p.m. 1st Full ProvidenceWaterFire A great opportunity to share the gospel. Extra copies of The Good News are available to hand out. please call 401-619-0418. Along Memorial Boulevard and the Providence and Woonasquatucket Rivers.

Saturday May 30 • 11a.m ~ 2nd Fuse Festival with Pawtucket Red Sox - Christian Music Festival. Festival starts at 11am game 4p.m. at McCoy Staduim.Tickets $22.50 adults, $5 for kids. www.Fuseconcerts.org or 508-296-fuse

Saturday May 30 • 11a.m 4p.m. ~ Revival in Providence. Food, Raffles, music, games, Mt Pleasant Baptist Church, Academy Ave, Providence RI; Music By: NBJ, Ray Tierney, Crimsom Rain, Lisa BoisClaire and the Trophies of Grace Sponsored by TK ministries and Mt Pleasant Baptist Church.

3 Tuesday

10a.m. ~ Women’s Bible Study, meets every Tuesday at New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA. or nhcc.ws (508)-324-4500 Child Care provided.

7p.m. ~ Celebrate Recovery every Tues-day. (Behind the Church) International Church of the Nazarene. 278 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA.

7p.m. ~ Healing Streams Prayer Service 1st Tues of each month for healing & prayer gathering. Healing and peace in body, soul & spirit with Gods healing touch. New Life Worship Center 915 Douglas Pike Smith-field, RI.more info call:401-232-5200

4 Wednesday

12–1 p.m. ~ Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International. Luncheon: at The Courtyard Marriott Hotel (1st Wed of month at this location) 32 Exchange Terrace (Kennedy Plaza) Call Jim 401-821-8750

7p.m. ~ Ground Zero Youth Service with Teen-Led Worship & Relevant BibleTeach-ing. Ages 13-25 New Life Worship Center, 915 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI. 401-232-5200

7p.m. ~ Prayer & Bible study every Wed’s. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. 262 Acad-emy Ave. Providence, RI 401-351-2347

5 Thursday

7p.m. ~ Night of Worship & Prayer 1st Thursday of every month. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. 262 Academy Ave. Provi-dence, RI 401-351-2347

6 Friday

7p.m. ~ Youth Night - 1st Friday of the month.. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. 262 Academy Ave. Providence, RI 401-351-2347

7p.m. ~ Ground Zero Youth Service with Teen-Led Worship and Relevant Bible-Teaching. New Life Worship Center, 915 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI. 401-232-5200

7p.m. - “ On The Rise” Bible study & fel-lowship. Young adult 17-21 yrs old every Friday night New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA.(508)-324-4500

7-9p.m. ~ Recovery Class every Friday at New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA.(508)-324-4500

7:30p.m. ~ The Harvest Cafe • Featuring “Crimson Rain” The Christ Church. 1643 Lonsdale Ave, Lincoln RI. In the Parish House Hall. For more info: call 401-725-1920 or www.christchurchlincoln.org. Doors open at 7p.m.

7 Saturday

10a.m. ~ Recovering Program: Freedom in Recovering - Christian base. Every Sat. Cathedral of Life Christian Assembly, 1860 Westminister St.. Providence, RI 401-780-8900

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Pentecostal Assembly215 Sawyer Street

New Bedford, MA

508-996-9865

Quidnick Baptist Church 484 Fairview Avenue

Coventry 821-2465

Sunday Worship Service 10:00 amJune, July and August 9 am

Childrens Sunday School 10:45 amBible Study Wednesday 7 pm

New Hope Christian Church1436 G.A.R. Highway (Route 6)Swansea, MA 02777508-324-4500www.nhcc.wsService Times:Sunday Morning: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.Wednesday Evenings: 7:00 p.m.Prayer begins at 6:15

Hosanna LighthouseMinistries, Inc.ChristianCounselingofficesinMa&RI

Jan Shepard, Director (401) 765-4364

632 River St. Woonsocket, RI 02895

tel 508.993.8484fax 508.961.1137

The “International” Church of the Nazarene

278 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02745Rev. Manuel J. Chavier J. R.

emailicn@verizon.net

Sunday Christian Education: 9:30Sunday Worship: 10:30 amWednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pmFriday Intercessory Prayer: 7:00 pm

HIS PRESENCE CHURCH595 St. Paul StreetNorth Smithfield, RI – 02896(401) 762-4463www.hispresencechurch.orgRev. Al Berja - Senior Pastor

Matt. 28:18-20

Rhode Island Men of HopeReaching Men for Christ

Let us help your church build men for ministryCall us if interested in having a “Vibrant Men’s Ministry.”

Call: 401-383-9967www.menofhope.org

266 Smith Street • PO Box 28285 • Providence, RI 02908

401.521.1860

www.rirtl.org

New Hope Fellowship25 Carrington St.

Lincoln RIPhone 401-723-4955

e-mail: rifocusrr@yahoo.comWednesday 7:30 pm Bible Study

Thursday 7:00 pm Community Prayer MeetingSunday Morning 10:00 am

Pastor David R. Olsen

C A L E N D A R

How you can be a part of God’s work at: Prayer Support,

Volunteer Staffing, Property, Supplies, Finances

“He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the

hearts of the children to their fathers…” Malachi 4:6

PO Box 1224 • North Kingstown, RI 02852www.houseofhoperi.org • 401-378-6050 • info@houseofhoperi.org

Lighthouse Christian ChurchBuilding Faith, Family and Friends322 Eddie Dowling Hwy.North Smithfield, RI 02896401-729-1603 • www.lfwc.orgSunday- Coffee Hour 8:30-9:30AMSunday- Worship Service 10AMThursday- Bible Study/Worship- 7:00PMChildren and Teen ProgramsReverend James Prior-Senior Pastor

One Man / One Woman

10 Dorrance St. Suite 809

Providence, RI 02903

Office : (401) 228-7602

Fax: (866) 363-5603

Email: cplante@nationformarriage.org

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National Organization for Marriage - Rhode Island 321 Veazie StreetProvidence, RI 02904401.455.0060 / 0064VICTORYAOG1@AOL.COMwww.VictoryRI.orgRichard P. Sfameni, Senior Pastor

SERVICESSunday Christian Education 9:30 AMSunday Morning Worship 10:30 AM

Wednesday Prayer & Bible Study 7:00 PM

Sunday: School 9 AM Service 10 AMWednesday: Morning Prayer 5:30 – 6:30 AMWednesday: Evening Service for all ages 7-8:30 PM

ASSEMBLY OF GOD 100 BROADWAY PAWTUCKET RI 02860401-723-2039

LIVING HOPE

For Whom & Why are You Working?Face reality: work is part of life!(Gen 2:15, 3:17-19; 2 Thess 3:10)Work with a Godly attitude!(Colossians 3:23-24)Ask God to reveal whereHe has called and gifted you!(1 Corinthians 12)Remember: your retirement is in heaven, not on earth!(Matthew 6:19-34)

Call 800-JOY- 9075 or

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Trinity Assembly of God 2119 Hartford Avenue Johnston, RI 02919 Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am(401) 934-0202www.trinityri.org

Woodlawn Baptist Church337 Lonsdale AvenuePawtucket, Rhode Island 02860

Pastor Terry Morgan401-724-6390

www.woodlawnri.org

Sunday Services9 am Sunday School10:30 am Morning Worship6 pm Evening WorshipWednesday 7 pm Prayer Meeting

Sunday Service 10:45 AM

Wednesday Prayer and Bible Study 7:00 PM

Sunday Morning Worship 10 AMAll Are welcome!

Services are Child Friendly & Sunday School is OfferedHandicapped Accessible

www.peoplesbaptistchurchri.org

PEOPLE’S BAPTIST CHURCH1275 Elmwood Avenue • Cranston, RI 02907

401-467-8220

Providence Rescue Mission627 Cranston Street

Providence, Rhode Island 02907-2813

401-274-8861401-751-7592 - fax

401-648-6849 - Volunteer Center Phone Line

Serving Christ . . . Serving the Homeless and Poor of Our Community Since 1999

www.providencerescuemission.org

June Events

June 29-July 2 • Creation Festival 2011 Northeast 33rd Annual celebration. 60 Bands • 20 speakers • 4 Days • 1 low price. Agape Farm, Mt. Union, PA 800-327-6921 or Creationfest.com for more information

7p.m. “Driving Reign” Christian Rock/Blues. The Upper Room. 1221 Main St, West Warwick, RI. 401-823-5330 www.theupperroomri.org

7p.m. ~ Cross Roads Cafe’ featuring ”SpiritN3D”. At Emmanuel Orthodox Catholic Church. 25 Wintrop Terrace, Warren, MA. For more info 413-436-5582

7p.m. ~ Millbury Church Cafe’ “Sound Judgement” The Mill Church. 45 River Street Millbury, MA 01527 For more info. www.millchurch.org.

8p.m. ~ Adult Coffee House every Sat. Cathedral of Life Christian Assembly, 10 Troy St. Providence, RI 02909; 401-780-8900

8 Sunday

Happy Mother’s Day“She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. Proverbs 31:26

12 Tuesday

10a.m. ~ Women’s Bible Study, meets every Tuesday at New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA. or nhcc.ws (508)-324-4500 Child Care provided.

7p.m. ~ Celebrate Recovery every Tues-day. (Behind the Church) International Church of the Nazarene. 278 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA.

11 Wednesday

12–1p.m. ~ Full Gospel Businessmen’s Luncheon. Full gospel/ fellowship. . (2nd Wed of month at this Location) Radisson Hotel, Providence, RI (exit 3, Gano St... off 195) call Jim 401-821-8750

12 Thursday

9:30a.m. ~ M.O.P.S Group meets every 2nd & 3rd Thursday of every month; call holiday weeks for reschedule. New Hope Christian Center. 1436 GAR Highway, Swansea, MA (508) 324-4500or nhcc.ws

7p.m. ~ Joshua’s Men • 2nd and 4th Thursday, we meet for prayer, bible study and mutual accountability, Church of the Apostles 170 Fairview Ave, Coventry, for more info: 401-821-7609

13 Friday

6p.m. ~ Worship Cafe • featuring “Tifton Carver Band” Come join us for a night of music, food & fellowship at New Hope Christian Church. 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA. 508-324-4500

7p.m. ~ Ground Zero Youth Service .Teen-Led Worship and Relevant BibleTeaching. New Life Worship Center, 915 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI. 401-232-5200

7p.m. - “ On The Rise” Bible study & fel-lowship. Young adult 17-21 yrs old every Friday night New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA.(508)-324-4500

7-9p.m. ~ Recovery Class every Friday at New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA.(508)-324-4500

7p.m. ~ Millbury Church Cafe’ “The Sky Family Celtic Revival” The Mill Church. 45 River Street Millbury, MA 01527 For more info. www.millchurch.org.

7:30p.m. ~ Mt. Pleasant Coffeehouse presents “John Polce” in concert. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. 262 Academy Ave. Providence, RI 401-351-2347

7:30p.m. ~ The Harvest Cafe • Featuring “ Ray Tierney ” The Christ Church. 1643 Lonsdale Ave, Lincoln RI. In the Parish House Hall. For more info: call 401-725-1920 or www.christchurchlincoln.org. Doors open at 7p.m.

14 Saturday

7p.m. ~ Teen Challenge 2nd Saturday of the month. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. 262 Academy Ave. Providence, RI 401-351-2347

7p.m. “Catalysis” Christian Contemporary The Upper Room. 1221 Main St, West Warwick, RI. 401-823-5330 www.theupperroomri.org

8p.m. ~ Adult Coffee House every Sat. Cathedral of Life Christian Assembly, 10 Troy St. Providence, RI 02909; 401-780-8900

17 Tuesday

10a.m. ~ Women’s Bible Study, meets every Tuesday at New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA. or nhcc.ws (508)-324-4500 Child Care provided.

7p.m. ~ Celebrate Recovery every Tues-day. (Behind the Church) International Church of the Nazarene. 278 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA.

19 Thursday

10a.m. ~ Senior Saint Bible Study (65 & older) 3rd Thursday of the month at New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. High-way Swansea, MA. (508)-324-4500

9:30a.m. ~ M.O.P.S Group meets every 2nd & 3rd Thursday of every month; call holiday weeks for reschedule. New Hope Christian Center. 1436 GAR Highway, Swansea, MA(508) 324-4500 or nhcc.ws

20 Friday

7:30p.m. ~ The Harvest Cafe • Featuring “Cross Purpose” The Christ Church. 1643 Lonsdale Ave, Lincoln RI. In the Parish House Hall. For more info: call 401-725-1920 or www.christchurchlincoln.org. Doors open at 7p.m.

7-9p.m. ~ Recovery Class every Friday at New Hope Christian Church, 1436 G.A.R. Highway Swansea, MA.(508)-324-4500

21 Saturday

8a.m. ~ Men’s Breakfast every 3rd Sat of the month. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. 262 Academy Ave. Providence, RI 401-351-2347

7p.m.- “Cross Purpose” Contemporary Christian. The Upper Room. 1221 Main St, West Warwick, RI. 401-823-5330 www.theupperroomri.org

24 Tuesday

3-5p.m. - Mt. Pleasant Food Bank. every 4th Tuesday of the month. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. 262 Academy Ave. Providence, RI 401-351-2347

26 Thursday

7p.m. ~ Joshua’s Men • 2nd and 4th Thursday, we meet for prayer, bible study and mutual accountabability, Church of the Apostles 170 Fairview Ave, Coventry, for more info: 401-821-7609

27 Friday

7p.m. ~ The Mill Church Cafe’ present John Dumont in concert . The Mill Church 45 River Street Millbury, MA 01527 For more info. www.millchurch.org.

28 Saturday

7p.m.~“FightingtheInfluence”Christian Rock The Upper Room. 1221 Main St, West Warwick, RI. 401-823-5330 www.theupper-roomri.org

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18 May 2011

Licensed 3rd Party reimbursable Clinicians needed for faith-based counseling agency. Offices are in RI & nearby MA. We have an extensive waiting list. Send resume and reference to: Hosanna Lighthouse Ministries, Inc. 632 River St. Woonsocket RI 02895

CareNet-RI. Free pregnancy testing. 433 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI 941-4357

Garments of Love - Free Clothing and baby equipment. S. Attleboro Assembly of God 1052 Newport Ave, South Attleboro, MA 508-761-7334 Wednesday and Saturday 10 AM - 1 PM.

PROVIDENCE Rescue Mission. 627 Cranston Street, Providence. 274-8861. Making Disciples.

Precision Auto. A Total Collision Repair Center 100 South Street Johnston Tel: 231-8520. 24 Hour Towing. Now accepting all Major Credit Cards.

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Good Shepherd Book & Gift Shop

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Smarty PantsQuality Clothing ConsignmentWomens, Mens, Maternity, Shoes, & Jewelry

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342 Budlong RoadCranston, RI 02920

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Calvary Chapel – Rich ChapmanMONDAY – FRIDAY 5:30 PM

Cornerstone Bible Study – Robert ClarkSATURDAY 11:00AM & SUNDAY 12:00 AM

Grace & Truth – Gerard MartelMONDAY – FRIDAY 4:15 PM

Harvest of Joy – Gene GiguereMONDAY – FRIDAY 4:00 PM

Knotty Oak Revival Hour – Chris BakerSUNDAY 4:00 PM

New Hope Radio – Dave TherrienMONDAY – FRIDAY 12:30 PM & SATURDAY 3:00 PM

Old Fashion Preaching Hour – Henry McRaeSUNDAY 2:30 PM

Providence – Paul AndersonSUNDAY 9:00 AM

Quidnessett Baptist Church – Jim SoleSUNDAY 12:00 PM

Victory Hour – James GallagherSUNDAY 5:00 PM

Word and Prayer Ministry – Chick SallibySATURDAY 4:00 PM

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SUNDAY MEETINGSMorning Worship...10:00 AMEvening Worship...6:00 PMHome-based Sunday School

WEDNESDAY Adult Prayer Meeting & Bible Study...7:30 PMYouth/Children’s Bible Study...7:30 PM

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WARV 1590 AM Saturday @ 5 PM (weekly radio broadcast) Sunday @ 5 PM (Sermon Edition)also streamed live online at www.warv.net

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2011: The 400th Anniversary of

THE KING JAMES BIBLE!God has promised us that He would providentially preserve His Word through the ages of time, and that His Word would stand forever. We believe that God has kept this promise through the majority of manuscripts preserved through the centuries. The King James Bible agrees with these manuscripts, and we hold it up as the Word of God. We believe in the Textus Receptus.

The modern versions of the Bible today, however, have removed many portions of scripture from their text. If God has preserved His Word down through the ages, then it would be hard to believe that these modern Bibles of late are correct. Consider the following singular example…

KJV- (Acts 8:36-37) 36. “And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? 37. And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”

All of verse 37 is omitted from the ESV and the NIV! Infant baptizers take advantage of this omission, and claim that nowhere in the Bible is belief or faith in Christ presented as a prerequisite for baptism! That claim could never be made using the King James Bible. While these modern versions do not have verse 37, real “reformation” Bibles do. Verse 37 is in Wycliffe’s (1380 AD), Tyndale’s (1534), Cranmer’s (1539), Geneva’s (1557), and the Authorized Version (1611). Even the Roman Catholic Douay-Rheims (1582) includes this verse!

The ESV is an updated version of the Revised Standard Version of the National Council of Churches. The NCC is a socialist-oriented, globalist, left wing organization. The NIV’s history is worse! Has God preserved His Word through men like Wycliffe, Tyndale, and the puritan translators of the King James Bible…or through the National Council of Churches and men like Westcott and Hort? You decide.

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20 May 2011

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