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By Laura Burger

GED Classes - Tuesdays & Thursdays 5-7 pm

We have one licensed teacher in place and are taking appointments now for a 2^nd Indiana Licensed teacher. This will be a part-time paid position. Call 420-5061 for an appointment. IYI is underwriting 15 of our dads who are GED students. Please consider underwriting a GED student. We have 33 GED students who could use your assistance.

GED Prep by appointment Mon - Wed 10:30 am - 8 pm Thurs. 10:30 -7 pm

Tutors available by appt. You are expected to commit to 2 hours a day & 2 days a week.

OTHER EXCITING NEWS AT LCC— QUEEN ESTHER'S MAIDENS concluded their 15 week series on the Study of the Book of Esther. To celebrate their graduation Ladies were ushered into an elegantly decorated room where they enjoyed a Ladies English Tea that would rival the courts of Queen Esther herself. Mother's who attended the class & their Daughters made royal jeweled crowns, to place upon their heads. Women gave testimony of application of what the book of Esther meant to them. The class will resume in this Fall.

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Text Box: Jobs are scarce. We now see people who had high paying jobs and lost them now doing entry level jobs because that is all that is available to them. Because of this shift those who would normally fill those positions are no longer able to get jobs. The poor and less educated have even less opportunity. Love Ministries is not about just creating jobs, but offering skill training, education, discipleship to help people and families break the poverty cycle and become stable. Families are hurting. Love Ministries ministered to over 3,000 individuals last year. 800 families needed clothing, food, financial assistance or needed life counseling. Twenty percent of these will look at their heart and be dissatisfied with their life’s plan—they need to break the plan of poverty off their lives but do not know how to do that. Some are fourth or fifth generation on welfare. Without God’s intervention it will only repeat for the following generations. These people don’t want to be there.

Text Box: How are we helping the poor? In today’s benevolence society we think we are helping the poor by giving them food, clothing and financial assistance. Sometimes we give help without following up or helping them break the cycle of returning again and again for more help. Therefore, are we really helping them? “If you give a man a fish, your have fed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime.” Love Ministries has solutions that are self-sustaining and reproducible. They are outlined on both sides of this article. Love Ministries is also developing additional programs that will educate and provide skill training, on the job training in jobs created by the ministries of Love Ministries and discipleship in personal and family life that will produce a changed life. Pastor Phil

FUEL PLEDGES FOR SEPTEMBER, 2010

These sponsors are providing fuel to bring people to church

LICENSED PLUMBER/ELECTRICIAN NEEDED!

Love Church is in the process of some structural changes which could possibly require a licensed plumber and electrician to pull permits and oversee the work. If you could help please call Rich Coulter at (260)4228961 x 103

A CDL License will help break the poverty cycle of some family and help provide income through job qualification.

Help Love Church help others by sponsoring a person in need by providing the training necessary to get a CDL and then a job. A donation of $300 designated for CDL training will sponsor one person’s training to get their license. If you wish to participate either contact Pastor Steve Gift at (260)422-8961 ext. 101 or send your gift to Love Church, attention Pastor Gift.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING OTHERS!

Someone once gave me what I am sure he didn’t even know was a great gift. I remember it clearly; I was walking down an aisle at Kmart and there he was. I recognized him at once, and was surprised that he knew me as well. What was even more staggering, though, was what he said to me.

Several years had passed, and I could not remember every detail of the infraction even then, much less now. But he had wronged me, and it had been painful. The moment I saw him, the hurt he had inflicted came back in a rush.

After our initial greeting, there was no other preamble. He went right into an expression of regret. He knew he had not treated me very well and wanted to apologize. Caught completely off guard by his admission, I accepted his atoning words and forgave him. After that, we engaged in a few moments of small talk before going our separate ways, and I have never seen again.

I remember that encounter from time to time, and think of it as an example of how powerful the giving and receiving of forgiveness can be. God forgives us

daily, but we bear grudges against each other, often holding onto them for years.

Recently God brought someone back into my life whom I wronged in the past. I am hoping that the opportunity will arise for me to ask his forgiveness, and that it will ultimately bless him as my encounter with this other person blessed me.

It is never too late to give or receive forgiveness. If you have done injury to someone and can right it without doing more harm than good, offer an apology. Being careful not to stir up anything inappropriate in order to make yourself feel better, seek pardon. When it is granted, let the power of forgiveness wash over and heal you.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. –Ephesians 4:32