Update from the Rapha House Mission Team
Due to internet problems this may be a short update but let me just say I wish you were here (is it 90 degrees and sunny where you are?
I wish you could have been here yesterday to see your Twin Oaks team in action. You would have been so proud (see the [...]
God in a Fortune Cookie
Sometimes God appears to us in the most unexpected places. It may be through a sunset, a card from a friend, the lyrics of a song, or even through a fortune cookie. I was eating lunch at Shong Hey’s in Trenton last Thursday with a couple of pastor buddies and when the waitress brought us [...]
Body Image
After an accident in which she lost her arm, a girl named Jamie refused to go to school or church for an entire year. Finally the young teen thought she could face her peers. In preparation, her mother called her Sunday school teacher and asked that he not call attention to Jamie. The teacher promised, [...]
App Application
I got an IPod touch recently. I know some of you are thinking, “I thought Randy was too much of a tightwad to spend money on an IPod touch.” You’re right, but I won it in a drawing. And I have to tell you, now that I have one, if I lost it I’d be [...]
“Least of These”
This is the kind of week Twin Oaks was created for! Last night I was sitting in the fireplace area, watching the UM-MSU game with several of our homeless guests. As they were cheering each basket (or booing – depending on their allegiances) and laughing and sharing their various opinions of the two teams, I [...]
Rags to Riches
I read this week an interesting report of an incident which happened recently:
“Flat broke and homeless, brothers Geza and Zslot Peladi literally lived in a cave near Budapest for years. They left their dank home only to scrape together whatever money they could through selling scrap metal and candy. Theirs was a hopeless situation.
But then [...]
Haiti Update
I’m sure by now you have heard the news about the large earthquake that hit Haiti. Already one of the poorest nations in the world, the destruction there has been overwhelming.
The Christian Church has many people working in Haiti. One of the ministries that Twin Oaks supports through our offerings is IDES (International Disaster Emergency [...]
Loving by Serving
“Why am I here?” If you were at Twin Oaks last Sunday you discovered that the primary reason God created you was so that He could love you and be loved by you. He created you for a relationship with Him. But how do we show God that we love Him? The answer you find [...]
Resolution Update
I love a new year. It offers us an opportunity to put the past in the past and have a fresh start, a blank slate to write a new story on, and an open calendar to fill with new priorities. It is for many a time of new resolutions. I’m curious what your resolutions are [...]
A New Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I know some of you can’t wait for a new year so you can put 2009 behind you. I don’t think we’ve ever had a year where so many in our church family faced unemployment, financial crisis, major health issues, marriage failures, and on and on. Yet even in the darkness we [...]
