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Because this blog address is pretty clunky, we've exported this blog to a new, easier-to-remember site: nlfaberdeen.blogspot.com. The nlf stands for New Life Fellowship, of course. So if you're looking for newer posts, you might visit the new site.

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This is the perfect place to share the story of how you came to walk with Christ. We each came a different way and for different reasons. When you listen to (or read) someone's "testimony" or spiritual life story, you can only marvel at the twists and turns people go through as they come to a place of surrender. No two people come in quite the same way. Even kids who grew up in a church-loving

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Dear New Life Fellowship, The entire Jones family wants to thank you for the two huge boxes that arrived yesterday! We were so excited! I had just lamented a few days prior that we never get any mail. Then here are these two huge boxes. Wow - I never expected you all to be so generous! Thank You so Much! It meant so much to be remembered in such a way!The kids felt so special that

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No big yellow taxi here. Sometimes, you don't know what you've got til it's here.So here is this beautiful, "new" building, the Gibson's department store building, Idelman Telemarketers building, whatever it once was called, a building that sat vacant for a very long time, waiting for a new purpose.And now people from every walk of life, with a whole variety of skills, worked together to make

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By Na Keum Dong (Kady)a Korean believer at NSUThe woman is going her dormitory powerfully and laboriously with a big load: textbook, laptop, and diary which is filled with compact writing that lays out a full schedule that makes feel alive, and her face is brilliant with a smile and confidence from deep in her heart. She looks so steady and durable, maybe the reason is that she has not only

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My window garden has been growing, and one thing I can tell about my plants is that they hunger for the light. My large zucchini especially leans over toward the window, almost as if grasping for light shafts.I pray for my kids, that they, too, will lean toward the light, that they will hunger for the presence of the Lord beyond anything else. I also pray that nothing I do or say will be a shadow

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So how are the Jones kids holding up as the family trains as missionaries in South Africa? Here's what Sharon has to say about their adventures:The kids had some interestingadventures:1. Using the longdrop (outhouse).2. Living without toast for 17 days.3. Meeting and making friends withchildren that don’t speak the samelanguage.4. Lots of walking - Irina found this achallenge.5. Very dark nights6

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Ministering as a Family on the RuralOutreachTony and Sharon JonesThe rural outreach was about afew things: Living a simple life, learningabout the culture and using ourinitiative to do ministry.As a family our goal was alsoabout surviving the whole time. Aslong as the kids were thriving. I knownow that as a family we can prettymuch live through anything and withthe bare minimum. There were

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Make photo slide shows at www.OneTrueMedia.comPhotos by J

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Somewhere under that snow is grass. In my window, I have several vegetable seedlings started. (I always get started too late and have to buy starter plants. This year, I think I started too early.) Whether they will mature to full-size plants that give crops later is yet to be seen. But for now, they at least give oxygen and wonder.Thank you, Father, for the new start that comes with your Spirit.

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One project I've been working on lately is gathering in one place lots of links to spiritual abuse sites, and in the course of doing this, I too often come across people who've been so burned by their prior church experiences that they sit there, suffering in their gauze wrap and crying out in different ways. Sometimes, they just want to throw their whole spiritual life down the drain, Jesus and

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By Amy CarmichaelThou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow,Thou are the Lord who soothed the furious sea,What matter beating wind and tossing billowIf only we are in the boat with Thee?Hold us in quiet through the age-long minuteWhile Thou art silent, and the wind is shrill:Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, art in it?Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?

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Our location for the rural outreach is Mabarhulewhich is a village in the Limpopo region of SouthAfrica. We will be spending almost three weekscamping in this rustic part of South Africa.Please pray For our MabarhuleTeam:Jaco - South AfricaFaith - Hong KongDongHyuk - S KoreaMagdalena- SwedenJonathan- South AfricaDanree -South AfricaMaria –USATony, Sharon & Kids -USA

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Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand - 2 Cor. 1:24I came across this verse yesterday and instead of steamrolling over the last verse in a chapter like I do a little too often, I actually had to sit and think about this one.We're called to be helpers of other people's joy. Earlier in the passage, in verse 14, Paul says that the

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Donna MarmorsteinAnd their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight- Luke 24:31The last three months have been full of noise. Mostly good noise, but still noise. A family crisis. Three weeks with my son and his family visiting home. Christmas. Two weeks with my daughter and her family visiting home. More school activities than I can even keep straight.Between piano

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by Art MarmorsteinThe Most Important ThingI promised I would talk about something more important than anything I talk about in class. I'm going to talk about the most important thing in the whole world.And what's that? If I had asked that question 30 years ago--or almost any other time in history--I'd have gotten a quick answer from almost everyone. Almost everyone would have quickly said that

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From Thought Collage, by Jeanie RhodesLast summer, [son in law] Dave and [daughter]Tara led a song Dave had written called, "Yes" (CD by the same title to be released in September) I had never heard it and I was in a really, really difficult time of my life and to tell you the truth, I couldn't sing it.It seemed at the time I had nothing to say "yes" to (I've written about this previously here

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by Sharon JonesThought I would share about my experience driving on the "wrong" side of the road. It was the first weekend we were here (South Africa)the director and his wife - Clint and Becky - let us borrow their car. Now of course here they driveon the left side of the road and the driver sits on the right side of thecar. Their car is also a stick - but you shift with your left hand.I was

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Some “Grace from the Garden,” things I learn about God while I am digging around in the dirt…By Jeanie RhoadesGrace Note: This season will come again (ready or not).I was asking God, not with words, but from my heart (and I know He heard me loud and clear), Why do I find myself back here in this recurring place of pain, this particular area of brokenness for which I have forgiven the best I can

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More from the Joneses:Wesley has settled in well. He is best friends with everyone. The food is still something he has to get used to. Pray that he starts to eat a little bit of it at least here pretty soon. Because our first outreach is called the rural outreach. No running water, no electricity, and campfire cooking. If he doesn't start eating some of the beans or pop, it's going to be hard

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What our days are like...South Africa training team 2009We are fine - but busy and very tired in the evenings so we generally just go to bed. Usually by 9:30. Tony is waking up at about 4:30 so that he has some time to do his devotions. I get up at 5:30 with the sounding of what is left of the wake up gong - I am thankful that it doesn't wake all the kids. Wesley once woke up enough to tell

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By Jeanie RhoadesIn the book of Philippians in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul gives his personal biography of a totally miserable, religious past (miserable because anytime getting close to God is dependant on what we do and how we do it, it is a cumbersome load). In the spirit of chapter 3, verses 4 - 6, I hereby submit my own biographical history outlining the stupidity I once clung to (

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She was an adultress, a cheater, a sinner. She was a disappointment, a law-breaker. She had let so many people down.Now she was being exposed to the Light of the World.The scribes and Pharisees brought her to Jesus as He was teaching in the temple. They'd caught her in "the very act of adultery," they told Him. They were testing Him, who claimed to be the light of life, the One who, "being in

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Thought I would send you all a hello from South Africa! We are doing well and getting use to our little house. We hope that you are all doing well also! We are in the second day of our training here though we have been here a week. The official kick off was this past Sunday. Our days right now are spent in classes going over the basics of life here on base and getting to know the other people in

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Tony and Sharon Jones, training in South Africa right now, can be reached here: Tony and Sharon Jones OM South Africa TT Private Bag N03 Lynnwood Ridge 0040 South Africa.You can also email them here: Tony ORSharonTony and Sharon arrived safely in South Africa, and this is what they have to say: We have spent this week settling in to life on thebase. The training will actually start tommorrow with

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I love the promises in Isaiah. The warnings are needed, too, but the promises! Everlasting kindness! Amazing in the face of everything He sees in us. But it's because of His goodness and not our merit he saves us.

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All season, I kept calling the Living Christmas Tree production the “Singing Christmas Tree,” because that’s what they called it years ago in Sacramento. My kids kept correcting me. Living Christmas Tree. Living Christmas Tree. I can’t get it right partly because in my mind a living Christmas tree is a potted Christmas tree -- as opposed to one that’s been hacked down. I avoided the production in

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I'm thankful for a Savior who stoops to lift up sinners, the holy rescuing the polluted. I'm thankful for second chances and second lives.I'm thankful for the freedom to meet in safety with other believers, for being able to sing out loud each week without arrest. I'm thankful to hear the word preached in a faithful and original way each week, to meet with people who know and love Christ.I'm

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This morning as I drove the kids to school, fog swirled around the car. I remember fog. In California, fog was a constant visitor in November. Here, we are lucky to have more than one or two days of fog.In California, I usually came across fog when I drove up narrow, mountain roads behind a slow logging truck. You can't pass logging trucks because if you try, you are likely to meet a car coming

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Reading through 2 Chronicles, I came across this passage: I will grant them (Judah) some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak (King of Egypt).Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.This was in the time of Rehoboam, son of Solomon. An earlier passage says that

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Merla FreemanLooking back at some notes I took on one of Pastor Joe’s sermons from Jan. last year, I came across these three points: 1. Connect with God-He is what matters most.2. Connect with others-because it matters to our purpose.3. Serve the world around us-because it matters to God. Pastor took these points from Acts 2:42-47. This just happens to be one of my favorite places in scripture.

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A large crowd of Aberdeen kids met at Melgaard Park tonight to share and worship, play and eat and lift up Jesus in the community. New Life's youth band helped in the worship time. Kids testified afterward of what things happened at their various See-you-at-the-Pole activities that morning. Looked like a great witness to the Aberdeen area.

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The POWER of LEMON In Matthew 7:24-27, Jesus tells the story of a wise builder and a foolish builder. He tells in that story that rains and windstorms came and beat upon both houses being built. We all recognize the story and we all remember how each time we have heard it, there seems to always be an emphasis on the houses; how one stands because the builder was wise and built on a solid

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Have you colored a picture of a Bible story? Have you written a rhyme about heaven? Did you paint a picture of church that your parents could scan and send in? Here at the New Life Writer's Blog, we can display those creative things you do so that others can see them and praise God through what you do.Just send your short stories, poems, photos and drawings to donna.marmorstein@gmail.com

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Most High God, You are the Everlasting God, You will not fade and you won’t grow weary. You are my Deliverer. You are my Substance. You are Truth. You are my Creator. You are beautiful. You are worthy of all my praise. Great God be glorified. You are all knowing and yet your mercy rains down from on high. There is none like you. I will rejoice in my salvation today. I will find joy in it. It’s a

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.- A. W. Tozer1897 - 1963

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In the shadow of Your wingsI rest and find protectionYour glory is thereSongs of praise fill the airHoly, holy, holy is the LordThe whole earth is full of Your glorySeraphs flying above the throneFeathers loose and falling downCovering me like I've never knownStay here my childRest with MeIn the shadow of my wings.- Robin Moslander

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Our God is creative. The first thing He did was to create. He gave us colors, sounds, textures, flavors and creative minds, and He expects us to enjoy His creation.He gave us the desire to create also. Put a blank paper in front of a child and it won't be blank for long.The enemy destroys both what God makes and what we try to make. He comes only to kill, steal and destroy. And though there's a

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The New Life Writers blog needs creative works from the New Life community. Do you shoot photos expressing the wonder of God's creation? Do you write poetry celebrating the works of God or exploring life in Christ? Do you create digital graphics that sing to the Lord? Can you compose a photo slideshow, a devotional, a short creative work? The New Life Writers blog can use your gifts. Please send

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Click on link below, then choose fast view on bottom left:Click here

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Welcome to the New Life Writers blog, a place to explore, in words, photos and graphics, the many facets of the God of all Creation, Jesus Christ.

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