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informative“Supplying the needs of the saints”
This phrase comes directly out of II Corinthians, and it describes a mercy ministry conducted by the Apostle Paul and Titus. In chapter 8, Paul reminds the Corinthian church of a benevolence project for the church in Jerusalem in which they had expressed some interest. Paul worked as an “administrator” of this gift. In chapter 9, Paul ap-peals to their good reputation and encourages them to “sow bountifully,” quoting scripture and promising that God will bless them for giving “liberally!” Verses from this passage (II Cor. 8:3 and 9:7) are often used in support of giving for church planting missions, but the biblical context of these passages is actually financial aid for impoverished believers. Referring to the same project, Paul states this explicitly in Romans 15:26, “For Macedonia [Thessalonica] and Achaia [Corinth] have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.” Here we have mission leaders (Paul and company) collecting money in certain countries and, through careful administration, distributing it to impoverished believers in another country. This is exactly what The TentMaker Project does. What an exciting thing to follow in the footsteps of the apostles and
administrate the giving of financial aid from our own country to minister to the needs of the saints in Uganda through The TentMaker Project!
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Carbondale Notes: One House, Two Addresses.
Our family has a new mailing address! It is 2544 Grammer Rd., Carbondale, IL 62903. No, we did not move. Here’s the true story:
Once upon a time there was a man named Mr. Drone. He owned a meadow on Green Ridge near the Big Muddy River. He built some houses there and sold one of them to Mr. Weiss. Mr. Weiss got tired of driving around his property to Drone Meadow Road and across the meadow on the dirt tracks to his house, so he made a driveway directly to the nearest paved road leading to Mr. Grammer’s apple orchard. With disuse, the end of Drone Meadow Road became overgrown with brambles.
We began renting Mr. Weiss’ house last year. At Christmas time, some of our gifts didn’t make it on time because the house number was still pegged to Drone Meadow Road. Delivery men were driving up and down Drone Meadow and couldn’t find the house! So we asked the UPS deliveryman what to do. “Use the street number where your driveway hits Grammer Road,” he admonished us. So we spelled “2544 GRAMMER RD” in reflective letters on our mailbox. Soon another package got lost, this time in the U.S. Mail. When we asked our mailman about it, he emphatically told us, “That Grammer Road address is wrong; use the Drone Meadow address!” The next day, I discovered our reflective stickers in a neat pile on the ground near our mailbox.
To make a long story short, we brought the county in to solve the problem. They told the post office to use the Grammer Rd. address ... and the Wilsons lived happily ever after.
For the rest of the news from the Wilsons:
http://nathan.wilson.home.att.net/news2
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