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Exciting new development at LINK!

Lynne Finding, Executive Director of LINK writes in the monthly newsletter, LINK LINES:

As I have been traveling around Newport News with the PORT Program, I have been talking to many volunteers about LINK's new program which will begin shortly, namely, the CANLINK Permanent Housing Program. LINK will partner with CANDII, Children's AIDS Network Designed for Interfaith Involvement, to provide 15 single units and 12 family units to homeless individuals or families who have some type of disability. LINK is excited at the prospect of this new venture and will continue to need your support as LINK and CANDII strive to provide holistic supportive services and to help each individual/family set up a home utilizing donated items which you have and continue to most generously contribute.

There is a lot more to tell about this but we will save it for next month.

To get things started, they are having a dinner dance fund raiser at Point Plaza on Thursday, May 20, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. They would like to have us attend and celebrate with them. Tickets are $35 per person. For additional information see the bulletin board outside the church office or contact June Loving at 877-2569

Spiritual Growth

Cindy Loving, Captain

John Wesley: How to Read the Scripture

If you desire to read the scripture in such a manner as may most effectually answer this end, would it not be advisable,

1. To set apart a little time, if you can, every morning and evening for that purpose?
2. At each time if you have leisure, to read a chapter out of the Old, and one out of the New Testament: if you cannot do this, to take a single chapter, or a part of one?
3. To read this with a single eye, to know the whole will of God, and a fixt resolution to do it? In order to know his will, you should,
   
4. Have a constant eye to the analogy of faith; the connexion and harmony there is between those grand, fundamental doctrines, Original Sin, Justification by Faith, the New Birth, Inward and Outward Holiness.
   
5. Serious and earnest prayer should be constantly used, before we consult the oracles of God, seeing "scripture can only be understood thro' the same Spirit whereby it was given." Our reading should likewise be closed with prayer, that what we read may be written on our hearts.
   
6. It might also be of use, if while we read, we were frequently to pause, and examine ourselves by what we read, both with regard to our hearts, and lives. This would furnish us with matter of praise, where we found God had enabled us to conform to his blessed will, and matter of humiliation and prayer, where we were conscious of having fallen short.

And whatever light you then receive, should be used to the uttermost, and that immediately. Let there be no delay. Whatever you resolve, begin to execute the first moment you can. So shall you find this word to be indeed the power of God unto present and eternal salvation.

John Wesley

Preface to Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament

EDINBURGH, April 25, 1765.

From the web site John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life, http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/wesley/

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