Hello to my Family and Friends,
I hope you and your families are all well and have been enjoying the warm summer days:) Though our days are beautiful and precious, through the news and social media networks, we are still constantly reminded of the hurt and pain that not only faces our country, but our world. In the midst of this climate, God has been bringing the following passage to mind:
"If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love."
1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 Message Version
Our world and the people in it need love, and I know for myself that I definitely need to continue to grow in practicing love; I am thankful that I can look to Jesus and his examples. Let's continue to pray for our world and love our neighbors with a fierce, extravagant love.
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As for my continued work with AT3, one of my recent projects has been to create a Yearly AT3 Story Outline, which allows the entire AT3 staff team to be united in recognizing the different story threads throughout each month. For example, this month is all about AT3's 2022 Summer Internship; therefore, all aspects of communication revolve around AT3's Summer Internship. These summer months have been very exciting because along with my usual tasks of ideations, designs, scheduling, communications, etc., I have also been able to directly work with the AT3 Summer Interns. Via a new program AT3 is checking out, I have been able to send them questions, receive videos and post them to social media networks so that our audience can easily stay up to date! This process has been really fun! Speaking of the Summer Interns, please be praying for them as this week they are on their Europe Mission Trips either to Estonia or Poland. If you would like to stay up to date with our summer interns, please follow AT3 on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
Below are a couple of AT3 banners that I had the pleasure to design; these will be used in recruiting throughout the UK.
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As always, thank you very much for all of your prayer and financial support; I wouldn't be able to serve in this way without you - God bless!
Prayer Requests:
- Pray for Ukraine and for our country.
- Pray for AT3's 2022 Summer Interns.
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