The Top 25 Millionaires & Billionaires That Are Using Their Money To Save The WorldThe Top 25 Millionaires & Billionaires That Are Using Their Money To Save The World By Glory House

When you think of the word “Philanthropist“, people such as Bill & Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett & Oprah Winfrey may come to mind. These are just a few of the many super rich that have devoted their lives to changing the world for the better through the riches and Success they have made over their lives. Read on to see the list of the Top 25 Richest Millionaires & Billionaires giving away their money to make this world a better place.

Billionaires Giving Away Money

#25 Lee and Jane Seidman

Amount donated in 2010: $42  million

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiary: University Hospitals in  Cleveland

Background: Seidman is the retired founder and president of  the Motorcars Group, a Cleveland-based conglomerate of car dealerships. He  pledged in 2010 to  give away 90% of his wealth before the end of the  year.

#24 Larry Ellison

Amount donated in 2010: $45.1  million

Net worth: $39.5 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: Ellison Medical  Foundation

Background: Ellison, the founder of Oracle, started his  foundation in 1997 for biomedical research.

#23 Bennett S. LeBow

Amount donated in 2010: $49  million

Net worth: Not available
Beneficiary: Drexel  University

Background: LeBow is the chairman and CEO of Borders and  chairman of the Vector Group, a holding company for manufacturers of cigarettes.  He’s a graduate of Drexel and the university’s business school bears his  name.

#19 (tie) P. Roy and Diana Vagelos

Amount donated in 2010: $50  million

Net worth: $535 million (via the National  Herald)

Beneficiary: Columbia University Medical  Center

Background: Dr. Vagelos is the former CEO and chairman of  pharmaceutical giant Merck. He’s an alumnus of the medical school associated  with the hospital.

#19 (tie) Paul Ichiro Terasaki

Amount  donated in 2010: $50 million

Net worth: Not available
Beneficiary: University of California at  Los Angeles

Background: Dr. Terasaki is a pioneer  in the field of organ transplant medicine. In 1946 he developed the test  that became the international standard method for tissue typing. He conducted  his research in the university’s  laboratories.

#19 (tie) Ming Hsieh

Amount donated in  2010: $50 million

Net worth: $1.6 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: University of Southern  California

Background: Hsieh founded AMAX Information Technologies, a  computer server and storage systems maker, and Cogent, which develops automated  fingerprint-identification systems. He’s a graduate  of the school, as well as a trustee.

#19 (tie) Ned Evans

Amount  donated in 2010: $50 million

Net worth: $6.5 billion (via Boston  Magazine)
Beneficiary: Yale  University

Background: Evans, who passed away last year, was a private  investor and the chairman of publishing company Macmillan from 1979 to 1989. He  was also a well-known horse breeder, as well as an alumnus of  Yale.

#18 Charles E. Kaufman

Amount donated in 2010: $53.3 million (estimated bequest)

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiaries: The Pittsburgh Foundation and other  charities

Background: Kaufman, who passed away last year, was an  investor and the former director of purchasing at pharmaceutical company Merck.  His gift will support research in biology, chemistry, and  physics

#17 Bill and Karen Ackman

Amount  donated in 2010: $59.3 million

Net worth: $700 million (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: Pershing Square  Foundation

Background: Ackman is the founder of New York-based hedge  fund Pershing Square Capital Management. Along with his wife, he created  the Pershing Square Foundation in 2006 to support education, human rights,  social entrepreneurship, and other causes.

#16 Pierre and Pam Omidyar

Amount  donated in 2010: $61.5 million

Net worth: $6.2 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiaries: HopeLab, Humanity United, Omidyar Network,  and the Ulupono Initiative
Background: Omidyar is the founder of eBay. His wife is the  chairwoman of HopeLab, a  nonprofit that develops technology to benefit chronically ill  children.

#15 Henry C. Jr. and Jane Woods

Amount donated in 2010:$67  million (bequest)
Net worth: Not available

Beneficiaries: Lawrenceville School and North Shore Country  Day School
Background: Woods is the heir to the Sahara Coal Company  fortune. The bulk of last year’s donation went to the Lawrenceville School, a  private school in New Jersey from  which he graduated and where he was a longtime teacher and chair of the  English department.

#14 David and Patricia Atkinson

Amount donated in 2010: $80  million

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiary: Cornell University
Background: Atkinson is a former partner of Miller, Anderson & Sherrerd, a money management firm. He now runs Atkinson & Company, a  private investment business he owns with his wife. Their gift went  towards a research center focusing on energy, sustainability and the  environment.

#13 Juanita Kious Waugh

Amount donated in 2010: $83.7 million  (estimated bequest)

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiaries: The Mayo Clinic, Saint  Joseph’s College in Indiana
Background: Waugh, who passed away last year, managed her  family’s farms and was the heir to part of their cattle, farming and banking  fortune. She and her parents had  been patients of the Mayo Clinic.

#12 Terrence and Kim Pegula

Amount donated in 2010: $88  million

Net worth: $3.1 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: Pennsylvania State  University

Background: Pegula founded East Resources, an oil and gas  exploration and development company, which he sold to Royal Dutch Shell in 2010  for $4.7 billion. The donation from Pegula, an alumnus, will go towards the  university’s hockey program.

#10 (tie) Mark Zuckerberg

Amount donated in 2010: $100  million

Net worth: $17.5 billion (via Forbes)
Beneficiary: Startup:  Education

Background: Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, made a huge  donation to his own foundation, which will support programs that benefit the  school system in Newark, N.J. The sum will be paid out over five  years.

#10 (tie) Marc and Lynne Benioff

Amount donated in  2010: $100 million

Net worth: $1.9 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: University of California at  San Francisco Children’s Hospital
Background: Benioff is the founder of Salesforce.com. His  daughter was born at the hospital, and he is a member of its  board.

#9 Meyer and Renee Luskin

Amount  donated in 2010: $100.5 million

Net worth: Not available

Beneficiary: University of California at  Los Angeles

Background: Luskin is the chairman of Scope Industries, a  major maker of animal feed. He is a graduate of UCLA and the  couple’s gift will go towards a variety of academic  programs.

#8 T. Boone Pickens

Amount  donated in 2010: $101 million

Net worth: $1.45 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiaries: Oklahoma State University and other  charities

Background: The founder of oil company Mesa Petroleum and  energy investment firm BP Capital, Pickens is a graduate of OSU. His donation  will endow need-based scholarships for  students.

#7 Frances Lasker Brody

Amount  donated in 2010: $110 million (estimated bequest)

Net worth: Not available
Beneficiary:The Huntington Library, Art  Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Background: Brody, who passed away in 2009, was the heir to  both the fortune of her father, an advertising pioneer, and her husband Sidney  Brody, a real estate magnate. She was a member of the library’s board of  overseers, and her donation was largely funded by the sale of her vast art  collection.

#6 Leonard Blavatnik

Amount  donated in 2010: $117.2 million

Net worth: $9.5 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: University of  Oxford

Background: Blavatnik is the founder of Access Industries, a  major holding company. He did not attend Oxford, but decided  the university was the right choice after learning that it wanted to create  a school dedicated to “improving government and public-policy practices  globally.”

#5 Edythe and Eli Broad

Amount  donated in 2010: $118.3 million

Net worth: $6.3 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: Broad  Foundations

Background: Broad is the founder and chairman of homebuilder  KB Home Corporation and financial services company SunAmerica. The couple’s  foundation supports civic programs, contemporary art museums, education, and  medical and scientific research. Broad  is also funding a new art museum in Los  Angeles.

#4 Irwin and Joan Jacobs

Amount donated in 2010:  $119.5 million

Net worth: $1.15 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiaries: University of California at San Diego Health  System, Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fund at the Jewish Community Foundation of San  Diego
Background: Jacobs is a co-founder of Qualcomm, the wireless  communications company. The bulk of their donation went to the UCSD health  system, which is building  a new medical center to be named after the  couple.

#3 T. Denny Sanford

Amount donated in 2010: $162.5  million

Net worth: $600 million (via The  Daily)

Beneficiaries: Sanford Health Foundation, Sanford-Burnham  Medical Research Institute and the Florida Hospital for  Children
Background: The noted philanthropist is chairman of United  National Corporation, a banking business in South Dakota. His most  recent gift to his foundation will establish a national institute for  research and treatment of breast cancer.

#2 Michael R. Bloomberg

Amount  donated in 2010: $279.2 million

Net worth: $19.5 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiaries: Arts, human services, public affairs, and  other groups
Background: The founder of Bloomberg LP and Mayor of New  York city gave to 970 different nonprofit groups in 2010. Since 2004, the first  year the Philanthropy list was published,  he has given away well over $100 million  annually.

#1 George Soros

Amount donated in 2010: $332  million

Net worth: $22 billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: Open Society  Foundations
Background: Soros is a financier and the chair of Soros Fund  Management, which manages hedge funds. He’s also the founder of Open Society  Foundations, which supports human rights organizations and democratic  institutions.


Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy

101 Robert Kiyosaki Quotes That WILL Inspire You By Glory House

The famous “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” author has written some of the world’s top financial books. He has shared the stage with some of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs and has changed the way that we look at acquiring wealth.

I was fortunate enough to sit front stage at Robert’s event in Australia and soak in as much inspiring information that my mind would allow me that day. I was blown away by the advice he would share and was moved to make a massive change in the way that I made money and invested.
I would love to share with you today; 101 inspiring quotes by Robert Kiyosaki that will transform the way that you think about creating wealth in your life.

“In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!” – Robert Kiyosaki

“It’s more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It’s more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They’re always learning. They’re always growing. They’re always pushing.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“It’s easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn’t do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They’re always learning.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you’re still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you’re losing.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The most successful people are mavericks who aren’t afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it’s obvious.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams. - Robert Kiyosaki

“You’ll often find that it’s not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that’s stopping you. It’s you. Get out of your own way.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that’s fine; learn from it & don’t make it again.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old person.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Money is really just an idea.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.” - Robert Kiyosaki

”You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won’t quit.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard. ” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The power of “can’t”: The word “can’t” makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Start small and dream big.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word ‘emotion’ stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.”  - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man’s attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“F.O.C.U.S – Follow One Course Until Successful” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow” - Robert Kiyosaki

“I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were; they resist change. Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Find out where you are at, where you are going and build a plan to get there.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say ‘what happened?” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Skills make you rich, not theories.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“People without financial knowledge, who take advice from financial experts are like lemmings simply following their leader. They race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty, hoping to swim to the other side.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking about becoming a business owner.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Education is cheap; experience is expensive.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The love of money is not the root of all evil. The lack of money is the root of all evil.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Making mistakes isn’t enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“In today’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Excuses cost a dime and that’s why the poor could afford a lot of it.” - Robert Kiyosaki

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“When people are lame, they love to blame.” - Robert Kiyosaki



 “Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“It does not take money to make money.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn’t know before.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“A winning strategy must include losing.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The wealthy buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle-class tend to buy luxuries first. Why? Emotional discipline.” - Robert Kiyosaki

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.” - Robert Kiyosaki

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Business and investing are team sports.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.” - Robert Kiyosaki

Missionary News

Church planting

We just returned from an amazing trip to Brenham, Texas. Bob, one of our supporters, not only gathered an astonishing amount of hand tools for our ministry, but he also spent several days teaching me various elements of woodworking, joinery, and construction.

"Perfect is close enough" when it comes to measuring.

I did my best impersonation of a Bob-Vila-shaped-sponge (that’s not a thing, is it?), while making box joints by hand, shaving/drilling/assembling a mortise and tenon platform from a fallen tree (using a shaving horse and a draw-knife), and employing various power tools. Blessed? Yes. Definitely.

Rynn gave our unfinished platform a good stress test!

Just Showing Off.
We all know God occasionally throws an inside curve ball. Usually, he’s trying to get us to back off the plate, refocus, and wait on the right pitch (I know, I know, an imperfect sports metaphor…but hey, I’ve had too much coffee to resist…). Our solar electric system is designed off a rectangular floor plan I saw in a bush house last summer in Papua New Guinea, but our team recently learned that the Wantakians live in circular houses. The only people with rectangular houses are either foreigners or very rich. We’d like to avoid propagating those stereotypes, so we scrapped the rectangle house-plan.

Dilemma.
What do we replace it with? A round house? We briefly looked into prefab yurts. They were cool, sturdy, and quick to construct, but expensive and devastating in regard to the relationship-building time that normally accompanies the house-building phase of ministry. The people’s round houses typically only last a few years before they have to be rebuilt, so that was out. We needed a middle option.�

Light-bulb.
What if we threw them a curveball by building an octagonal house? Not a rectangle…not round…but round-ish. This seemed to be the perfect middle-ground, but how would we build one? What would the floor-plan look like? How would we make a sealed octagonal roof from corrugated tin?

While in Texas, an architect from our family’s church heard about our dilemma, met with Lael and me for a few hours, solved our roof problem, and volunteered to draw up professional plans for our bush house! Again, God constantly shows us that this task is impossible apart from Him and His provision through the rest of the Body! So humbling, true, and encouraging!
Some of you have said things like, “I could never do what you and Lael are doing.” Well, we can’t do it on our own either. We’re frail and fearful, but we’re willing to trust in God’s provision. Please pray that we continue to begin every day surrendered to God’s plans for our lives. That’s all any of us can do. Some of His plans are in our comfort-zone; some aren’t. All of His plans are in His comfort-zone.�
May we all continue to pray the most dangerous prayer, “Jesus, I’m willing to go anywhere at anytime to do anything for You. Show me what that looks like.”

Unto the Nations

Posted by Katie Bowman on Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” -Jim Elliot (missionary to the Auca and martyr of the faith)

Check out this first hand account of a team of missionaries who gave of themselves to see the Yembi Yembi people group reached.

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Humbling Provision

Posted by Jack and Lael Crabtree on Monday, May 19th, 2014

Transitioning to a different country might be complicated, but God has been showing off lately! We had several huge financial needs, and God completely crossed them off our list by working through his church! One family provided 90 percent of the funds we needed for our solar electric system, and we were able to purchase $12,000 worth of plane tickets for about $500 through a mixture of air miles! We serve a creative God!�
Thankfully we’re on the last step of our paperwork! Everything made it through the PNG government, and now we just need to send some documents to the embassy here in the States…and wait. This month we’ll be getting everything together and loaded onto the shipping container we’re sharing with the Sanders and Hambrices. Please pray for patience and wisdom as we organize everything and try to go with minimal belongings.

Letters From Wantakia
Our Letters From Wantakia art event went great. Samuel Gray created an incredibly moving image called Reaching the Unreached [see below] for us, and we were able to sell signed prints and t-shirts, while informing friends about our future ministry with the Wantakian people in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea!

"Reaching the Unreached" by Samuel Gray – Christ stands on a grass airstrip in Papua New Guinea beckoning us (the birds) to come join him in the field where laborers are few.

Wisconsin!
We’re in Waukesha, Wisconsin saying our last goodbyes to friends from Sprizzo, Brooklife Church, and New Tribes Bible Institute! It’s been an emotional whirlwind, and we’re so thankful for the many great friendships we’ve been blessed with in the frigid north! This is a special thank you to all the Brooklifers who stopped by our table! You guys are awesome, and we’re proud to be part of the church family representing you all in Papua New Guinea!

We stayed with some amazing friends, and Nora (and Rynn) had a blast playing with Kojo!

Shirts!

To order a  “For This I Toil” shirt and help us get to the field, click here. Five colors available.
Next Stop: Texas
After a week to catch our breath, we’ll be taking our last big road-trip down to Texas to visit with friends, family, and supporters. This is an extra special trip (and another example of God’s creative provision), because one of our supporters has purchased many of the power and hand tools I’ll need and is going to teach me how to build furniture by hand!

We’re so thankful for the way the church can function together, and so humbled by everyone’s generosity. Thank you all for your prayers and support!�

Building More Than Just a House

Posted by Coleton and Shawna Williams on Thursday, May 8th, 2014

As we are starting to think about going into a village, there are a lot of plans we have to make when it comes to house building. Things like buying lumber in town at three times the cost, or cutting and milling all of our wood taking three times as long. The possibility of using all bush materials and living with the bugs, or buying plywood and being bug free, and how much of our own goods do we want to bring in or how simply do we want to live.

There are a lot of factors that go into making these decisions. One of them being relationship building, what kind of example are we making for the people that will one day be the church, and how much are we feeding into their cargo cult mentality that believes white people have the spiritual secrets to getting more cargo from the spirits. There is also the cost factor.
With there being no roads into the locations that we go into, we have to pay the $1000 per hour for the helicopter to transport of the materials we will need for our house. Things like our solar panels and wiring are a necessity, but many of the other things we can live without. So the question is, what do we NEED to be effective in this church plant, and what are the things that we can really live without? This means that we are letting go of many of the niceties that we may have in town or America so that we can better reach these people with the gospel.
This is a big task and it takes a lot of people to get us where we need to be. First it takes people like you, praying and giving so that we can make the wise decisions of what we need to buy. There are also people who help us buy the materials in town, people that will help us mill the wood we need, a helicopter pilot that transports all of the materials to our location, and missionaries and people from the village that come out and help us build our homes.
So what stage are we at right now? Right now we are in the first stage, finding people like you who are willing to diligently pray and generously give to this cause. As of right now, we have all of the solar panels, batteries and things for wiring our house. So now we need your help over these next few months to help raise the funds we need to build this house.

Where to next?

Life is a Highway (or a poor excuse for one)

Posted by Coleton and Shawna Williams on Saturday, April 5th, 2014

When you think of a highway, you probably think of a nice paved road, high speed limits and multiple lanes of traffic that can take you to all of your destinations with ease−but that is not the case here in PNG. I have done the trip from Goroka to Madang province twice this month, which is a 7 ½ hour drive on what they call the “highway”.  You drive several hours of up and down mountains on a road that barely fits two cars and no shoulder, you are stop-and-go because of the huge gaping holes in the road that you can lose a small child in, and you are dodging missing pieces of the road from mountain slides. Then you are on the flat part of the road where it feels slightly more “normal” until you are dodging yet again more ginormous potholes. Then you get to what the call the “finnastair mountains”. Now you are going up and down more mountains that have 20% grade or more (all of the nice potholes included), missing chunks of road, the nice washboard feel from what is now a dirt road that has been rained on everyday, and sheer drop-offs with no railings to make it all the more safe. Then you finally drop down into the coast, with the beautiful coconut trees, jungle vegetation and smoldering heat to reach your destination, Madang province.
Why did I do this, twice? To help a fellow coworker build his house on the Volcanic Island of Manam! It was a great experience of learning how to wire up solar panels, plumb in toilets and sinks and learn just some of what it looks like to have a house built in the middle of nowhere. In three weeks, with three different groups of men and women the house is finished and the missionaries can now start the process of learning language and culture to bring the gospel to this people group! It’s a pretty amazing feet and can only be done with the help of the Lord!

Good News
We are excited to be thinking that in the next several months, we can be in the same process that our friends in Manam are in! Yes we have some good news! A man approached us a few weeks ago and told us of a people group that has been begging for the gospel to be brought to them. They have seen the changes in the people group that the missionaries are in and they want this in their lives too. This church wants to help reach these people but they are a totally different language than them and they know they don’t have the resources to move six hours up the mountain and be able to provide them with the Bible in their language. That’s where we come in. We have the opportunity to partner up with this church and go into this new people group to help bring the Word of God into their language. Please be praying for us as we are looking into this people group that the Lord would direct our steps and if this His plan, that He’d make it clear to us.
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Prayer requests
-please pray for us and the leadership as we work towards going to this people group
-pray for our coworkers as they head home next month to have their baby. Pray that it would be a smooth delivery with no complications and that they could get back to PNG ASAP
-pray for us as we wait, that we would be content in what the Lord has for us here and now
-pray as we start to make purchases for our tribal house, that God would continue to provide the big funds needed

becoming amdu… will you give me a gift?

Posted by Bryan and Martha Conard on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

Over the past couple weeks it has been AMAZING to be able to FaceTime with Benjamin and Missy and the kids several times!  It had been about a year since we’ve had any form of communication besides e-mail.  What a treat to see their faces, hear the voices, and laugh along to the tune of their giggles.
Hearing Benjamin talk about the intensity of the challenge to learn the Amdu language and culture has been sobering.  They are climbing well, but the mountain is high.  The language is key, like having a water source. But learning culture is to language what a bucket is at your water source.  Learning Amdu culture is enabling Benjamin and Missy and their team to express life, and ultimately the Gospel, in a useful and meaningful way. Please keep praying for them.
Here is some recent news from them…

“We’re planning for a language check sometime in late May to determine how we have progressed in the language since our check last October.  But language learning is only half of the investment that we are making with our time.  We are also busy learning as much as we can about the Amdu culture too.  Culture and Language Acquisition has been very challenging but we are encouraged with the progress the Lord is helping us to make.  Thank you so much for praying for us.
“While exploring the culture of the Amdu people we have discovered fascinating things.  For example friendships seem best understood through the exchange of gifts.  Friendships are established and maintained by a system of give and take – exchange.  From the outside looking in it looks like friendship is bought and it feels disingenuous.  And when it is turned in our direction we honestly don’t know exactly how to react. �
Just before we left Amdu for our break many of our friends came and made special requests for things.  They said that because we were friends we should give them a gift and in turn they would remember us while we were gone and be sad.  This didn’t feel like friendship to us, but it forced us to consider more deeply the perspective of the Amdu people.
We want to build deep friendships and be generous but we recognize that we won’t be able to live up to their expectation of exchange.  This does not mean that we are at a loss.  It simply means that we need to better understand how the Amdu relate to one another.  This will help us to decide what cultural practices are appropriate for us to participate in and which ones we should not.  Becoming Amdu isn’t a complete abandoning of our own values and culture; it is learning how the Amdu see the world, relating to them as best we can, while recognizing that many changes will come to their understanding of reality when they hear the Gospel.”

Literacy & Mission Conference in North Cotes, England

Posted by Jerry and Joyce McDaniels on Saturday, March 22nd, 2014

taking in some history in York

We are having a great time at the literacy course here at the missionary training center. Students from all over Europe are preparing for ministries all around the world. We have come to love and appreciate each of them and the staff who serve the Lord so completely. This next week the literacy students are writing several pages of a primer and then will practice teaching their flashcards, blackboard exercises, and writing practice exercises they develop. It’s a very practical way to pull together everything we’ve been learning and excite everyone what God will do through their literacy ministries.

literacy class of Colombia

Posted by Jerry and Joyce McDaniels on Monday, March 3rd, 2014

literacy class of Colombia, 2014

Thank you so much for your prayers for our trip to Colombia. We enjoyed every minute of our time there and it wasn’t just about the great Colombian coffee, arepas, and ajiaco (although they did make it extra nice)!

The majority of our time was spent at the missionary training center. We worked with the literacy trainers, taking the students through the steps necessary for motivating, producing and teaching literacy in church planting ministries. Then the students practiced by teaching part of a literacy lesson they developed. It was such a blessing to see all these young people so in love with the Lord, preparing for church planting ministries in Colombia!

but God can!!

Posted by Lance and Laura Ostman on Thursday, February 20th, 2014

looking forward to spending time with these dear people

Greetings from the Philippines. In our last update we asked for prayer for our trip here. Thank you for praying for us. We had a safe, uneventful trip… up to the other day.
Laura came down with a bad cold and I thought I had a thorn or something embedded in my foot. So, off to see the doctor… Laura’s cold is just that, a virus, that hopefully will be gone within another week. What I thought was embedded in my foot turned out to be shingles! I guess if there is a “good place” to have shingles it’s in the foot. The doctor prescribed some antiviral medication and after scrapping ourselves up off the floor when the pharmacist told us the price, we made our purchase and so far, praise the Lord, the symptoms have not gotten any worse. I’m thankful that it isn’t painful, just a bit of discomfort.
We postponed our flight into the village twice due to our illnesses and needing rest, but we are preparing to fly tomorrow, Friday! Please continue to pray for us as we settle into “village life” again and as Lance gets to work on the initial checking of 1 & 2 Kings. Ron and Michelle will be going to town to attend to some medical things as well as take a break. Once they are back, we will be working on Joshua.
No, we cannot do this but certainly God can!  Matthew 19:26  “…with God all things are possible.” And one of our favorite verses Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”  Thank you for partnering with us!
Secure in Christ alone,
Lance & Laura

Latest News I Nigeria Gunmen kill "many" in attack on Borno village

Maiduguri - Suspected militants stormed a village in Borno State on Saturday, killing several people and torching houses close to where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped two months ago, a witness said.
Clad in military uniforms, the attackers raided Koronginim in a convoy of sport utility and military vehicles, the witness told Reuters by telephone, asking not to be identified.

The attackers shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before opening fire and killing "many", the witness said. "Two of their leaders were giving orders that they should shoot anyone on sight," the witness added.
Koronginim is in Borno state, the birthplace of a five-year-old insurgency by Boko Haram militants, bent on carving out an Islamist caliphate in religiously-mixed Nigeria.

The village is about 9 km (6 miles) from Chibok, where the Boko Haram abducted the schoolgirls in April.

Eat These For Your Health

End of the World Films; A Must Watch

Melancholia

The Eschatrilogy

New World Order

The Fifth Element

The Quiet Earth

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

 

The Sacrifice (1986)

 

Quatermass II (1957)

 

The End (2012)

 

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011 

 

 

 

 

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Forgiveness Bible Verses

Bible Verses About Forgiveness - Read passages that offer biblical guidance on forgiveness and how important it is to forgive others as we have been forgiven by the blood of Christ. Read verses from the Holy Bible about forgiveness in relation to God, Jesus Christ, and the Christian faith.

• Matthew 6:14-15

  For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sin

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
  
  

• Isaiah 43:25-26

  "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.  Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
  
  

• Acts 3:19

  Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
  
  

• Isaiah 1:18

  "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
  
  

• 2 Corinthians 5:17

  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
  
  

• Ephesians 1:7

  In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace

• Hebrews 10:17

  Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."

• Daniel 9:9

  The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him;
  
  

• Colossians 1:13-14

  For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,  in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
  
  

• Psalm 103:12

  as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
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• Numbers 14:19-21

  In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now."  The LORD replied, "I have forgiven them, as you asked.  Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth

• Micah 7:18-19

  Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.  You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
  
  

• Matthew 6:9-15

  "This, then, is how you should pray: " 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,  your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us today our daily bread.  Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. '  For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
  
  

• Mark 11:25

  And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. "
  
  

• Matthew 26:28

  This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Encouraging Bible Verses

Encouraging Bible Verses and Quotes - Scriptures that offer words of encouragement in your daily life and provide inspiration and strength as you cope with life's challenges. Read verses from the Holy Bible about encouragement in relation to God, Jesus Christ, and the Christian faith.

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• Proverbs 3:5-6

  Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;  in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
  
  

• Proverbs 18:10

  The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
  
  

• Isaiah 41:10

  So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

• John 14:27

  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
  
  

• John 16:33

  "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
  
  

• Psalm 46:1-3

  God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.  Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,  though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. "Selah"
  
  

• 2 Timothy 1:7

  For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
  
  

• Psalm 16:8

  I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
  
  

• Psalm 55:22

  Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.
  
  

• 1 Peter 5:7

  Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
  
  

• Isaiah 26:3

  You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
  
  

• Psalm 118:14-16

  The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.  Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: "The LORD's right hand has done mighty things!  The LORD's right hand is lifted high; the LORD's right hand has done mighty things!"

• Psalm 119:114-115

  You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.  Away from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commands of my God!
  
  

• Psalm 119:25

  I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.

• Psalm 119:50

  My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.
  
  

• Psalm 119:71

  It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.
  
  

• Psalm 120:1

  I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.