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16-21 Mission Trip
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January 12, 2008
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Years ago a John Hopkins’s professor gave a group of graduate students this assignment: Go to the slums. Find 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background and environment. Then predict their chances for the future.
The students, after consulting social statistics, talking to the boys, and compiling much data, concluded that 90 percent of the boys would spend some time in jail.
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Twenty-five years later another group of graduate students was given the job of testing the former students’ prediction. They were able to contact 180 of the original 200. They found that only four of the group had ever been sent to jail.
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Why was it that these men, who had lived in a breeding place of crime, had such a surprisingly good record? The researchers were continually told: “Well, there was a teacher…”
They pressed further, and found that in 75 percent of the cases it was the same woman.
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The researchers found this teacher. How had she exerted this remarkable influence over that group of children? Could she give them any reason why these boys should have remembered her?
“No,” she said, “no I really couldn’t.” And then, thinking back over the years, she said musingly, more to herself than to her questioners: “I loved those boys….” (by way of Christian Voices.com)
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Love makes a difference!! We have been given plenty enough love to share with even those who may not appear to deserve it. (read the 4th chapter of the First Letter of John)
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Church, Who has God given you to love?
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See you Sunday,
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January 4, 2008
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The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married — for the fourth time.
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The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband’s occupation.
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“He’s a funeral director,” she answered.
“Interesting,” the newsman thought. He then asked her if she wouldn’t mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living.
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She paused for a few moments. Then a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she’d first married a banker when she was in her early 20’s, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40’s, later on a preacher when in her 60’s, and now in her 80’s, a funeral director.
The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.
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She smiled and explained, “I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go.
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August 15, 2006
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