Monday, March 27, 2006

Partners 289: Be on the 700 Club! , Audio on Islam, Free Helicopter Rides

  • Islam’s Challenge to the West:

A free 2.5 hour audio seminar presented by Sam Solomon, a former Middle Eastern Muslim scholar who is now one of the leading Christian apologists addressing issues concerning Islam. Subjects covered: Takeya (permitted lying), Abrogation (one text negates another in the Quran), The Qur'an, Democracy in Islam.

Click here http://onewaydeadend.com/islam-lecture.html to listen to it. We all need to understand Islam’s challenge better. Remember, God is only allowing this challenge to bring more glory to Him and His Church! Romans 8:28 is still true in all this!

700 Club Wants Your Help:

"Are you living from paycheck to paycheck? Are you in debt? Here's the chance for you and your spouse to receive in-depth teaching from Pat Robertson on developing and keeping marital and financial harmony. We're looking for couples who need an action plan to eliminate debt and are ready to try Pat's financial principles. He'll show you how to set realistic budgets and financial goals, give you tips to get out of credit card debt, advice on where to invest and the most important, teach you the true meaning of reciprocity. If you would like to be a part of our upcoming 700 Club segments, Pat's Financial Boot Camp, and are willing to appear on the show and let our producers follow your "debt diet", please send us your story to marti.paradee-wheeler@cbn.org .

Free Helicopter Ride with Flying Missionaries!

Take an exciting and educational ride in a missionary's helicopter or airplane; observe computer and translation demonstrations; watch exciting videos and films; thrill to demonstrations of special flying techniques; meet and talk with jungle aviators and translators, and more. Sponsored by JAARS, one of the world’s great missionary flying agencies, serving Wycliffe Bible Translators all over the world, from their base in Waxhaw, N.C. The event is free, but you are encouraged to help the organization through a donation. For more information, call (757) 428-1881. JAARS website: http://www.jaars.org Please help them out. This is one organization that keeps missionaries alive in remote areas of the world and gets them to places that no other vehicle can easily get to!
Saturday, April 22, 2006, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 23, 2006, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Free at Chesapeake Regional Airport, 1777 West Road, Chesapeake, VA 23322.

Click here for directions from all points:

From Virginia Beach, VA

  • Get on Interstate 264-W
  • Take the I-64 E exit on the left towards CHESAPEAKE/SUFFOLK
  • Take the exit on the left
  • Merge onto I-64 E
  • At I-64 Exit 291 B and stay in the right lanes onto Great Bridge Blvd.
  • Next light make a right on to Dominion Blvd/RT 17 South. Dominion Blvd.
  • Go approximately 4 miles and make a left on West Road.
  • There should be signs along the route saying Chesapeake Municipal or Regional Airport. The airport is approximately 2 1/2 miles on the left.

My kids and I went to one of these fly-ins a few years ago and we still talk about it to this day. We took a helicopter and an airplane ride that day. And meeting these people, learning about the different languages, cultures, etc. was very educational.- Michael Grice

HILLSONG UNITED Concert: Wednesday, April 5th 7.30pm!

---is coming to the Virginia Beach!!!!

FREE & OPEN to the public

(No Tickets Required) Doors will open at 6.45pm.

Wave Church: 1000 North Great Neck Road, Virginia Beach, PH: 757-481-5005

www.wavechurch.com

Medical Coordinator Wanted in Darfur, Sudan:
Christian international aide organization wants to hire a person to oversee their medical work there. Does not need medical degree. Mostly paid position with some fund raising for support. Click here for complete job description linked on left side of the page.

Free Picture Editors:
This piece of free software gets very good reviews fom CNet. I have not tried it. For the more experienced user,but not as heavy duty as Photoshop. Click here
GIMP is another image editor that is amazing---almost as good as the $500 Adobe Photoshop. It is free online and works on PC, MAC or Linux. Click here to get it.

Computer Tip: (
from Kathy Walters)
It's very useful when trying to read small print.
If you hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and then turn the wheel
in the middle of your mouse away from you or towards you, the print size
will change - it will either get larger or smaller - depending on which way
you turn the wheel. Try it.


Thank Your for Praying for that Pastor's Wife in Chesapeake! She went home to Jesus last Wednesday despite the fervent prayers of many. We all have a lot to learn about how to pray for the sick in situaitons like this--but we are going to continue to pray!!

Monday, March 06, 2006

Partners 288: Pastor's Wife in Chesapeake Is About to Have a Miracle!

Agree with Us for a Miracle: Becky Richardson is the 55-year-old wife of Oscar Richardson, pastor at the Chesapeake Vineyard in the Deep Creek section of Chesapeake.


These are two of my oldest and dearest friends. They helped start that church with me years ago. She had a cerebral aneurism at home last Wednesday. Dozens of people from many local churches have come to the hospital to pray and support this much-loved family day and night for days. Just tonight, March 27, the doctors at Chesapeake General in Chesapeake, VA. declared her clinically dead due to no brain wave activity.

But this is not the end of the story.

It seems that everyone who has come to the hospital to pray over the last six days senses that God is not ready to take Becky home to heaven. Given the lack of brain waves, most Christians would release the person the Lord and stop praying for healing. I have done that in the past. It makes sense. But God, as we know, is not limited by what makes sense to us!

I am asking you all to agree with dozens of us who have known Oscar and Becky for many years that God would glorify Himself greatly in this situation. If He is not ready to take her home, then He intends to do something pretty spectacular to show others Who He is and what He can do. Nothing motivates God more than that. I could be wrong but I fully believe that something amazing is going to happen here that will astound the medical, Christian and non-Christian community. I am not a “name-it-and-claim-it person—nor are the others who agree that God is not done here. God is God. While He generally wants to heal people when asked, if God wants Becky in heaven, that is fine with us. She belongs to Him more than to us. We just don’t believe that her time here is finished.

I know some of you may have never prayed like this, but please pray now that God would raise Becky up miraculously. It's easier not to pray that way, but I believe we will miss the great thing that God wants to do to glorify Himself if we don't. Many souls could come to Jesus as a result of a miracle like this!


You can stay tuned to what is happening to Becky by checking her online Blog at http://becky2007.blogspot.com/ New reports will be put there regularly.