Monday, January 28, 2013

Sponsorship Flyers

Over the past few weeks, I've been working on creating some fun sponsorship flyers for the students that attend the Point of Hope Development Center with the help of generous sponsors like you! These flyers give information about the student, about the conditions he/she lives in and how your sponsorship makes a difference in your sponsored child's life.

Here is a peak at one child's sponsorship flyer.



If you are interested in learning more about child sponsorship, please click here to head to the ACF website. If you would like to see some more sponsorship flyers, please send an email to director@anotherchild.org. We would LOVE to share more information with you!

Monday, January 14, 2013

The Body

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I went to a discipleship training on Saturday morning. We had to complete a spiritual gifts test before we met and then we shared our results at the training. I had done spiritual gifts tests before and pretty much knew what my results would be. I know what brings me joy! We read 1 Corinthians 12 and discussed how we are all given different gifts by the Holy Spirit.

I had read this scripture several times before and understand that we all have our own special gifts and that we have a special role as part of the body of Christ, but I had never thought about how that also means that I don't have to be amazing at everything. That is quite a relief! It does however mean that we must work together as the body of Christ to function at our best. The leg cannot function at 100% without the foot. We all play a vital part even if we don't feel like our part is very important.

Sometimes I think we, as Christians, take on the world all on our own. We get stressed out and exhausted. We forget that we can't do it all on our own. We were built to rely on others. We must rely on God and the guiding of the Holy Spirit to empower the spiritual gifts that we have been blessed with. We must rely on others to be good at things we are not good at. It really is ok not to be good at everything. The Holy Spirit distributes gifts as He is led and our gifts might change depending on the season of our lives, but it is vital to be in community with others. It is vital to be an active part of the body of Christ and to fully live out the gifts you do have! The great part is that our gifts are things that bring us great joy. They are things we do without necessarily realizing it. They are a part of us and we can learn to use them better.

I am so thankful that God chose special gifts to give to me. I am thankful that I don't have to be great at everything. I am thankful that there are others that I can live this life with who are good at things that I am not good at. I am thankful that we can come together as one under the direction of the One who knows everything that is to come.

What are your spiritual gifts? What comes most easily for you? What brings you great joy?

I'm praying for you to realize your spiritual gifts, if you haven't already and for you to feel freedom in the fact that you don't have to be good at everything. I'm praying for all of us to learn to be better at relying on others who are a part of the body of Christ.