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Needs for the month of November:
Help supply kid-friendly meal and snack items for our food pantry clients. We’re especially looking for easy, nutritious options that children love and can prepare themselves.
Need for the Month: $56,000.00
Need for the Week: $13,000.00
Giving this Week: $9,525.00
November Total: $40,411.00
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Important Information about KIDNEY DONATION:
Share Your Spare!
Please consider helping Mark Pendlebury. He is in need of a kidney transplant.
How can I be part of the village?
The team of doctors have been very clear:
A living donor is vital for the
Compassion that Fills Our Hearts and Marks Our Lives
Psalm 145:8-9
Jonah 3:10 – 4:11
God’s compassion is not merely emotional or passive. It’s also active and powerful, offering forgiveness and rescuing those who believe.
Jesus had compassion on people, and he healed their sick. Jesus had compassion on people, and he fed their hungry.
Jesus calls his followers to imitate his life of compassion by serving the poor and hurting and by embracing the sick and suffering.
Although humans have to attach to something, our compassionate God willingly and voluntarily attaches His heart to us.
Our compassionate God is moved by the desperate situations we find ourselves in.
Our compassionate God stands ready to forgive us of our sins.
The ultimate expression of God’s compassion is His Son Jesus on the cross dying for the sins of all humanity.
We demonstrate the compassion of Jesus by speaking God’s truth in love and kindness mixed with compassion and tears.
We demonstrate the compassion of Jesus by loving people more than we love the things that bring us comfort and pleasure.
We demonstrate the compassion of Jesus by being quick to forgive those who have wronged us.
We demonstrate the compassion of Jesus by recognizing and embracing God’s compassion for our own lives in the midst of difficulty.
We demonstrate the compassion of Jesus by making time and space in our lives to connect with friends and strangers in pain and poverty.
We serve the poor because Jesus is Lord!
We choose to see and respond to human suffering as Jesus did, remembering that we are recipients of God’s boundless compassion.
Isaiah 30:18
“Jonah finds it difficult to separate his patriotism and misguided theology from his knowledge of the character of God.”
Jack Hayford
Spirit-Filled Living Bible