Hey Facebook community, this month 10% of proceeds from the book, The Treasure: Healing the Hurt of the Post Modern Heart, will go to support the Women’s Resource Center/Pioneer House in Astoria, Oregon. In fact, if you have a passion for a women’s shelter, let me know and we will support them as well. The Treasure is the true story of an inner city community of addicts and victims of abuse who found grace and healing in Christian community. The Treasure will teach you how to write your own story of healing and bless broken people world wide. Go to glenmaiden.com and follow the links. Here is a description of the Pioneer House: Women’s Resource Center and Pioneer House offer three services to the community; 1-programs for victims of abuse, court advocacy, financial assistance; 2-Homeless Shelter for women; 3-A thrift store and job training. Community is everything!

Thank you Facebook community for touching the world with grace and love. We have been working together to send a medical missionary, Brooke Roberts RN, to Kenya to help the women and children of this impoverished country.

More than an event, we are part of a revolution to help people all over the globe because WE ARE A POWERFUL COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WHO CARE.

This is what fires me up! We can make a difference. We are making a difference.

Brooke has raised all but 1420 dollars of her expenses. Thank you friends for caring. For those of you who live on the coast, she is having an art show this Saturday at the Gearhart Gallery from 5-7PM. Brooke is an amazing artist. You can view her Africa Collection on my blog as well. She is selling these beautiful water colors to help fund her trip. If you are interested in touching Africa you may go online at openarmsinternational.com make a donation and mention Brooke in the comment section.If you are an art lover on the coast, hope you can make it Saturday April 3rd 5-7pm.

Thank you for being counted among people who care. Once again this is the power of our community. If each of my fb friends gives a buck twenty five, we send a missionary. Then, when you feel the call to go and serve we can all help you. This is the best.

Many thanks,

Glen

Here is a report from Brooke Roberts our medical missionary to Kenya. She met with her Kenya team this week.

“So going to my first kenya team meeting was great. All day I have been daydreaming about it. My teamates are awesome they seem to be super people. We will be setting up medical clinics in the slums and doing feeding programs for street kids. Plus helping out at Open Arms International Orphanage. I can’t wait!”-Brooke Roberts, RN

Here is a report on Brooke’s progress. The first deadline was met with over 2100 dollars. Brooke now needs 1700 dollars by April 10 to make it to Kenya.

First of all. I feel such gratitude for each of you who gave a gift to reach broken people in Kenya. Thank you.

I am also overwhelmed by the power of community to touch people. Many who give a little can do so much.

Friends, we are in a revolution of amazing possibilities. Think what a community like ours can do to change the world.

Here’s what that means. If our fb community of 1000 people gives a gift of 1.70 cents each we can send Brooke on a medical mission. Lives change. Then what about the next missionary we send? For the cost of a cup of cheap coffee we touch the world.

Friend, will you think about sending a gift to openarmsinternational.com? A powerful community is rising up to create grassroots change around the world. You are part of it. How cool is that?

If you are in, please mention Brooke Roberts in the comment box. Changing the world with you. Glen

Transformational Teachings Of Christianity:Kingdom-jesuscontrols

Colossians 1:13
For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son

Luke 10.8-10

⁸ “If you enter a town and it welcomes you, eat whatever is set before you. ⁹ Heal the sick, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is near you now.’

1 Corinthians 4:20
For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power.

Romans 14:17
For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Luke 12:31
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and he will give you everything you need.

1 Corinthians 6:9
Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven:“The world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.”

Revelation 21.3 ³ I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.[a] ⁴ He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”

Luke 18:17
I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

John 3:3
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.

Kenya, Haiti, Chile, Argentina…I prayed today for the victims of another earthquake. I am not sure how to pray anymore. So much suffering. Then I prayed as Jesus prays…”Father, your will not mine.”

We cannot fix every problem, but we can do what the Father wishes us to do.

May I encourage you to pray about which mission organization to support and pray for?

If we all do a small part, the world is touched. True?

Let me encourage you about the power of community. Brooke Roberts, RN has raised all but 85 dollars of step one to her mission trip to Kenya. Tomorrow is the first deadline and we are only 85 dollars away.

Lori and I will give 50 dollars to send Brooke. Will you pray about a gift? You may give a tax deductable donation at openarmsinternational.com. Please mention Brooke Roberts in the comment.

The world is in a Tsunami of trouble. He can make a difference through us. Take care friends.

For Lent I am supporting a professional nurse, Brooke Roberts RN, to go on a medical mission to Kenya to help the women and children of this impoverished nation.

Brooke’s first financial goal is 2100 dollars by February 28. Great news…she has over 1950 dollars so far. 150 dollars more and we take the next step toward saving women and children…for Lent.

Lent has Christian history from the third century AD. The focus is a deeper spiritual life through fasting, prayer, and engaging God’s word. It normally is a forty day period preceding Easter. 40 is a special number in Scripture connecting to a complete period of time.

I think Lent is a great idea, my concern is that like many rituals it can become a self serving event.

This is why fasting, prayer, and the word leading to touching the world with grace and love becomes so important to me. Deeper spirituality must expand beyond me at the center of my own universe and impact the world. Think about it…impact the world.

So, my prayer is that you will, with me, allow the depth of Lent to touch children a world away in Kenya. Ask Jesus what he would have you do…and will you give a gift to send a medical missionary to Kenya? Jesus said when you serve the least…you serve Him.

Here is what it looks like. I have about 1000 facebook friends. If each friend gives 15 cents…Brooke takes the next step toward Kenya. This is not about money, it is the power of a caring community.

There is power in what we do. There is change. Hope emerges.

I trust that you will join me to pray, to go online at http://www.openarmsinternational.com/ and give a gift…whatever comes from your heart. Put in the comment section, “for Brooke Roberts”.

Lent…for children.

He can…through us.

Hi fb community,

A friend challenged me to help her rethink Lent. Normally, we give up something for this holy season leading up to Easter. She encouraged me to think about “taking something on” for Lent. How about saving lives this holy season? Brooke Roberts Rn is preparing for a medical mission to Kenya. Her passion is to help the poor of Africa.

Brooke needs to raise 2100 dollars by February 28th. And then another 2500 by April. Now, here is the good news…she has already raised 1365 dollars.

So this week our prayer is that 635 dollars will come in to send Brooke to Africa. Here is the simplicity. If each of my fb community gives a tax deductable gift of 3 dollars…children are touched in Africa.

Here is how you can support this medical mission to save children:

Pray

Go online to http://www.openarmsinternational.com/ follow the links to give a tax deductable donation and mention Brooke Roberts in the comment section before February 28.

Purchase one of her original watercolors of African children she photographed on a previous mission. Her portraits have sold for 800 dollars each. Check out the blog at glenmaiden.com to see her work from the Africa Collection.

Finally, let’s do something different for the Easter Season, you know rather than giving up stuff, and the usual consumer mentality…let’s save children for Lent.

Dear facebook friends,

I believe our Facebook community represents a revolution of love and connection around the world. In a few seconds you and I will link up with lifelong friends and family and we will encourage and pray for each other. Our community symbolizes the power to change the world through communication.

I want to introduce to you a friend of mine who has a dream to touch the poor of Africa by using her passion for healthcare. Brooke Roberts RN is working her way toward a short term mission with Open Arms International to Eldoret, Kenya to serve the poorest of the poor on this tiny globe. The mission will take place July 10-24, 2010.

Remote Kenya is no vacation…this is a medical mission to save women and children. Here are 3 ways you can help touch lives in Africa.

1-Pray for Brooke

2-Purchase one of Brooke’s original watercolors from the “Africa Collection”. These beautiful works of art are based on photos of African women and children which Brooke photographed on a previous mission. Check out my blog at glenmaiden.com to see her work. You can post a comment on the blog if you wish to purchase one of Brooke’s pieces from the collection.

3-Donate online at www.openarmsinternational.com to make a tax deductable gift. Please indicate in the memo that your gift will go for Brooke Roberts.

If each of my Facebook friends gives a gift of 5 dollars, we can send Brooke to touch the poor of Africa with grace and love. 5 small bucks from a large caring community can do so much.

You may wish to do more…that is cool too. Soon I will post the results of how far Brooke has progressed. Thanks friends…let the revolution begin! And as always…let me know how I can pray for you.

My friends and I are walking through a series of messages entitled “jesusprays”. We are looking at the teachings of Jesus so we can pray as…you know…Jesus prays.

This week I will be speaking on the Lord’s Prayer and the part that says, “thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.”

Personally, I get stuck on “bread”. This seems to be out of place since Jesus spends a considerable amount of time talking about how God knows what we need, and how he feeds the birds, and adorns flowers. Something in me says this part of the prayer does not have to do with hashbrowns, hamburgers, and hotdogs.

If you were a Jewish person, versed in the Old Testament, bread would be very important to you here’s why:

Bread was a constant presence near the Holy of Holies. In 1 Samuel 21 King David enters Nob and demands the “bread” near the mercy seat of God. Also see Hebrews 9.2 which says, “A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand, the table and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.”

Manna which in Hebrew means “what is it?” was the daily provision of God for his people which they used like bread to feed themselves. They were required to trust God each morning for it; nice teaching tool don’t you think? Provision and trust? Psalm 78.24 He rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread was the ceremony at which the people of Israel sacrificed the Passover lamb, you know, the substitute sacrifice which saved the people from death? The image directly connects to Jesus in the New Testament. Mark 14.12

Matthew 14.7 records the multiplication of the bread loaves…miracle time!

Communion was inaugurated in Mark 14.22, the bread represents the body of Jesus.

In John 21.9 Jesus reconciles the rebel Peter on the seashore baking him…bread.

In Luke 24.35 Jesus revealed himself to two doubters in Emmaus when they broke bread together.

In Acts 2.42 and 2.46 the early church gathered around bread which they broke together at meals and in their homes with glad and sincere hearts. People came to know Christ through these gatherings.

And finally the greatest words on bread come from Jesus himself in John 6.48. I am the bread of life.

Jesus is the bread. He stations himself near the mercy of God, He is our daily need, our provision in whom we trust, Jesus is our personal miracle, our sacrifice substituting his death for ours, the reconciler of sinners, drunks and stoners, exotic dancers and preachers, and IRS agents and stark raving lunatics. He is the reason we gather to receive communion, the greatest revelation, the focus of the church.

Give us this day our daily bread…Give us Jesus. Only Him…none other….Fame can’t satisfy…ask Greg Oden of the Trailblazers, money cannot mend a broken heart…see Tiger Woods on that one…and hope emerges when Jesus reveals himself to broken sinful people like you and me…ask the two dudes on the road to Emmaus. Give me Jesus.

Hi friends, check out these Scriptures relating to the Fatherhood of God and the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6.

Psalm 103.13 The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.

Psalm 89.26-28 And he will call out to me, “You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation…I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.”

Isaiah 64.8 And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand.

Matthew 6.25-31 That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life; whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns but your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

So don’t worry about these things saying, “What shall we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?” These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

Matthew 10.29 What is the price of two sparrows-one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.

Matthew 18.19 Again I say to you that if two of you shall consent it shall be done by my Father who is in heaven.

John 16.23 And in that day you shall not ask me anything. Amen I say to you if you ask the Father anything in my name he will give it to you.