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MIDWEEK MESSAGE #231<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Hello everyone and welcome to Midweek Message #231! WOW! Has this past week and a half been something else, or what? Two Sundays ago we had our first cancellation of a Sunday service in a long time. We made the right call. Our first priority is your safety and the live stream allows us the opportunity to facilitate that. The weather was just downright unsafe to be out in so I am glad for the live stream. Final total was at least 96+ people watched the live stream. (Preacher count says 200!\ud83d\ude0a) Guess something good came out of COVID (starting our live stream)! Thanks for understanding and being willing to \u201cgo with the flow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The students also had an extended Christmas vacation with the cancellation of school for three days. Then they had an eLearning Day on Friday. All in all, we were at the mercy of the weather. Here is a novel thought! Maybe, just maybe, we won\u2019t have any more snow the rest of the winter!! I would not complain about that.<\/span>
\nPray for Jeanna Srinivasan as our educator of the week. Jeanna homeschools her two children, Aasha and Nathan. I asked Jeanna for some info about their family. Here is what she sent: She and Kartik have been married for 15 years and met while she was attending The University of Indianapolis and he was pursuing his Master\u2019s degree (he is a Physical Therapist for IU Health). Aasha is 12 and in the 6th grade and Nathan is 7 11\/12 (his answer) and in the 2nd grade. Aasha runs track for Indy Genesis, cross-country and basketball for Bloomington Bobcats, was just initiated as a cadet into the Civil Air Patrol, co-president in the Pathfinders 4-H Club, sings in the White River Music Studio homeschool choir and is in dance. Nathan loves working outdoors. Anything laborious like chopping wood, hauling and lifting things, he\u2019s your man. Jeanna<\/span>
\nteaches high school sciences for the Freedom Homeschool Co-op and is on the Eli Lilly Scholarship selection committee. In her spare time (?) she has dogs, chickens, ducks (this spring) and loves going camping.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I am asking you to pray, I want to bring up the whole California wildfire situation. I said this past Sunday that natural disasters like fires have no favorites. They don\u2019t care if you are rich or poor, white or black, Republican or Democrat, or any other mixture you can think of. I was just speaking with someone (I\u2019m writing this on Sunday afternoon) who called to tell me about her friend who lives in California. He was 12 miles away, then 6, and now is waiting to see which way the wind blows. When this person told him we were praying for them, he was shocked. You know why? Remember when I said fire has no favorites? He is married to a man and his friends are all of the same persuasion. I saw church buildings leveled and collapsed (good thing the church is not the building). I\u2019m going to ask you to keep praying for the victims of these fires and that the winds shift, rain falls or something miraculous happens to bring an end to this devastation. I was not here in early 2005, but I was here in the flood of \u201908 and still remember the destruction our small community faced. Pray not only for the victims but also for those trying to minister God\u2019s love to them. Perhaps this will draw people who are desperately looking for hope to the ONE who alone gives hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

My Wednesday Night Conversations begins this Wednesday, the 15th. The topic of discussion will be 9 Common Lies Christians Believe<\/em> and Why God\u2019s Truth is Infinitely Better.<\/em> It is based on a book by Shane Pruitt. The goal is to discuss and study what the Bible says about different topics:<\/span><\/p>\n