Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

 

July Update We know prayer is a foundational process of submission, joy, and guidance and we invite everyone who is a part of Compassion Connect to partake.

 

CC Prayer Requests for July

 

Health - Compassion Clinics

There are 3 clinics in July:

Compassion Downtown – July 9

Canby Cares – July 16

Compassion West Vancouver – July 23

Please pray for:

· Health & safety of volunteers and their families

· Protection from technical and mechanical difficulties

· Peace and grace over the guests and the event in general

· Guests to feel the compassion of God through the caring community around them

· God to provide just what is needed for each clinic site

· Clinic leaders to have God’s peace as they plan and prepare

· Clinic leaders to be able to know what “their part” is and what “God’s part” is and be diligent in doing their part and trust God to do His part

· Peace and unity for all involved

· God to use the clinic to build relationships among the various churches involved

· God’s love to flow through His people and touch the guests

· Someone to catch the vision for follow-up and take ownership for it

· Creative ways to continue relationships begun at the clinic

Also please pray for Canby Cares – July 16

· A few more optometrists for their Vision Clinic

· Donations - monetary and food

· That the word about Canby Cares gets out to those who need the services they are offering.

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This post comes from the original posted on http://www.examiner.com

 

In the overly connected world of instant status alerts and cryptic text messages it is often hard to notice the details of the community just outside these little screens. Compassion Connect breaks through with a collective aid approach in communities with basic health needs. Volunteers involved in these clinics act on one specific notion of being a Christian as stated by St. Francis of Assisi. He exclaimed that everyone should “preach the gospel at all times and (only) when necessary use words.”

According to a health Survey administered by the Center for Disease Control, there are currently over 50 million people without health insurance in the United States of America. 3,780,230 of those interviewed reside in the state of Oregon. Many thousands of these people attend the health clinics organized with Compassion Connect and local churches in the area of need.

The clinic held June 18^th, at Lane Middle School in Southeast Portland, proves just how impressive the feat of organizing and completing these events can be. From the moment someone stepped in.....

To share with others just a few snapshots from life at Barberry:

A knock at the door. Four little girls with exotic looking flowers. “For you—a gift.”

Meet new brothers and sisters in surprising places. Be blessed by His providence in just the right moment.

Go to the Lord in prayer, totally unsure of what to do, begging for His will and His wisdom.

Meet a girl who is recovering from an addiction to Heroin. Answer her questions about God. Pray like you’ve never prayed before that she makes it through the night. Trust Him to love her and care for her the way you know you never could.

Go to get your mail. Come back half an hour later, sweaty from playing soccer.

Thank God with a full heart for the...

Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

 

June Update  We know prayer is a foundational process of submission, joy, and guidance and we invite everyone who is a part of Compassion Connect to partake.

 

CC Prayer Requests for June

 

Health - Compassion Clinics

Praises:

Compassion Yakima

"It went great. The prayer stations were the busiest kiosks in the entire gym; busy all day long. We had 1250 guests, 88 medical, 145 dental, 10 hair cutting stations busy all day. We also had two prayer walkers. It was a really great day. There were 25 social service kiosks and a great hot meal. We showed the Jesus film to 9 people that night and gave a Hispanic message that night."

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Prayer - We have been able to connect more with our neighbors through
some prayer walks recently. Pray for a family that is trapped in
"eckankar." Also for a young man that picks and chooses what he
believes. We recently heard of some families are selling foodstamps in
order to pay their rent. Pray that these families could learn english
and find employment. We also are studying a mens bible study through
proverbs!

Meal Dates Available:
June 11th
August 13th, 27th
Sept 10th, 24th
Oct 22nd
Nov 12th, 26th
Dec 10th, 24th

Weekly Prayer Walk - This thursday night, text Dan if you want in
(503-803-8541).

Community Meal - This saturday at noon (May 28th).

ESL Class - Jim and Paulie are teaching english to residents here
fridays 9-11am.

Discipleship - Bob Maddox might be dropping by to help jump start some
discipleship among the team and residents.

Child Evangelism Fellowship VBS - Ron Imig, June 27th - July 1.

CCCC VBS - Clear creek community church vacation bible school is
coming up mon-wed Aug.1-3.

Gresham Bible Church VBS - Jen is going to talk to them about doing a
VBS later in August.

I began my journey of Christian faith five years ago in the month of April. I, like so many, saw Jesus pass my way, and felt compelled to follow Him. I felt I had been given a second chance at life, and that I would never be the same. It was true; each year has been drastically different than the year before. As I look back, I see that the Lord has been calling me further and further down His path, deeper into relationship with Him, and into an understanding of what that looks like for me.

I always dreamed of the life of a missionary, even before I was a Christian. I envisioned myself being the hand that fed the poor and was filled with joy at the prospect of bringing hope to those who had little or nothing at all. When I received the word of Christ, I knew His intention for me included the sharing of His hope, the only hope for the world. So, I went to Africa in hopes that His path for me was leading in that direction. I was there for three weeks, testing the ground, praying, and waiting for confirmation that this was where the Lord was leading. But, when I returned home,

 

 

"Bon Voyage"..."Farewell" they are words that create a mental picture for me.  The same way that "Your Excellency" creates a picture of someone bowed low to receive a king.

With “Farewell” or “Bon Voyage” I picture an early 20th century scene.  A large passenger ship pulling away from a pier filled with people looking back at the familiar audience left standing on the dock.  The family members wave back and forth wishing "Bon Voyage" or "Farewell."  The atmosphere is filled with love, longing, and good.

\fer-ˈwel\= a wish of well-being at parting

Recently "Farewell" has taken on a new meaning...it is used in a way that means exactly the opposite of its literal meaning.

In one short message (Pastor Piper's Tweet) that circled the world...”Farewell" had it's meaning flipped.  In <140 characters the world received a message that was bigger than the message itself

In a world of hyper fast communication using the most universal mediums with the fewest characters possible we have to be aware of the complex messages we create and communicate in 140 letters or less.  Today the message is much more than the message if you know what I mean.

On Feb. 26th Pastor John Piper sent a tweet that has spread like wildfire. "Farewell Rob Bell. http://dsr.gd/fZqmd8"
This was his response to the new Pastor Rob Bell book "Love Wins," which wouldn't be released for another two weeks.

It seemed clear that Mr. Piper had drawn some conclusions....