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A Legacy of Love

Posted by on Apr 20, 2014 in Community, Peacemaking, Prayer | 0 comments

A Legacy of Love

What could be more amazing than arriving at the tomb and finding it empty, meeting an angel, discovering that the person you thought was dead is really alive and loves you more than you can even imagine? Easter fills us with hope that grows stronger and stronger with each year, each season. Sometimes it seems like winter will never pass and that spring will never come, but then there it is! Warmth and love and life and flowers! It’s far, far deeper and broader and eternally more significant than Easter eggs and baskets and bonnets… it’s the very life of the Risen Savior in...

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Who Was Jesus?

Posted by on Apr 18, 2014 in Community, Hebrew Roots, Middle East, Prayer | 0 comments

Who Was Jesus?

As we meditate on the events of Good Friday, we often wonder Who was this man? Coming from a Western cultural background, our mind fills with images from our childhood of what Jesus might have looked like and how He behaved, often forgetting that He was of humble Middle Eastern background, a young Hebrew man deeply steeped by His own choosing in the teachings, traditions, and worldview of his heritage. What we call the “Last Supper” was really a Passover Seder in which the bread of life was the Aphikoman and the cup was a cup of Redemption and Acceptance at the culmination of the...

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Passover 2014

Posted by on Apr 14, 2014 in Community, Hebrew Roots, Middle East, Peacemaking, Prayer | 0 comments

Passover 2014

Tonight on April 14 at sundown begins the 2014 Passover week, heralded by a full moon which this year will be darkened into a “blood moon” by an unusual eclipse (see previous post). Observant believers will be celebrating a ceremonial meal called a Seder following an age-old format outlined in a book of order called a Haggadah or “text” which contains biblical narrative about the exodus of the Hebrew people from their captivity in Egypt under God’s miraculous leadership through Moses. Click here to read more about the Seder and its significance for today. And if...

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Merry Christmas!

Posted by on Dec 21, 2013 in Community | 0 comments

Merry Christmas!

Glory to God in the Highest! Thanks for all your amazing support this year! We’re looking forward to sharing 2014 with you. Dr. Bill & Susan Morehouse Click here to read our Christmas letter. Новости Крым...

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Open-Air Drug Market

Posted by on Nov 13, 2013 in Community, Prayer | 0 comments

Open-Air Drug Market

Shootings and homicides are often just the fruit of the tree called crime. The roots are usually in drugs. Dr. William Morehouse has been helping people for 35 years at Grace Family Medicine on Arnett Boulevard. But how he and his wife Susan need help to save their neighborhood from the drug dealers right outside their front door. “Is there a real safety issue here,” I asked him. “The patients certainly think that there is. They’re very worried when they get out of their car and they see people like that and they have to walk past them or through them,”...

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Gun Buyback a Great Success!

Posted by on Oct 4, 2013 in Community, Neighborhood, Peacemaking, Prayer | 0 comments

Gun Buyback a Great Success!

We thought you all would like to hear the results of the Gun Buyback last Saturday. We brought in 243 guns – more than 1/2 were hand guns and of those 150 only 10 were legally registered, in other words 140 illegal handguns! Also one assault rifle was brought in with its magazines of ammo. At least two young men bringing in their guns that were definitely coming from off the streets. One young man said he was making some changes in his life and didn’t want to be involved with guns anymore. Wow! It was an amazing day for us all. The Rochester Police Department says this is the...

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