Beverley visiting
For over 30 years His Branches has been encouraging and helping support a Canadian woman, Beverley Timgren, who has been a faithful and quiet witness to the love and resurrection power of Jesus in the Middle East for decades. Dr. Bill first met Beverley at a celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem sponsored by the International Christian Embassy-Jerusalem (ICEJ) in 1982. She was in the process of being called as a dental hygienist to serve the people of war-torn South Lebanon at the very time we were discovering that the Lord wanted our ministry to be involved in the same area....
Read More19th Ward Survey Report
Dear Ministry Friend and Coworker, Caleb Ministry’s* outreach with His Branches into the 19th Ward in the inner-city of Rochester began by prayer-walking the community. This provided us with an awareness and sense of the “spiritual needs” within the neighborhood. After the initial two weeks of prayer walking, our teams began conducting surveys with the people they met while prayer-walking. The survey was a list of questions which when answered would provide a clearer understanding of the “felt needs” within the neighborhood. The importance of this information is expressed by the...
Read MorePassover 2016
The festival of Passover or Pesach, will begin on Friday as Jewish communities worldwide commemorate the liberation of the Israelites from slavery, in one of the important festivities in the Jewish calendar. According to the Book of Exodus in the Torah, Moses called for the Pharaoh to free the Israelites, warning that if he failed to do so, Egypt would be struck by terrible plagues – the last one of which would be the death of every Egyptian first-born male. The Pharaoh refused to do so, despite the onslaught of plagues of frogs, flies, the death of livestock and total darkness. To avoid the...
Read MoreSuper Tuesday Thoughts
R.I.P. religious right? By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor Was [Super Tuesday] a coming-out party for atheists or a funeral dirge for the religious right? In an election year full of questions, Super Tuesday raised a few more, as voters in 12 states went to the polls and the GOP’s Donald Trump and Democrats’ Hillary Clinton emerged as big winners. Exit polls can’t answer every question about Tuesday. They didn’t plumb the depth of religious commitment among Trump’s evangelical flock, or measure the size of the “God gap” between supporters of Bernie...
Read MoreOde to Black History
To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… love always He and many others fought for freedom and won Some measure of progress The greatness of which Time still tells the story of… Generation succeeds generation We live in a new day With a new voice And a new song Yet… We labor still for freedom For ourselves, For all men All creeds to understand God’s plan “Yes, we hold these truths to be self-evident, That all men are created equal by God And endowed by their Creator with inalienable Rights” Which they should never be striped of So, we labor with God for true freedom...
Read MoreIt’s a great MLK Weekend!
INFORMATION ON MLK WEEKEND: Luminary Kit making party Join the fun and make luminaries at the 19th Ward Community Association office, 216 Thurston Road on Sunday, January 17, from 1:00 – 3:00 pm. Get your luminaries: Luminaries are available at the office during office hours; on Sunday, 1/7, during the kit making; and at the Arnett Café on Monday, January 18, from 4-6 pm. Or make your own luminaries by following the instructions found here. Canning jars also work well. Events: On Martin Luther King Day (Monday, January 18) set your luminaries out in front of your home between the sidewalk...
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