NOVEMBER 2015 EDITION

As we enter this season of Thanksgiving, it is my custom to enumerate the things I am so very thankful for this year.  Perhaps, as you pause during this time of Thanksgiving, you might sit down and write out your blessings that come to mind.  It is a worthwhile exercise to see how very blessed we all are.

On a ministry level:

I thank Him for the call to ministry He placed on me almost forty years ago.

Net Work has had a great year in meeting the needs of men and their families thanks to your support and prayers.

Our Friday Morning Men’s Group has celebrated meeting together for the 20 years this year. We have seen men come to faith in Jesus Christ through the Friday Group, and, as a result, families have been healed.  Other men have seen a growth in the depth of their relationship with Christ and with the other men in the group. I am thankful for my deep friendships that have grown out of that group.

Individual meetings with men over the breakfast and lunch tables for counsel and encouragement have produced much fruit in their lives. Some have found new employment through Net Work’s resources. Others have found healing through our referral resources to professional counseling; still others have just needed a word of encouragement to give them hope. 

Net Work has added a new dimension added to the ministry by acting as the volunteer chaplain to the staff of the Southeast region of Young Life.  We offer encouragement and prayer by means of personal monthly communication and in-area visits to this very committed and talented group who seek to share the love of Christ with middle, high school and college kids. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Young Life, it is a ministry to kids from middle school through college. I am grateful to God for the seventy years it has ministered to literally millions of kids around the globe. I am excited to, once again, be a part of this ministry as a volunteer.

On a personal level:

First and foremost, I am overwhelmed that God called me to be His child and allowed me to become a Christ follower forty-one years ago last May.

Secondly, I cannot properly express my gratitude to God for bringing my bride, Peggy, into my life over 48 years ago.

I am blessed by my two beautiful daughters, their wonderful  husbands, and my seven amazing grandchildren, all of whom are Christ followers, bless me. (What more could a man desire!) Additionally, I am honored to have a wonderful sister who has loved me unconditionally throughout my life.

I am thankful for our country and the freedom we enjoy and for the men and women whose sacrifices made this freedom possible. “All gave some, some gave all.”

MINISTRY NEWS

An easy way you can benefit Net Work Ministries, is when you purchase something online from Amazon, go to: smile.amazon.com, make your purchase as you normally would, then direct Amazon to donate to Net Work Ministries, Inc. Marietta. This would be greatly appreciated.

I have enclosed two envelopes in this newsletter. One is for your regular monthly donation to Net Work. The other, if the Lord leads you, is for a year-end gift to help erase the deficit we have experienced this year. We have been unable to pay a salary since September of 2014.

I want you to know how very grateful I am to those of you who have supported Net Work Ministries with your prayers, words of encouragement and financial support. Please know that I do not take these things for granted.

I pray that God would bless each one of you and your families with a special sense of God’s presence and peace as we celebrate our blessings and enter the time of celebration of God’s entrance into human history to reveal to us, in the person of Jesus Christ, who He is and how much He loves each one of us.