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egypt

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate post or not but I wanted you to know about a cool opportunity I have.

The beginning of December I will be traveling to Egypt on a missions trip. Our team will be involved in leadership training, children’s ministry, computer training, exploring new areas for church planting, and working in an orphanage.  We will be working closely with a church just north of Cairo as partners in many ways to love their people and further the cause of Christ.

Personally, I'm pumped to be involved in something that can affect so many lives.  Cairo has 17 million of Egypt’s 80 million people and less than 4% are Christian.

In order to make this possible, I need to build a team comprised of people who will join me by praying for us and investing financially.  I need $3,500.00 to make this trip possible.  This includes training, airfare, lodging, and meals during the project.  Please prayerfully consider supporting this project through your prayers and giving. 

If you choose to give and partner with me, you can do it in several ways.

1) Use paypal by clicking the donate button and follow the directions.

2) If you would like a taxable deduction please make a payment via check and complete in the following way:
Make check payable to LifePoint Church
Leave memo part of check blank. (Due to IRS stipulations)
Mail check to me at the church address: 129 Steiss, Glen Carbon, ILL  62034

3) If you attend LIfePoint you can talk with me on Sunday's and hand me a check.

If you have any questions please let me know. You can email me at bob(at)lifepoint365.(com)

P.S. There is another way you can help. Use the power of the internet and forward this post to your friends and family. Use twitter and facebook to help me raise the funds to impact people around the world. The more people involed the greater the impact. Thanks for all your help.

If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing right

The Final 10% of a Job

from LifeChurch.tv : swerve by Craig Groeschel

Last year, I had two different men doing a project at my house. One completed the work as agreed. Although he did what I asked him to do, he left a big pile of trash, he left without asking me to view his work, and he never followed up.

The other man cleaned up his mess daily. Not only did he clean up after himself, but he even helped me haul off the other guy’s trash.

When he was finished, he asked me to look at his work to see if I was satisfied. I expressed my satisfaction, but he saw some small flaws that bothered him. Even though I said they didn’t matter, he insisted on fixing them.

One month after his job was finished, he called to ask if I was still pleased with his work.

The second man gave the final 10%. I’ve referred several other people to him. I didn’t refer anyone to the first worker.

The final 10% might not seem worth it at the time. Over the long haul, I truly believe God blesses the final 10% more than the first 90%.

Someone said it well, “If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing right.”

The same is true at LifePoint. The final 10% makes a huge difference. That's why our greeters are so important as we welcome people to church in a theater. That's why our coffee and snacks are so important. That's why are nursery and kids workers work so hard.

Not only do our guests deserve that final 10% but Jesus deserves that final 10%. Give it your all and do your best today and everyday - even Sunday!

Thanks to everyone who serves at LifePoint - you inspire me.

funny monday

This video is really funny but it will make you smile. The thought of playing giant tetris terrifies me because I'm horrible at regular size tetris. Check out the video and enjoy.

I love the way people use their creativity!

How will you use your creativity today?

the most imporant word in the english language is...

There are many words that are important and when asked what the most important word in the English language is many people, if not most people, will respond LOVE.

Love is very important but I don't think it's the most important word. I believe that RELATIONSHIP is the most important word. Without a relationship your love is useless. Relationships are the tracks the love runs on and without the context of relationships love has nowhere to go.

The question for today is not how is your love but how is your relationshps? Relationships are need to be nurtured and developed. It takes effort to move them forard and to continue to develop them.

most important word in the english language

What do you think the most important word in the English language is. There are a lot of really good words like Duke basketball for example. Okay seriously what do you think is the most important word.

Please comment on what you think the most imporatnat word is and then tomorrow I will tell you what I think and why.

love God and love people

I don't think most people have a clue about the daily grind of being in ministry or how on a lot of Monday's many pastors in America are ready to call it quits. I have days where I wonder why I do what I do but it never fails that God has a way of reminding me.

So many times churches get viewed negatively because they are more interested in telling you what they are against rather than telling you what they are for. LifePoint is not a perfect church and there are no perfect people who attend. We do however try very hard to love God and love people.

We recently got a card at the office that spoke about this very thing. Here is what someone wrote about LIfePoint:

It's a great feeling to know you don't just preach Love God, Love People you life it as well. We are so blessed to have such awesome people in our life. Thank you for your love and support.

Here is what LifePoint is for - We want to help people find their way back to God and we do that by Loving God and Loving people.

funny monday

I don't know if the baby is scared or if the dog has bad breath? I hope your not scared today or have bad breath. Have a great day!

messy garage

I was listening to a friend, Bruce Wesley, speak this week and he used an analogy that really maid since to me. If you have a garage this will totally make since and if you don't have a garage I'm sure you have a drawer, cabinet or closet that you can relate to.

It seems as though those places are always moving towards disorder and away from order. You can clean out your garage and in a matter of a few days it is already beginning to get messy. If you don't work at it that garage, closet or drawer will eventually become a big mess and it becomes worse every day.

Our physical and spiritaul lives work the same way. If we aren't intential our lives move towards disorder and not order. You must be intentional or your life will become messy.

funny experience

So today I was at the airport and I headed to the security check point like I always do - you know where you have to take off your deadly shoes and walk through the metal detector. Once I finally made it through I thought I would check to see what gate I was supposed to be at. I needed to be at B something and I was in terminal A and apparently in the St. Louis airport there is no way to get from terminal A to terminal B with out going around and then going through another security check.

So I had to take off my shoes again! But this time it was a little different. The TSA agents were making people doing extra things that the other security check point that I already went through did not make people do.

It just made me wonder why it was different? Was one terminal more dangerous than the other? Is there really different systems in place for different terminals? Did the attitude of the workers impact the way things were done? Did the attitude of the passengers have an impact?

Most people don't have the opportunity to go through to security checks like I did today so my experience has caused me to ask this questions. Thanks for reading this far and if you have any answers please let me know.

creativity

Creativity inspires me! I love to how people can use the gifts and talents that God has given them.

This came from Ben Arment's blog. 

Ben writes:

I've been following TK McKamy's blog for a long time. He doesn't post much, but I'm entertained by everything he jots. And he is a mad-talented filmmaker.

I finally called him this past week to conspire on some things. Love the guy.

Anyway, he just created this stunning video for Ben Richter. One take... beautiful cinematography. All natural light.

Take some time to be inspired today - watch this video!

Ben Rector - Free from TK McKamy on Vimeo.