| Our Graduates for the Year 2001: 29 graduates including 5 bilingual teachers for primary grades, 3 teachers from our refuge program, 1mechanic, 1 vocational nurse, 1 agriculture, 1 chef. From university: 2 agronomy, 3 law, 5 medicine, 4 secondary teachers, 1 legal translator, 1 social worker, 1 professional nurse. Only 6 students dropped out and we expect several of them to rejoin us at some point next year. |
| And their giving surpassed our expectations; for they gave their very selves, offering them in the first instance to the Lord, but also, under God, to us. The upshot is that we have asked Titus who began it all, to visit you and bring this work of generosity also to completion. You are so rich in everything - in faith, speech, knowledge, and zeal of every kind, as well as in the loving regard you have for us - surely you should show yourselves equally lavish in this generous service! This is not meant as an order; by telling you now keen others are I am putting your love to the test. For you know how generous our Lord Jesus Christ has been: he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that through his poverty you might become rich. Here is my considered opinion on the matter. What I ask you to do is in your own interests. You made a good beginning last year both in the work you did and in your willingness to undertake it. Now I want you to go on and finish it: be as eager to complete the scheme as you were to adopt it, and give according to your means. Provided there is an eager desire to give, God accepts what a man has; he does not ask for what he has not. There is no question of relieving others at the cost of hardship to yourselves; it is a question of equality. At the moment your surplus meets their need, but one day your need may be met from their surplus. The aim is equality; Scripture has it, 'The man who got much had no more than enough and the man who got little did not go short.' |
June Malinowski sends regards from the wilds of Archer! She and her children are working on the Archer house and grounds. She looks forward to rejoining us when she can.
Attention: Our meeting attender phone list has several incorrect area codes. The Beardsleys, Hap Taylor and Ruth Trimmer now require a 386 area code.
We joyfully receive Adrian, Hillary and Quinn Timmers into membership. On Friday, February 1 at 6:00 p.m. we will celebrate with food and fellowship at 436 NW 23rd Drive, Gainesville. Maps will be passed out at Meeting. Y'all come!
We have a new carpet in the First Day Room! Thanks to Laura Winefordner for arranging for its purchase and thanks to all the good Friends who pitched in to ready the First Day Room.
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