the Centrist

Dear friends and family:

Here are a few things before the prayer requests … worth the time.

Urgent Action Needed (from Orleans Calvin):

Prayer and action needed on NYS Senate bill 5829 be defeated. If you are pro-choice or pro-life this will interest you; this is a radical pro-abortion bill and will force practitioners to perform late term abortions … my next article will outline this poten
tial tragedy … click on or copy and paste the following: http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=vZ6j2srG2iA

From Jamestown Patti: Kids sayings on:

1) DEATH

While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: ‘Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes.’ (I want this line used at my funeral!)

2) SCHOOL

A little girl had just finished her first week of school. ‘I’m just wasting my time,’ she said to her mother. ‘I can’t read, I can’t write, and they won’t let me talk!’

3) BIBLE

A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
‘Mama, look what I found,’ the boy called out.
‘What have you got there, dear?’
With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered, ‘I think it’s Adam’s underwear!’

Davenport Richard’s: Father/Daughter Talk

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth. She was deeply ashamed that her father was a staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed.

Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, “How is your friend Audrey doing?”

She replied, “Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She’s always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for classes because she’s too hung over.”

Her wise father asked his daughter, “Why don’t you go to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your G PA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.”

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, “That wouldn’t be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!”

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, “Welcome to the Republican party.”

Praise: Aiden and David’s family all recovered from the flu, thanks for your prayer.

Please pray for the following:

For my prayer partner Ron and his wife Judy … a difficult problem getting critical, Ron’s father has been placed in hospice and they are awaiting his passing; also their son Robert, (Major Robert) in Iraq.
Brother Pat is still on the list for a new liver, please pray for him.
Marilyn have a very painful day.
Special nephew needs special guidance.
Special niece still has special needs, please pray.
Nephew still needs to be shown the love of God and be instilled with self esteem. Please pray for him and those of you who know him, call him and tell him how much he means to you, and to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bonnie Erbie (author accusing Christians of being knuckle draggers), prayer for salvation.
Brother Les please pray for his health and our sister Valarie (main care giver),
Continue to pray for: niece Rhonda … still is in much pain, but never a complaint;
As well as former employees and friends: Tessie – recent loss of husband, pray for strength and family Claudia (last cancer treatment last week, she feels very weak; Karen is having arthroscopic knee surgery (postponed for a few weeks), and now our close friend Marilyn L. has lost her Mom, so that makes 4 with major problems on that staff; pray for Dr I and the staff.
Pray for wisdom and spiritual guidance in rearing children for all families as well as the renewal of ht nuclear family
Pray for spiritual wisdom for America’s leaders; our troops each evening at 9:00 pm. ;
Pray for our nation and President and for civility in upcoming election. Pray that slander and mean spirited methods stop and that hatred is not met with like hatred.
Nephews John and Ryan – Ryan in Iraq and John aboard ship (both in the Navy)
Please keep praying for Chris M. He is a young man with a painful neuralgia of unknown origin – slight improvement.
Please continue to pray for health issues for five of our nieces and Marilyn.
Pastors: Dan, John, Tom, Lyell, Steve D, search committee Clermont, wisdom for all leadership at Yates Baptist, Whittikers, Neil, and Steve T for their ministries, ease of stress, and courage to spread the gospel

Clermont Sunday School
Pastor Search Committee and the prospective pastor.
Chris’s two sisters who are sick.
Scott B and family in the death of his father.
Travel mercy and safety for Marshall and Melinda’s daughter, son-in-law, and 2 grandchildren who will be going to Colorado tomorrow to ski for a week. (Marshall and Melinda will be keeping the 2 youngest grandchildren.)
Chuck K’s daughter, Stephanie, will have a serious operation on Tuesday.
Rupert – pain in feet and shoulder.
Delrose will go to the doctor on Wednesday to schedule knee replacement surgery.
Debbie and her mom.

Be Blessed and Be a
Blessing,

Dr B