Humiliating

Life is like that sometimes. Take my beloved Redskins yesterday - 52-7 loss at the hand of the NE Patriots; it was just humiliating.

So what do you do when life hits you with such a loss - like in my personal life right now - many of you know that I'm an owner of a mortgage business - the downturn in this industry has been humiliating and it has affected Covenant as well - so what do we do - quit, or bury our head in the sand - NO - you learn whatever lessons are to be learned, knock the dust off of you and get back in the fight - at least that's my perspective.

So if life has humiliated you recently, remember that everybody hurts sometimes and get back in the game. God is on our side, He is with us.

Talk at you soon.

I'm Back

Thanks for all your prayers while we were away in China - what an amazing trip. We were able to complete our mission objective which was to help our friends in Appletown learn how to make apple butter and dried fruit - but more importantly we were able to be a shining light and testimony in a dark place.

Horizons Church is awesome - God has blessed us with an amazing church body and if you are a part - Thanks. We just wrapped up a 6 week series on Heroes and finished our service Sunday by celebrating with a Chili Dinner. First, we have some very talented chili cookers in our church - yummy, Second, it was so cool to see everyone fellowshipping and working together to pull off this event. Sometimes, we forget how dependent we are on God and each other to live out this life of faith.

Let me encourage you to write that note, pick up that phone, send that email when you feel prompted - it often makes a world of difference.

Talk at you soon

A Few Pictures

A Far Away Place

That's where I am right now - if you took a left at the end of civilization and went for a very long time - that' s where you would find me right now - I am in China with a team of wonderful people from our church and we are here to help bring the gospel to a far away people.

But the amazing thing is that these people are not far away from God for He never leaves us - Our God is always near (btw - you have to check out the new Crowder cd and listen to the song Remedy) - That's why God has sent this team to this far away place - to let them know that He is near - we have had several witnessing opportunities - please pray for someone named Donna (we never use their real Chinese name)

Remember - God is near.

Talk at you soon

Rich