Did you see the picture of the weasel who had a ride on the back of a woodpecker this week? It was one of those amazing-once-in-a-lifetime shots that Martin Le-May managed to capture in Hornchurch Country Park, Essex.
An amazing fact that I found out about a Woodpecker is that it can carry 850 times its body weight! WOW! What a weight to carry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31711446
The Salvation Army is a worldwide organisation. As a small part of that organisation we are asked to support - to carry - other countries where The Salvation Army is at work and are struggling financially.
Over the past four weeks we have been considering how we carry our Partners in Mission in Ghana, Mozambique, South America East, Finland and Pakistan. We’ve learned a bit about what The Salvation Army does to support people in those countries and in turn how we, through our monetary gifts, can help support them. Today as we come to the end of our Self Denial Appeal and take part in our Altar Service we are asked to cheerfully give and to give as an act of our worship and love to God. Paul writes in his second letter to the Corinthians:
“But since you excel in everything – in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you – see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.”
(2 Corinthians 8:7-9)
Let’s make sure we excel in this grace of giving in order to carry our friends around the world and in order to be a part of building God’s Kingdom here on earth.
May our prayer be:
Lord, keep us from just singing, but move us into action!
Amen!
God Bless,
Captain Clare