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Combap Update
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Bringing People Into The Caring Community Of Christ
September 1, 2010 "Labour Day" edition
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Hello ComBappers:
It's time, once again, to give a "high five" to our hard working members of society. Yes, it's Labour Day and, aside from being a great weekend for football, it's a time to think about the value of work and the issues around safe and meaningful work.
The Bible is quite clear on this: work is beneficial both to the worker and to society. Regardless of your job (aside from something illegal), there is God given value in what you are doing. In the little picture, you are earning money to feed/clothe/house yourself (and others). In the big picture, you are benefiting society by helping the economy and paying taxes (so that we can see the doctor without going broke... or are able to drive down a paved road...or are helping the less fortunate of the country).
Of course, back a hundred years or so, bosses/owners took advantage of workers, exploiting them simply as a resource to be used up, which spawned the labour movement and unions. Frankly, that was a wonderful progressive step.
Today, some would say that some unions now have too much power... but that's a debate for another day. We do need to be thankful for the work done to make the working man/woman able to perform their duties in a just environment.
Work rules! :)
Joell
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Quotes:
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. ~ Joe Paterno
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell
Trivia:
The Pacific island of Nauru's economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.
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Bringing People Into The Caring Community Of Christ
August 25, 2010 "Eve - the older woman" edition
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Hello ComBappers:
Our buddies, the scientists, are continuing to come up with really neat discoveries that are not only pointing to a creator, but are constantly proving the historical records of the Bible. I've talked about how archaeology has, time and time again, confirmed the geographical details of the Bible (i.e., towns, locations, political leaders, etc.). Now, geneticists are discovering that "Eve" is older than "Adam". Oh, wait a minute! What? Well, it turns out that, through the discovering and mapping of DNA, you can backtrace who's related to who by the different markers that we all have in our DNA. As they have being doing this, they have come to the conclusion that all of us come from one female ancestor. They call her "mitochondrial Eve". However, as they backtrack the male line... they come up with a noticeably younger date, meaning, the "Adam" that we all descend from came along much later than "Eve". Now, on the surface, this is puzzling unless you read your Bible. It turns out that "Adam" is actually Noah! The Bible clearly states that Noah and his four sons were the only males that survived the flood. However, each of the sons had a wife who each came from different mothers (probably). Therefore, the female lineage would continue back to the real Eve... but the male lineage would "bottleneck" at Noah. Now, how could the writers of the Bible (in this case Moses) not only know the universe came into existence out of nothing (the Big Bang) but also know that we humans came about from Adam and Eve, bottlenecking through Noah? This information would have been impossible for a writer to make up...and then just happen to be found to be accurate thousands of years later, unless it were coming from God himself. So very cool. Read more about it here: http://www.reasons.org/blogs/take-two/happy-mothersdna
Joell Videos:
Wow....amazing Japanese guy doing funky things with glass balls! http://www.youtube.com Wanna play the piano but have no arms? No problem! http://www.godtube.com Don't forget to check your plates before you leave on vacation! Quotes:
Arise, and be not afraid. ~ Jesus (Matthew 17:7)
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ~ Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre
Trivia:
Bluebirds cannot see the colour blue.
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August 17, 2010 - "Rainy Camp" edition
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Hello ComBappers:
Well, you don't have to shovel rain. Yet. A great time was had by all, in spite of the rainy weather, at this year's ComBap Camp in Cypress Hills. A very special thanks to the organizers and cooks for a job super well done!! Also, thanks to our speaker Moe for doing a great job sharing with us. See some of the pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/combap.ca/Camp2010# We're expecting work to start on the new roof starting August 23rd -ish. So, things might even get a bit more messy around here until the work is done in September. :) Your patience is appreciated! That's all I have today... still trying to dry out my hair. Joell Videos:
Quotes:
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. ~ Lou Holtz
Behind every able man, there are always other able men. ~ Chinese Proverb
Trivia:
Pearls melt in vinegar.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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August 8, 2010 - Moe is Coming! edition
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Hello ComBappers:
Camp time!! WOO HOO! Yes, everyone's favourite time of year... our annual Church Camp, is here (OK, on Thursday). We are very excited to have Maurice Gillard as our speaker. We've looked past his love for the Montreal Canadians ... and the Toronto Argonauts.... and have invited him to join us. You'll enjoy his quick hit and his "no nonsense" messages! :) Moe is particularly talented at assigning nicknames. So, if you have never had one... or don't like the one you have now... ask Moe to come up with one for you.
Baptism and Belonging class is next week! If you've never been baptized (as a believer... in other words you "chose" to do it because you had committed your life to Jesus) or if you are yet to officially become a member of the church... or both!!!... then join us on Wednesday night. Just let us know so we can have the material you need in advance.
Joell
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Trivia:
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Quotes:
Never be afraid to do something new. Remember that amateurs built the ark and professionals built the Titanic. ~ Anonymous
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ~ Stevie Wonder
I used to think middle age had to do with age, now I'm finding out it has to do with my middle. ~ Anonymous
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August 4, 2010 - "We Feed A Lot Of People" edition
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Hello ComBappers:
We had a wonderful trip to the smallest state (population wise) in the United States of America (aka our neighbours to the south) to visit with Michelle's sister and her family. Lander, Wyoming is 10 hours straight south of us, and the landscape around there resembles what you'd see in the Kamloops region of BC. Nothing really grows there except sagebrush and some random weeds. In fact, as we drove home I realized that, apart from some small areas that had irrigation, there are no crops at all Huge tracts of ranch land but no dry land farming until you get back into Saskatchewan. It kinda felt like we had come from the desert into the bread basket.
At Admiral camp I was chatting with some the gang there and tried to figure out how many people Saskatchewan feeds in a year. Just looking at wheat... Saskatchewan produces 5% of the world's wheat (41% of Canada's) while we have about a million people in the province and 6 billion people in the world... which makes us only .017% of the world's population! So, just taking wheat (not including all other crops, meat, and dairy products), we feed 20 million people (that according to the Wheat Board which estimates our output at 10 million tonnes and then assuming that each person consumes 1,000 pounds of food in a year). When we factor in other crops, meat, dairy, poultry, and prairie oysters, we can easily triple the output and safely say that we feed, get this, 60 million people! (By the way, if anyone can actually come up with some real figures on this topic... I'd love to see them.... I'm just grasping at straws here.)
So, give yourself a pat on the back! We feed a lot of people here in lowly Saskatchewan! Oh, and give a farmer a hug and say thanks for the millions of people we feed every year!
Joell
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Trivia:
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
Quotes:
Serious sport is war minus the shooting. ~ George Orwell
Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything. ~ Winnie the Pooh
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