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Jonas Clark Gifts & Baskets

Gifting To Everyone

Yes, our church has a new Pastor. We knew he would be arriving this weekend, we just did not expect that he would think to come by the church and hall and check his new congregation out in advance. We were all there, well, most of us. It was Granny Newton’s 93rd birthday and pretty much everyone came by to wish her well.

I was in the kitchen, filling serving platters with meat when the door opened and in walked the new Pastor. Of course everyone was glad to meet him, and he seemed like a very nice man. I just had to stop and think about it though. How it must feel for him to be now in a new home, with a new group of people, with so much to learn about his new congregation.

I stopped to say a small prayer that he will feel welcome and at home with us before the first week is up. I prayed that he would be happy in his new home, doing the work of our Lord. I ‘m sure others prayed as well. We all know what it feels like to be in a new home, a new place and among new people. I am looking forward to knowing our new Pastor better, I’m sure he will be happy here.

July 22nd is St. Mary Magdelene day. Everyone knows the story of Mary Magdelene the sinner approaching Jesus and cleansing his feet. We know she was forgiven of her sins and became an important figure in His life and Death. She was chosen to anoint His body for burial. She discovered his body missing.

Did you also know she was sent away on a boat with no oars, landed in a foreign land? She helped convert people to Christianity in her early days in this new land, but longed for solitude. The angels granted her wish and bore her to a secluded mountain and lived the rest of her days in a cave. Angels from above gave her a basket of food consisting only of the Holy Eucharist. This was the only thing she partook of for the rest of her life

It was January 1st, 1901, the first day of the new century, when Agnes M. Ozman was baptized with the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues.

In Topeka Kansas there was Bethel Bible School founded by Charles Fox Parham. This school was the 20th Century birthing place of this divine outpouring in the United States. Within a year Brother Parham and other students were also baptized and Brother Parham closed the school and began to conduct revival meetings throughout the mid-west.

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Kansas Avenue Topeka Kansas circa 1900