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Newsletter
I JANUARY 2011
A NEW YEAR’S WISH! |
We wish all our International friends a very Happy and Joyous New Year. No doubt, in many cultures the celebration of the New Year is a time to be spent with family and friends. It is a time to look back in retrospect and to plan to make the New Year one of hope and the fulfilling of dreams. We cannot turn back the clock of time but we do have each new day to make a difference for good in the world we live in. It is not by chance that you and I are here to play a part in the history of this generation. It is because of God’s planning and wisdom. What a responsibility we each have as individuals to live each day in a way to give honor to God and to be a help to our fellow human beings. We encourage you to start this New Year with the determination to ask God for His help each day. He has the answers to the perplexing and challenging decisions you must make each day. With those thoughts in mind, may we all join together to make this New Year one that will set an example of peace and goodwill for the generations to come.
–Terry & Pam
"New Bank Account Daily"
If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,400, that carried no balance from day to day, allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and finally every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day what would you do? Draw out every cent—of course!
Well, you have such a bank and its name is “TIME.” Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it rules off—as lost—whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purposes. It carries no balances. It allows no overdrafts. Each day the bank named “TIME” opens a new account with you. Each night it burns the records of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits the loss is yours.. -
--Robert G. Lee |
2 Corinthians 5:17 and 21 |
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
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KINDNESS |
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”
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Words of Wisdom |
- Time is God’s, not ours.
~ Dutch Proverb
- An inch of time cannot be bought by an inch of gold.
~ Chinese Proverb
- Time ripens all things.
~ Spanish Proverb
- We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
~ Stephen Covey
- I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.
~ Author Unknown
- You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
- People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.
~ Author Unknown
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LETTER FROM THE ISF DIRECTORS
Dear International Friend,
We extend New Year’s greetings to you and your family. We know many of you are ready to begin a new semester at school. Some of you are new to Pittsburgh and will be starting on new work assignments or research projects. As each of us face a new year, it is wonderful to know we are not alone. We are part of an International family of friends and acquaintances made up of people from all over the world. I’m sure each of us felt that special blessing and uplift during the recent Christmas Banquet in December. What an amazing feeling to be among an International family that numbered up to almost 600 from 17 different countries on that night. It surely gives us hope and makes us feel that the love that radiated from that humble Bethlehem stable 2000 years ago is still able to touch our hearts today.
Therefore, we can face this New Year knowing we have a wonderful support structure of people who care for us. Do keep encouraged and please stay close to this International family throughout the New Year. Remember we are here to help you in any way we can. We may in ourselves seem small, but our hearts are filled with God’s great love for each of you.
So a good way to start the year right is to come to our January ISF Gathering. We look forward to seeing you at this first ISF Gathering of 2011.
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--Terry & Pam Tiberio, ISF Directors
January 7th ISF Gathering
We would like to invite you to our October ISF Gathering. This gathering will be on Friday, January 7th at 7:30 PM in the Ballroom of the William Pitt Union. The William Pitt Union is located in Oakland on the corner of Bigelow and Fifth Avenue.
We hope you will come and please especially invite your friends. What better way to start the New Year than in the warm and friendly atmosphere of our ISF Gatherings. We will have music, a delicious meal, warm fellowship and an interesting lecture. There will also be special children’s activities in the Lower Lounge. We hope to see you and remember that it’s all free!
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ISF DECEMBER GATHERING (December 3rd, 2010)
575 present, from 17 countries: Bosnia, China, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, India, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and the USA.
Hope to see you at the January ISF Gathering on January 7th at the
William Pitt Union
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