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Newsletter
I JUNE 2007
ADVICE FOR FATHERS |
A little boy was given a globe of the world as a gift. He especially liked the fact that it had a light in it. The little boy put it in a secure spot in his room, and not only looked at it often during the day, but used it as a night light at bedtime
One night his parents were debating a point of geography when one of them remembered the globe in their son's room. Dad went to get the globe for reference, quietly tip-toeing into his child's semi-dark room and unplugged it. Just as he was almost out the door, his son called to him in a sleepy voice, “Daddy, what are you doing with my world?”
hat an important question for any father to ask himself. What is it that you are doing with your child's world today? How are you managing it? What are you planning in it? How are you developing it? ... But equally important, how are you dealing with your own world? Your child isn't likely to reflect any greater spiritual, moral, or ethical values than those you hold. He isn't likely to teach or encourage. He isn't likely to be much different than you! Because, to a great extent…you are his world. What you do with your own life is the foundation on which his world is built.
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God's Little Devotional Book for Dads
FATHER'S ROLE
A little boy, frightened by a thunderous lightning storm, called out one dark night, “Daddy, come I'm scared.” “Son,” the father said, “God loves you and he'll take care of you.” “I know God loves me,” the boy replied, “But right now I want somebody who has skin on.” It is the role of the father to be and demonstrate God, with skin on.
--1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching
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Quotes of Wisdom for the Graduate
--From Worth Repeating
Intelligence and education can ascertain the facts. Wisdom can discover the truth.
-- Max De Pree
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain, and simple to express: Err and err and err again, But less and less and less.
-- Piet Hein
No man is really wise until he is kind and courteous.
-- Charles Haas
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
-- Charles Dickens
The wiser man shapes into God's plan as water shapes into a vessel.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wise men and women in every major culture have maintained that the secret of happiness is not in getting more but in wanting less.
-- Philip Slater
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LETTER FROM THE ISF DIRECTORS
Dear International Friend,
Greetings to you from the International Student Fellowship.
Here in Pittsburgh we experienced some really nice weather in the month of May. We hope the month of June will bring some more nice weather our way. As the school year has ended for many, we think about those who have graduated. The future is out before you with many challenges and responsibilities. Our prayer for you is that God will direct your path of life and that you will look to Him for the guidance you need.
--Terry & Pam Tiberio, ISF Directors
FATHERS' DAY HISTORY
Mrs. John B. Dodd, of Washington , first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife (Mrs. Dodd's mother) died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent.
The first Father's Day was observed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane Washington . At about the same time in various towns and cities across America other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day." In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.
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ISF MAY GATHERING (May 11th, 2007)
100 present (4 for the first time), 10 countries: Bosnia, China, India, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Morocco, South Korea, Taiwan, USA.
Hope to see you at the June ISF Gathering on June 8th in the Assembly Room of William Pitt Union!
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