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Newsletter
I MARCH 2010
SET OUR EYES ON HIM
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The story has been told of a farmer who was trying to teach his son how to plow a straight furrow. After the horse had been hitched up and everything was ready, he told the boy to keep an eye on some object at the other end of the field and aim straight toward it. “Do you see that cow lying down over there?” he asked. “Keep your eye on her and plow straight ahead.”
The boy started plowing and the farmer went about his chores. When he returned a little later to see what progress had been made, he was shocked to find, instead of a straight row, something that looked more like a question mark. The boy had obeyed his instruction. The trouble was, the cow had moved!
Jesus is an object that will not move. He is the foundation of our faith, the faithful Rock who never moves, never changes in his love for us. We can be sure that if we set our eyes on him, our path will be straight. A young boy was doing his best to lift a rock that was too large for someone his size. He grunted and puffed as he tried various methods for lifting the rock. But, in spite of all his efforts, the rock wouldn’t budge. His father walked by and, after watching his son’s struggle, asked if he was having trouble. The boy answered, “Yes, I’ve tried everything, and it won’t move.” The father replied, “Are you sure you have tried every possibility, that you have used every resource at your disposal?” The boy looked up with frustration and exhaustion filling his face and grunted out a “Yes!” With kindness, the father bent over and softly said, “No, my son, you haven’t. You haven’t asked for my help.” How often are we like the little boy, struggling with our problems but unable to solve them-because we have not asked for our Heavenly Father’s help.
Blessings
If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them. But let me take a magnet, and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the most invisible particles by the mere power of attraction! The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies: but let the thankful heart sweep through the day; and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings; only the iron in God’s sand is gold.
--O. W. Holmes
God's Promise to You
Proverbs 16:32, “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.”
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example , builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
--Francis Bacon
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. .
--Helen Keller
God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today’s duties and tomorrow’s anxieties piled on the top of them..
--Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
You are only what you are when no one is looking..
--Robert C. Edwards
The world says, the more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
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LETTER FROM THE ISF DIRECTORS
Dear International Friend,
Warm greetings to you from International Student Fellowship.
Little did we know when the New Year started that we would be experiencing the fourth largest snowfall in the history of Pittsburgh since March 1884.
We decided to share a few “snow” facts with you. Many of you have probably heard of people talking about a White Christmas. Actually the frequency of a white Christmas in Pittsburgh (1” or more of new snow on 12/25) is about ten percent. The chance of having a trace or more of snow on the ground is 38 percent. People celebrating Christmas in 1909 and 1935 enjoyed 3.5 inches. Besides these dates only ten other Christmas’ Past had at least one inch of snowfall.
The longest periods with at least 1.0” of snow on the ground were
64 days January 8 through March 12, 1978
62 days December 20, 1976 through February 20, 1977
The largest snowfall records are
27.4” November 24-26, 1950
25.9” December 16-18, 1890
25.3” March 12-14, 1993
21.1” February 5-6, 2010
Earliest recorded snow
September 23, 1989 (trace)
Earliest recorded accumulation of snow
October 18, 1972 (1.8”)
Latest recorded snow
May 31, 1893 (trace)
Latest recorded accumulation of snow
May 25, 1925 (0.5”)
Latest recorded 1” or more accumulation
May 9, 1966 (3.1”)
--Terry & Pam Tiberio, ISF Directors
March 18th ISF Gathering
We would like to invite you to the March ISF Gathering. This gathering will be on Thursday, March 18th at 7:30 PM in the Assembly Room of the William Pitt Union. The William Pitt Union is located in Oakland on the corner of Bigelow and Fifth Avenue. To get to the Ballroom, use the entrance on Fifth Avenue and go to your right.
We hope you will come and invite your friends. We will have music, a delicious meal, warm fellowship and an interesting lecture by our good friend Sam West. There will also be special children’s activities in the Kurtzman room. We hope to see you and remember that it’s all free!
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ISF JANUARY & FEBRUARY GATHERINGS (January 8th, 2010 & February 5th, 2010))
Cancelled because of bad weather.
Hope to see you at the March ISF Gathering on March 18th at the
William Pitt Union
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