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Newsletter
I SEPTEMBER 2007
YOU CAN DO IT! |
Guideposts (9/95) published the story of Jim Stovall, who became totally blind at age twenty-nine. While he still had partial vision, he volunteered at a school for the blind. He was assigned to help a four-year-old boy, blind and severely handicapped. Stovall spent considerable time trying to convince the boy he could tie his own shoes or climb stairs in spite of his limitations. “No, I can't!” the boy insisted. “Yes, you can,” Stovall replied. “No, I can't!” The verbal battle went on. Meanwhile Stovall fought his own limitations. Because of his deteriorating vision, he decided he had to quit his college courses. On his way to withdraw from college, he decided to resign his volunteer position as well. “It's just too tough,” he explained. “I can't do it.” “Yes, you can!” said a little voice beside him. It was the four-year-old who refused to tie his shoes. “No, I can't!” said Stovall with conviction. “Yes, you can!” Stovall realized if he didn't continue, the child would give up too. So Stovall stayed in school and graduated three-and-a-half years later. The same week he graduated, his little friend tied his shoes and climbed a flight of stairs. Philippians tell us we “can do all things through Christ who gives us strength.”
-- Leadership Journal
Proverbs 24:3-4 Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
--NKJV
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When you make God's priorities your priorities, He will lead you according to His plan and according to His commandments. When you study God's teachings, you are reminded that God's reality is the ultimate reality. Do you seek to live a life of righteousness and wisdom? If so, you must study the ultimate source of wisdom – the Word of God.
–Values for Life
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
--Margaret Fuller
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. |
More Wisdom from the Bible |
Isaiah 50:4-5 (NCV) Every morning he wakes me. He teaches me to listen like a student. The Lord God helps me learn…
Matthew 7:24-25 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.”
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Peter 1:5-7 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. |
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LETTER FROM THE ISF DIRECTORS
Dear International Friend,
Warm summer greetings to you, our dear International friends. All around us we see signs of many people getting ready to go back to school. New students are arriving on the campuses in the Pittsburgh area colleges and universities. Even children from kindergarten to high school are preparing for the new school year. Our hope for each one of you is that this will be a good year and that you won't just acquire some new knowledge, but that you will really learn some valuable lessons for your life. Thomas Fuller said, “Today is yesterday's pupil.” The Bible tells us in Proverbs 1:5 (NSAB) “A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel.” Vance Havner is quoted as saying, “It's the things you learn after you know it all that really count.” Our prayer for you is that you will find yourself dedicated to a lifetime of learning.
--Terry & Pam Tiberio, ISF Directors
We enjoyed having so many of you come to our picnic. Even though it was really hot and humid, everyone helped in so many ways. So, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all that you did to help and to make new people feel at home and a part of our International family! If you have moved outside of the Pittsburgh area and know of someone who will be moving into this area to attend school or for a new job, please let them know that International Student Fellowship (ISF) would like to be a friend and help to them. You can give them our e-mail address or phone number listed on this letter.
September 7th ISF Gathering
We would like to invite you to our September ISF Gathering. This gathering will be on Friday, September 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. To get to the Ballroom, use the entrance on Fifth Avenue and go to your right.
We hope you will come and please especially invite your friends. Of course there will be music, a wonderful meal, warm fellowship, and an interesting lecture. Also, there will 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 AUGUST GATHERING (August 3rd, 2007)
150 present, from 9 countries: China, Macedonia, Morocco, Russia, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, USA.
Hope to see you at the September ISF Gathering on September 7th at the
William Pitt Union
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