Leave the 99 to seek the 1

Dear Friends of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Thank you for stopping by for a fresh CUP! Amen!

I have spent time in prayer with Sharon this morning as always and I also got to spend time with my Brother Pastor Paul Holt in prayer. Great way to start the day with my wife and the doggy’s and Pastor Paul. I pray you have people around you that you can have serious Christian conversations with! Amen!

If you recall I wrote about being still this week, Psalm 46:10, Be still, and know that I am God. One of our CUP friends, Pat had written she had just been laid off. She took Psalm 46:10 to heart………here are the results:

Hi Dewey,

I want you to know what happened after you gave me the divine words, “Be still.” They stunned me with a sense of peace even you would be amazed! That same day, I received word from Accenture.They set me up for a phone interview. It is a company that provides federal workers to the government. I would be a substance abuse coordinator in drug prevention for the military!!! Imagine that. I have a second phone interview tomorrow at 8:30 am tomorrow.
I have been praying God would provide me with a job like this!. I would love to provide you with support too. You have always been so supportive of me and I have only been able to thank you and be immensely grateful! I love you Dewey. Thank you

Pat

Praise God Pat! Praise God! What a testimony! We now will be praying for you to get that Job, Lord willing, in Jesus name, Amen! We love you too.

If you or a loved one is having a challenge and you would like help just email me. We would love to pray with you and try to help.

Happy Birthday to Cathy Belanger a Dear, Dear friend and supporter of FGGAM. We love you so Cathy, thank you for sharing the mission of FGGAM with others! Cathy is 39 today! We pray we see her soon!

I am thankful this day for great Godly conversations with my brother Daryl in South Dakota. I thank the Lord for that. Never give up on anyone. Leave the 99 to seek the 1. It has been a 39 year venture. By the way Daryl is 49 on Sunday. Please pray for him. Thank you! I love him so.

Matthew 18:12-14

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

This morning I want to share with you two public safety issues that are concerning to me. The first is a letter that I wrote to thewww.windomnews.com my hometown newspaper………..

Having grown up in Windom and to this day having a special love for my hometown I wanted to speak of the situation with the Fire Hall.
I was a little tyke when the present hall opened. I’m now nearing 60. The Moedes have a long history of service in the Windom Fire Department.
I believe it was 1912 when my grandpa, Chris Moede, joined the department. My dad was a firefighter for years serving as secretary and assistant chief. He joined the department after returning from WWII.
John Moede also served for many years. I served as a firefighter in Osceola, Ind.
I have been in the news media for nearly 40 years, very involved in public safety issues wherever I have lived, not only as a reporter but also as a taxpayer. I say all that to give some of my background in commenting on this public safety issue in Windom.
I was sadden to read in the Citizen a couple of weeks ago that a fire truck is stored underneath a water tower and if needed it has to be filled up with water, which if I remember correctly, takes 10 minutes. This is not “Windomlike” and this is not common Windom behavior.
You never want to be in this situation. If the main water hauling truck would, heaven forbid, break down forcing firefighters to wait for this truck… that would not be good.
It only takes seconds to claim a life. What if, heaven forbid again, the department were to have multiple fires?
It just shocked me that the Department is in this situation. Also, to have the challenge of fitting modern day equipment into the present hall is uncalled for.
Windom has risen to save the old high school. The citizens did it. And look at what has taken place with the BARC.
Windom rose to the occasion to save the theater. These were great efforts by the citizens, great causes for the quality of life for a great community.
I pray that the citizens of Windom and the townships that the department serves will rise to the occasion and make their voices heard, letting people know that public safety is also a key factor in a thriving community and that the firefighters and citizens deserve better.
It is time to be “Windomlike” and build a new fire hall.
    - Pastor Dewey Moede
      Albuquerque, NM

I then received this reply last night:

Dewey, Thanks for the nice letter to the editor in today’s Citizen. It was very well written. Their is such a need for a new fire hall with the need for more and bigger equipment, the current fire hall is just not big enough. The current fire hall was great in it’s time but it is time to be updated.

Thanks
Dan Ortmann
Windom Fire Chief

Thank you Dan for the kind words!

I then posted this today at FGGAM.ORG www.fggam.org

It troubles me everyday with more and more bad news coming out of the Albuquerque Police Dept. I have friends on APD who are outstanding officers, I have always respected Law Enforcement Officers to the highest level! But I am still reeling from the awful Levi Chavez incident, will we ever know the truth? doubtful. The Justice Department was in town investigating the Police shootings, when when we the citizens of the city know the results of the investigation in full detail? The interim Chief, Allen Banks resigns, what a mess and now the news that Albuquerque Police Officers Scott McMurrough and Gil Vigil did not properly handle a 911 call to the home of now deceased Omaree Varela last June. Why are not the citizens of Albuquerque being communicated with on what is going on with the Police Department? Is it bad leadership? Is there a disconnect between APD and the Mayor’s office? What is it? What is the plan to end this dysfunction? We do not see problems like we have on APD in our County with the Sheriff’s Department, so what is the difference? Lives are at stake, we already lost little Omaree and more. It is time for clear “non-political” talk with the tax payers of Albuquerque. This is also not fair to the hard working officers of APD who keep their nose clean and put their lives on the line for us everyday, I don’t want to see a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch, but the Mayor and City Council must get to the root of the problem soon. I am sure their are many officers who are as discouraged as I am

We must be involved in Public Safety issues, we will always to our best here at the CUP and FGGAM to address issues like this in a Christ like way.

I was tickled pink when I saw that Rick Stambaugh posted this today at FGGAM……and oldie but goody that we have posted before……….

Many times in life we make judgements on behavior we do not understand.
Following, is a great story that many don’t know and is a shining example to be careful about those kind of judgements and how one might ought to learn to be careful with our older folks until you know them better. You just never know what they have done during their lifetimes.
THIS IS NOT ONLY A WONDERFUL STORY, IT’S ALSO A TRUE STORY and is a perfect example of just exactly that. Please read through the whole story and be sure to read through and find out exactly who Eddie Rickenbacker actually was!
It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant orange and was starting to dip into the blue ocean. Old Ed came strolling along the beach to his favorite pier. Clutched in his bony hand was a bucket of shrimp. Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he almost has the world to himself. The glow of the sun is a golden bronze now.
Everybody’s gone, except for a few joggers on the beach. Standing out on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with his thoughts…and his bucket of shrimp. Before long, however, he is no longer alone. Up in the sky a thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier.Before long, dozens of seagulls have enveloped him, their wings fluttering and flapping wildly. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, if you listen closely, you can hear him say with a smile, ‘Thank you. Thank you.’In a few short minutes the bucket is empty. But Ed doesn’t leave. He stands there lost in thought, as though transported to another time and place.When he finally turns around and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away. And old Ed quietly makes his way down to the end of the beach and on home.If you were sitting there on the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like ‘a funny old duck,’ as my dad used to say. Or, to onlookers, he’s just another old codger, lost in his own weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of shrimp.To the onlooker, rituals can look either very strange or very empty. They can seem altogether unimportant…maybe even a lot of nonsense. Old folks often do strange things, at least in the eyes of Boomers and Busters.Most of them would probably write Old Ed off, down there in Florida . That’s too bad. They’d do well to know him better.His full name: Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero in World War I, and then he was in WWII. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, all of the men survived, crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft.Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. They fought the sun. They fought sharks. Most of all, they fought hunger and thirst. By the eighth day their rations ran out. No food. No water. They were hundreds of miles from land and no one knew where they were or even if they were alive. Every day across America millions wondered and prayed that Eddie Rickenbacker might somehow be found alive. The men adrift needed a miracle. That afternoon they had a simple devotional service and prayed for a miracle. They tried to nap. Eddie leaned back and pulled his military cap over his nose. Time dragged on. All he could hear was the slap of the waves against the raft.
Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a seagull!
Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his starving crew made a meal of it – a very slight meal for eight men. Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait . . . and the cycle continued. With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigors of the sea until they were found and rescued after 24 days at sea.
Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first life-saving seagull… And he never stopped saying, ‘Thank you.’
That’s why almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude.
Reference: (Max Lucado, “In The Eye of the Storm”, pp.221,225-226)
Eddie Rickenbacker was the founder of Eastern Airlines.
Before World War I he was a race car driver.
In World War I, he was a pilot and became America’s first ace.
In World War II, he was an instructor and military adviser, and he flew missions with the combat pilots.
Eddie Rickenbacker is a true American Hero!

And now you know another story about the trials and sacrifices that brave men have endured for your freedom; just a silly little old man on a pier with a bucket of shrimp! Not to mention a valuable lesson we should all learn!

For God’s Glory Alone in the love if our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey, Sharon, Paul, Jo, FGGAM Board and families
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