Dear KKIM Family,
“When a person prays for guidance, and doors continue to open instead of close, a person comes to think of his job as a high obligation……..to enlighten and inform.” Paul Harvey
I am reading “Paul Harvey’s America” The story of one of the greatest American ever! I thank Pastor Leonard for the book!
Paul was born in 1918 in Tulsa, Ok a booming city because of oil.In 1921 his Father who was an assistant to the Police Chief of Tulsa was killed by gun fire. Paul grew up without his Dad.
Paul Harvey grew up in Tulsa, Ok………10 year old Paul left school early one day……he walked sideways with his back to the wall to the buildings of downtown Tulsa all the way because he had torn the seat of his only pair of pants at school…….his Mother was going to meet him at the store to buy a new par, in fact two pairs with the $11.95 she had saved to pay taxes with.
Before Paul Harvey reached his Mother, the 10 year old battled intense embarrassment and self-consciousness as he slowly made his way down the long mile of blocks between school and store. And as he watched the fancy car’s of Tulsa’s upper crust drive by, he felt something new—-a rising, agonizing bitterness.
He wrote: In that long mile……..many liveried chauffeurs in their great limousines had passed………unmindful of my predicament. But the feeling to a half-frightened, half-ashamed youth was that they knew and didn’t care.
How many of us have walked that mile?
I have…………..
Miss Harp, Paul Harvey’s most trusted teacher told him…………..
“Paul, never feel resentment in your heart for those who have more than you. Just do all you can as long as you live to preserve this last wonderful land……..in which any man willing to stay on his toes………can reach for the stars.”
That lesson of what Miss Harp said was a watershed moment that never left Paul’s soul.
WOW! I had a few Miss Harp’s in my life………..Do all you can as long as you can to preserve this last wonderful land………WOW………that is what my calling is……..that is why I get up every morning and go to work……..PRAISE GOD!!!
Paul Harvey certainly did is work well………..and that is an understatement.
Just a side note here:
Is America paying attention?
In a year that we have lost two of the greatest newsman ever, Paul Harvey and Walter Cronkite….Time magazine does a Poll and finds that Jon Stewart of that weird show “The Daly Show” is the most trusted newsman in America!!!
I have to tell you I have been doing this for 35 years and this is a dramatic shift in society. For most America’s to get their news from this type of guy is alarming! One of the reasons for this shift is that the traditional sources of news are doing such a horrible job. The major networks have failed to keep up the Harvey and Cronkite standard and the American Public has lost the faith in them.
As Pastor Barry Dickens told me, “There is a lot of nothing noise out there.” AMEN to that! Most of it is coming from the news networks! We at KKIM are so thankful for what the Lord has done for us and also for the IRN/USA Radio Network!
Our mission at KKIM is to stand in the gap…………for the Lord and bring the TRUTH.
Let’s now get the TRUTH from Pastor Don in Israel……….
Hello everyone,
What a beautiful day in Haifa, Israel. We are spending the day with our hosts, Pastor Philip and Violet Saa’d. What wonderful people that we are learning from about the history and culture of Christian Evangelical Arabs in Israel. We had a long flight, with little sleep but we caught up last night and are staying at a very nice Christian hotel called Beit Shalom (House of Peace). The land of Israel is beautiful and Haifa is like a mini-San Francisco. We have been discussing theology all morning (that’s what pastors do, you know). I am scheduled to preach tomorrow evening in Nazareth. Thank you for your prayers. Please read Acts 4:29-32 and pray that prayer with us. We are expecting great and marvelous things to happen here. God is a God of surprises. Come and see (John 1:46). That’s why we’re here I believe. God bless.
Love in Christ,
Pastor Don and Dorothy
I am headed down shortly with Pastor Mark Tross for the “We want to meet You” at the Church Of God in Los Lunas! It starts at 11am today…….Hope to see you there!
Let us Pray……….
Lord, We thank you for America…….We thank you for the ability to get up every morning and worship you! We pray for Your strength and boldness to keep spreading Your word. In the name of Jesus, AMEN!
In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family
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