Compelled to Love Locally and Globally ..

Hi ETHIOPIA Team
On Dec 13, Love Out Louder Day, we have one more opportunity before 2008 comes to a close, to minister the good news in person to our community. I pray that you will take your family to minister with you this time...

Reading 2nd Cor 5, today, this is really the summary and reason why we are compelled to love and share with our community, locally and globally:

Reconciliation: To God Himself through Christ
v.18 All things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ Jesus
Our Ministry of Reconciliation
v.18b-19a and has given us the ministry of reconciliation... that is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,
Removing our Trespasses
v.19b .. not imputing their trespasses to them
The Word
v.19c ... and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Hear God's Heart for the unreached and unsaved through us:
Ambassadors for Christ
v.20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

Let this be our mind and heart as we moved towards the holiday season, towards the goal of joining Compassion International to reach the orphans, the widowed, the single moms, the street kids and HIV infected families in Ethiopia with the healing word of Jesus.

Merry Christmas & has a Christ-filled year ahead, proclaiming the good news as HIS PROVEN AMBASSADOR.

From the Youth Ministry, christabel