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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1


AGE IS NOT A FACTOR

READ:
1 Corinthians 12:12-26
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If one part suffers,
every part suffers
with it.
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After owning and working at his dental lab for 50 years, Dave Bowman planned to retire and take it easy. Diabetes and heart surgery confirmed his decision. But when he heard about a group of young refugees from Sudan who needed help, he made a life-changing decision. He agreed to sponsor five of them.

As Dave learned more about these young Sudanese men, he discovered that they had never been to a doctor or a dentist. Then one day in church someone mentioned the verse, "If one part suffers, every part suffers with it"(1 COR. 12:26). He couldn't get the verse out of his mind. Sundanese Christians were suffering because they needed medical care, and Dave sensed that God was telling him to do something about it. But what?

Despite his age and bad health, Dave began exploring the possibility of building a medical center in Sudan. Little by little, God brought together the people and the resources, and in 2008 Memorial Christian Hospital opened its doors to patients. Since then, hundreds of sick and injured people have been treated there.

Memorial Christian Hospital stands as a reminder that God cares when people suffer. And often He works through people like us to share His care_even when we think our work is done. ____________Julie Ackerman Link

**Do you see a need that God may be calling you to meet?
Pray and ask Him to help you step out in faith.
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God cares when people suffer.

***********************************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Corinthians 12:12-26*************************
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its
many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we
were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body__
whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free__and we were all
given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made
up of one part but of many.

15 Now if the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I
do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason stop
being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, Because
I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," If the whole body
were an eye, where would the sense of smell be?
" it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body
were and eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the
whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of
them, just as He wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part,
where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but
one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And
the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22 On
the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker
are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less
honorable we treat with special honor And the parts that are
unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our
presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has
put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that
lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body,
but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.

26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is
honored, every part rejoices with it.