Monday, January 19, 2009

Board Meeting!

The Fuller Center for Housing -- Iowa Lakes will have a board meeting at 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 21 either at Bethany Lutheran Church in Spencer or at Perkins in Milford. We will post and email by noon Tuesday with the final location.

If you are part of the board, please join us.

If you are not part of the board and would like to serve, we can always use more committee and at-large board members.

If you are neither on the board nor feeling called to serve at this time, please pray that we will find the funds and volunteers to complete our project in Terril.

God has blessed our mission abundantly so far with an amazing but challenging project, terrific people ready to serve, and even more people praying for God's best for the Fuller Center for Housing -- Iowa Lakes.

On a national level, the Fuller Center for Housing (http://fullercenter.org/) has grown from 21 covenant partners to 47 in 2008.

On this very memorable Inauguration Day as many in our communities are facing very bleak economic situations, please pray that the Fuller Center for Housing can continue to eliminate poverty housing in communities throughout the world, and that the Fuller Center--Iowa Lakes will fulfill its mission right here.



Today's YouTube video is "Ata Kadosh" by the Israeli rock artist Adi Ran. The song is from the soundtrack of Ushpizin -- a wonderful Israeli movie about miracles and the everyday lives of Orthodox Jews during one of their little-known-to-us feast celebrations. The rough translation is this:

I've traveled many paths,
in search for a pinch of truth,
and I didn't hesitate to take a bite of it, the delicacy of sin.
We didn't find ourselves,
there is no more point in denying,
this culture is not for us
for we have fire in our hearts!

This temporary material is useless,
the serpent of the senses, is still lying.
When you close your eyes,
In the end, the truth will come clear.
And it's hard to grasp with the mind,
the imagination disappoints as well,
But there's a ruler to this business,
and He loves us!

And the "Ata Kadosh" means "His Name is Holy."

As we all struggle on some level in our world's condition, let's remember "There's a ruler to this business."