Here is an idea you can use in 2010 April:

The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost hold significant meaning for Pentecostals. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, the fifty days of Jesus’ earthly ministry, and the momentous Day of Pentecost are woven inseparably into our own Pentecostal experience. The historical significance is foundational to our faith and its contemporary meaning is profoundly relevant. These fifty days stand out in our modern calendar as days of opportunity for spiritual reflection and renewed vision. These seven Sundays can be an opportunity for celebration by the church. This fifty-day block of time can become the most intensive period of spiritual emphasis during the year!

“Seven Super Sundays” is an effort to build attendance, generate a climate of faith, gain more presence in the community, and mobilize the church toward evangelism. This resource will help churches avoid a big drop in attendance after Easter. Church families are encouraged to make a commitment to attend all seven of these services and to bring visitors. Each Sunday has a special emphasis that will attract visitors and communicate the church’s love for people.

2010

1. Easter Sunday – April 4
2. Family Day Sunday – April 11 (Introduce whole families to the congregation, take pictures and post them in the foyer.)
3. Education Sunday – April 18 (Have students invite their teachers, introduce them to the congregation, and give them a gift.)
4. Friend’s Day Sunday – April 25 (Encourage everyone to bring a friend.)
5. Baby Parade Sunday – May 2 (Invite parents with children eighteen months and younger. Introduce them to the congregation, take their pictures, and post them in the
foyer.)
6. Mother’s Day Sunday – May 9
7. Professional Sunday – May 16 (Invite public-service people such as mayors, aldermen, policemen, firemen, congressmen, and so forth, and give them public
recognition, pray for them, and give them a gift. May 9-15 is National Police
Week in 2010.)

Pentecost Sunday – May 23

This morning you woke up and asked yourself, ‘Self, where are Bibles, pamphlets, Christian audio and video materials in languages other than English?’

Have no fear, Stanley is here.  Here, too, are some websites that might help (Nancy Shirley told me about this.  May her tribe increase.):

Bibles/languages

print and online in 80:  www.ethnicharvest.org/bibles/

print in 23:  www.ibsdirect.com

onine in 38:  www.ibs.org/bibles/index.php

print in 60:  www.bibles.com

searchable online in 24:  www.biblegateway.com

online in 58:  www.unboundbible.org

Palm OS Reader:  unbound.biola.edu/unibible

Chinese (at discount):  www.afcinc.org/bookstore

downloadable:  www.e-sword.net

online in 22:  www.onlinebible.com

online in 17:  www.bible.com

online in 30:  bibledatabase.net

online:  www.winternationalstudent.com

print:  amazon.com

links to Bibles and other resources:  peggiesplace.gospelcom.net/international.htm

Pamphlets & booklets/languages:

over 100:  www.chick.com/catalog/TractLookUp.asp

26:  www.atstracts.org/readarticle.php?id=115

145:  www.greatcom.org/laws/languages.html

over 100:  evangelismtoolbox.com

Audio & Video/languages

over 1000:  www.jesusfilm.org/progress/translations.html

audio scriptures in 90+ languages; Jesus film in 927 languages; pamphlets,  Christian music, Bible-based ESL materials, other in dozens of languages:
www.multilanguage.com/catalog.htm

Audio in 50:
www.audioscriptures.org

audio in 5600+: globalrecordings.net

Resource Directories

www.missionresources.com

Christian Archives www.christianarchives.org

freely

a. allows churches to post and archive digital sermon files online

b. 24/7 access to those files by church members and all Christians (and presumably everyone else)

At the recent Philippine general conference, each visitor was registered on a card with a number and given a visitor ribbon with the same number on it. When the invitation was given for sinners to come forward, workers arranged chairs across the front and seekers came forward and sat in the line of chairs. Then ministers and their wives, saints and Bible college students intermingled with them, praying with them as they received the Holy Spirit. The visitors were then taken to the platform and their ribbon matched with their card, so that peple knew who they were and their address was available. Those who did not have on a visitor ribbon were quickly interviewed by workers who obtained their names and addresses. In this way, people knew esactly howmany had received the Holy Spirit, and were able to follow up the work of the Holy Spirit in that meeting.

HOW TO BUY TECHNOLOGICAL ITEMS (cellphones, VCRs or digital video recorders, computers, digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 players, video game consoles, high-definition TVs, home security systems, portable or handheld GPS, or satellite radio subscription):
1.  Check online.  You avoid crowds and pushy salespeople.  You can conveniently compare prices and you can get a good price.  But be careful of temporary websites—these sometimes don’t include all cables, parts, batteries, warranties, and you can’t see the screen or hear the stereo or test the keyboard.  Substitute for this with reviews posted by former purchasers.
2.  Print out your Internet research and carry it to the store, ‘It provides a degree of confidence.  If you have a stack of paper with reviews and product specs, you have demonstrated you have done your homework’, says Tim Herberts, senior directot of market research at Consumer Electronics Association.
3.  If you have one, ask ‘that ultra-geek friend who knows everything about everything but likely lacks in the social graces’ to go with you to the shop, says Monique Rupley, who supports a telecom company sales staff.
4.  Go with attitude.  Get good service by insisting on it.  Don’t scream, just be firm, reasonable, level-headed, cool, says Rupley.
5.  If you walk into a shop and the salesperson says, ‘How much do you want to spend?,’ or shows you one thing when you asked to see another, leave.  They should ask about your needs.  So feel free to ask what products they recommend to their parents or kids.  Also, talk to service people about what product breaks down most, or least.
6.  Bargain.  If the retailer won’t reduce price, maybe they’ll add cab les, batteries, accessories.  If they have a trial model, older models, they might sell for reduced price.  If it was returned, find out why.  Get full warranty and all parts.  Some PC makers sell refurbished, discounted models with regular warranties.

DIGITAL CAMERAS:
Prices are down (this article uses prices at Amazon.com).  When you buy, consider:
1.  megapixels (which measures how detailed a picture the camera takes).  Most people don’t need more than 4 megapixels to take lightly cropped, regular-size prints.  Canon’s PowerShot A560 (for $129) has a 7-megapixel sensor.  Professional levels rise to Canon’s 12-megapixel PowerShot SC950IS ($368) or Casio’s 10-megapizel Exilim EX-Z1050 ($220).  Average 6-megapixel cameras have dropped from $266 to $149, and 7-megapixel from $349 to $199, all in one year.
2.  zoom (for coming close to action).  The PowerShot A560 has a 4X zoom.
2.  screens are mostly 2.5-3 inches (more expensive can go to 3.5).
3.  Image stabilization helps deal with shaky hands and stop blurry shots, and increases price to $214 (Canon’s PowerShot SD750) or $240 (SD800 IS).

JET ETIQUETTE: HOW TO BEHAVE ON AN AIRPANE.
1. Don’t take too many, or too large, carry-ons on the airplane. While you struggle to fit it all in place, you hold up other people trying to board.
2. When you board, greet a flight attendant with courtesy and respect. That impresses. If not, word travels fast around the airplane, ‘The passenger in seat 12A is rude.’
3. Don’t chatter on cellphones all the time—space is limited and other people don’t want to hear.
4. Don’t put trash in seat-backet pockets—sometimes airlines can’t clean them between flights.
5. Keep tray table clean, especially if you bring your own food. And don’t bring smelly food.
6. Keep your elbows in your own space. Make eye contact with your seatmate and say, ‘I’m going to bring my elbows in. If I fall asleep and come into your area, please wake me.’ That lets them know not to invade your space, and is non-confrontational.
7. Address unruly passengers in a non-confrontational way: ‘Your child is kicking my seat, and I’d really appreciate it if they’d stop.’ If they don’t, let flight attendant deal with it.

1. Big international retailer websites stationed in the nation where the person is from. For instance, if buying for a UK friend, buy at Amazon.uk, not Amazon.com. They’ll take international credit cards. And no customs or international shipping rates.
2. Gift certificates can be sent via email from the same websites.
3. Big international retailers. For instance, in Britain and Ireland, Marks & Spencer.
4. Send a check. They can spend it on what they like.

1. When you travel, put your suitcase in a place less likely to house bedbugs—like a metal rack.
2. Shine a penlight behind the hotel headboard and look for dark fecal stains. Pull back bedding and look for fecal stains on mattreww seams and ticking.
3. If you wake up with red welts, all laundry goes into a plastic bag outdoors, then into a hot cycle, then into a hot dryer. Five or ten minutes on high heat kills everything. Cold will not kill eggs or all the adults.
4. Don’t buy used bedding or bedding from street sales.
5. Don’t buy bug spray and battle it yourself. Get a good company to do it professionally.
6. Either get rid of your box spring and mattress, or at least get a bug-proof zippered mattress cover that keeps them trapped inside for at least one year
(from Freydkin, Donna. ‘They’re Ba-a-ack for a snack’, USA Today, 2007 Nov 7, p13D)

If you have a business, hire one. Many were leaders, trained in loyalty, tech-savvy, at ease with ethnic diversity, trained to handle a quickly changing environment, in better physical condition. To find them, check military.com

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To obtain military records of US military people who were discharged or retired or died before 1946, write to National Personnel Records Center, 9700 Page Ave, St. Louis, MO 63132, or fax a request to 314.801.9195 or submit request online at vetrecs.archives.gov.