Sometimes it feels like we are making so little progress, like things are not moving as we would like—but God is always working.
Keeping it Simple: How to Minister to the Fatherless
This week’s challenge will be short and sweet. We all know that God wants us to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction. We know that He said we are to be doers of the Word and not hearers only. But HOW do we do that? Where do we start? This week, I’m …
Friday Digest 2/24/17
This week on Facebook: Forum Speakers, An Opportunity, and George Muller Praying for our Counties. [Combined posts.] As we are preparing for the upcoming Forum on Fatherless, we thought we would share a few things to help shed light on why this is such an important topic. As part of that, we will be sharing, …
Friday Digest – Valentine’s Week
This week on Facebook: (Note: 5/22/18 – We’re no longer sending out Friday Digests.) We’ve noticed that nearly half our group members don’t see our Facebook posts, so here is a roundup of everything we’ve posted this week, just in case you missed it… February 13, 2017 “We were created to be magnifying glasses.” Click …
Speaking Clearly
Over the last year, the Lord has clearly shown me that I have often failed in the way I have communicated with those who are praying for this ministry, and I want to do better. I want to communicate in a way, which Gives you clear insight into what is going on here at FTN, …
Every Mile a Gift
The Wheels are Turning…Literally. The wheels on my little car have been turning, turning, turning the last few days. I started off from Billings, Montana, on October 5th and drove to the Salt Lake City area to speak at a Ladies’ Conference at Faith Baptist Church. Then it was on to Fruitland, Utah, to speak …
From All My Heart
“Thank you, thank you,” read one of several excited texts, which I received after a single mom found out she was coming home to a new window air conditioner. The single mom, we’ll call her Karen, is one of the women whom we helped move earlier this year. Since her move, she has run …
Moving Forward
Last week, I sat at my desk in the Forbid Them Not office talking on the phone with a single grandmother. She and her four grandchildren lived in the apartment complex where I work part-time. Due to issues out of her control and of no fault of her own, she was facing an unexpected move. …
Fatherless Daughters
I’m running behind today, but was still going to try to get a blog up. Then I saw this in my inbox. These are some statistics that I have never seen before. Although I personally have never specifically run into the problem of people focusing only on boys, these are definitely some thoughts worth considering!
NT 12:2 Wrong Reasoning
Week 12: James and the Fatherless Day 2: Confronting Wrong Reasoning (James 1:13-16) Two different kinds of temptation are going on in James 1. The first, the one we have already been looking at, is the testing that God allows in our lives to try and to prove the sincerity of our faith. Interestingly enough, …