Project 5001 Weekly Challenge 2

 WEEKLY CHALLENGE

This week's challenge (Week of 11/12/2012) is Share a Meal. 

This week when you eat lunch or dinner, fix an extra plate or buy an an extra meal and share it with someone in need. The person can be homeless or simply in need or deserving of a kind gesture. This week, give someone the meal, you and your family would eat.

Jesus said, "... Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me." - Matthew 25:40    

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Last week's challenge, Dollar Store 10. See details here.

Weekly Challenge 1

 WEEKLY CHALLENGE

This week's challenge (Week of 11/5/2012) is the Dollar Store 10. 

Visit a Dollar Tree or any dollar store. Collect 10 items and create toiletry and/or snack bags for someone in need. For example, toothbrush and toothpaste, deodorant, thermal socks, gloves, skull cap, cough drops, wipes, hand sanitizer, etc. Bag them in a zip lock or toiletry bag and share them with someone in need. Create on large bag or break them into smaller bags.

Jesus said, "... Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me." - Matthew 25:40    

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Help Us Bless Families This Christmas

Project 5001 is working with The Charlotte Family Housing Center (CFHC) in Charlotte, North Carolina to bless families this Christmas. CFHC has created the Jubilee Store which allows families housed there to be able to shop for hoilday gifts that were donated by generous people throughout the community. We need your help in stocking this store with items from the Jubilee wishlist. Please consider donating an item or two for this most worthy endeavor. 

HOW TO DONATE

• Mail an unwrapped gift or gift card (from "Wish List" below) to the center:

         Charlotte Family Housing          300 Hawthorne Lane, 3^rd Floor         Charlotte, NC 28204 

• Deliver an unwrapped gift (from "Wish List" below) locally:

         Myers Park United Methodist Church
         501 Queens Road, Charlotte

• Make a donation to Project 5001 and we will purchase gifts from the "Wish List".

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WHAT TO DONATE

Jubilee Wish List

General Items:

• Dress up accessories for girls       
• Novi Stars Scented Dolls     
• iPod Shule or MP3 player (under $50)    
  
• Costume jewelry for
  teenage girl
  
• Make-up for teenage girl  
  
• Panthers gear for teenage boy
  (under $50)
• Axe gift set     
• Football     
• Basketball     
• Wii game     
• Nintendo game     
• Gift card to Target, WalMart, 
  Forever 21, sports store, Bath & 
  Body Works ($25 or less)

DEADLINE is December 2nd. Email us at h23email@gmail.com for questions. 

Project 5001

Project 5001 is a service campaign 

designed to answer the needs of the people. 

Jesus fed 5000, we can do more. 

He has given us the power to do it!

FEED        CLOTHE         EMPOWER         SERVE

We started Project 5001 under the mandate that, "greater things you shall do." Jesus told the disciples that He gave them to the power to do more. We have not only a mandate but the power to do more. Whether we feed, clothe, empower, or serve our goal is to push ourselves and each to do more. 

Stay posted for opportunities to serve and help. Email us if for questions or details, H23email@gmail.com. 

If you or your organization would like to support Project 5001, click the donate button below and your gift will help us meet the needs of the people.

Don't Miss The Shift

The word selah in biblical terms means pause or silence. Many have expounded that it also means to meditate and think solemnly. But the word selah also means to shift. In musical terms selah was a direction to uplift and accentuate, change the tempo. During a bible study with a spiritual mentor, Minister Kathie Coker, she highlighted the fact that if you pay attention to the Psalms of David, before the selah, David is in a certain place. Then after the  selah his words change.

Take Psalms 3 for example:
Psa 3:1  [[A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.]] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.
Psa 3:2  Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah.
Psa 3:3  But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Psa 3:4  I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psa 3:5  I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psa 3:6  I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set [themselves] against me round about.
Psa 3:7  Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Psa 3:8 Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah.

In verses 1-3, David was focused on his troubles; under the circumstances, understandably so. He was being chased out of his Kingdom by his ego-driven, spoiled son. He is the same son who raped his own sister and defiled David’s honor as a king. Yet this reckless son inspired such fear in King David’s heart that he was fleeing from his kingdom. He then began to address the problem.

Then in verses 3 and 4, he pauses and shifts his song. He begins to sing about the solution. He first reminded himself of what God is, contrary to the problems that stand against him. God is a shield, God lifts his head, God sustains him. He remembered his God and the many ways he has saved him from men after his life and praised him from that place.

Don’t stay stuck in the downbeat, SHIFT to the upbeat, to the accent. Remember your God and the great things He has done for you. At this point in your life, like David, you can identify where God has shielded, lifted, and sustained you. Shift your thinking and mindset. Focus on the victory.

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Make Your Way Back - Adrianne Jackson

Then when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have enough food, and [even food] to spare, but I am perishing (dying) here of hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.   I am no longer worthy to be called your son; [just] make me like one of your hired servants.  So he got up and came to his [own] father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity and tenderness [for him]; and he ran and embraced him and kissed him [fervently]. - Luke 15:17-19 (Amplified Bible)
   You have heard the story of the prodigal son. He wanted to go and see what the world had to offer so he asked his father for his inheritance before his father died. So he went out and partied and did all he could and then everything ran low and he was still empty and alone and doing much worse than he was when he was in his father's house. We are often just like the son. We ask God for His promises right now. We ask God for the mates we want to be the one, the great job that looks good on paper, all the other things that will make us feel good right now,  even though we aren't ready for them.


Sometimes in God's permissive will He says ok. He gives us exactly what we ask for. He gives us the man that treats us like a second class citizen. He gives you the woman who only wants to use you for your money. He gives us the car we really can't afford. He gives us everything we ask for even when we aren't ready because He needs to prove a point.

And when we get in the midst of that mess and things are falling down all around us we see that if we had waited on God we would have been much better off. When we do make the decision to go back we are better than before. We patiently wait for HIS choice because we've already experienced the results of making our own choices. This conviction is usually found in the midst of whatever the mess is that we got ourselves into.

Today make your way back to the Lord.  Let your pride go and get in the presence of God. Repent for wanting your will and not His. For moving ahead of His timing. He is waiting for you with open arms. Ready to embrace you, as you embrace His good and perfect will for your life. 
God loves you and so do I, and there is NOTHING you can do about it.  Adrianne - *Adrianne Jackson writes for Prophetic Writer   

Do Something This Summer

We are challenging our listeners and community to DO SOMETHING this summer!


Jesus said, "... Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me." - Matthew 25:40 


This summer we want you to find a person, group, or cause and put your hands to the plow. Feed some one, clothe someone, read to someone, encourage someone, sit with someone, clean for someone, give to someone, mentor someone, give someone a break, treat someone with kindness and respect.
 
Volunteer at a shelter, hospital, nursing home, animal shelter, salvation army, church, your neighborhood, or within your family. Whatever you do, DO SOMETHING for the least of these.
We want the world to see the light shining even in the dark places, to bring the Kingdom of Heaven closer to the world. God wants to use YOU! Let him use you this summer.

We are looking forward to hearing the testimonies. Send us your stories H23email@gmail.com. Post your pics on our facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/H23LivingEverydayLife