Friday, September 16, 2016

WHERE DID ALL THE BOTTLES GO?

Baby Bottle Boomerang is one of the ways PRC raises funds and it goes on all year long.  People take the bottles, fill them with coins, bills, and checks and then return them to the Center.  We attach a card that gives the donor opportunity to get a receipt for their donation sent to them at year’s end.  This is a really neat way to share with others what the Center is all about, while bringing in the funds that help us help moms and their babies. 

If you have never participated in this fund raiser, you are welcome to stop by the Center and we will give you as many bottles as you can use or distribute.  However, over the past year we have given out over 300 bottles and more than half of them are still out.  So this is a shout out for bottle return.  Everyone with bottles you have had for several months are urged to return them.  Even if they are partially full, or empty.  Recently we ordered 400 more bottles and was so glad to do it, in order to fill requests from several church organizations

Do you have an ice cream churn?  The Center is planning to supply 300 servings of homemade ice cream, at the Grills Gone Wild event sponsored by the Rotary Club of Panama City Beach.  The date is November 19  from 3-6pm at St. Andrews.  If you can help with the ice cream or just come man the booth for a little while, please call the office. 

Saturday, September 17 - Volunteer Training has been cancelled for September.  Please watch for news about a training in October.

Saturday, September 24 – Life Clinic at Rutherford High School Gymnasium, the PRC will have a manned table to assist all who are interested in our services and to share what we do.  Other exciting events will be happening at this clinic from other health and spiritual providers in the area.

September 29 – October 1, 2016 – Sound  The Call conference presented each year by Florida Baptist Children’s Home.  If interested, please call the office and we can give you the details

Saturday, November 19, 2016 – Grills Gone Wild at St. Andrews from 3 to 6pm.  Tickets are $10 each and all proceeds are divided for local non-profits. Come support PRC at this event.

Sunday, January 2017 – Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, Please mark your calendar and ask your pastor to call the PRC and request a speaker to share what is being done in the Pro-life arena of Panama City.

Baby Boutique Needs:
·         New Born diapers
·         Baby Wipes
·         Baby shampoo, wash, lotion etc.

Center Needs:
·         Bible Study leader (Tuesday evening 6-9, and Wednesday morning 9-11)
·         Receptionist  (Monday afternoon 2-7, and Tuesday 1-4)
·         Nurse (Monday afternoon 2-7)
·         Sanctity of Human Life speaking invitation
·         Sanctity of Human Life callers
·         Returned or New Baby Bottles

Prayer Requests:  Please remember to pray for this ministry.  The need is for vigilant and perhaps even desperate prayers because this ministry is on the verge of something great and I don’t know about you all, but I do not want to miss it.


“If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple”
Luke 14:26. (KJV)

A very strong word - hate, but our Lord used it to describe just how much He expects from those who choose to be His disciple.  It is interesting to note that 43 out of 53 translations of  Luke 14:26 use the word “hate” instead of phrases like “love me more” or “leave your family.”  Perhaps we are not to actually “hate” them like we understand the meaning today, however this, to me, shows how seriously Jesus takes our commitment to follow Him. 

Many years ago God drove home the meaning of Luke 14:26 to me.  After moving many miles from my family I wanted to spend every weekend with them instead of getting actively involved in a local church. I was placing more importance on visiting and being with my family, than serving Him and working His fields.  It is often very difficult to choose our commitment to serve in a ministry over our innate desire to help or be with our loved ones.

If God is leading you to be a part of this ministry, by volunteering, giving, or praying, I would like to take this opportunity to stress that this is a calling from God, not from me or anyone here at PRC, and once you make a commitment to time, money, or spiritual assistance, it is actually a commitment to follow Jesus.  More laborers are welcome.

With all my love and prayers.

God is sooo very good, all the time!!!!



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