Category: giving
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First responders
I was just climbing into bed at two in the morning last night when I smelled something burning. Believe it or not, we do have fireplaces here in southern California, and some people actually use them to burn real wood, but this was not that. It smelled like something synthetic being burned. I doubted anyone…
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Thank you Veterans
We cleared our desk today to examine how best we might acknowledge our gratitude for the generous contributions to the Catch Ministry. If we worked with paper, the floor would be littered with sheets that had crumpled beginnings such as … “You’re the best.” “You knocked us off our feet!” “Our hearts are still smiling.” “Your…
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The cure for boomeritus
Day Seven: Thursday, November 4. “I know there are older people who might like me, and me them, but generally speaking, it appears older people naturally go up in age and inward in focus. I do not think there is an intent in them to go downward in age and outward in focus.” So states one…
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An army of Grace Turned Outward
We’ve been talking a lot about MemberPartners lately. That’s because our MemberPartners are the key to the Catch Ministry. They are the ones who believe in our vision — Introducing the Gospel of Welcome — Grace Turned Outward — to Everyone, Everywhere — and are committed to making it happen by any way and any…
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Stop. Notice. Give thanks.
Most of California is bracing for a pretty strong winter storm over the Thanksgiving weekend. It has already begun in the northern part of the state. We’re always the last to get it down here in the lower corner. In Santa Barbara County where there was a wildfire burning, this storm is a blessing, especially…
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Remember the fire
Nearly all of us will go through things in our lives that have the potential of destroying us but they don’t. We survive, we move on, we grow stronger. What’s more those intense times help create a quality of endurance in us that can help with the everyday stresses of life.
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A vision becomes a Reality
This is an important day: June 17, 2019. Mark it. This is the day we discover that we are a part of something bigger than we ever dreamed.
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What’s going on next door?
In bringing about a community act of human love and compassion, we helped our neighbors take part in a genuine move of kindness that prevented the imminent homelessness of a single woman in our neighborhood.
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Render unto God
It’s tax time. Time to render unto Caesar. You know where this comes from. The teachers of the law were trying to trap Jesus and they thought they had the perfect question to do that. So they sent a couple of their interns to ask Him in front of the people about paying taxes to…
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What’s important to Jesus?
Most of the answers to this can be found in one of the more electrifying moments of Christ’s sojourn here on earth. It was fairly early on in His ministry, and He was in the town of Nazareth where He grew up. It was the Sabbath, and Jesus was in the Jewish temple and someone…
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Visible Evidence
by Marti Fischer From traditional Christian thinking to reaching outside the walls of the church, outside ourselves, John believes it is vital for Christians to recognize and learn how to participate in God’s business to bring men, women, and their children to Him. He has know the Lord almost since birth, chewed on the Word…
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Soundtrack for a Revolution
On December 1, 2018, The Catch Ministry, Inc. enters a new era. We will be launching an online radio station which will be a new expression of Grace Turned Outward to the World. The station will be called Music the Matters, a name that describes exactly what kind of music we will be playing. We…