Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Time Away...

Jason and I got a chance to get away for a couple of days this past weekend, which was wonderful! His parents were invited to the New Jersey Bible Alliance Fire Bible Summit at Crystal Springs Resort & Spa in Vernon, NJ but were unable to go, so they said we could take their place. Thursday afternoon Don and Donna picked up the kids and we headed to the hotel until Saturday morning. On Friday we were both treated to some amenities. Jason was a part of a golf tournament where he won some new golf wedges. I got to go to the resorts spa to have a massage and facial. It was wonderful. A girl could get used to that kind of treatment. The rest of the day I spent in our room working on my digital scrapbook, watching movies and eating chocolate cake in peace and quiet. :)

The summit has pastors attend the weekend and they raise money to translate the Fire Bible into different languages so they can be distributed all over the world.  We attended a dinner and heard a sobering message of how many are persecuted for their faith throughout the world. We are so blessed in this country to be able to own bibles, carry them with us, go to church and to be able to publicly proclaim our faith. Many in the world are persecuted by being outcast from their culture, physically persecuted and sometimes even killed. My day to day problems are so small compared to what many Christians in this world go through on a day to day basis for their faith.

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