Well, it is official. My poor laptop, which has seen me through many a project and research, and which is like my left arm in the ministry work I do, is done.
I used this laptop, a Compaq Presario 700 with 1.29 Ghz and 240 MB of RAM for alot of things, the memory size was incredible. I was currently using it to prepare PowerPoints for worship songs for the recovery ministry, rewriting my notes from Counseling class and so on.
The battery never worked on it and I never got a new one. The power cable was starting to short out, so that would've been another thing to worry about.
The screen broke and I can't use it for much more than a paperweight, but I am able to pull off my files and stuff (at least so far) which is good. I've got to get some CD-R discs to write the stuff to.
But this concludes my dream at the moment to get a projector and screen for Chapel. Need the laptop to do the powerpoints.
Pray God will bless me with another laptop in the future, as He has blessed me with the one I have.
In peaceful frustration.
Thanks,
Jim
Thursday, October 18
A warrior goes home
Al Boyce, a brother in Christ runs a Church in the Woods ministry that reaches out to the homeless in North Carolina. One of his warriors-a homeless friend named Juan Evalio Torres, was hit by a car and died a few hours later.
Evalio was close to our autistic son, Parks. At the hour of Evalio's death last night, Parks woke up and came to our bedroom to get his mom. She lay down with him and both stayed awake for a few minutes.
Cindy was jolted by a dream/vision in which she saw a glowing arm reaching down from the sky, pointing a finger and touching Evalio's forehead. She felt something like an electric shock. She looked at Parks, and he was asleep, smiling. A few minutes later, a pastor at the hospital called and said she was there when Evalio died. She said, at that instant, he stiffened as if he had been jolted by electricity. Then he lay quiet, smiling.
Here is a picture of Evalio and his infectious grin:
Al posted this on the outofthewild website:
Evalio was a former gang member from Belize who knew Christ, helped us with our Hispanic outreach and who gave me a CD of Christian songs in Spanish so I could learn to play and sing them (something I still have not done). Please pray that authorities will be able to find his next of kin in Belize. Evalio listed my wife and I as his closest "relatives" when he was in the hospital last and still carried the Church in the Woods card in his wallet wtih our phone number.
Evalio was close to our autistic son, Parks. At the hour of Evalio's death last night, Parks woke up and came to our bedroom to get his mom. She lay down with him and both stayed awake for a few minutes.
Cindy was jolted by a dream/vision in which she saw a glowing arm reaching down from the sky, pointing a finger and touching Evalio's forehead. She felt something like an electric shock. She looked at Parks, and he was asleep, smiling. A few minutes later, a pastor at the hospital called and said she was there when Evalio died. She said, at that instant, he stiffened as if he had been jolted by electricity. Then he lay quiet, smiling.
Here is a picture of Evalio and his infectious grin:
I wanted to post this on my blog to bring honor and awareness to this man and the ministry that touched his life. http://home.earthlink.net/~churchinthewoods/ is the website. This is a ministry blessed of God and Al, a warrior worthy of note and praise.
If you feel led, please contact via his website to donate to this ministry. I am posting this on my own and Al hasn't approved this.
Jim
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