On our recent tour to the east coast, a set of circumstances set up where Frankie was able to reunite with his oldest son whom he had not seen in over 35 years!  His oldest daughter and son drove from New Jersey where they both live, to South Carolina where we were doing concerts, and spent four glorious days with him, getting acquainted/re-acquainted.  The reunion was above and beyond what anyone could have conceived.

And if that was not enough, Frankie's youngest daughter surprised him by flying out from Colorado to be part of the reunion.  She had only met his oldest daughter, her half-sister, one time a long time ago, and had never met the oldest son.  It was a reunion of unequaled proportions.  Alternate plans had been in place if the event did not go well, but not to worry - it exceeded all expectations by all concerned.

Frankie's son Brian is a Network Enginner for a software company in Hillside, New Jersey.

His daughter Jennifer is a Project Manager for a fortune 100 food company in East Hanover, New Jersey

Heather, his youngest daughter is an office manager in Denver, Colorado.

Frankie and three of his kids have really begun a new life of relationships together, and we are so thankful that God opened up the doors for this to transpire.

And as an aside, son Brian has four-year-old twin boys, our twin grandsons, of whom we are also proud.  If you're curious, here's a picture of them, too. 

Now we're looking forward to the time we can see them, too, since so far all we have been able to see is pictures of them from their web site.

Psalm 127:3 says, "Children are an heritage of the Lord," and that cannot be more true with us.  Thank you, Lord, for that heritage.

As this newsletter goes out today, August 15th, Frankie and I will celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary - by staying home!  That is what is special for us.  It all started in 1985 by my suggesting to Frankie that we get married, and he decided he'd like that.  Isn't it interesting what God has put together?

BLESSINGS-WISE - All glory to our Heavenly Father!  What they're saying.

***I thoroughly enjoyed it [our concert].  It touched my heart.

***I observed you as he [Frankie] was singing, and you looked like you were on your first date.

***I'm so glad you did that [skit] about the cross.  I've been out of church for a year and it really touched my heart.

***You have ministered to me in a mighty way.

***I've been going here for 22 years and you're the best we've ever had.

***(from the Guestbook on our web site) They sang at my church and they both were amazing.

KJV-WISE  - Recently a pastor friend declared to me that he could prove that the doctrine of the trinity is not a valid doctrine, that there is nowhere in the Bible that states this.  And you know what - he is essentially right - if you are using one of the modern versions of the Bible, which this pastor obviously was using.

If you are using the Authorized King James Version, you will find that I John 5:7, 8 says this:  7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three agree in one.  8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit and the water, and the blood and these three agree in one.

Now look at what the following versions do:

New American Standard:  7 For there are three that do testify.  8 - the Spirit and the water and the blood: and the three are in agreement.

NIV:  7 For there are three that testify,  8 the spirit and the water and the blood: and the three are in agreement.

New Living Translation:  7 So we have these three witnesses 8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and all three agree.

New Century:  7 So there are three witnesses that tell us about Jesus; 8 the spirit, the water, and the blood: and these three witnesses agree.

Contemporary English Version:  7 In fact, there are three who tell about it.  8 They are the spirit, the water, and the blood, and they all agree.

The Message:  This version is so absolutely unreal, you can't find any of that in there.  To call this a "bible" is so ludicrous, it belittles the pure word of God.

So do you see what has happened here?  These new versions have completely changed the meaning of these verses.  These versions not only omit "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost," but they make the meaning to be that "the three that do testify" are "the Spirit and the water and the blood" and that is just not true.  The "three" are "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost."  And these new versions not only have taken out the only reference in the New Testament to the trinity, they have made the verses to say something the pure word did not intend to say.  That is pure falsehood, commonly called "a lie," and the Bible identifies the "father of lies" as the devil (John 8:44).  So if the new versions contain lies, it is not difficult to identify the source of the new versions.  And if this is falsehood, imagine how many more falsehoods are present.  But if there is even ONE falsehood, you can't use the book, because then it isn't the PURE word.  You can't "pick and choose."  God's word is a pure word, and the new versions are not the pure word.

"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city; and from the things which are written in this book."  Revelation 22:19  This is quite clear.

HEALTH-WISE - "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health..." III John 2

Fluoride, the Lunatic Drug

Controversial fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC and Sarin nerve gas.  Sodium fluoride, a hazardous-waste byproduct from the manufacture of aluminum, is a common ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, anesthetics, hypnotics, psychiatric drugs, and military nerve gas.  It's historically been quite expensive to properly dispose of, until some aluminum industries with an overabundance of the stuff, sold the public on the terrifically insane but highly profitable idea of buying it at a 20,000% markup, injecting it into our water supplies, and then DRINKING it.  Yes, a 20,000% markup:  Fluoride - intended only for human consumption by people under 14 years of age - is injected into our drinking water supply at approximately 1 part-per-million (ppm), but since we only drink 1/2 of one percent of the total water supply, the rest literally goes down the drain as a free hazardous-waste disposal for the chemical industry, where we PAY them so that we can flush their expensive hazardous waste down our toilets.  How many salesmen dream of such a deal?  (Follow the money.)

Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package.  There are reports of aluminum in the brain possibly being a causative factor in Alzheimer's Disease, and evidence points towards fluoride's strong affinity for aluminum and also its ability to "trick" the blood-brain barrier by looking like the hydrogen ion, and thus allowing chemical access to brain tissue.

Scientists who have attempted to blow the whistle on this mega-bucks PR ploy have consistently been given a very unscientific Black-PR treatment, and thus their valid points disputing the current vested interests never arrive in the press.

Dr. Albert Einstein's nephew, Dr. E. H. Bronner (a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war during WW II) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952, said:

"...As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents.  Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical field, let me warn:  fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide.  Don't do it.  Even in small quantities, sodium fluoride is a deadly poison to which no effective antidote has been found.  Every exterminator knows that it is the most efficient rat-killer...the non-organic fluoride used in fluoridating water is instant poison to the body and fully water soluble.  The body refuses to assimilate it...Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation [has] revealed that instead of preserving or promoting 'dental health,' fluoridated drinking water destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also creates many other very grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms of bodies consuming it...That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable.  It is the height of criminal insanity."  (from creativehealth.netfirms.com)

MUSIC-WISE -                

Frankie's oldest son Brian has two rock bands (Stone Houses and Silent-Z) that perform around his area in New Jersey.  (Sounds like a chip off the old block, doesn't it?)  He records music and has written music for a TV movie (The Patricia List Story), playing all the instruments.  Being the Chief Engineer of two recording studios, he has been recording and playing music for over thirty years.

Speaking of recording, Frankie recorded a two-song CD for the Lost Cherokee Nation recently.  The two songs are Cherokee Nation and Spirit In the Sky.  Since this was an exclusive recording, and will not appear on our web site, should you want a copy of that CD, send us $10 for the CD.  That will include shipping.

AMAZING FACTS-WISE - El Azizia in Libya has recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 degrees Celsius) on September 13, 1922 -- the hottest ever measured.  In Death Valley, it got up to 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.  ( from Hidden Truth-Amazing Bible Facts Revealed, p. 24)  Frankie and I saw 111 on the thermometer in our van while in Missouri at the end of our last tour.                                   

LAUGH-WISE -   For All You Lexophiles (Lovers of Words)

***A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

***Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.

***A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

***Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

***When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.

***He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

***Every calendar's days are numbered.

***When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.

SIGN-WISE -

***Welcome to Mt. Ida (AR) - Possums Unlimited 

***Town/road signs along our way:  Toad Suck (TN); Bucksnort (TN); Getwell Road (AR); Hell Creek (AR); Thief Hollow (AR); Gas (KS); Sleeper (MO); and a license plate in MO - HOG RUNR.

***(picture of a cross) The offer still stands.

***On a church billboard:  Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

***Another church billboard:  Your "eternity" training center.

DID-YOU-KNOW-WISE -  Some facts about the 1500s, Part I.

***Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June.  However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.  Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

***Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.  The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.  Last of all, the babies.  By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.  Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

***Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.  It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.  When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.  Hence the saying, It's raining cats and dogs.

***There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.  This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed.  Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.  That's how canopy beds came into existence.

***The floor was dirt.  Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.  Hence the saying, dirt poor.  The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing.  As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside.  A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way.  Hence the saying, a thresh hold.

***In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.  Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.  They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat.  They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.  Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.  Hence the rhyme, peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.

KID-WISE - While leading a tour of kindergarten students through our hospital, I overheard a conversation between one little girl and an x-ray technician.  "Have you ever broken a bone?" he asked.  "Yes," the girl replied.  "Did it hurt?"  "No."  "Really?  Which bone did you break?"  "My sister's arm."

I was making Play-Doh animals with my four-year-old niece, Chris, and her three-year-old brother, Neil.  While Chris was clearly molding a crude but recognizable dog, figuring what Neil was making was a bit more challenging.  "It's a cat," he told me, "but a truck ran over it."  Some time later, Chris had made another simple animal shape, but Neil had a rather flat slab of dough on the table in front of him.  "What happened to this animal?" I asked.  Neil shrugged and said simply, "Same truck."

When my sister teased her four-year-old daughter by suggesting she liked a certain boy in her kindergarten class, the little girl was quite indignant.  "No, mommy, I don't," she replied, "because he's only interested in one thing."  Shocked, my sister cautiously asked what that might be.  "Nintendo games, of course," said the toddler.

INFO-WISE - This just came over the Internet to us and I think it is a wonderful idea to pass on.

We all carry our cell phones with names and numbers stored in memory, but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.  If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call.  Hence this "ICE" (In Case of Emergency) Campaign.

The concept of "ICE" was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't know which number to call.  As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during an emergency under the name "ICE".  For more than one contact name, simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3, etc.  ICE will speak for you when you are not able to.

SCHEDULE-WISE - Here is our Itinerary for the present month and the upcoming month, so you can not only keep track of us, but also pray for us. 

Wed, Aug. 1 - 7:00 p.m. Norwood United Methodist Church - Knoxville, TN - 865-687-1620

Thu, Aug. 2 - 7:00 p.m. - Grace Baptist Church Asheville, NC - 828-254-0841

Fri, Aug. 3 - 6:00 p.m.- First Church of the Nazarene (R) - Statesville, SC - 704-878-2235

Sun, Aug. 5 - 6:30 p.m. - Lake Bowen Baptist Church - Inman, SC - 864-814-6280

Wed, Aug. 8 - 7:00 p.m. - Little Rock Seventh Day Adventist Church - Little Rock, AR - 501-225-5063

Sat/Sun, Aug. 11/12 - 7:00 p.m./6:00 p.m. - First Christian Church - Waynesville, MO - 573-774-2181

Sun, Aug. 19 - 10:30 a.m./7:00 p.m. - Elysian Assembly of God - Elysian, MN - 507-267-4762

Tue, Aug. 21 - 6:30 p.m. - Epiphany Lutheran Church - Eagle Lake, MN - 507-257-3156

Wed, Aug. 22 - 7:00 p.m. - Midwest Christian Children’s Home - Peterson, IA - 712-295-7601

Fri, Aug. 24 - 7:00 p.m. - What Cheer United Methodist Church - What Cheer, IA - 641-634-2205

Sat, Aug. 25 - 7:00 p.m. - Winterset Ministerial Association - Winterset, IA - 515-462-6758

Sun, Aug. 26 - 10:00 a.m. - Lighthouse Full Gospel Baptist Church - Des Moines, IA - 515-262-3800

Sun, Aug. 26 - 7:00 p.m. - Unionville United Methodist Church - Unionville, MO - 660-947-2270

LAST BLAST-WISE - Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.  Joyce Meyer

 FINAL ADMONITION-WISE - " Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me."  Psalm 50:23 KJV

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