Higher Calling Farm Happenings

Today the lunch menu was peanut butter and jelly "Sushi".  Very yummy!  Just take 1 wrap (you can use bread and flatten it with a rolling pin).  Then put on your peanut butter and jelly and roll it up, then  cut it into pieces, or cut it before you roll it. (cutting before rolling reduces the mess by much! :D)

The green stuff is celery top. Edible, but I wouldn't blame you if you took it off. :)

Leah

Just received a message from our friend who is the pastor/missionary in South Haiti.  They have been hit with a flood early this morning.  One of their churches that had been repaired from the earthquake has now been destroyed with the flood as well as the gate to their facility, the food storage for the orphanage and school is now gone as well as all the food in it in addition to their personal home.

Many refugees from Port-au-Prince had come to this area and many are still homeless and living in the streets.  Now their streets are under 60 inches of water.

Besides providing meals to many refugees, Alix had been providing some meals to the hospital to help feed the patients, the doctors, and the homeless there.  Doctors are releasing people to have more bed-space for others that need care but the ones that are being released are begging the doctors to not send them away as they have no-where to go, sleeping in the halls, on the floors and in "camps" set up outside the hospital because they are homeless and no-where to go..

Now the food supply is gone as well.  Please pray for Alix and the mission God has entrusted to him, the people of Haiti and that God will be glorified.

Also in the news today was the quake in Chile, a smaller quake in the US, Japan and the tsunamis that are being watched.

Today the older kids and I attended a storm watcher class.  While there it was impressed upon me the urgency to share the gospel...not just in other countries, but with friends right around our family.

We watched several tornado videos for class.  I found myself thinking about these devestating events and about people who were just going about their day-to-day lives, not knowing that their lives were going to be snuffed out in the next few hours!  Did they have personal relationships with Christ?  Were they spending the rest of their lives in heaven or hell?

If each of us that have this assurance of what will happen to us when we die were to just start by making sure each of our friends had the opportunity to know how to have that relationship with Christ....to be assured of where they would be so that they wouldn't have to personally pay for the penalty for their sins....then they told their friends and the chain kept going on...sort of like webs of friends on facebook, twitter, etc....what an impact we could all make in a very short amount of time!   Why is it we're so quick to tell a friend about a great sale or a great recipe, but we put off telling them about the Greatest Gift of all?!?  (me included here!!!)

There's no time to put it off anymore....as one of the videos re: tornados was titled today, "It Could Happen Tomorrow".......IT really could......Do YOU know where you'll be if you die tonight?  If so, share it with others so they can too!!!!  If not, please talk with a Christian friend or pastor or contact Tim or I.

If you're not really sure....this will help you decide:  http://www.wayofthemaster.com/goodperson.shtml

Leah loves to ice-skate and asked to do that for her birthday this year.  We planned to take her to an outdoor rink in Forest Park, St. Louis, however we DIDN'T plan on a wind chill of 25 below! A couple of our pipes were even frozen that morning when we woke up. Our revised plans were to have lunch at the church with her friends after the service and hand out rain checks for skating   Leah was a good sport about it and realized that this just extended her birthday a bit

We're so proud of the beautiful and Godly young lady she is!  Happy Birthday Leah!

We're all feeling a little silly this afternoon.  It's been a good school week and the kids have done really well with their new chore and school schedules.   Most everyone has new jobs they're learning so in addition to regular chores there were a lot of new things to learn as well.

Esther (3 yo) is now master silverware sorter and general Mom's helper, Hope (6 yo) is learning to put away clean dishes as well as cook 1 lunches per week...oh and she had to talk Leah out of her old job of toilet-swishing  .  Leah (14 yo) and Jacob (15 yo) are still in charge of their own laundry and each planning and cooking a dinner per week but Leah has now been put in charge of inventorying the pantry as well as helping with meal plans.   In addition to his meal, laundry and other general chores, Jacob is the general

"handyman".   He's finished up all kinds of odds and ends this week that are extremely helpful such as securing the grain-grinder cord to the wall and baseboard that was a nuscience hanging in the way but I had just "dealt with" it before.

As an incentive to keep everyone encouraged to work as a team this week, Mom's been bribing   Each lunch and dinner we go over each person's chore chart.  If EVERYONE has completed their jobs (and passed inspection) a $1 goes into a jar labeled "pizza".  If ANYONE hasn't completed one of their jobs, the $1 doesn't go in.  I've witnessed more cooperation and heard many times this week, "Do you have something you need help with?" as the kids are working together to get their $1's.  That may be another reason they're a little silly this afternoon.  They made enough $$ to have a pizza party tonight.

Something new on the school-front is that we're enrolled in the "Bible in 90 Days Challange".  We're doing this as a read-aloud.   We're all really enjoying it!  We have to keep reminding each other that we don't have time to follow any "rabbit-trails" as we're reading because the whole goal is to read the ENTIRE Bible in 90 days to get the "big picture".  We're keeping track of things that we want to come back and explore later.

So it's been a good week overall.  A little expensive for Mom

and Dad (the kids are doing great at earning their $$  ) but it's $$ WELL spent to see the helpfulness and teamwork that the kids are displaying.  That was an area that needed a little work so we're thrilled to pay out the moo-lah and fun party if it helps reinforce those character qualities.   Hoping to have a good report again next week, but for now off to order pizza and be silly with the kids 

Link: http://www.oldthinkernews.com/articles/oldthinker news/edible_vaccines.htm

Sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie doesn't it? I wish it were. Today Tim and I talked with a friend who is a doctor of chiropractic who specializes in nutrition. He informed us that Cornell University and a host of other research institutions predict that they are only 2 years away from producing edible vaccinations. Vaccinations placed in tomatoes, potatoes, and bananas and then distributed for mass vaccinations. We had not heard this and I was curious to see what I could "dig up". I didn't have to look far. A Google search quickly produced LOTS of scientific articles published by Cornell and many other universities and research institutions verifying what we had heard. I am amazed that not more has been heard of this in the main-stream media.

I even found a reference to a donation made by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of $100,000 to a research program in Japan aimed at genetically modifying mosquitoes to act as "flying syringes" to deliver vaccines.

The producers and funding sources for development of these vaccines claim that the vaccinations are being manufactured for Hepatitis B as well as other diseases that are prevalent in third-world countries. But is that the REAL and only motive?

Recently in the Philippines, vaccinations that were supposed to be tetanus toxoid were secretly "laced" with beta-hcg. Hcg is necessary for pregnancy. But when a pregnant woman is given Beta-hcg, it will cause antibodies which in turn keep the woman's body from producing the needed natural hcg and therefore a pregnancy will not develop. But the only way that it was found out that these vaccines were secretly carrying beta-hcg was by smuggling vials to a third-party laboratory.

These new edible "carriers" for vaccines can carry an amazing amount of vaccine. Just 1 dried banana chip or tomato paste sandwiched in a wafer is enough to carry 1 full dose. And it doesn't stop there. Potatoes, lettuce, corn and even rice are being developed to carry vaccination doses.

I don't know about you, but I believe that God gave us the food we need to eat and the Earth to grow it. But then man thought he could do better. Isn't anything being learned from realizing that we're ingesting harmful chemicals and a lack of nutrients from growing food in sterilized soil for the sake of mass production? Does anyone else think that it's a dangerous idea to allow ALL of our food sources to be produced from just 4-5 major producers that only have $$ as their guides? Oh wait, I remember now.....the government is working on laws to (destroy small family farms that sustainably produce nutritious local foods)to ensure food safety. Sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie, doesn't it? I wish it were.