A father wanted to teach his four sons the lesson of not judging something or someone too quickly, and so he called his four sons together and said "I have a task for you. I want you, my eldest son to go out into our fields and take a look at the pear tree and come back and tell me what your evaluation is of its condition." 

So the eldest went out and saw the pear tree. But it was winter, and the son saw the tree on a harsh winter day and reported back and said to his father, "I see nothing of promise about the tree. It appears old, and gnarled and has no blooms on it at all. I doubt it will survive the winter." 

Three months later the father sent the next eldest son out in the spring to evaluate the pear tree. The son came back saying "The tree is very beautiful, with white blooms, but it seems purely ornamental, it has no fruit, nor any sign of ever bearing any. I doubt it will be of much practical use to us."

Three months later the father sent the third from the eldest son out in the summer. The son went out to see the tree and came back reporting: "the tree seems to be growing and doing well, and it is full of leaves, and I could see some fruit, so I picked one and tasted it, but it was bitter, not fit for human consumption. I doubt it will prove of much use to us."

Finally three months later the father sent his youngest son out to see the tree once more. This time the tree was full of ripe beautiful golden and red pears. The son tried one and came back with the glowing report "Father we must come quickly for the harvest is upon the tree, and it is heavy laden and needs us to pick the pears for they are ripe and delicious now."

The father called his four sons back together, and said, "You see each of you have observed well the condition of a the tree at a particular season of the year, but your judgment of the tree was only partial, and made too quickly based on what you saw on only the one occasion. See to it that you never judge human beings this way. Never evaluate them too quickly or on the basis of one encounter, for it is unfair and unwise. Indeed all living things should only be evaluated over the course of time and after repeated careful inspection, for who knows but the ugliest and most unproductive of living things might some day turn into the most beautiful and fruitful."

Kerry was scheduled to go with our team to the Amazon earlier this month, but cancelled the trip in order to attend the opening of business-as-mission model we have been developing with our workers in Asia.

A team of fourteen in connection with Christ for the Nations Medellin, Colombia and Youth With A Mission in Leticia, Colombia, ministered for two weeks in several ethnic villages on the Amazon in both Brazil and Peru. Over 500 received medical attention from the doctors, dentists and nurses we sent, as well as counseling and prayer.  Praise God for the thirty which made committments to receive Christ as their Lord! 

New Restaurant in Asia 

For more than two years we have been developing a new business model in a strategic location in Asia for our team of workers there.

 

It has been exciting to see how a planning team of chefs, architects, consultants and business people in general have come together both here in Mexico and on the field to make this dream a reality, not to mention the hundreds who have contributed financially.

It was a blessing to be a part of a team of six that participated in the final logistcis of the project adn the inauguration. Everyone paid their own travel expenses and came away with the conviction that "This was something well worth investing in!"

A major challenge remains, as the day before the opening, we were informed of a major commission (fee) which needs to be paid to the city. Please pray with us  that we get over this additional financial hurdle.

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