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Are you looking for helpful information on a specific topic? Check out our newsletter archives!! There are a variety of articles, with a lot of valuable information.
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Featured Members
John Young |
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John Young of Bountiful Harvest Consulting has been a member of Christian Marketplace Network since Spring of 2003. He is a team player and we appreciate his commitment to help start and grow our Cincinnati East Chapter, May of 2008.
John established Bountiful Harvest Consulting after 38 years with the Boy Scouts, culminating that career as CEO of the Dan Beard Council in Cincinnati.
Bountiful Harvest Consulting serves ministries, churches, schools, school districts and other cause- and faith-based organizations with Visioning and Capital Campaign strategies.
John and his family attend Epiphany United Methodist Church in Loveland where he is a lay leader for the congregation. He also will soon be traveling to Ethiopia to help install solar equipment with funds raised by Bountiful Harvest.
Thanks John for your servant heart and commitment to God!
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Featured Ministry
None submitted this month.
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Happenings/Events | | The Dayton Region is having a Lunch & Learn at it's South Chapter on October 16th. This Lunch & Learn will feature Lt Col (ret) Colleen Ryan.
Colleen will speak on "Economic Development in the
Dayton region", a hot topic and one that Colleen works on every day as
Vice President of the Dayton Development Coalition. Former Wright-Patt Air
Force base commander, Colleen has joined the force of making Dayton a region to
come to for business, raising a family, and enjoying a quality of life hard to
find in a lot of areas of the country. You will learn the latest news on
regional economic development.
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Other regions have tried different versions but no one comes close to duplicating the Cincinnati Region's annual success in sponsoring a trade show.
The planning is under way. The date is November 20th and the location is the Vineyard Community Church.
Look for new features and an even bigger event.
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More information on these events can be found by visiting the Christian Marketplace Network web site.
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Partner Events
THE GATHERING!!
SPRINGFIELD
LEADERS BREAKFAST w/Clark Kellogg Tuesday October 6th
7:30 - 9:00AM
Springfield Marriott
Springfield, Ohio Contact Jeff Pinkleton
COLUMBUS
LEADERS PRAYER BREAKFAST w/Jeff Allen
Thursday, October 15
7:30 - 9:00am
Greater Columbus Convention Center
Columbus, Ohio
INFO & RSVP
CEDARVILLE
Clark Kellogg at Cedarville College Chapel Service
Tuesday, Oct 6th
10:00AM
CHAPEL
DIXON MINISTRY CENTER
Open to Public
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Helpful Business Hints
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When was the last time you had an intercessor come to your business and/or office and pray over you, your employees, business, etc?
There are corporations that have an intercessor on staff whose job it is to pray while the business is open.
CMN counts a number of pastors and chaplains as members and has access to hundreds of others. Almost all of them would be happy to pray for you and your business.
If you don't know any please contact us at the newsletter and we will find you one.
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From the Editor... A FATHER'S GIFTS!
by Bill Gaffney
I was blessed to have a great set of parents who taught me many life lessons, including getting me to church every Sunday. (Do you remember when the only day you could go to church was Sunday, unless you were Catholic?) My father passed away a little over 10 years ago and my mother is still going strong at 85.
I have also been very blessed in both the secular and church worlds to have some great mentors and role models, including two incredible spiritual fathers, who I can directly "credit" for passing on the mantle in two of my "ministry" areas.
This newsletter, again, is a little off the normal direction. All three pieces deal directly with our character and our relationships with others.
The first piece deals with encouraging words. How often do we need to hear and speak those?
The second piece many of you are already aware of and have probably seen. It is about the Philadelphia Phillies fan who finally caught a foul ball and gave it to his little girl who promptly threw it over the deck railing. The fathers' love and total acceptance of that little girl was unbelievable, just like our Father's love for us.
Finally I included the piece that really changed the direction of this month's newsletter. It is by our own Jim Brewer and was sent in an e-mail to several of us. It will probably strike each one of you a little differently and speak to something very individual in your life. It did me! Just think of the line Jack Palance said to Billy Crystal in "City Slickers," "Do you know what the secret to life is?" and then goes on to say, as he is holding up his index finger,"Just one thing!" Jim, you have entered into esteemed company.
Enjoy this month's newsletter.
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THREE WORDS TO CHANGE THE WORLD!!
by Lee J Colan from BizJournals
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Some people literally change the world. People such as Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Franklin.
Although it's an ambitious goal to change the world, we often
underestimate our singular power to change the world of those around
us. We don't have to be Oprah giving away new cars to positively change
someone's world. We each have that same power with our team every day.
We don't even have to do anything! We only have to say three simple
words. Lee Colan is a Dallas-based leadership adviser and author of 10 books. Contact him at www.theLgroup.com |
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A FATHER'S FORGIVENESS
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Maybe you saw the funny and engaging replay of the father and daughter at the baseball game in Philadelphia this week: Steve Monforto made a great catch on a foul ball, a dream he has had since he started attending Phillies games at three years old. He celebrated with the fans around him, then handed the ball to his 3-year-old daughter Emily. And Emily threw the ball over the railing! How did Steve react? If you haven't seen the video, go here to watch it.
As the video shows, Steve reacted with shock at first, but very quickly regained his composure, then simply smiled and gave Emily a long hug. "I think she was a little startled by the reaction," he explained. "I just wanted her to know it was OK." According to Marc Newman of mlb.com, this story demonstrates "the real glory of the game right there, a father hugging his little girl to assure her that she did nothing wrong."
MOREThis particular piece was courtesy of www.fathers.com. There is some very good insight and helpful hints with the article. ALL fathers and grandfathers should subscribe to this newsletter. |
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1909 FORD MODEL R - The Rest of the Story
From Jim Brewer
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My father was born on July 30, 1909, which was also (he said} Henry Ford (Jr.?)'s Birthday!! That would make Dad 100 years old this year!! He always joked, "The Ford car did two things. It made a very rich man out of Henry and made a poor man out of me!!"
In about 1970, Dad and Mom were over visiting me, a single "college grad" trying to figure out how to entertain his parents on a long summer Saturday. So I took them to the Ohio Historical Center. Mom loved the old "one-room school house." She started
co-teaching with her aunt in a similar building in 1938. Dad got bored and went to look for some 'old-man stuff', as he called it.
In a couple of hours, Mom said, "Well, we better find YOUR father!" He wasn't in the car, or the lounge, or even the cafeteria, but as I was coming from checking in the Men's Room some Cub Scouts almost ran me down, while yelling back at their friends, "Come on, COME ON, He's STILL down there and tellin' a whole bunch of really cool stuff!!"
I looked at Mom and she half-smiled back at me. We had lived with 'this man' for an average of almost 30 years and there was NO DOUBT in our minds who these young boys had seen, and of course, heard!! As we hurried to the antique car section in the basement, we were mentally trying to figure out the difference between simply getting tossed out and coming up with enough bail money to get the "Ole Man" out on bond!!
Til the proverbial day I die, I will NEVER forget the sight I saw as I rounded the corner. There was a party like mob of Cub Scouts, Brownies, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, kids of all ages and colors, scout leaders, museum Guides and a good cross-section of all types of people who were visiting the Ohio Historical Center that day. And in the middle of them all was a little ole Hoosier truck driver, wearing proudly on the top and side of his head a hat that went out of style when the '60's came in!! Standing tall as he could, grinning on the "runnin' board" of this car, and pointing one WW II nicked index finger toward nobody special in that churning, pushing, laughing crowd, he was talking quite LOUDLY.
"Now this here was your 1909 Model R Ford, and your hand throttle was right there, and your 'runnin lights' right outside where you kept your hand crank, and what was your other question son?!"
Mother, by this time, had both hands covering her very red face, but to my great surprise the unbelievable embarrassment I would have felt only a few years ago in high school had, by the ripe old age of 23, turned to, well, I guess you could just call it, PRIDE!!
Before I could beam too much and start asking if someone would like autograph(s), Mom was pushing me through the crowd, with a too loud whisper,
"For Heaven's Sake! Get YOUR father (There it was again, YOUR father, as if she hardly knew the man!) down from there!! You don't know WHO is going to see HIM!!" Over my shoulder, I tried (Sure, I was laughing pretty hard.), to tell her "The nearest person, you know Mom, is over 4 hours away, by car, in Western Indiana, near the Illinois State Line." And her response, so help (well, you know), with absolutely no hesitation,
"Now you know, James Arthur (O-boy, Dad's trouble had spilled over on me!!) somebody here is going to see this and tell somebody who knows somebody. BEFORE I get to my Bible Study Class at Sunday School next Sunday, well EVERBODY in the church is going to be talking about what YOUR father DID!!"
For many, MANY years, I have looked back at this precise moment in time, and at my response, and wished for all the world I could go back in a time machine and change my "where did that come from" reply to my sainted Mother, "Well Mom, do you think they might have pictures?"
It was just NOT the proper thing to say to a former respect above all teacher, who was carefully considering if zero grandchildren from her only son would be better than continuing "THAT man's " DNA code for another generation!! I had to do something while she was pondering ending our family name, so I literally dove through the crowd at my father!!
"Dad, we have got to go, NOW, before, uh, before, uh, you know, the POLICE GET HERE!!" Neither of us believed any legal officer could charge Dad with inciting a riot by telling grade school kids about the ancient cars he had driven as a boy. The Statute of Limitations for many of his offenses as a teenage farm boy had expired long, long before I drew my first breath. I will never forget his reply, as he softly put his much-worn hand on my shoulder, and with what I thought was a tear in his eye, simply stared down into my eyes, and said quietly,
"Son, if I don't tell these young ones about these old cars and how it use to be for your grandparents and your great grandparents, who's gonna tellum.? They won't get it from no books or on your TV. I learned from my Dad, and he learned from his dad. You remember what I told you?" Now I was starting to tear up, trying as hard as I could to hold it back, and at the same time knowing I couldn't.
"Yes Dad, I remember, your grandfather told your Dad, and he told you (I could feel the tears running down my face), and you told me. They said. 'Now I've gone this far, now you go just a little bit farther.'" We were both crying and he said, "That's right and someday you'll...."
By now, Mom was pulling gently at the back of my shirt and I turned to see her softly, very softly, crying. "Honey," she said, let's go over here and sit on this bench while Dad is helping these children learn some very important..." I remember, she couldn't finish her sentence, but she didn't need to.
Over my left shoulder, fading some as I shuffled toward the bench, with my arm around Mom I heard Dad clearing his throat as he said, " Now, as I was saying, your 1909 Model R Ford had some new gadgets that ole Henry and his boys had thought up."
And that my friends and family, is how a 1909 FORD MODEL R changed my life, and will always be for me, the "rest of the story."
Jim
Jim Brewer is Christian Marketplace Network's Director of Marketing and resident comedic genius. On the side Jim is a very successful financial planner.
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