Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown

Hope means hoping
when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
Faith means believing the incredible,
or it has no virtue at all.

~ G.K. Chesterton
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Beware of paying attention
or going back to what you once were,
when God wants you to be something
that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
Do not have your concert first, and then
tune your instrument afterwards.
Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor

You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven) 

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe

Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis

Lisa LaLonde’s Ministry Schedule 2009

Sundays at home: on worship team at Mid-Hudson Christian Church, Wallkill, NY
www.midhudsonchristianchurch.com

May 21-23 CFO Council of Leaders Retreat, Blackstone, VA leading worship twice on Friday May 22, accompanying other leaders on Thurs May 21 Beginning of 18 day road trip with Mom, Joan Bowes!

May 23-May 28 CFO Annual Meeting, Blackstone, VA. Voting representative for Council of Leaders and representing NY Taconic camp. Main speaker Wednesday night May 27

May 28-May 30 continuing road trip to Alabama with Mom/stopover in Catawba, NC

May 30 - June 5 Alabama CFO, Gallant, AL: Co-leading Youth & “Devotion in Motion” with Charles Fick. Prayer support for Main Speaker, Jens Bergmann from Germany.

June 5 – 7 Road trip from Alabama to New York with my Mom. Stopovers in Dahlonega, GA and Lynchburg, VA

June 28 – July 4 Virginia Shrine Mont CFO, Leading worship and “Devotion in Motion”

July 18-25 California Lake Arrowhead CFO, One of two Main speakers (with Doug Bolan)

July 25-30 visit with Don McAfee (natural father) in Los Angeles, also interview on His Kingdom Airwaves, internet radion station. Date TBA. (www.kingdomairwaves.org)

Aug 16-21 New York Taconic CFO, Milan, NY: Chairing the camp & Co-leading Youth with Charles Fick

Oct 2-4 Finger Lakes CFO Fall Retreat, Painted Post, NY: co-leading Youth w/Charles Fick

Nov 27-29 CFO Zone 4 YAYA (Youth And Young Adult) retreat at Good Tidings Bible Conference Center, Cornwallville, NY On Council Ring & mentor for YAYA leadership

Scripture Focus: "For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed" Romans 15:18



CFO* stands for "Camps Farthest Out" a Christian family camp organization that has been in operation for over 75 years...check out their website for more information!
www.acfona.org Visit this website for more detailed information about each retreat...we’d love to have you join us! Contact Lisa for more information as well.

Thank you for keeping the above itinerary in prayer!
Keep tuned for more updates as the year’s plans takes shape...