さいたまスーパーアリーナでの内藤大助と亀田興毅の試合があると言うことで街ではワンセグ片手に歩道で佇む人やら家電量販店のテレビモニター前で群れる人やら大変な騒ぎ！最終ラウンド、鼻のあたりにダメージを受けながらも立ち向かう内藤だったが大振りが目立ち冷静な亀田に完全に見切られたまま判定へ。決着は３－０で亀田の勝利。これで亀田はライトとフライの２階級制覇、内藤は６度目の防衛に失敗。終わってみればある意味全うな結末にも拘らず少し残念な気持ちも…。でも街頭テレビまで盛り上げたこの両者にバンザイ！

Valószínűleg le sem kell írni, hogy Erdei Zsolt november 21-én mekkora – magyar szempontból – sporttörténelmi tettet hajtott végre azzal, hogy felülmúlta a cirkálósúly WBC világbajnokát, Giacobbe Fragomenit, és ezzel második súlycsoportjában ült fel a négy jelentős szervezet trónjainak egyikére – írja a profiboksz.hu

Zsolt általában mind idehaza, mind külföldön nagyon megosztja a közvéleményt, vannak, akik nagyon szeretik technikás, gyors, ökölvívó szempontból szinte hibátlan stílusát, ugyanakkor a másik oldalról sokan elég unalmasnak találják a bunyóját, és ahol lehet, belekötnek Madár mindenkori teljesítményébe. A magyar rajongók véleményét mindenki kedvére olvasgathatja a www.profiboksz.hu – n, az alábbiakban pedig bemutatjuk, néhány külföldi, elvileg a honfitársi szubjektivitástól mentes szemlélődő hogyan látta a Fragomeni vs. Erdei összecsapást.

“Döntetlenre adtam a mérkőzést, de vékonyan inkább Erdei nyert, tisztább ütéseket, kombinációkat vitt be a szorosabb menetekben.”

“Én is döntetlent ítéltem meg, de semmi gond nincs azzal, hogy szűken Erdeit hozták ki. Átkozott jó, szoros mérkőzés volt, amit Fragomeni semmi esetre sem nyert meg.”

“Ez az a meccs, amit még ma töltsetek le, haverek! IGAZI jó verekedés volt!”

“Csalásnak tűnik, ha Németországban ennyire szorosra adták.”

“Nem volt csalás, de a másik oldalnak is oda lehetett volna adni. Nálam döntetlen jött ki.”

“Erdei egy igazi férfi. Ő volt a félnehézsúly lineáris bajnoka, majd 25 fonttal feljebb ment, hogy új rémuralmat kezdjen.”

“Erdei, a WBO és az Universum is egy vicc, senki nem veszi őket komolyan. Öner és Sauerland csak röhög Kohlon és a csalással lett bajnokain. Erdei az egyik ilyen.”

“Erdei – aki egy magyar – az elmúlt néhány évben azzal keresett egy rakás pénzt, hogy olyan bokszolókkal bunyózott, akikről még senki nem hallott. De ezzel ő ki volt békülve, ahogy a menedzsmentje is, hiszen jelentős nézettséget értek el Németországban, ahol még nem PPV konstrukcióban közvetítenek. Nem utálom Erdeit. Nagyon, nagyon rendes és vicces srácnak tűnik. Csak a tényeket mondtam. Most meglátjuk, hogy Erdei egy igazán nagy meccset választ-e. Két címe van, egy igazán nehéz súlycsoportban bajnok, veretlen, jó esélye lehet élete legnagyobb pénzét megkeresni.”

“Az Universum egy szemétláda, odaadták Erdei övét Brähmernek, ahogy lehet, el fogják hallgattatni Erdeit és megszabadulnak tőle, Brähmer pedig továbbviszi majd a hagyományokat és senkik ellen védegeti a címet 5-6 éven át. Ez a német rajongóknak köszönhető, akik ostobák és azt sem tudják, mi történik körülöttük.”

“Erdei Zsolt WBC bajnok, ez meglepő. A klubja is ellene volt… a háttere is ellene volt… mégis megcsinálta. Maximális tisztelet neki!”

“Erdei már Julio Gonzales, Hugo Garay és Tito Mendoza ellen is veszített. Elfogult bírókra van szüksége, hogy minőségi ellenfeleket megverhessen, ezért a klubja nem is hozza össze olyanokkal, akik kiüthetik. Papírbajnok cirkálósúlyban és papírbajnok félnehézsúlyban is. Ha Dawsonnal, vagy Tavoris Clouddal bokszolna, simán kiütnék.”

“Vicces dolog valakit papírbajnoknak hívni, aki két súlycsoportban is világbajnok évek óta. Ezek szerint számodra semmit nem jelent egy világbajnoki cím. Talán igaz, talán nem, de az biztos, hogy ez a fiú nagy trófeát szerzett és kivívta magának a nemzetközi elismerést is, egy olyan súlycsoportban, ahol jóval nehezebb fickók vannak, mint akikkel előtte találkozott.”

“Erdei az új Sven Ottke. Egy csomó kétes döntéssel a háta mögött, például Garay, Gonzales, és Barashian ellen. Lassú és egysíkú. Semmi extra. Az ellenféllistája szánalmas. Megérdemli, hogy elfelejtsék a nevét, ha visszavonul.”

“Erdei valóban semmi, a két Európa bajnoki, világbajnoki aranyérmével, az olimpiai bronzérmével, és azzal, hogy profiként két súlycsoportban lett világbajnok, veretlenül. Persze, és gyáva is. Olyannyira, hogy mikor Cloud visszatáncolt az Erdei elleni címegyesítéstől, akkor azonnal feljebb ment egy súlycsoporttal és annyira félt, hogy bevállalt egy nála 17 fonttal nehezebb bokszolót, akit előzőleg csak Haye tudott megverni és tőle is annyira megijedt, hogy leállt vele verekedni a meccs második felében és egy centit nem lépett hátra, és félelmében meg is nyerte a mérkőzést. Rettenet gyáva ez az Erdei! De Tavoris Cloud nagyon bátor, kihátrált egy címegyesítő meccs elől, a lassú, egysíkú gyáva Erdei ellen… micsoda bátor gyerek!”

Forrás: profiboksz.hu
fotó: reuters.com

All Time Low is under attack by the Westboro Baptist Church. If you don’t already know, WBC is known for their radical anti-homosexual views.

This is what the WBC has to say about the situation:

“You may be wondering what in the world WBC cares about these losers – so let me break it down for you. How do you know how far gone a society is? You look at their social icons. When you look at these gender-confused, haphazard freakazoids then you can plainly see that america is DOOMED, for real! This is the final generation, and a little concussion is the least of their worries. Here is what they have to look forward to when this once great nation finally falls – for her fall is already started… Cain was the father of all musicians, and you still bear his curse to this day. Praise God! AMEN!”

A member also tweeted Alex Gaskarth [frontman for All Time Low] the following:
“”God Hates Fag Enablers! WBC will picket All Time Low’s concert in Philly.”

Gaskarth’s response:
“”Stay home. Intolerance isn’t welcome at our show.”

Ridiculous much?

11.22.09 Evening Service

                Tonight, Bro. David Abernathy speaks about being passionate about Christ. So often we bog ourselves down with things going on, even in our ministries, that we may lose passion in our works with God. In Nehemiah 1:1-4, Bro. David Abernathy shows us how we may maintain our passion for Christ in all things we do.

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11.22.09 Morning Service

                This morning, Bro. David Abernathy shares his testimony and experience through working at the World Trade Center Ground Zero in New York City. He talks about how fragile life can be through James 4:14 and how he himself was so close to death, but was pulled out by the very grace of God. This messages is a very powerful message of how close we can walk to death and how important a true relationship with God really is.

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Erdei Zsolt a WBC cirkálósúly új világbajnoka elégedetten nyilatkozott a sajtótájékoztató után, viszont az olasz Giacobbe Fragomeni visszavágot szeretne – írja a monokli.com

A magyar klasszis a gálát követő sajtótájékoztatón sem nyilatkozott a jövőjéről, mert ahogy fogalmazott, jelenleg csak pihenni akar. Ám azt viccelve megjegyezte, hogy legközelebb már az orosz behemóttal, Nyikolaj Valujevvel bokszolna.

Az olasz bunyós saját magát okolja a vereség miatt, viszont szeretne egy visszavágót Erdei Zsolttal.

Giacobbe Fragomeni:

„Nagyon tisztelem Zsoltot. Ez egy nagy küzdelem volt. Az én hibám a vereségem, mert túlzottan lassan kezdtem a mérkőzés első meneteiben. Ugyan jobb voltam a végén, de szoros küzdelem volt. Szeretnék egy visszavágót!”

Forrás: monokli.com

This was an important week for investment guru and billionaire watchers to see which gurus were holding which stocks.  The full public equity holdings of Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) were particularly of note, particularly with those B shares under “BRK-B” soon to split and giving a chance for even the less astute ranks of Joe Public to own a piece of the Berkshire dream.  Obviously the huge change is via the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (NYSE: BNI) buyout.  As part of this deal, Buffett is exiting Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) and exiting Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) stakes of about $600 million and $100 million, respectively, to avoid duplication and internal competition.  The rail transport play now accounts for about one-quarter of the total Berkshire Hathaway entity upon closing. But the less obvious position in that Warren Buffett in 2009 has made it clear that there will be a simpler and probably less “stock-hound” version of Berkshire Hathaway ahead.

Buffett has gone higher up the food chain and is likely to be a creditor now inside or to large institutions.  We have seen this during the crisis.  Buffett negotiated a better deal for Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) than the US Government was able to get.  Buffett’s preferred stock in Goldman Sachs has a dividend of 10% and is callable at any time at a 10% premium; but Buffett also got warrants to purchase $5 billion of common stock with a strike price of $115.00 per share, exercisable for a five-year term (4 years now), and Buffett would effectively get to pocket $61 per share if he exercised those all today at the market (and with a $2.6 billion warrant profit alone).

The General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) stake was listed only as 7.77 million shares of common stock (about $125 million now), the same as it has been for quarters.  Yet last year Buffett came to the rescue with a $3 billion of perpetual preferred stock in a private offering with a dividend of 10% and warrants to purchase $3 billion of common stock.  The preferred is callable after 3-years (2 years now) at a 10% premium; the warrants have a strike price of $22.25 and are exercisable for a five-year term (4 years now).

Two other investments in preferred or note offerings made in the last year during the financial crunch were in Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) in February via 10% senior notes and in Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) with a 15% rate.  Neither of these are in the Buffett equity holdings.

Buffett increased his holdings in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) to 37.8 million shares versus 19.9 million shares.  This could easily be hiked from about $1.9 billion today to almost infinity with its $208 billion market cap.  With over 10% officially unemployed in the U.S., Wal-Mart has become the shopping destination of millions more of Americans and that value and thrift trend is not likely to end any time soon.

Then there is the ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) bet that Buffett got his timing very wrong on.  He cut his stake again here to 57.4 million shares versus almost 62.5 million shares and still has the tax benefit for selling.  He added Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) with a 1.27 million share stake.  As Exxon is the largest company by market cap at $357 billion, this is much easier for Buffett to invest into rather than $79 billion market cap today in ConocoPhillips.

The Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) stake which he grew yet again is worth over $8.7 billion, and Buffett could probably insert more money there through time if it gets cheap again.  Then there is the new Republic Services Inc. (NYSE: RSG) position of 3.625 million shares ($100 million today) where Buffett is just investing alongside buddy Bill Gates now that Gates’ entity has a board seat there and a huge stake.

Then there are the overseas bets, and these are just some:

• $2.5 billion into diversified Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd.
• $4 billion to buy control of Iscar Metalworking in Israel
• $230 million for a 10% stake in BYD for electric batteries in China
• $144 million or so stake in Nestle

Buffett lent $4.4 billion to Mars for the Wrigley buyout.  He also lent Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) $3 billion for part of the Rohm & Haas deal. As noted earlier, Buffett is going higher up the food chain.  In fact, he is almost becoming the default alternative investment bank.  And he has cut down and exiting equity positions as well.

Eaton Corp. (NYSE: ETN), in power management, and WABCO Holdings (NYSE: WBC), in parts and systems for mostly commercial vehicles, were dropped entirely this last quarter.  It seems as though Buffett is also systematically exiting the Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO) position now that the business model has changed.  He still holds too much there, but maybe better late than never.

Buffett is also not betting against the Obama health care plan as he cut his stakes in both Wellpoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). It will be interesting to see if Buffett hangs on to those drug company stakes in GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), at 1.51 million shares, and Sanofi Aventis (NYSE: SNY), of more than 3.9 million shares.

Then when considering Buffett’s comments about the poor future of print media, you have to wonder if the Oracle of Omaha just won’t take his licks in Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) worth only about $39 million today and Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) worth $730 million today.

It still seems obvious that Buffett would like to hold a large utility as a wholly owned subsidiary.  That may be his next ‘whale of a deal’ after he builds his cash back up over $20 billion.  Buffett got burned on his dollar bet before, but he is active internationally.  The BNSF deal is arguably a China-coal bet rather than an “all-in bet on the future of America,” assuming that is not symbiotic.  This now makes Berkshire Hathaway even more of a financial and transport operation, with far less emphasis on public common stock bets.  And he is going higher on the food chain. It will alsways be interesting to see how Buffett invests the Berkshire Hathaway fortune.  But what is obvious is that he is starting to get out of the way of some bets and make more concentrated bets elsewhere.  The new Berkshire Hathaway is more of a financial and transportation operator now… more than ever… that is also acting as private investment banker.  The investment changes over the last year are showing more of a penchant for debt and being higher up the food chain than just common stock in the U.S.

This all acts to make Berkshire Hathaway more predictable in operations and even more of a true conglomerate.  And it makes the passive investments a bit more opaque.

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Again, here is the full list of Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway US public stock holdings.

JON C. OGG
November 19, 2009

This ASEAN Fight Night Championship(AFNC) project have been thought and planned since 2000 after Ramli’s successful World MauyThai Championships project on board the SuperStar Leo of StarCruises Inc in April,1999.
Here is the invitation letter to all intrested to participate and sponsor:Invitation to Participate and Sponsor “The ASEAN Saturday Fight Night Championships”or (ASFNC) for World Class Boxing & MuayThai promoted by Diversified Promotion & Service Sdn.Bhd or (DPS.)
Proposed Dates: 28th to 30thMay,2010 (3 days)29th May,2010 –Championship Fight Day.(Saturday)
Launching in Kuala Lumpur and then to all other ASEAN capital cities every subsequent month on Last Saturday of the month .
Proposed Locations:
Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia),Bangkok(Thailand),Jakarta(Indonesia),Manila(Philippines),Singapore -1st Phase and including Bandar Seri Begawan(Brunei),Hanoi(Vietnam),Vientiane(Laos),Yangon(Myanmar) and Phnom Penh(Cambodia) -2nd Phase.

We are pleased to inform you that our latest project proposed as scheduled above have been initiated almost 5 years ago.We have already invited many Malaysian organizations like yours to become our Project Partners either as our esteemed Title Sponsor,Major Sponsors,Co-Sponsors and Project Supporters.We also planned to invite other ASEAN Companies to become our Sponsors to all the proposed locations.

In fact our ASFNC Event Tag Line is “A Truly ASEAN Sports and Entertainment Event for ALL to Enjoy.”

The ASFNC will feature specifically the World Class Boxers and Exponents for Boxing and MuayThai.

We understand your esteemed organization is a strong supporter of Malaysia’s /ASEAN Sports Tourism efforts as well as enhancing your corporate social responsibility by helping to develop Malaysian/ASEAN Sports through our youth and local community participation as well as building a united,strong and dynamic 1Malaysia and 1ASEAN.

This major project of DPS in 2010 that is billed as ASFNC will showcased the following Main Events:
 ASEAN Saturday Fight Night Championships (the Main Event of World Class Pro-Boxing & Pro-MuayThai in the Capital Cities of Malaysia&ASEAN )This Main Event will be the featured event of this project.

 Sports Exposition (all the major sports suppliers and stakeholders will showcased their products and services.This is an optional event if necessary.)

 Sports Carnival (local amateur sports carnival-if necessary)This will be held with majority participation from the youth sectors.

Note:
The Promoter reserved the rights to make amendments or cancelled any event/s as and when deemed necessary.
Actually,our sincere requests from you is to be the Title Sponsor(for Malaysia and other cities in ASEAN) or any other Sponsorship Package as stated below:
Please request for Total Sponsorship Package for full details.
DPS is in search either an Exclusive Title Sponsor or a few Sponsors (about 5~10) to meet to the Total Budget concerned.
Note:This is for ASFNC Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia)event only.
The other ASEAN Capital Cities budget will be informed accordingly.

 A cash sponsorship of RM 1Million (Title Sponsor),RM500,000.00 (Major Sponsor), RM250,000.00(Co-Sponsor) and RM100,000.00 (Project Supporters) to help us pay all the Boxers and Exponents involved,the sanctioned fees,all the Sports Associations&People involved and all other overheads in this project.

- An in-kind sponsorship of ranges from RM 1 Million to RM 250,000.00 if there is no cash sponsorship so that we can sell your Products and Services to the many visitors and participants of the ASFNC.

 A combination of cash and in kind sponsorship of RM 1 Million to RM 250,000.00 if the above two requests are not favoured.
Note:This ASFNC Total Budget for Kuala Lumpur will be about RM 1Million excluding Broadcasting and Advertising Costs.For your info as Event Manager (Promoter) we need to secure at least 50% in cash of the Total Budget Planned for this ASFNC.The other 50% can be in kind sponsorship from the Sponsors.

Some of our Event Management Plans for Selection of Type of Sponsors are:
• Title Sponsor –exclusive basis (one company only)
• Major Sponsor/s – about 3 companies (min)
• Co-Sponsor/s – about 5 companies (min)
• Project Supporters – about 5 companies (min)

The Branding Opportunities offered to all Sponsors(case by case basis)among them are:

• TV Telecast for all events (either LIVE or Delayed)
• Your products or brands will be featured on all boxers and exponents attire,ringside and around the venue both internal and external areas
• VIPs invitation to your company for all the events held
• Free to use the Event Logo for all your merchandise items
• Free to promote and advertise the Event Logo to all your company’s correspondences and functions.
• Special invitations to your Company’s Representative/s for any events organized and promoted by DPS.

Other main reasons for our ASFNC Project:
• ASFNC will become the Popular Sports Event (Property) in Malaysia and ASEAN.
• A Glocal Malaysian Sports & Entertainment Event for ALL.
• DPS is a World Class Promoter for Professional Boxing and MuayThai having promoted 3 World Championships since 1997 in Malaysia and Singapore.DPS wants to continue with this World Class Performances in Sports Achievement that will position DPS and Malaysia as a World Class Sports Destination just like Madison Square Garden or Mandalay Bay in USA or Tokyo Dome in Japan.Please view the videos on DPS Professional Boxing and World MuayThai projects successfully completed since 1997.
• To unleash ASEAN Talents to become World Champions in Boxing and MuayThai.

The ASFNC proposed venues will be at all ASEAN Capital Cities and the actual venues are:

Popular Indoor Sports Stadium of ASEAN Capital Cities or Indoor Arenas in Major Hotels or Resorts:
1st Phase:
1.28th to 30th May,2010 in Kuala Lumpur: to be announced (tba)
2.25th to 27th June,2010 in Jakarta :tba
3.23rd to 25th July,2010 in Manila:tba
4.27th to 29th August,2010 in Bangkok:tba
5.24th to 26th September,2010 in Singapore:tba
2nd Phase:
6.Bandar Seri Begawan:tba
7.Hanoi:tba
8.Vientiane:tba
9.Yangon:tba
10.Phnom Penh:tba

DPS being an experienced International Sports Promoter for World Class Events will be working with the best talents and companies in the Sports Industry both overseas and in Malaysia.We hope in future to invite many more World Class Sports Persons and Sports Personalities to this ASFNC and the sportsfans and public at large will definitely be treated to an exciting,eventful and memorable series of Sports Expo,Sports Carnival and Championship Events(Main Event) like ASFNC.

We thank you for your great support and understanding to realize our mission to make Malaysia “A Truly World Class & Great Sports Destination.” For more details on ASFNC,kindly visit our website at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/dpsworldclass or contact Encik Ramli-The Promoter at hp:+6-019-2537165 (anytime.)

Thank you.
Wassalam 1Malaysia
Yours sincerely,
Ramli Abu Hassan
International Sports Promoter / Managing Director of DPS,Malaysia.
Founder and Writer of the “Gerakan Revolusi Aksi”
Malaysia’s Representative for WBC Youth World Championship and WBC Boxing&MuayThai
Malaysia’s Representative for World MuayThai Council,Lumpinee Stadium,Rajdermnerm Stadium, Songchai MuayThai Promotion and Kiatpetch Boxing Promotion.
Malaysia’s Representative for Prof.Drennan’s World Class Performance Study,Implementation and Audit.
Mobile:+6-019-2537165
E-mail: ramlipromoter@yahoo.com
dpssports@hotmail.com
Website:http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/dpsworldclass
Blog: pramleeelvis.wordpress.com

This is the list of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) public US equity holdings as of September 30, 2009.  As noted in the “A to F” and “G to O” lists, there have been changes since the cut off date and those have been noted where applicable. Here are Warren Buffett’s holdings and accompanying notes for the group ‘P to Z.’

• Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) 96.3 million, the same as before.
• Republic Services Inc. (NYSE: RSG) 3.625 million shares; NEW POSITION following Bill Gates.
• Sanofi Aventis (NYSE: SNY) more than 3.9 million shares, same as before.
• Sun Trust Bank (NYSE: STI) 3.079 million shares; DOWN FROM 3.2+ the quarter before.
• Torchmark Corp. (NYSE: TMK) roughly 2.82 million, same as before.
• Travellers Cos (NYSE: TRV) 27,336; NEW POSITION but small.
• US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) roughly 69 million; Same as quarter before.
• USG Corp. (NYSE: USG) 17.072 million shares, same as before.
• United Health Group (NYSE: UNH) 3.4 million shares; DOWN from 4.5 million last quarter and down from over 6 million in Q1.
• Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP) 9.55 million shares, same as quarter before but this does not matter as Buffett is dumping his non-BNSF rail holdings.
• United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) 1.429 million shares, same as before.
• Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) 37.8 million; WAY UP from the 19.9+ million shares last quarter.
• Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) over 1.72 million shares, same as before.
• Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) 313.3 million shares; ABOVE THE PRIOR 302+ million last quarter and above the 290+ million in Q1.
• Wellpoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) 3.394 million; DOWN SLIGHTLY from the 3.5 million last quarter and from the 4.7773 million in Q1.
• Wesco Financial Corp. (NYSE: WSC) 5.7 million shares, same as before.

WABCO Holdings (NYSE: WBC) IS GONE after being 2.7 million shares last quarter.

BUFETT HOLDINGS ‘A to F’

BUFFETT HOLDINGS ‘G to O’

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JON C. OGG

172 Boxes, 4 columns of boxes 4 wide from the door to front pew of the church.

Our Sunday dedication service has come and passed with an awesome showing of what God can do. This year, we had collected a grand total of 178 boxes for our church. This has far outreached any expectation of what anyone believed possible and far exceeded our highest totals from last year of 157 boxes. But even more exciting than this Sunday’s dedication service is what is happening after this week with Operation Christmas Child. Thanks to the contribution of several members in our church, Weldon is now on the hunt for 200 boxes for 2009. That’s right 200 boxes! There are several people working to achieve this goal on collected the remaining items to finish out this project and givest our biggest total EVER! Just when we thought that God had finished with our boxes this year, He once again shows that He is awesome and that He is God. He has blessed this ministry immensely and great things are going to come of it.

As of now, I know that both Lauren and Jerri will be at the church Thursday morning to finish packing boxes and if you would like to join them, I’m sure they’ll love to have you.

We will know by this Sunday if we reach our goal and I announced in our Sunday School class last Sunday before we had our final count and before the push for 200 was on that if we collect over 200 boxes this year or next year that I will come to church wearing jeans that are entirely covered in OCC buttons. So be in prayer for this ministry and be looking for my OCC Jeans come Sunday!

Building the Kingdom of God, the Way GOD wants it. (11.15.09 pm)11.15.09 Evening Service