Load from Valdosta

We left Lakeland yesterday at 6:00 a.m. headed to Valdosta to pick up a load of computers.  The Valdosta City School District gave us eight pallets of computers.  With the CPU's, the monitors, the keyboards, mouses, and cords, the horse trailer was totally full all the way from the front to the back.  We arrived back home at 4:00 p.m. and will go to the warehouse today to unload everything and begin the task of going through every computer and monitor to see if they work and repairing the ones that are not working.  Glory!  God is good.  We have a waiting list for computers a mile long.  This will help.  Thank you for your prayers and support.

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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2007 Annual Report of Activities

The Board of Directors of Investing in Futures, Inc. is thrilled with our activities for the year.  However, they are not thrilled with the finances.  They told me, Rodney, you must get more monthly supporters.  So I appeal to you, as you read through the list of activities, please come onboard as a monthly supporter.  Just make out your check each month to Investing in Futures, Inc.

 

 

2007 Annual Report of Major Activities

 

 

Jan 10 – Trip to Valdosta  - Rodney, Vance, Orton, Gary

Jan 27 – Preached in Alabama (Centenary A/G – Luverne, AL)

 

Feb 01 – Trip to Valdosta – Horse Trailer - Rodney, Vance, Gary, Theron

Feb 08 – Trip to Valdosta – Horse Trailer

Feb 08 – Trip to Valdosta – Semi - Johnny Strickland, Rodney, Gerry

Feb 08 – Trip to Valdosta – Semi - Steve Watkins – Rodney, Gerry

Feb 15-16 – Pour Widow's Driveway – Vance, Rodney

Feb 24 – Missions Banquet at Suncoast Cathedral, St. Pete, FL

Feb 25 – Preached Suncoast Cathedral, St. Pete, FL

 

Mar 27 – Trip to Pen FL District office to get copy machine and 40 station collator –

                                                           Horse Trailer – Rodney, Vance

 

Apr 03 – Trip to Bartow First A/G to pick up load of computers - Rodney

Apr 16 – Trip to Valdosta – Horse Trailer - Rodney, Vance, Gary, Trent

Apr 24 – Mango First Baptist Church to pick up hurricane supplies – Take to Sumterville

                                                            First Baptist -  Horse Trailer (Vance, Rodney)

 

May 15 – Loaded and sent out 40 foot container to Randy Herring – Honduras

May 20 – Preached at Bartow for missions group going to Panama

May 21 – Trip to Valdosta – Horse Trailer - Rodney, Vance, Gary, Ernie

May 22 – Trip to Elizabeth Town, NC for desks – Semi – Phil Robinson

May 30 – June 4 – Preached in Tobago for Pentecostal Assemblies of West Indies

 

Jun 06 – Trip to Valdosta – Horse Trailer - Rodney, Vance, Gary

Jun 08 – Trip to Valdosta – Semi – Wayne Gillard – Rodney, Gerry

Jun 13 – Trip to Valdosta – Semi – Wayne Gillard – Rodney, Gerry

June 20 – Trip to Valdosta – Horse Trailer - Rodney, Gerry, Vance, Sharon

June 26 – Trip to Tuscaloosa to get desks – Rodney, Gerry

 

Aug 01 – Trip to Valdosta – Horse Trailer - Rodney, Vance, Mike Thornton

Aug 18-25 – Preached in Venezuela – Venezuelan Assemblies of God

Aug 31 – Trip to Orlando DOT – Semi -  Rodney, Vance, Johnny, Clyde

 

Sep 09 – Preached at Vietnamese Christian Center – Tampa, FL

Sep 18 – Took forklift training/certification course

Sep 23 – Preached at King's Temple A/G – Temple Terrace, FL

 

Oct 04 – Trip to Hillsborough School Warehouse for textbooks – Rodney

Oct 14 – Preached at Sanford First Assembly of God – Sanford, AL

Oct 14 – Preached at Enterprise First Assembly of God – Enterprise, AL

Oct 16 – Attended special-called Alabama District Council to elect new DYD

Oct 18 – Attended Tuscaloosa Sectional Council

Oct 23 – Trip to Bartow DOT – 16 Foot Truck - Rodney, Vance

Oct 25 – Trip to West Palm DOT – Horse Trailer - Rodney, Vance, Johnny, Ron

 

Nov 3-5 – Preached in Tegucigalpa, Honduras – Centro Evangelistico de A/G

Nov 07 – Trip to Pen FL District Office to pick up computers – Rodney

Nov 16 – Investing in Futures approved as a Nonprofit Organization

 

Dec 06 – Loaded and sent out a 40 foot container to Harold Suggs – Guyana, So.Amer.

Dec 12 – Loaded and sent out a 55 foot semi to Operation Compassion – South America

Dec 14 – Loaded Horse Trailer with Food for Tots – Vance, Rodney

Dec 19 – Trip to Pen FL District Office to pick up wide-screen TV – 16 Foot Truck –

                                                            Rodney, Vance

 

 

Summary Total for 2007

23 trips to get computers, desks, and things -

Preached 24 services – Both Stateside and Overseas

Made three trips overseas – Tobago, Venezuela, Honduras

Attended Alabama District Council and Tuscaloosa Sectional Council

Certified as Fork Lift Operator

Approved as a nonprofit organization

 

What a great year

 

 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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Tet: Vietnamese New Year

I have been given the privilege to preach the Vietnamese New Year Celebration and Outreach on February 10!  Glory!  A Southeastern graduate is pastoring a Vietnamese church in Tampa and has invited me to be the guest speaker for Tet.  This is quite an honor.  The church is using the New Year Celebration as an outreach to the community.  Please pray for this special time. 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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The Bible on CD

Vance and I went to Orlando today and picked up seven pallets of the Bible on CD and on cassette tapes plus Devotions on CD.  The company that produces them said that no one buys cassettes or CDs anymore since M3 Players and IPods have come on the scene.  They gave us an entire horse-trailer load of CDs and Cassettes in English and in Spanish.  These will all be given to the Truck Stop Ministry who will use them in their evangelism and discipling program throughout the United States. What a blessing these will be.  God is so good.

 

Maybe you have heard or seen the News today about the 75 car pileup on Interstate 4 today between Lakeland and Orlando.  It happened before we traveled to Orlando so we were able to take back roads to Orlando and back.  It took us all day long (from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) to make the one hour up and one hour back trip.  But, Glory, we made it. 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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Devotion for the day

In my personal devotions each morning, after I read the Bible, I always read a chapter from a good book or devotional guide.  I would like to share the devotion I read today.  It pretty well describes my feelings.

 

This devotion comes from Walk with me up the Mountain By Steven G. Beam, President and Founder of Missionary Ventures International in Orlando.

 

 

"Have Faith"

 

"It had been a hard mission trip.  There were lots of problems to be solved along the way.  Every missionary I met had incredible circumstances to overcome that only God could handle.  We prayed and prayed.

 

Several of the projects (schools, clinics, orphanages, Bible Schools) needed more money and the shortfall was way more than we had.  On top of this, my plane had to make an emergency landing on the way home.  The compression went out at 40,000 feet but the pilot was smart enough to drop to 9,000 so we could all breathe.  My nerves were shot.

 

So after the Sunday service, I was so burdened with problems from around the globe – needing $130,000 by Friday, ill missionaries, trying to solve a conflict that could erupt and destroy our work in a country – to just name a few.  I had to go to the altar at the end of the service to pray.  A well meaning elder came forward and prayed with me.

 

After we prayed, he looked me in the eye and said, "Just have faith, my brother."

 

"HAVE FAITH!  That is easy for you to say," I thought.  You have a secure job, a secure paycheck, insurances for everything including every possession you own, you have large amount money in the bank, you have a comfortable home, and a church, and work.  How can you tell me to HAVE FAITH?

 

I cannot tell you how many people have come to me with words like:

            "Trust the Lord."

            "God always comes through."

            "God will take care of everything."

            "God does not intend for you to carry these things on your own."

            "You are trying to do too much."

            "You are living in fear."

 

To be honest with you, all these words are true, right, good, and pure.  They should be stamped on my heart so I do not forget them.  But I find that my faith ride can be a bit like riding a roller coaster.  One minute I am ready to tackle the most difficult assignment, but the next day, I am rethinking my sanity.  And I just plain get afraid.  Yes, sometimes words are not enough.

 

Most of the time, those who do not have to believe God for anything deliver those words.  It is easy to say all of this when you do not have to believe God for your monthly support, for visas, for rent, for food, for gas, for health, for retirement, for funds for projects, for people in the ministry, for travel, for everything.  Complete dependency of the Lord for everything, everyday, all the time is hard for me.  I have to pray continually, listen intently, submit repeatedly, control my emotions, fight fear, grasp God's promises with all my might, and just hang on.  The ride will stop shortly.

 

Thought for today:  It is ironic that sometimes we have to work at relaxing.  Sometimes it is just plain hard to rest in the will and promises of God.  Most of the time there is peace and rest.  But sometimes we have to work at getting back to that place of peace.  It is kind of like a little child who lets go of her fathers hand and then needs to find it again.  I am so grateful that God does not move and is easily found.

 

Prayer for today:  Lord, I trust you, but I struggle with my humanity.

 

Verse for today:  "Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, 'I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief.'" – Mark 9:24

 

 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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