God's Protection

 

I would like to thank the Lord for His protection of Investing in Future's warehouse last week when we had a very strong windstorm.  This is what is left of a warehouse one block from ours.

 

 

 

Dr. Rodney White
Investing in Futures, Inc.
863-838-8818
www.investinginfutures.org

"Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence." - St. Augustine

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"If you can dream it, you can do it!" - Walt Disney

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

"The Word of the Lord and the cries of the people join in calling us to do more than count our blessings, more than shape our inwardness, more than reform our thoughts. They call us to struggle for a new society in the hope and expectation that the goal of our struggle will ultimately be granted us." - Andrew Walls

When love and skill come together, expect a masterpiece - John Rushcan

I believe relationships are more important than accomplishments, the journey is more important than the destination, its not about me, and its not about you, but it is all about HIM! - Bob McCulley - Missionary to Africa

We are gonna make it. We may not look like much, but we are gonna make it, because we are a part of the only thing that is going to make it, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ! - Missionary Charles Greenaway.

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all people you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. - Rumi

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all -Helen Keller

Action is the foundational key to all success - Pablo Picasso

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are six years old

                                         Investing in Futures just completed its sixth year. 

 

                 We celebrated by sending a container to Honduras for Missionary Randy Herring.

 

                   Someone donated 100 bunk beds and mattresses for his youth camp Kid's Ark.

 

             It was quite a challenge deciding the best way to fit all the mattresses in the container.

 

 

Dr. Rodney White
Investing in Futures, Inc.
863-838-8818
www.investinginfutures.org

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"If you can dream it, you can do it!" - Walt Disney

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

"The Word of the Lord and the cries of the people join in calling us to do more than count our blessings, more than shape our inwardness, more than reform our thoughts. They call us to struggle for a new society in the hope and expectation that the goal of our struggle will ultimately be granted us." - Andrew Walls

When love and skill come together, expect a masterpiece - John Rushcan

I believe that relationships are more important than accomplishments, the journey is more important than the destination, its not about me, and its not about you, but it is all about HIM! - Bob McCulley - Missionary to Africa

We are gonna make it. We may not look like much, but we are gonna make it, because we are a part of the only thing that is going to make it, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ! - Missionary Charles Greenaway.

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all people you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. - Rumi

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all -Helen Keller

Action is the foundational key to all success - Pablo Picasso

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Busy Day

We had a busy day.  We sent 50 computers to the Bahamas with Gary Curry of Evangelistic Temple in Nassau.

 

We also sent 12 computers to a Men's Halfway house via Ron Edwards of NuChoice Medical, Inc. and 3 computers to Zoe's Journey, a ministry to women in Lakeland and 2 computers to Hope Now in Bartow.

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
www.investinginfutures.org


"We can begin each day with the deeply encouraging realization, I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ." - John Owen

"If you can dream it, you can do it!" - Walt Disney

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

"The Word of the Lord and the cries of the people join in calling us to do more than count our blessings, more than shape our inwardness, more than reform our thoughts. They call us to struggle for a new society in the hope and expectation that the goal of our struggle will ultimately be granted us." - Andrew Walls

When love and skill come together, expect a masterpiece - John Rushcan

I believe that relationships are more important than accomplishments, the journey is more important than the destination, its not about me, and its not about you, but it is all about HIM! - Bob McCulley - Missionary to Africa

We are gonna make it. We may not look like much, but we are gonna make it, because we are a part of the only thing that is going to make it, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ! - Missionary Charles Greenaway.

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all people you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. - Rumi

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all -Helen Keller

Action is the foundational key to all success - Pablo Picasso

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A link to my photo that a Tampa newspaper printed about me at a Vietnamese Church preaching their Chinese New Year Service.

 

http://northwest2.tbo.com/content/2011/feb/23/NWOPENO1-harrowing-boat-trip-leads-to-a-life-servi/

 

We donated 16 computers today

We were able to donate 10 computers to Craig Hardesty from Brandenton, FL today.  He is shipping them to a school he works with in Haiti.

We also donated six computers to Wings of Eagles, a missions organization located right here in Lakeland.

 

10 computers to Miami

We donated 10 computers to Frontline Ministry in Plant City, Florida.  They will be transporting the computers to a church in Miami where they had an inner-city outreach last month.  The church will be using the computers as an evangelism tool to reach out to the youth in their community.  Thanks, Gary Shepherd, for your vision in making this happen.

We own both domain names now

We now own both domain names; www.investinginfutures.org and www.investinginfutures.com

Glory!  A dream come true!

 

 

Computer Repair class

I have enrolled at Polk State College to take a course in Computer Repair.  The class meets every Saturday from Jan 8 to April 30.  I attended my first class this past Saturday and can already tell the class is going to be wonderful.

Missionary Ron arrived safely

Rodney,

 

Thanks for your wonderful ministry. I arrived in Phoenix today. It was a safe, but long trip (2600 miles).
God's Blessings,

Ron

 

 

Thanks to all of you for your prayers on Ron's behalf.

Computers to American Indian College

We donated 50 computers and 6 laser printers today to Missionary Ron Clouse and the American Indiana College in Phoenix, Arizona.  Ron left out immediately for the three-day drive to Phoenix.  May God be with you Ron, as you drive.

Books for Native Americans

We just loaded two pallets of Bible books on the truck of Missionary Ed Sullivan.  The books are headed to Tulsa, OK to the Choctaw Indian Bible School.  We also gave him two huge containers of tracts, a couple of computers, and a computer desk.  His truck was loaded to the top.  Thanks to Dr. Bill Richardson and Missionary Eldon Brown for donating the books from their personal library.  And thanks to Richard for the tracts.  The students at the Bible School will be blessed as these books are added to their library.

Load of computers today

Vance and I picked up a load of computers from the DOT in Orlando today.  They really blessed us.

 

 

Help refurbishing computers

I met a man last week who teaches computer classes each Saturday at Polk State College.  He told me he has a difficult time coming up with computers for his students to repair.  He asked if I could bring him 10 computers each Saturday (This is an answer to prayer because it takes the majority of my time to refurbish all the computers I receive).  I took him 10 Saturday and within an hour or two, he and his students had all of the computers refurbished and reloaded with Windows XP for me.  So he is now asking for 15-20 computers every Saturday.  Glory!  God is so good!

 

200 computer for First Assembly Ministries

Pastor Israel Ortiz picked up 200 computers for First Assembly Ministries in Winston-Salem, NC.

 

Also, Mission Gary Kirchoff picked up 10 computers for his work among the Spanish Speaking World.

 

 

Computers for Jamaica, Hardee County, and Carpenters Home Estates

We  were able to donate 20 computers H.O.P.E Ministries today.  George Laws will be sending them to Jamaica.

We also donated 20 computers to Frontline Ministry.  Gary Shepherd will be taking them into the Hardy County Prison System to help the inmates become computer literate.

 

We were also able to donate 10 computers to Carpenter's Home Estates to help the resident's become computer literate.  It has been a very busy but profitable day.

 

Celebrated four years

Wow!  It is hard to believe Investing in Futures has just completed its fourth year. God is good!

 

Donated 19 computers yesterday

We donated 10 computers and three laser printers to Professor Jason Old of CAN Futbol Foundation, Inc. (CANFF) .  He was driving to Miami and putting them on a boat for Honduras for the soccer teams he sponsors there.

George Laws also picked up nine computers to give to Wings of Eagles. 

The forklift is great.  What a blessing.  God is good.

Load from Orlando today

The Lord gave us a great trip to Orlando today and some great computers.  We had a new volunteer go with us, Vern Landin from Frostproof.  Great work Vern.  Thanks for going along.

 

 

Volunteers today

We began moving today.  I had eight volunteers show up.  While Vance, Mark, and I were making load after load transporting pallets of computers, the other seven volunteers were at the new warehouse painting the outside of the office, cleaning the bathrooms, cutting hedges, spraying Roundup on the walks and drive, and running the weed-eater.  Thanks to the Milt Thompson, Dick Howe and his five teenagers for all their hard work, plus Vance and Mark running loads back and forth between the two warehouses.  They were able to each make three loads today (about 24 pallets of stuff).  I have about 84 pallets total to move.  So we are about one-fourth the way through.  Thanks guys for your hard work today.

 

Glory! I have a new warehouse

The Lord gave me a new warehouse today.  It has two huge roll-up doors and plenty of room!  I begin moving everything tomorrow!  God is good!  Thank you so much for your prayers.