Dr. Rick Mandl - October 19, 2020
Some Good News For A Change
Devotional Manuscript: Some Good News For A CHange
Message By Dr. Rick Mandl, October 19, 2020.
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.
Hey church family, with so much bad news making the headlines, it’s always a nice change whenever you come across a story that is truly encouraging. I recently across a story that was titled “After a farmer suffered a heart attack, his neighbors banded together to harvest his crops.” The article told the story of a man named Lane Unhjem, who was working on his farm near Crosby, North Dakota, when his combine caught fire. While Lane was fighting the flames, he went into cardiac arrest and as a result had to be hospitalized. If his farm had gone unharvested, the loss would have been devastating for his family.
In response, sixty local farmers came together with eleven combines, eleven semitrucks with trailers, and several grain carts with tractors. In about seven hours, they harvested approximately fifteen thousand bushels of canola and thirty-five thousand bushels of durum across a thousand acres. Their wives also made a month’s worth of meals and filled a freezer for the Unhjem family.
A friend explained: “The outpouring of support for Lane and his family is not surprising for those of us who live here. We have a long history of helping people in our community when they are faced with tragedy or hardship. We strongly believe in faith, family, and the Golden Rule.”
As you hear that story, I wonder, did part of you wish you lived in their community? Well most of us don’t have farms next door but the coronavirus pandemic and the crises it has created provide us with an historic opportunity to love others as our Father loves us. So, ask God to help you help someone in need today. Encourage those you influence to do the same. And pray that we would let our light shine in such a way that others might see the good that we do, and be led into a relationship with our heavenly father. Amen.
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.
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