Food Pantry

Monongahela "Light & Life Center" Food Pantry. Serving families since 1985.

Journey By Grace is pleased to be able to work with the Greater Washington County Food Bank to provide all those in the Monongahela/New Eagle area of Washington County with food assistance. We take great joy in gathering funds and items to add to what comes from the county. If you find yourself running low on income whether for a month or for a season, please call us!

This promotion of a Food Pantry and General Care for Needy Neighbors is on the Journey By Grace, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania ... 

How refreshing to see!

The Journey by Grace Church is obeying her Lord, who said, "I was hungry and you fed me,
   

   I was thirsty and you gave me a drink,
   I was homeless and you gave me a room,
   I was shivering and you gave me clothes,
   I was sick and you stopped to visit,
   I was in prison and you came to me.

I'm telling the solemn truth: 

Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored,

 that was me—you did it to me."

What difference would it make to American Society ... to the current Financial Crisis ... if every Church regularly followed this example set by the Light &Life Center and Journey by Grace? 

Lenten Advice

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."
Thomas Merton

A Lenten Prayer ...

Forty days alone,

a wilderness of thoughts,

tempting and inviting thoughts,

which could so easily have distracted you from your task, your mission, your vision.

Yet you emerged, stronger and more attuned to all that had to be done, despite a time constraint that to our eyes would have seemed hopeless.

We too live in stressful times.

Demands are made of our time,

that leave so little

for the important things of life.

We are easily distracted

in the wilderness of our lives,

by every call to go this way or that,

to turn stone to bread

leap from mountains,

and do all that would keep us from the truth.

We listen to the voices of this world,

and ignore the one who endured all this and so much more, and emerged triumphant, that we might not have to suffer so.

Forgive us, Father,

when we get distracted from our task.

Forgive us those times when we try

to be all things to all men, and fail to be anything to anyone.

Courtesy Cathleen Getchell,

Darwin & Einstein on the Origin of the Species ...

Charles Darwin, often called the father of evolution, is best known for his work titled The Origin of the Species. In chapter six of that book, he goes into great detail about the human eye. He writes: "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of the spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection (evolution), seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."

Renowned scientist Albert Einstein, named Person of the Century by TIME magazine in 1999, was an agnostic. He did not believe in a personal God. However, he did say this: "Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe -- a spirit vastly superior to man, and one in the face of which our modest powers must feel humble."

As You Read the Bible ...

"Marvel at God's Goodness and let yourself be overwhelmed with the "Yes Me!" thought ..."

Ed Noble, Teaching Pastor,
Journey Community Church,
La Mesa, California

As You Read the

Some Thoughts on Spirituality

“People change and needs change. So what was spirituality once is spirituality no more. What generally goes under the name of spirituality is merely the record of past methods.”

Don’t cut the person to fit the coat.

“When Christ bids you ‘Come,’ He bids you ‘Come and die.’” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Let's not pretend this is easier than it really is. If you want to live a morally pure life, here's what you have to do: You have to blind your right eye the moment you catch it in a lustful leer. You have to choose to live one-eyed or else be dumped on a moral trash pile. And you have to chop off your right hand the moment you notice it raised threateningly. Better a bloody stump than your entire being discarded for good in the dump.”

Jesus of Nazareth

"All I know is that I can’t keep pretending that I am immune to the things I spend my time doing, watching and listening to. I can’t keep thinking Proverbs was wrong and it is possible to put coals in your lap without getting burned.

At some point, I’ve got to be honest with myself. And God is making that harder and harder to ignore lately." Jon Acuff