THE BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS Part V

Now, take a look at this....

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint

what equals 100%?

What does it mean to give more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone want to GIVE OVER 100%

How about ACHIEVING 101%?

What equals 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help

Answer these questions!

IF

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R

S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented by

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

IF:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

AND:

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

BUT:

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the Love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E-O-F-G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While HARD WORK and KNOWLEDGE will you you close,

and ATTITUDE will get you there,

It's the LOVE OF GOD

that will put you over the top!

THE BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS Part IV

LOOK AT THIS SYMMETRY

1 x 1 = 1

11 x 11 = 121

111 x 111 = 12321

1111 x 1111 = 1234321

11111 x 11111 = 123454321

111111 x 111111 = 12345654321

1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321

11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321

111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

Can anyone say AMAZING!!!!!!

THE BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS Part III

Another wonder example of the Beauty of Mathematics

9 x 9 + 7 = 88

98 x 9 + 6 = 888

987 x 9 + 5 = 8888

9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888

98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888

987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888

9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888

98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brillant, isn't it?

WEIGHT REPORT & This and That

Well, I have to say I gained back one of the three lost lbs. from last week. The Lady Bug now sits on 10! I did absolutely NO exercising and I had the Chocolate Cheesecake with Chocolate icing at the Agape Cafe. So what did I expect!!! This week is a BAD report.
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THIS however is a GOOD report!!! One of the members of our church is currently serving in Afghanistan. He has become acquainted and doing some work, in his off hours, with an orphanage there that has both girls and boys.

There are about 250 children in this orphanage.



70 of them are girls.

They have "school", then are feed an evening meal, and are sent to foster homes for the night for safety.

Jerry contacted our Pastor and asked if the church would gather up various toys, hats, gloves, scarves, etc. and CHOCOLATE, and send to him & his Captain to distribute to these children.

In addition they have been giving candy to children they see. This is an except from Jerry's request:
"every time our convoys roll down the road the local kids come running from as for away as 200 yards to meet our trucks alongside the road giving us a thumbs up and hoping we thow out candy as we pass by. some of these kid are as small as 2 years old its funny watching them run across the field.thank you jerry"

Pastor sent this request out to all of us and $1,900 was given for this project.

(I know the picture is dark and bad but click to enlarge and it can be seen a little better)

This picture shows $1,200 worth of these items that have been purchased. Pastor did not want us to just send "things" but we want to send the Love of Christ and our Prayers to these youngsters receiving these items. These purchased items were set up in front of our church and Pastor has asked us to come up and pray over these items the last 3 services. Since there is a language barrier it was decided to spend $500 buying Christian coloring books that "show" and "tell" the story of Jesus to these children . The other $200 will pay for the postage to ship these items.

I am so happy to belong to a Body that gives and shares The Good News and Love and Compassion in so many different ways. This just being another example. We (the Church Body) always do something nice and special for each returning Serviceman in our Congregation when they return home from serving.

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Marc & Aric recently attended the Sport & Boat Show. He forwarded us several pictures and I just had to share this one so you could see the look of pure joy in experiencing this kayak ride.

A MUST READ - The Last Jihad

I don't know where I've been for the past 7 years to have missed this book. It was published in 2002!!!

Joy, of Joy in the burbs, recently recommended this author to me, after reading a few of my posts about my concern for our country, the road we are traveling down, and my concern about us having eyes to see and ears to hear. Thank you sooo very much Joy!!

I bought the book on February 2nd and finished reading it February 14th. I bought the next book in this series, The Last Days, which was published in 2003, and started it today. I think 5 books have been written so far. Believe me I will be purchasing and reading ALL of them.

It is fiction, but has an uncanny prophetic bent to it. If you are concerned about the things you see occurring in our country, feel that we are seeing many of the prophecies of the Bible being fulfilled and we are instructed in Luke 21:28 ".... when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." then I think you will want to get and read this book.

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Be sure to check out our new Frugal Blog, Hands & Hearts.....for Him. I think you'll be delighted with the first few posts.

Have a wonderful and blessed week

VALENTINE'S Agape Cafe

For Valentine's Day each year our church has Agape Cafe. I know all of you are familiar with church suppers but this is very different. One of the large rooms in our Out Reach Center is converted to a restaurant. The Agape Cafe is opened for 2 evenings, Friday & Saturday for Valentine's Day. Reservations are made in advance and tables are set up for the number of guests in each party.


The purpose of Agape Cafe is two fold: a nice dinner for our church body who chose to attend and a fund raiser for the yearly Mission trip which will be made during Spring Break in 5 weeks.

The room is decorated, tables are set with white table clothes, a nice center piece and candle on each table, nice silverware and dishes are used. The lights are dimmed and this year they hired a man, from outside our church body, who softly played the keyboard as we dined. He even took requests.

This makes the 3rd year Mickey & I have attended. The prior 2 years we went with church friends. This year our 2 daughters accompanied us.



Suzette & Jacque

(Jacque just started wearing glasses for the first time in her life)

Here the girls are acting silly

(like teenagers!) and standing by the wrong "dates"!!!

Suzette, Benny, Dave & Jacque. Dave & Suzette were also celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary.

The menu was: Tossed Green Salad - Swiss Chicken (chicken breast covered with mushroom dressing) - green beans & potato's - fresh baked rolls - choice of water, tea, sweet tea, or coffee.

For dessert they brought out trays of various desserts for you to choose from

Dave & Suzette at Agape Cafe.

The center piece was so large & lovely it was hard to get Dave's face.
Dave has chocolate cake with chocolate icing

Suzette has carrot cake with cream icing

Benny & Jacque

Benny had chocolate cake with chocolate icing

Jacque had white cheesecake covered with fresh strawberries

Mickey had pound cake

I had chocolate cheese cake with chocolate topping (forget the diet!)

The "wait" staff were young people from the youth ministry. You can see one of the

young men behind Jacque.

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This was out "waitress" Tia

None of these kids had ever "served tables" before. We had a good time teasing Tia and told her she better go to college!!!!

They all did a great job and were very attentive.

Here are our friends Carol & Ron. Ron, as you know is Mickey's bee keeper mentor. I'm just showing this to show a table set for "two"

It was a lovely, special way to celebrate Valentine's Day

&

Dave and Suzette's 15th Anniversary

THE BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS Part II

Here's another one of these wonderful Mathematic beauties.

1 x 9 + 2 = 11

12 x 9 + 3 = 111

123 x 9 + 4 = 1111

1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111

12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111

123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111

1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111

12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111

123456789 x 9 + 10 = 1111111111