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PERTH (Reuters) - BHP Billiton (BHP.AX) BLT.L expects to expand its iron ore capacity by nearly a fifth just by working its mines, rail lines and port harder as it looks to control costs in a softer iron ore market, the global miner's iron ore chief said on Wednesday.
Uncertainty over iron ore prices due to stuttering demand for the steel making ingredient from China has prompted a rethink of expansion plans by most iron ore miners, including top global iron ore miner Vale VALE5.SA.
BHP has slowed its growth plans, like Australia's no.3 iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group (FMG.AX), while their bigger rival Rio Tinto (RIO.AX) is pressing ahead with an expansion that will give it at least a third more capacity than BHP and more than double Fortescue's capacity.
"Looking forward, things are not as rosy as they were in the past. The imperative to grow as aggressively as we were in the past has diminished slightly," Wilson said at a conference.
Caught out by escalating costs, a sharp slide in iron ore prices and a persistently strong Australian dollar, BHP shelved plans in August to build a $20 billion iron ore harbor at Port Hedland in Western Australia that would have eventually doubled its iron ore capacity to 440 million tonnes.
BHP is focusing instead on milking as much out of its existing inner harbor, rail line and mines, increasing its capacity in smaller steps without huge capital outlays.
The company now expects to reach 260 million tonnes, or 40 million tonnes more than the current target that it will reach with the nearly completed expansion of its inner harbor at Port Hedland and the opening of the Jimblebar mine.
"The aspiration would be, just by squeezing our existing infrastructure with modest capital investments across our business, to be able to achieve around the 260 million tonne mark," Wilson told reporters on the sidelines of the conference.
He gave no timeframe or cost for achieving the higher target after it reaches 220 million tonnes a year in 2014.
Analysts said BHP's and Fortescue's deferral of growth plans reflected more on lower cash flows rather than longer term pessimism about China's growth and demand for iron ore.
"This is more about conserving capital in the current environment than concern over weaker markets," said Fat Prophets mining analyst David Lennox.
BHP's shares closed down just 0.06 percent at 33.730 in Australia. They fell almost 1 percent in London by 1225 GMT compared to a half percent fall for the FTSE 100 index as a whole.
Fortescue plans to review in December whether to push ahead with tripling its iron ore capacity, a plan it deferred in September when iron ore prices slid to a three-year low.
The company had expected iron ore prices to hold around $120 a tonne, but when prices slumped to $87 in September it slammed the brakes on plans to lift its annual capacity to 155 million tonnes by digging the Kings mine.
Iron ore prices have since rebounded to around $120 and Fortescue said this has given the company more confidence to try to revive the Kings development.
"We've spent the vast amount of the capital there, so we are very keen to restart that as soon as we possibly can...It's looking very promising," Nev Power, Fortescue's chief executive, told reporters after its annual general meeting on Wednesday.
Still uncertainties over China remain.
Iron ore prices may drop nearly 10 percent over the next three years as China's economic growth shifts to a slower gear, a Reuters poll in late October showed.
Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart's $10 billion Roy Hill iron ore project is also running behind plan, now expecting to start shipping iron ore by September 2015 if it secures debt financing by mid-2013 as hoped.
"We were planning to put the first ore on ship towards the end of 2014. Now we've revised it to mid-to-September 2015," said Tad Watroba, an executive director at Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting, which owns 70 percent of the project.
The Roy Hill project has run into delays lining up around $7 billion in debt funding, as potential lenders, including export credit agencies in Japan and South Korea, have become extra cautious following the global financial crisis.
The partners hope to secure the funding by mid-2013 so they can begin construction on the mine, rail and port project that aim to produce 55 million tonnes a year. The partners have already spent or committed $2 billion on the project.
Watroba said the project expects to launch the financing process shortly, with draft term sheets approved by the board, and said it hopes lenders will approve the term sheets within three to four months.
Roy Hill is 30 percent owned by a consortium led by South Korean steel giant POSCO (005490.KS), Japan's Marubeni Corp (8002.T), South Korea's STX Corp (011810.KS) and Taiwan's China Steel Corp (2002.TW). (Additional reporting by Rebekah Kebede in PERTH, James Regan in SYDNEY and Manolo Serapio in SINGAPORE; Editing by Ed Davies)


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Continuing the Greek glossary for food and drink related vocabulary. The accent is shown by the letters in bold italics.
gastronomy - gastronomeea (the English word came from the Greek)
ginger - piperoreeza
grain - siteera
grape - stafeelee
gravy - zomos
grill (n) - schara
grill (v) - pseeno
Traditional Greek food as cooked by Greek mothers!! Delicious and easy recipes!!
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2 comments:
- Jackie said...
Oh my goodness I am so stunned. Wow thank you so much for featuring me.
I don't know what I did or why I deserve such an honor but I am most grateful.
Oh dear wow thank you so much!!
Blessings to you,
- 3 December 2008 at 13:07
- This Makes My Day said...
Greek is such a wonderful and mystical language! Thanks you for this glossary, with a little luck I will be able to speak some Greek words and phrases!
Have a great weekend!
- 12 December 2008 at 15:58
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A Wild Silithid Hatchling Appears!
I immediately swooped down to battle it - and OMG it was RARE! I mean I wanted it badly before but now must have it - MY PRECIOUS!!
After I caught it I quickly went to my guild list - nobody who pet battles was on - no Roshii, Souglyy, Aza, Mctacky! Then I went to my friends list... OMG, where was Ancient, JD, Arvash, Eva, Chris? I saw Repgrind but she told me she didn't have anything high enough for Tanaris...
I told Slice, but he was like... what the hell are you on about Navi... so I was sad, I only had myself to tell :(
But I can tell my blog! Good ol' blog, I can always count on you to listen :) So here is a pic of me and my newly acquired pet, which means, like Cymre, I only have the 2 seasonal pets to go for my Kalimdor Safari achievement - Qiraji Hatchling and Snowy Owl, I mean YOU!


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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
By Lawrence Wright. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-307-70066-7. 432 pp. Hardcover, $28.95.
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
By Jenna Miscavige Hill with Lisa Pulitzer. William Morrow, New York, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-06-224847-3. 404 pp. Hardcover, $27.99.
The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
By John Sweeney. Silvertail Books (www.silvertailbooks.com), 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-909269-03-3. 324 pp. Paperback, £12.99.
We very likely have Katie Holmes to thank for the timing of this latest crop of books on Scientology, the belief system so notably promoted by her
ex-husband, Tom Cruise. Yes, at least two of these authors have been researching their books for many years, but for promotional opportunities you can't
beat a good celebrity crack-up. That said, the Church of Scientology's known love of litigation and the United Kingdom's libel laws have made British
publishers skittish: Transworld canceled New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright's Going Clear, and BBC investigative journalist John
Sweeney's agent, turned down by every major British publisher, created a new independent publishing company to get The Church of Fear into the
Wright's frame for Going Clear is the personal story of Hollywood screenwriter Paul Haggis (Crash, Million-Dollar Baby), which
ran in the New Yorker in 2011. A good choice: Haggis found Scientology as an alienated twenty-one-year-old in London, Ontario, in 1975 and stayed
with it through his waxing and waning career. He didn't begin asking questions until 2008, when the Church's name appeared on a list of organizations
supporting Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative to ban gay marriage. When Haggis, two of whose daughters are gay, failed to get satisfactory
answers about the issue, he began researching the Church he thought he knew. What he learned led to his resignation. He tells Wright: "I was in a cult for
thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't."
All told, Wright interviewed more than two hundred current and former Scientologists in addition to research in archives and on the Internet. The effort
shows. If you haven't been following the progression of books and articles over the last thirty years, this is as complete and rounded an account of
Scientology and its people as you're likely to find—now or in the future. Wright notes that for years the Church has been buying up original
Hubbard-related journals, letters, and photographs and withdrawing them from public view.
If you have been following the Church, however, it's surprising how much of the book's material is familiar. Most of the details of the life and lies of
Scientology founder and pulp-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard were laid bare in two 1987 books, British journalist Russell L. Miller's Bare-Faced Messiah and American former Scientologist Bent Corydon's Messiah or Madman?. In Time's "The Thriving Cult of Greed
and Power" (1991), Richard Behar took a hard look at the Church's operation and finances. Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth published a close-up look at
Tom Cruise's love life just prior to Holmes, showing the Church's micromanagement of everything its biggest celebrity spokesman might want. Finally, in
2011's Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, Janet Reitman broke new ground by studying the transfer of power within
the Church after Hubbard died—pardon me, "discarded his body"—to current leader David Miscavige, uncovering the level of torture and abuse endured by
members of Scientology's elite "Sea Org," and taking a first look at the stories of kids who've grown up in Scientology.
Elements of all these prior works are visible in Wright's account, which pulls them together and fills in missing detail and personal context. The material
less familiar to me included Hubbard's "Affirmations," a thirty-page diary of sorts that the Church calls a forgery but that was introduced as an exhibit
in the Church's 1984 lawsuit against its former archivist, Gerald Armstrong. In it, Hubbard wrote candidly about himself and his fears that Wright believes
are an early attempt at using the methods later known as Dianetics, Scientology's precursor and foundation.
Wright has also done a good job on the Church's finances. Its extreme wealth derives in part from the 1993 settlement with the Internal Revenue Service
that classed it as a tax-exempt religion. Hubbard stopped paying tax in 1973; by 1991 the Church owed $1 billion in back taxes and had brought more than
2,300 suits against the IRS on behalf of individual Scientologists and two hundred of its own. The two organizations went all out spying on each other
until, in 1991, Miscavige, by then installed as leader, abruptly called on the commissioner and proposed détente. The settlement took two years to
negotiate; the Church eventually paid $12.5 million in back taxes and dropped all its lawsuits. The kicker: if they had paid the full sum in 1991 the
Church by now might be just a historical oddity. Instead, it has $1 billion in assets, mostly held in offshore accounts, despite declining membership
according to polls and census figures.
"Public" Scientologists—that is, those who live and work outside the Church and simply take courses or use "the tech"—almost certainly have little idea how
the Church treats those who give their lives to it by becoming members of the inner-circle "Sea Org." They are told to avoid the media and are offered
Internet filtering software to block anti-Scientology sites that might tell them that anyone, from highly visible spokespeople to children, may abruptly
disappear for months or years of punishment where their basic biological needs are barely met and they are forced to do hard physical labor at exploitive
or nonexistent rates of pay. Even more protected from the reality of this side of the Church are its celebrity spokespeople; their experiences of
Scientology are limited to its beautifully appointed Celebrity Centers.
Where Wright's book is at its best is in the personal stories: Haggis's, of course, but many others, including that of Spanky Taylor. For a time she was
John Travolta's trusted personal Church liaison until she was abruptly sent away for punishment and finally left the Church. It can happen to anyone: even
Church president Heber Jentzsch, a frequent public spokesman in the 1990s, has been in "the Hole," whose tortures are vividly described to Wright, since
This decade's significant change in how we think about Scientologists—as opposed to Scientology—has to be this: a substantial portion of today's
Scientologists did not choose to join. Instead, as Miscavige's niece, Jenna Miscavige Hill, recounts in Beyond Belief, their involvement
is a result of decisions made by their parents or grandparents. Hill's parents, like Miscavige himself, were brought into Scientology as children; she knew
she was a Thetan as soon as she could talk. She was two when her parents abandoned family life in New Hampshire and committed their lives entirely to the
Church. Hill grew up with other Scientology kids in a rigidly controlled, isolated environment on a ranch in Southern California, rarely seeing her parents
and schooled primarily in Hubbard's writings. One day, with the other kids, she signed a billion-year contract with the Sea Org. She was eight.
A billion years, thirty years—it's all the same when you're eight, but as Hill grew older she began to realize what she'd given away: her individuality,
the right to ask questions, the right to family life. You can rationalize that, as well as punishments such as isolation and scrubbing bathrooms with a
toothbrush, as long as you believe it's to benefit the greater good. The Miscavige name subjected her to additional pressure and scrutiny as well as
resentment from those who thought it gained her special privileges. In her mid-teens, Hill underwent months of "sec-checks" intended to force her to find
and confess "withholds" from her present and past lives, and couldn't understand why. Eventually she was told: her parents had left the Sea Org. Expected
to go with them, she was being given the standard leaving treatment; the Church was collecting secrets it could use to silence her later.
She didn't want to leave, not then. That came later, after she met and fell in love with Dallas Hill. After many struggles, internal and external, the pair
"blew" for the real world. Hill has gone on to have the children she wouldn't have been allowed inside the Sea Org and cofound the ExScientologyKids
website. Gradually, she came to realize the extent to which her life had been owned by the Church. In 2007, when the high-ranking Mike Rinder blew, she
finally learned the inside story of why and how her life had been micromanaged at the behest of her uncle.
Rinder's high-profile defection, one of several over the past five or six years, came after his appearance as a Church spokesman in the documentary Scientology and Me, a 2007 episode of the BBC's Panorama, a program with roughly the national weight and reach of 60 Minutes.
The award-winning investigative reporter behind it, John Sweeney, followed up in 2010 with The Secrets of Scientology. Despite his long history as
a war correspondent, Sweeney says his life's most frightening moments came while investigating Scientology. This is the story he tells in The Church of Fear; it's the stuff they didn't broadcast, including detailed accounts of interviews with the actresses Anne Archer, Leah Remini,
Juliette Lewis, and Kirstie Alley, all celebrity supporters. For me, it contains the most new and original (and entertaining) material of the three books
reviewed here. Sweeney even visited Trementina, the "space alien cathedral" miles out in the New Mexico desert that stores all of Hubbard's work on
gold-plated discs in a heavily protected underground vault. Also in the book are leaked BlackBerry messages between Miscavige, Rinder, Davis, and other
handlers showing that Sweeney's developing paranoia that he was being spied on was entirely justified.
Sweeney has apologized many times for "the exploding tomato" incident: the moment in 2007, widely viewed on YouTube, when he turned bright red and started
bellowing at Church spokesman Tommy Davis, Anne Archer's son. By 2010, enough of Sweeney's 2007 handlers had defected that he could put them on the air to
explain exactly how he was goaded and manipulated following Hubbard's strategy of pushing the enemy until he does things you can use to discredit him.
However, this strategy collided with the strategy devised by Sweeney's producer, Sarah Mole, which cast Sweeney as the hypothetical goat in Jurassic Park: bait to pull the predators into the open. A few days before the 2007 broadcast, the Church published the clip of his explosion,
following later with a counter-documentary, Panorama Exposed. As an effort to discredit, it failed: the license fee-paying British public was
inclined to view the tomato incident as an understandable lapse.
It was the pressure of lying in response to Sweeney's knowledgeable point-blank questions that led to the defection of Mike Rinder, who had been pulled
out of the Hole to handle Sweeney. The question that broke his back: Had David Miscavige ever hit him? In 2007, Rinder said no. In 2010, a much happier
Rinder said instead that the culture of violence in the Church starts at the top and spreads outward and estimated he'd personally been beaten by Miscavige
fifty times. Wright lists twelve people who say they, too, were victims of assault by Miscavige and twenty-one who say they witnessed such incidents.
The Church repeatedly has denied these and the other claims of violence, abuse, and deception that all three of these writers and many others continue to
spread across the media, backed up by the many Internet sites that are enabling disaffected former Scientologists to find each other and share their
stories. Church spokespeople have called critics, even Scientology's own blown former top spokesmen, criminals, sex offenders, bigots, liars, suppressive
persons, evil, and psychopaths. Midway through Sweeney's book, as the number of such characterizations multiplies, it becomes impossible not to think of
the actor's agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack) in the 1982 movie Tootsie, explaining reality to his brilliant but unemployable client, Michael
Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman): "They can't all be idiots, Michael. You argue with everybody."


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Chip Stonehouse
One highlight of the month of May is a special day set aside to honor mothers. Telephone lines are jammed with calls from grown-up children to their mothers. Greeting cards are in great demand. Other festivities become a tradition for honoring the woman who has devoted herself to her children's welfare. Those with a Christian mother have special reasons to "arise and call her blessed" (Prov. 31:28).
As Orthodox Presbyterians, let us seize the occasion also to honor congregations that have produced daughter churches. To be successful, a mother church must have vision, courage, and a strong commitment to the Great Commission. Just as mothers need to conquer fears when they send their children away to college or into the workforce, so also do mother churches need to overcome fears. Will we be able to meet our budget? What will happen to the special loving relationship we enjoy when many of our children begin worshiping at another location?
We applaud those mother churches that have faced such concerns and yet have deliberately sent a number of their members away to form the nucleus of a new mission work. Starting daughter churches is perhaps the most effective way to establish a strong mission work which can reach out with the gospel in a new community.
God has blessed this means of church planting in many places in our church. Space does not permit telling about them all. But perhaps a few will cause us to thank the Lord for such mothers.
Perhaps no step of faith taken by an OP church has prospered more for the kingdom of God than the one taken by Knox Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1964 the session went on record with a commitment to seek out opportunities to be involved in church planting. Little did those elders realize the ramifications of that decision!
During 1967 the Lord created a problem for Knox Church. Rapid growth meant that pews were full and that classrooms were becoming inadequate. The church building was located on a plot too small to permit any expansion of the building. Knox Church could have settled happily into a maintenance mode.
But during that time of growth, a prayer meeting was started in the home of John Voorhis near Burtonsville, a rapidly expanding community about ten miles north of Silver Spring. Then in February 1968 the session decided to split its membership by starting a daughter church in Burtonsville.
Things happened rapidly, as they often do in the last stages of labor. Barry Hofford was engaged to be a home missionary on June 1 to plant a daughter congregation. He had grown up as a covenant child in Knox Church and had just graduated from seminary. Thirty-four communicant members, along with twenty-five covenant children, formed the new congregation. Space was rented at the Burtonsville elementary school. Worship services began in early June. By January the presbytery formally divided the membership of Knox Church to form a new congregation in Burtonsville (Covenant OPC) with three elders and two deacons.
Today Covenant Church has grown to a membership of 266, with an expanding ministry. Knox Church's vision has been wonderfully blessed by God. It remains strong, although smaller than in its peak years. But there is more to this story.
Perhaps the most exciting part of it began in 1978, when Burtonsville sent fifty-five members to be part of a granddaughter church in Columbia, Maryland. Al Harris was called to plant this new congregation. Today Columbia OPC has outgrown both its mother and its grandmother churches to become the largest congregation in the OPC with 545 members! Along the way it has trained a number of interns and has sent several missionaries into foreign fields. And now Columbia hopes soon to plant a great-granddaughter church in western Howard County.
There is another slant on this remarkable story. The first intern at Columbia was Dick Ellis, who grew up in the Silver Spring church while his father, Charles, was the pastor (1955-1979). After extensive training, Dick was sent to Frederick, Maryland, to plant a church in 1983. Of great help in that outreach venture was Dick Hake, an elder at Covenant and a missions staff worker for the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic. That congregation (New Hope OPC) has shown remarkable growth, with a membership now at 160. The congregation has been pushed to two morning services to make room for further growth. Former pastor, home missionary, and Foreign Missions general secretary Larry Vail gives much assistance as associate pastor.
Those involved in the original vision at Knox Church tell me that God has done far more than they asked for or thought he would do!
Some daughter churches get started, however, not because the mother church is overcrowded, but because several families are located in a distant community. While these families are able to attend one worship service on Sunday, it is difficult for them to become fully involved in the life of the church and almost impossible to invite neighbors to visit their church.
For example, several years ago six families from Bethel Presbyterian Church in Wheaton, Illinois, began to meet for prayer and to plan a new ministry in Batavia, an expanding community fifteen miles west of Wheaton. Regional home missionary Jim Bosgraf provided helpful advice. It took three years of gestation before the first worship service was held in October 1997. James Megchelsen began serving as the organizing pastor. Attendance at worship is now about forty-five.
It was not easy for that mother church to send off so many people. But the session encouraged eight families to go and support the new work. Bethel still remembered a grievous division when many people had left that congregation. Were they strong enough and financially able to overcome further attritionthough for a noble cause? Fears were quieted as the congregation viewed the division as an expansion for the spread of the gospel rather than as a loss to them.
Bethel's pastor, Lendall Smith, reports that the mother church is excited and proud of her daughter. And church planter Megchelsen says the daughter church appreciates the loving support, mature guidance, and encouragement that she receives from her mother.
When Ralph Rebandt left Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, he completed a yearlong internship at Calvary OPC in Glenside, Pennsylvania. He then returned to his home area in Michigan with a vision to see God plant a number of churches in that state. He had several contacts in Oakland Hills, a suburb of Detroit. Through steady effort, a strong congregation (Oakland Hills Community Church) has been built up.
A few years ago, three families from the Royal Oak area joined the congregation with the understanding that they would eventually become part of a daughter church nearer their homes. A home prayer meeting began to strategize and reach out. Some public information meetings gained new contacts. Subsequently, the first worship service in Royal Oak took place on Easter Sunday 1996. By August, Jeffrey Wilson was on the field, called as organizing pastor of Providence OPC.
The congregation in Royal Oak has grown rapidly, with over seventy members at present. They became self-supporting in mid-1997 after receiving Home Missions funding for a short time. In October this daughter church was officially organized as a new and separate congregation.
As we have seen, one good way to start a daughter church is to involve an intern, making church planting the climax of his training for ministry. In 1979 Jack Kinneer was serving as an intern at Calvary Community Church in Harmony, New Jersey. He, with then pastor George Scipione, worked out a plan to start a church in Easton, just across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. At that time Calvary Community Church was the only Reformed work in the area.
Calvary Church asked and received permission from the Presbytery of Philadelphia to start a church within its bounds. Six families from the mother church formed the nucleus of a mission work in Easton, which became known as New Life OPC. When it was organized, the congregation became part of the Presbytery of Philadelphia.
In 1990 Calvary Church caught a fresh vision for church planting. A number of members formed the core group for River of Life Church in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on the banks of the Delaware River. Phillipsburg is an economically depressed area. From the beginning, the church has had a strong diaconal ministry to the poor.
When this church planting began, Don Taws was the pastor at Calvary Church. He led this expanding ministry along with Chuck Holmes, a student at Westminster Theological Seminary. Later, Don served a short-term stint in Eritrea, followed by a brief ministry as a regional home missionary for the Presbytery of New Jersey.
When River of Life was ready to call an organizing pastor, God opened the door for Bill Slack to come as pastor. At the time, he was pastoring New Life Church in Frenchtown, south of Phillipsburg. New Life had just been severely damaged by a division caused by an elder who had begun to introduce heretical teaching. Bill was called as pastor of River of Life, and the faithful remnant of New Life Church merged with them to form one congregation in January 1993. Attendance at River of Life now averages over one hundred on Sunday mornings.
Lake Sherwood OPC in Orlando, Florida, had been thinking about starting a daughter church for several years. The right factors eventually came together when people in a Bible study in southeast Orlando began to pray about being part of a church plant.
Chad Sadorf was a student at Reformed Theological Seminary at that time. During the latter part of his schooling, he served as an intern with Pastor Larry Mininger. In June 1996, with one semester to go, Chad and his wife Lori moved near the proposed site for a daughter church in Saint Cloud, close to Disney World. Morning services began in September of that year under Chad's leadership. Starting with five or six families from Lake Sherwood, the congregation has grown rapidly to about twenty families.
Chad cites the important role of the Lake Sherwood session in providing mature oversight, financial aid, and prayer support in helping Hope OPC get off to a good start. Also, they have received many other kinds of encouragement from their mother church.
Redeemer OPC in Dayton, Ohio, believes in long-range planning for church expansion. In 1992 the church encouraged deacon Charles Jackson to attend seminary and provided substantial support for him. This was with the intention that after graduation he would help them plant a daughter church.
Four years later, Charles graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary and was called as a church planter. Six families were commissioned to help start the new congregation, Covenant OPC. (The mother congregation is now known as Dayton South, and the new ministry is called Dayton North.) Three elders became part of the new mission work. Excellent facilities have been found at a motel.
Attendance at the daughter church has reached the fifties, while the mother church has about one hundred. Since the beginning of the daughter church, God has sent new families to the mother church, including two men who had previously served as elders. The two congregations cooperate in some ministries, while conducting distinct ministries reaching opposite sides of the city.
One of our fastest starting churches is in Rockford Springs, ten miles north of Grand Rapids. Bill Vermeulen, director of evangelism and church development for the OPC, took the initiative in planning the work and gathering interested people in 1995.
Spencer Mills Church, located only ten miles away, was in an ideal position to encourage a daughter church. After becoming involved in the new work, they sent forty people to it, including two elders and two deacons. Frank Marsh, the pastor at Spencer Mills, had some concerns when those forty members were commissioned to serve in the daughter church. How could such gifted people be replaced? Would the ministries at Spencer Mills suffer? But God has quieted those concerns by sending seventy new people to the mother church since they relinquished forty people to Rockford Springs.
Rockford Springs Community Church has been blessed by the leadership of an experienced pastor, Lou Wislocki. The congregation has also profited from the energetic involvement of Don Stanton. While retired as the former pastor of the Spencer Mills Church, he continues to be a leader in presbytery home missions endeavors.
A new church building was recently dedicated on a well-traveled highway. Already the worship area is almost filled to capacity. Plans are taking shape for building expansion. Generous giving by members of the congregation enabled them to end Home Missions support one year ahead of schedule.
Pastor Marsh says that Spencer Mills is already considering where they can start their next daughter church.
Hot off the press ... the newest (known) daughter church in the OPC is in Bohemia, New York. The mother church is our established Franklin Square OPC, where Bill Shishko is the pastor.
For a number of years, the Franklin Square church has considered starting a daughter church to the east in central Long Island. But until now, it did not seem to be God's timing. Meanwhile, the congregation continued to experience growth, with every pew being filled and other worshipers watching closed-circuit TV in another room.
Recently, in God's providence, a church building and a manse came on the market in Bohemia, forty miles east of Franklin Square. With a loan from the OPC Loan Fund, the property was purchased. Fifty people from the mother church are providing a strong nucleus that includes three ruling elders.
One of the elders, Meindert "Meint" Ploegman, had been running his own business while preparing for ordination as a minister. He was called to serve as the organizing pastor and began his ministry on April 1.
Franklin Square now has room for visitors, but they do not plan to sit still. Pastor Shishko says the session is already talking about having another daughter in New York City.
As we have seen, planting a daughter church has many advantages over more common methods of starting churches. In my own work as a regional home missionary, I have usually been involved in building churches from the ground up. Sometimes a church gets started with one interested family. It may therefore take several months to gather a small nucleus. Daughter churches have a great advantage in beginning with a large core group.
In starting a daughter church, those involved need to work through several questions: What kind of church will we be? How will we worship? What will our philosophy of ministry be? Do we like each other, and can we work together? Who will be our leaders? It requires time, patience, prayer, and flexibility to get everyone on the same page. These questions should be settled before a daughter church is launched.
One of the more important supports that a mother church provides is prayer. They also provide financial help and people gifted in music and teaching. Daughter churches are secure and go forward boldly with this backing.
Perhaps your church will be the next mother church in the OPC. You may fear that you will be crippled, or even die, if you give away too many of your own resources. Let me encourage you with a quote from Charles Spurgeon. Someone once asked him if it would be possible for a church to give so much to missions that it would die. He answered, "I never heard of that happening. But if you do, let me know and I'll preach the funeral sermon for the church. My text will be 'Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.' "
There are risks in childbirth. There are labor pains, but there is also enormous promise. All the people we have mentioned in this article were excited about the process. Listen to the testimony of one church planter who started a daughter congregation:
"The session of the mother church became committed to a model of church growth that was built around the planting of new churches. Following a unified decision of the session to move forward with planting a daughter church, we carefully communicated the project to the congregation. Then we concentrated on cultivating a vision for the mission project in the lives of interested people and we sought their commitment. We also searched for a location where the needs and opportunities were great. Soon the empty chairs left by the departure of some of the daughter church began to be filled, so that attendance was soon back to what it had been. Finances did go down a bit, but before long were above where they had been before we left. Six weeks after we began, we were able to send a sizable gift to the mother church. Both groups are happy and healthy. People (together with their gifts) have come out of the woodwork in both groups because of the challenge and stretching involved in the process. There is a cost to be paid, but the blessing and reward are tremendous!"
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Strong title! I know. I know. I am not usually so blatant, but there is a reason and I will get to it. I won't apologize, but perhaps my post will clarify. Mama bear is protective of her little cub.
My son has played baseball (well Tball initially) since the age of 3. He has been on a dozen different little league teams. Never had much of an issue with little league. Everyone plays everywhere - it's about fairness and fun. It is not that competitive. Everyone gets a trophy.
Travel Baseball has been brutal
Hunter has been playing travel ball since he was 7 years old. It has been a world of kid's baseball that is full of bickering, backstabbing, statements such as "my kid is better than that kid" and "my kid should be playing 3rd base," criticisms about who is sitting the bench, comments about "daddy ball" which is real for some (you know who you are), but not true for all. It's cliquish and so high school at times. People complain about little league politics, but there are definitely politics in travel ball too. Everyone wants to befriend the coach and are afraid of him knowing this, that, or the other thing because it might affect their child's playing. Parents are yelling at umpires (I might have done that once but I am not admitting it). Parents are yelling at other team's parents. I am telling you - a riot could have broken out at one game I was at. Coaches telling kids to go hurt other kids because a player got hurt...vicious at times. Sometimes I wish we had video of it all so we could look at ourselves and say "What the heck?" Isn't this about the kids? It just isn't that flipping serious. What are our kids learning? (If you read yourself in this, something to look at)
It should be about the kids - they are amazing. I have seen 9 and 10 year olds play like they get a paycheck and then go play with their Happy Meal Toys when the games are over as they eat their hamburger and fries. Such a contrast. They are just little boys (and sometimes girls). They may seem 20 on a ball field, but they aren't. They are learning MORE than baseball here.
I guess it all isn't negative. I mean, my son has learned so much int he last 2 years that will help him in other areas of his life. He started off being the worst player on his first travel ball team and getting the sought after last batter slot and alternate right fielder position (which he deserved). I have always believed one should work hard for anything in life, so it was amazing to see how hard Hunter worked to get better. Nearly every day, my kid has a glove or a bat in his hands, asking his dad to help him work on some aspect of his game. He is always striving to improve. He has a passion for this game - a love (albeit sometimes it is a love-hate relationship) for baseball. Every day he is thinking baseball. We should all have a passion and a love in life - a reason for being. I have watched this boy improve dramatically in the manner he conducts himself with others - the way he treats people with compassion, the sincere interest if another player is injured or upset, and finally, the other day there was a big smile (EVEN when he got out) and I asked him about it - "I just don't feel like crying anymore." Big smiles from mama.
I thought about writing a tell all story about the life of my son's short baseball career because that 2 years, particularly the last few months is full of drama. When I tell my friends about all the events of baseball, I am told "this should be a reality show." Ha ha. It really could be. I think we could make some money in this. There is plenty of drama to go around.
I have a wonderful little boy with a great big heart. I have seen him be hurt tremendously because of one particular coach for whom I have had such hurt and anger due to his choices/actions. So much I could say here, but I won't. I saw the effects of this hurt with our recent move. I felt it was a good time for a change, so I made a leap and moved my family away. I see all these little boys around the neighborhood and probe my son to make friends because he is definitely NOT SHY! He wasn't interested. He told me he doesn't want to make friends with anyone anymore. UGH! Crushing. Even more anger !!! I am not normally an angry person, but I have been carrying around so much of this anger and it is eating me up.
In my journey, I found my way to a new church here and it was if the words being spoken were meant to be heard by yours truly.
Every day I want to connect with God. When communion is celebrated, I am inviting him in. Yet, how is there any room when I am full of this hurt and anger? One of the scriptures that was discussed which affected me and made me realize how I need to forgive all of the past hurts and move beyond it:
Eph 4:20-5:2
Brothers and sisters:
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God,
with which you were sealed for the day of redemption.
All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling
must be removed from you, along with all
And be kind to one another, compassionate,
forgiving one another as God has
So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love,
as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us
as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
My goal in life is beyond having the best baseball player. My goal is to raise my children to be the best people they can be. Teaching forgiveness means first you must do it. So, I am called to forgive and I am working on it. I want my son to know that when he messes up, God will forgive him too (and of course he knows I always do). I want him to focus on all the good things that he gets from baseball (that hard work ethic, the passion, the good character, the ability to deal with adversity and persevere, the value of the team over the individual which involves personal sacrifice at times) - traits that will carry him far in life, regardless of what he does.
So, if have done anything to you, do yourself the favor of forgiving me for yourself and your kids and I will be over here working on my own forgiveness. Writing this has been more of a catharsis than anything. I mean no ill will toward anyone.
To all the B**ches and B***ards of Baseball,
See you at the ballfield
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Backstabbing B**ches and B****ards of Baseball
Strong title! I know. I know. I am not usually so blatant, but there is a reason and I will get to it. I won't apologize, but perhaps my post will clarify. Mama bear is protective of her little cub.
Posted by Unknown at 9:05 PM
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Tradition carries on
My girls spend all their free time at a ball field, watching their brother play ball and it would only seem natural that one of them would find themselves interested in playing ball. Alexandria has expressed her interest in playing ball and begged to join little league. She picked up a glove for the first time in the last week and has been practicing every night with her brother. He has been coaching her and she loves all the attention she gets from him. He had his own tryouts tonight and wasn't watching her game. She was very disappointed in him and expressed this. He looked downtrodden after tryouts and I asked what was wrong with him. He told me, "I am sad because I hurt my sister's feelings by not watching her tryout." Guess we live and learn. Love the relationship/bond they have. Sweet kids. #nevergoingtoletherdownagain #LOYALTY
Here is Allie's fielding from the tryouts at the little league tonight.
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It's the Befana day!
Our Blogger: Ilaria
Ilaria, born and bred Venetian, introduces us to this peculiar Italian tradition.
Children are fascinated and a little bit frightened by this enigmatic, funny eerie character whose existence sink its roots into the ground of paganism.
In days of yore , on the twelfth night after the Christmas day (the 25th of December), day of the winter solstice, people used to celebrate death and rebirth of nature through the pagan figure of " Mother Nature".
The night of the 6th of January , tired tired after spending all her energy during the year, she appeared in the shape of an old and benevolent witch who flew through the sky on a broom giving away gifts and candy to everybody. By now completely dried, Mother Nature was ready to be burned like a branch , to be able to born again from her own ashes as youthful Nature.
Like others traditions in Italy ( Christmas itself for example) the originary pagan meaning of epiphany (term deriving from greek that means "manifestation", "appearance" , implied of divinity , used from the Christian tradition to nominate the first Jesus Christ's manifestation) has been modified during years becoming as we know nowadays. In Italian, the name "epifania" (- epiphany ) itself transformed into "bifanìa" and than again into "befanìa" , the word then changed once and for all into "befana", and designates now the old benevolent witch .
The "befana" is still pictured as the old mother natured described above, and in the rural tradition people used to prepare a puppet with her shape and burn it the night between the 5th and the 6th of January as a rite of purification ( the Italian movie of 1973 "Amarcord" by Federico Fellini shows this rite in the first scene ).
So if you're walking through fancy open-markets during Xmas time, don't be astonished to see many little puppets shaped as an old smiling witch on a broom..
You'll also see a lot of colourful Christmas socks : according to the tradition children must hang them on a wall so that they can be filled with candies, chocolate or toys by the Befana. Children must be careful anyway: if they haven't been good boys during the year, the "befana" will bring them peaces of coa insteadl!
This festivity is the last afterNew year's day, that's why here we call "epiphany" the festivity that all festivities takes away : " L'epifania tutte le feste porta via".
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Oct. 14, 2009) – The U.S. Men's Volleyball Team defeated Canada 3-1 (21-15, 25-17, 25-22, 25-21) to win Pool B on Wednesday in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and advance to Friday's semifinal round at the NORCECA Continental Championship.
The United States will play one of the winners of Thursday's two quarterfinal matches, which will see Canada play the Dominican Republic while Puerto Rico faces Mexico.
The United States' Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) led all scorers with 22 points on 17 kills, a match-high four blocks and one ace. Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) added 19 points on 15 kills, three blocks and one ace. Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) contributed 13 points on 11 kills, one block and one ace.
Stephen Gotch led Canada with 20 points on a match-high 19 kills and one block.
"Canada showed good poise and consistency," U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said. "I think the experience was the key for us and the biggest difference. The day off on Thursday will give us the chance to work together and analyze our next opponent."
Among other U.S. scorers, David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) scored 12 points on nine kills, two blocks and one ace. Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.) totaled 10 points on eight kills and two blocks. Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) tallied four points on two kills and two blocks.
The U.S. Men completed 62 of 109 kill attempts (57 percent) with 16 errors. Stanley completed 17 of 29 (59 percent) kill attempts with six errors. Priddy completed 11 of 21 attempts (52 percent) with five errors. Rooney completed 15 of 30 attempts (50 percent) with two errors.
Canada completed 55 of 113 kill attempts with 18 errors.
The U.S. Men out-blocked Canada 14-7 and had four aces while Canada had one.
The United States was credited with 50 excellent receptions on 78 attempts (63 percent) with just one error. Libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) was credited with 15 excellents on 22 attempts (68 percent). Priddy was credited with 17 excellents on 26 attempts (65 percent) and Rooney was credited with 16 excellents on 25 attempts (64 attempts).
Hansen had 12 running sets and one fault on 91 attempts.
Knipe started Rooney and Priddy at outside hitter, Hein and Lee at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite, Hansen at setter and Lambourne at libero. Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.), Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) and Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) played as substitutes.
Serving and attack errors hurt the U.S. Men early in the first set and Canada held an 8-7 lead at the first technical timeout (TTO) with the U.S. scoring two kills by Stanley, two from Priddy and one from Lee. Team USA came back to lead 9-8 on a kill and a block by Hein and eventually led 11-9 after a kill by Rooney and a Lee block. Trailing 11-13, Canada scored three straight points on a U.S. serving error and two straight blocks to go ahead 14-13. The teams battle back and forth, with the United States holding a 16-15 lead at the second TTO. The U.S. gained a 19-18 advantage on a Rooney kill, but Canada scored the next four straight points on two U.S. errors and two kills. Knipe called timeout, but Canada went ahead 23-19 on another U.S. error. Lee finally stopped the bleeding with a kill. But Canada reached set point first with a kill. Stanley made it 24-21 with a kill. But Canada ended it with a final attack.
Team USA bounced back in the second set and held an 8-6 lead at the first TTO, scoring on two kills by Hein along with one each from Rooney, Stanley and Lee and three Canadian serving errors. Another Lee kill and a Hansen block gave the United States a 10-6 lead and Canada called timeout. Team Canada responded with a kill, but the United States came back with three more straight points on kills by Hansen and Priddy and Lee's ace. Team USA's lead was 16-10 at the second TTO and a 4-1 U.S. run made it 20-11. The United States reached set point first at 24-16. A kill by Nathan Groenveld, who had come in as a substitute for Canada, make it 24-17, but Priddy sealed the victory with a kill.
The United States kept up the momentum in the third set and took an 8-6 lead at the first TTO, scoring on two kills each from Stanley and Lee and one each from Hein and Priddy. Team USA led by four at the second TTO, 16-12. Later, with the U.S. leading 18-13, Canada scored three straight points, causing Knipe to call a timeout. The United States responded with three straight points of its own, including a Priddy kill and Lee block. Team USA reached set point first at 24-19, but then gave up three straight points on two U.S. errors and a Canadian ace. Knipe called timeout and Rooney ended the matter with a kill.
Team USA led 8-4 in the fourth set, scoring on four kills and an ace from Stanley along with kills from Hein and Rooney. Canada came back to make it 8-6 before the United States scored three more straight points. Canada called timeout and got a point on a Gotch kill, but the damage was done and the United States led 16-11 at the second TTO. With the U.S. up 17-12, Canada scored three straight points to pull within two. However the U.S. scored twice on a Stanley kill and Canadian error to maintain its lead. Team USA was leading 22-20 when Rooney used two straight kills to reach match point. Canada called timeout and scored on a kill, but a final Rooney kill gave the victory to the United States.
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NORCECA Men's Continental Championship
Oct. 12-17 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
U.S. Men's Roster
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Palmdale, Calif., BYU)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
12 Tom Hoff (MB, 6-8, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
16 Andy Hein (MB, 611, Carol Stream, Ill., Pepperdine)
17 Jonathan Winder (S, 6-8, Irvine, Calif., Pepperdine)
19 Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawai'i)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe
Team Manager: Bill Neville
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato
Therapist/Trainer: Charlie Sullivan
Team Doctor: Andrew Gregory
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson
Medical Support: Aaron Brock
Pool Play Results
Group A
Oct. 12
Cuba def. Dominican Republic, 25-17, 25-15, 25-14
Puerto Rico def. Barbados, 25-9, 25-16, 25-18
Oct. 13
Cuba def. Barbados, 25-10, 25-11, 25-16
Puerto Rico def. Dominican Republic, 25-18, 25-20, 25-19
Oct. 14
Dominican Republic def. Barbados, 21-15, 25-17, 25-22, 25-21
Cuba def. Puerto Rico, 25-21, 25-22, 25-20
Group B
Oct. 12
USA def. Mexico, 25-15, 28-26, 25-16
Canada def. Panama, 25-13, 25-23, 25-19
Oct. 13
Canada def. Mexico, 21-25, 25-16, 26-24, 25-12
USA def. Panama, 25-13, 25-15, 25-8
Oct. 14
Mexico def. Panama, 25-19, 25-14, 25-21
USA def. Canada, 21-15, 25-17, 25-22, 25-21
Group A Standings
Cuba 3-0
Puerto Rico 2-1
Dominican Republic 1-2
Barbados 0-3
Group B Standings
Canada 2-1
Mexico 1-2
Panama 0-3
Oct. 15 Quarterfinals
3 p.m. Canada vs. Dominican Republic
5 p.m. Puerto Rico vs. Mexico


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