SBC=>ENCOUNTERS

FORGET ANNUITY CONTRIBUTIONS... BURY YOUR MONEY IN THE YARD

You think I'm kidding?  I wish I were.  I also wish my husband and I had never set our annuity up with Guidestone to give us a monthly allotment.  It appears we should have taken the pittance we had after the market crash in 2008, and buried it in the back yard and paid the taxes on it for early withdrawal.  Why?  Because now that Obama has passed his intrusive, overly expensive and completely unfair health-care law, he wants to take over retirement accounts.  And preachers... he also wants the private annuities.

Seems Obama's not happy with our present system and how Americans save for retirement (what's retirement, anyway? After my husbands 5 bypasses in 2007, he still had to work to make ends meet.  Retirement is a joke).  However, Obama to the rescue.  He says our present 401K's and pension plans are not FAIR (heard that before?), to the poor people.  If the POTUS gets his way, we'll soon be redistributing your savings and nest eggs, folks.  Don't believe me... read for yourself.  LINK.

AS WE GO...

It's an exciting thing to be a Southern Baptist today.  All around me I see folks using their gifts and talents to live out the Gospel in everyday life.  In coming months I plan to spotlight some of these folks through first-person stories, testimonials and interviews.  Today let me share some tidbits of what is to come:

1~ A group of seminary students share the Gospel with a collaborative evangelism effort.

2~ A senior lady shares the Gospel in a prison ministry in the USA, hands out Bibles in Turkey, and volunteers to work in VBS in Mexico.

3~ A Southern Baptist church adopts a Christian School and houses them in their building so they can educate students from a Christian perspective.

4~ A blogger shares how blogging fulfills a Gospel call in his/her life.

5~ A lady shares how God turned her life around in her senior years by calling her to teach Pre-K children in a Christian School.

6~ A story about a mega-church that helps supplement the income of 179 retired Southern Baptist ministers.

7~ Stories about small churches within our convention being helped by larger churches.

8~ A teenager shares how she has benefited from being homeschooled by her parents.

~AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. Now do you see why I'm excited?  selahV