Living Alternatives – Father Heart Ministry

January 9th, 2010

Father Heart is located in Lindale, Texas, Garden Valley. It is a ministry for pregnant women who find themselves pregnant and no where to go without anyone to help. It is a non profit ministry and their mission is to help the girls that are in need get help and to save the life of their babies also.

Father Heart is a loving place that can help when you find yourself in a place trapped because of the choices you have made and are left pregnant and wondering what in the world do you do next. Father Heart can help you make a decision that is the most loving for you and your baby no matter what the circumstance is. You can find loving people there who are there to help you figure out things for yourself and share getting your life back on track. You also have an opportunity to continue working on your degree while you prepare for the most important decision of your life.

Father Heart offers counseling also for the girls and courses of care for you while you are there. It helps you decide whether you want to parent your baby or place your baby for adoption, which both choices are loving and hard at the same time. I know this because 10 years ago I chose to place my baby through Father Heart and it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life at that time.

Even though its a loving decision it does not make it easy. On the other hand choosing to parent a baby is also hard. But no matter what you choose to do the staff at Father Heart will help you with your decisions. If you choose to keep your baby they help you get ready for mothering and if you choose to place, your baby they help you find a loving family that will love you and your baby. I will recommend Father Heart to anyone who is in need of help because they found themselves in unplanned pregnancy. While you are there you have the opportunity of meeting girls your age going through the same things you are going through.

The staff there are loving and there to help with anything that is needed. It is a very large beautiful home with a swimming pool and a large place for walking around and getting some exercise. You usually share a room with another person and the bedrooms are luxurious, better than some hotels I have been around.

If you happen to need a place or you know of anyone who needs a place to be while going through their pregnancy then Father Heart is the place to be around loving people who care for you and want to help you make the best loving decision for yourself and for your baby. If anyone who is in need of help and they are in a crisis pregnancy please tell them of the offer that Father Heart provides for them and their baby.

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Tyler YWAM – Youth With A Mission

January 9th, 2010

Tyler YWAM Youth with a Mission is located in Lindale, Texas. For those of you who don’t know what YWAM is or what it stands for I will tell you. It is a christian organization that loves God and wants to make God known through out the nations.

YWAM Tyler has a variety of schools you can choose from. Their philosophy is to know God and to make him known. It has over 15 schools you can choose from depending on your interests. It is a place where you can be temporary or long term depending on your choosing. It is a place where you can go and learn about God, his nature and character.

You learn how to hear His voice and how to cultivate a relationship with the Creator of the Universe. I know that there are some people out who are slandering this ministry. The way I see it there will always be people who choose to see and believe the things that they want to about a particular place or person. The truth of the matter is that in YWAM you can only find people who love God and want to do His will above all else.

It offers Discipleship school where you learn who God is and who you are in Him.

You have about five months for this school. Three months you spend in class having lectures and the rest you spend out on mission teams ministering to people who need help in all nations depending where you feel that God called you.

It also provides for you S.O.E. which is School of Evangelism, English as a second Language, School of Arts, Mobile Teams. Living alternatives is also a YWAM ministry which offers help to pregnant women or teens that need help and don’t know the next step to take. It is the most loving place where you can be. I know that because I myself went there 10 years ago when I ended up pregnant and alone and nowhere to go.

Father Heart helped me make the best decision for my baby. I also did a D.T.S. which is a discipleship school with YWAM and loved it.

My outreach was in Japan. So I got to go see another culture and share God’s love with them at the same time. I also went and did School of the Bible through YWAM which changed my life. I have forgotten about the Father Heart of God. For awhile I backslid and decided that being out in the world was more fun than being tied down to some religious thing. Boy was I wrong, it only brought me a world of pain.

In the end, YWAM was the safest and most loving environment I have ever been around. People there care for your well being and their goal is for you to know God and have a loving relationship with God. I know that there are alot of hings people are saying about YWAM which are not true. Either those people have never been there or they have and got in trouble and are angry at the ministry for having to leave because they would not comply with the rules. You can always find people that have something negative to say.

The truth is that YWAM is a place where people love God with their whole heart and then made it their life’s mission to make God known and to win souls over to Christ. But just like any other ministry of course, you are working with people that are not perfect and things won’t always go your way. In fact you can bet that things won’t go your way. But it’s worth leaving things behind to find out God’s heart for you and others. I would encourage everyone who has not visited YWAM Lindale, Texas to do so and discover for themselves that it is a place where people gather together to serve God and learn more about Him and make Him known to the world.

There is so much more I could say but I will choose to end now so it won’t get too long and people decide not to read this article.

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Youth With A Mission Ministry

January 8th, 2010

If you’ve ever wondered what there is to get involved with to make your faith based in something big, here is an answer. YWAM is a Christian organization that focuses on discipling people to be able to profess who they are in Christ in their every day actions and attitudes as a testimony to the true changes of Christ.

There are over 166 bases like this one all over the world, this is one of MANY. This base is located in Lindale just off of HWY 16. It is split among two locations. One in Lindale and one more directly in Tyler Texas. There are about 400 people working with this ministry currently and many many students.

There are many opportunities to get involved with this ministry, they organize several functions you can be a part of if you would like. Take Action is an event for Youth that takes place every year, the production is done here, then travels to Houston and Chicago. This is a whole day event that focuses on bringing real issues to light in a teens life and offers support and discipleship to begin a new work in their lives. It’s a production of music, dancing, acting and media. Such a sight to see and is well worth the investment to go to or send your kids to.

The location in Lindale also dedicates part of its time to facilitating Dwell nights. A Dwell night is a night were people gather, from YWAM and friends in town, to dwell/soak in the presence of God. The gym is cleared of chairs and tables, rugs and pillows laid about, lights dimmed and stations placed around the edges of the room that highlight prayer needs or art inspiration. There is a time of worship together and waiting on the Lord, sometimes there are speakers but its mostly worship.

These times have proven to be so rich and full of Jesus. A time of being ministered to and ministering to others. Anyone is welcome to come, they usually happen about once a month. The YWAM web page will have dates of these particular events.

Something else you might be interested in getting involved with are SST’s. These are camps held in the summer for teens. Hard core spiritual time with God, adventure challenges and outreach to Mexico (depending on which week you go, other options are available). Its basically three weeks of awesomeness. If you are looking for an intense and real Christian experience near Tyler, TX this summer then this is what you need to look into.

SST stands for Summer of Service and Training. Hundreds flow in every summer and hundreds flow out and most of them leave with a flame still burning with the desire to know God more and to make him know. There are stories after stories of teens leaving and coming back, going into missions, transforming their schools and transforming their families. This is something real! Anyone is welcome to apply and come… you are invited!

Any of these events listed are listed on the YWAM Tyler website with tons more information and videos to watch and testimonies to read. Please go check it out.

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Still Think There Are No Old Bookstores in Tyler?

January 8th, 2010

Try Fireside Books

As someone who loves books I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that I never realized just how many bookstores we have in Tyler. One of the better ones is found at 110 East Houston, and has been at that location for nearly ten years. Fireside Books is not for the casual reader who knows exactly what he or she wants.

This is not a chain, where the reader can walk to a carefully arranged aisle and select the latest novel by the trendiest, hottest new writer. This is a bookstore for the reader for whom the six dollar paperback is not sufficient and time is not an issue. With its dusty shelves, and stacks of books scattered literally all over the store, it almost seems not to belong in Tyler at all. And the lack of conventional organization only adds to the charm.

Many of the books found here are of the old and rare variety. The store stocks a great many first editions and signed copies. Local authors and bestsellers are on hand. There are large paperbacks and leather bond biographies. Fireside does not stock an inordinate number of common paperbacks. Not to say they have none; just that they do not make up a very large portion of the store’s inventory, which is rare in the used book biz.

The history section is probably the crowning jewel of the place. There are both familiar and unfamiliar volumes, on a wide range of historical topics. The Texas history section in particular is excellent and features biographies of many famous Texans. All the editions they sell are clean copies; which brings me to another plus. Fireside doesn’t waste the customer’s time pushing damaged or otherwise low quality literature as a means of rounding out their inventory. Every shelf seems to have something worth reading, (unless of course you’ve no interest whatever in the subject matter).

A warning though, for the impatient shopper, on the hunt for a particular title this bookseller may be a bit frustrating. The local chain is probably a better choice for that person. Fireside is for the reader who sees the journey as its own reward. If you enjoy pulling up a spot on the floor and perusing a stack of yet to be stocked books, this is probably for you. But be careful you may end up losing track of time or going over your spending limit.

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Pea Picker Books in Tyler

January 8th, 2010

Located at 2803 University Blvd, Pea Picker Books is one of the largest bookstores in Tyler, second only to Barnes and Noble. If you’re looking for relatively current or even recent dime back fiction this is the place for you. Paperbacks run wall to wall (and everywhere in between). Again, for the person looking for good beach reading, or an easy traveling companion for a summer road trip, this could be the place. They have a decent selection of most genres. The highlight of a trip to Pea Picker’s would have to be the biography section. There are more hardcover books here than any where else in the store. Presidents, generals and politicians are all present and accounted for. The western section is also huge, and contains an abundance of both hardcover and paperback fiction.

The classics section is unfortunately small considering the overall size of the Tyler book store; however I’m sure that given its proximity to UT Tyler, it does provide the local students with the cliff’s notes they require to barely pass their lit classes. Their selection of Cliff’s and Spark notes is quite large. All sarcasm aside however, I understand the law of supply and demand, and I realize a store only sells to a market. My biggest criticism of Pea Picker is the huge over abundance of romance novels. In fact there are so many that they are divided into sub groups.

One of the most interesting things about the store is the art on the walls. There is everything from western and military art, to promotional posters for certain novels or genres, to signed photos of authors and other cultural icons. There are also portraits of every president from Washington to Nixon.

My guess is, literary snobs, and book collectors (and I include myself in both of those obnoxious categories), will probably not be crazy about this store. The selection is huge, and if you are searching for a common title you will probably find it there. But Pea Picker is not the sort of book store to shop for those rare finds bibliophiles live for. On a scale of one to five, I’d give it a three. But don’t take my word for it, stop by and judge for yourself. An afternoon spent in a bookstore is never an afternoon wasted.

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