If a church is to be what it ought to be for the purposes of God, we must train it in the holy art of prayer. Churches without prayer-meetings are grievously common. Even if there were only one such, it would be one to weep over. In many churches the prayer-meeting is only the skeleton of a gathering: the form is kept up, but the people do not come. There is no interest, no power, in connection with the meeting. Oh, my brothers, let it not be so with you! Do train the people to continually meet together for prayer. Rouse them to incessant supplication. There is a holy art in it. Study to show yourselves approved by the prayerfulness of your people. If you pray yourself, you will want them to pray with you; and when they begin to pray with you, and for you, and for the work of the Lord, they will want more prayer themselves, and the appetite will grow. Believe me, if a church does not pray, it is dead. Instead of putting united prayer last, put it first. Everything will hinge upon the power of prayer in the church.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs	Dutch		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Flour
1/2	c	Dutch process cocoa
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/2	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Light brown sugar
2	tb	Canola oil
4	tb	Prune puree
4	lg	Egg whites
2	ts	Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350. Spray 8" square baking pan with cooking spray. In
small bowl combine flour, cocoa and baking powder. In medium bowl stir
together sugar, brown sugar, oil and prune puree. Add egg whites and
vanilla. Gradually stir in cocoa mixture until blended. Pour into prepared
pan and bake 15 to 20 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from
sides of pan. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar. 12 Servings. Calories:
121;Fat: 3 grams.
Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by Lee Theis
<theis@geocities.com> on Nov 11, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“I committed my life to Christ because I believed He was true and real and I had no idea what He was going to do with a mess like me.”

Paul presented this "older woman (teaching) younger woman" model as one of the greatest teaching opportunities mature Christian women can have in the church. They carefully share wisdom out of their years of experience, something even mature men have no capacity to do. Furthermore, these mature women can do what men should not do in a personal setting - to communicate with women regarding very intimate matters. It's obvious Timothy faced this challenge in Ephesus when Paul exhorted him - particularly as a young single man - to "treat…older women as mothers, and younger woman as sisters, with absolute purity" (1 Ti. 5:1-2).

Gene Getz

Older women are to cultivate virtue, yet not as an end in itself, but for the purpose of training young women. Nevertheless, it is impossible to train others in qualities oneself does not possess. There is a great need in the contemporary church for older women who are godly and who obey the biblical command to train young women in the faith. Many younger women long for more mature women to take them under their wings and to teach them how to live the Christian life, especially since many of them lack such godly models in their own family or live at a great distance from their own family. Notably, such training – usually involving private rather than public instruction – is to focus squarely on the domestic sphere.

Andreas Kostenberger