What’s my goal for my kids? Is it just to keep them off drugs, get good grades and come out to church with the family? That might make for training a good American, but not necessarily for training a good Christian. I want my children to see their role as a Christian is not only preventing themselves from being stained by the world (here is where many Christian parents stop), but also empowered by the Holy Spirit to be used as an agent to transform the world. It’s helping them to understand, modeling it for them and giving them opportunities to be ambassadors for Christ.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Grains	Mexican	Mexican, Sauces, Tomato, Vegetables, Mc	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8		Ancho Chilies
3 1/2	c	Warm Water
1/2	c	Onion; Chopped
2		Garlic; Cloves; chopped
1/4	c	Vegetable Oil
8	oz	Tomato Sauce; 1 cn
1	tb	Oregano Leaves; Dried
1	tb	Cumin Seed
1	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Cover chiles with warm water. Let stand until softened, about 30 minutes;
drain. Strain liquid; reserve. Remove stems, seeds and membranes from
chilies. Cook and stir onion and garlic in oil in a 2-quart saucepan until
onion is tender. Stir in chilies, 2 cups of the reserved liquid and the
remaining ingredients. Heat ot boiling, reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, 20
minutes; cool. Pour into a food processor workbowl fitted with steel blade
or into a blender container; cover and process until smooth. Cover and
refrigerate up to 10 days. Makes about 2 1/2 cups sauce.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #744 by Kathy Meade <kmeade@idsonline.com> on
Aug 15, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Christian ARE better BECAUSE they are forgiven.”

The faithful and laborious clergyman of a very large and populous parish had been accustomed, for a long series of years, to preserve notes of his visits to the afflicted, with remarks on the outcome of their affliction – whether life or death, and of the subsequent conduct of those who recovered. He stated, that, during forty years, he had visited more than two thousand people apparently drawing near to death, and who revealed such signs of penitence as would have led him to indulge a good hope of their eternal safety – if they had died at that moment. When they were restored to life and health – he eagerly looked that they should bring forth fruits fit for repentance. But alas! Of the two thousand, only two people manifested an abiding and saving change! The rest, when the terrors of eternity ceased to be in immediate prospect, forgot their pious impressions and their solemn vows – and returned with new avidity to their former worldly mindedness and sinful pursuits, “as the dog returns to its vomit again, and as the sow that was washed to its wallowing in the mire.”

Gorham Abbott