Subject: Eddie's Week in Review Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 21:27:41 +0000 To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
From: Eddie Chumney To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: Eddie's Week in Review Dear Mishpachah (family): What? Another week goes by without any e-mail from the newsgroup? Withdrawal symptons? I hope that the newsgroup will return to normal in the next couple of weeks. But, I have good news to share with you regarding my week. First, a brief background. In the next week or so, we will have over 2,000 members who have joined the network EXCLUSIVELY through the Internet and the Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l Web site. In August 1996, when the Hebraic Heritage web page went on the Internet, this would only have been a wild, wild dream. But, GOD IS GOOD and His mercy endures forever. To me, this is evidence that what is happening is because GOD and His Ruach HaKodesh / Holy Spirit are DIVINELY doing the work. This is HIS network and HE is blessing it. ALL the blessings have come from HIM !!!! To HIM be ALL the glory! Amen! Since August 1996, we have been averaging about 100 new members a month. Since that time, I have been processing our new members manually and inputting them into a database. This usually requires one or two nights a week to keep current in processing the new members. I have always desired a more automated way to process the new members but didn't know how this could SAFELY be done. I have desired help from the Lord to help me solve this problem since August 1996. About a month or so ago, the Lord heard my cry and answered my prayer. I learned how that I can emulate the current way that I process the new members AUTOMATICALLY. Last weekend, I started to write the program to do this. I continued to work on it on Monday and Tuesday night of this week. On Tuesday, I got the program to successfully work! Hallelujah! So, from Tuesday night of this week, all the processing of new members will be automated and I will no longer need to rely on manual processing of inputting the new members into the database. However, I still needed to catch up on processing new members from being on vacation when I went to the Israel's Jubilee conference in Orlando, Florida. I had about 40 new members to finish from 2-3 weeks ago. I finished processing these last night. Then, I have about 35 new requests from the past week through Tuesday night to start and finish. I have not started on these yet. Tonight, (Thursday night), I need to pack and prepare for my Feast of Shavuot / Pentecost trip and conference to the state of Washington this weekend. I pray that as many of you as possible can attend this conference with me. I will return on Monday night. When I return, I will need to process the 35 requests from this past week or so that I have not started yet. All the new requests from this Tuesday night will be processed automatically as I just explained above. So, these are the reasons for no newsgroup this week. Thank you for your patience and your understanding. Next week, I have an exciting announcement to make. There is another ministry who has joined our network. This ministry is based in Jerusalem, Israel and has a magazine that has a couple thousand subscribers. We have agreed to work together to further the message of embracing our Hebraic / Jewish roots and uplift God's Kingdom. More details and information will be given next week. In the meantime, this ministry has made a request that members of THIS newsgroup write testimonies of how embracing your Hebraic/Jewish roots has blessed and enriched your faith and walk in Messiah. If these testimonies get submitted in a timely manner, each testimony will be reviewed and considered to be put into this magazine. I also plan to tell you more next week how you can subscribe to this magazine. There has been a tentative agreement that there will be a new section in this magazine beginning this fall which will feature articles written by members of our network. Once again, more details will be given next week. So, I have had a busy week even though that week did not include any e-mail from the newsgroup. God is doing GREAT things in our midst. Let us continue to give him ALL the praise, glory and honor for what HE is doing by His Ruach HaKodesh / Holy Spirit. The Lord is good and His mercy endures forever! Please keep this week's conference in Washington state in your prayers. I look forward to next week's newsgroup. Shalom in Messiah, Eddie Chumney Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l **********************************************************************