Gayla's Magazine

Can you help me?

Today I remembered, walking through the darkened streets of Guatemala - being led to a woman's hovel who lay dying. Her family was so anxious and they were begging me to come to pray for her. And after a 10 minute walk in the dark, with Pastor Robert our  interpreter on this trip, we arrived and I was taken straight inside to her.  Stepping just inside the door - she was on a bed literally at the doorway!
I was hurt seeing the conditions in which she was dying.  Rough wood walls with cracks were right next to the bed she was on.  A little sickness bowl lay next to her.  Her arms were so thin and frail.  Laying there so very sick and helpless, she was barely alive.  Pastor Robert interpreted while I prayed for her.  The smell of death was in the airless room.
My love for this poor woman spilled out in compassionate prayers over her.  I couldn't help but weep for her, and her poverty stricken family who stood helplessly by while their mother was dying.  They didn't have any  less love, nor any less concern nor less pain, just because they were in abject poverty. It broke my heart to see the grief and pain in everyone's eyes this night. Humans are human beings no matter where they live, or in what conditions they have to live in. 

Today I am trying to send a container of my Moms Against Hunger food to another country of people who are starving. Literally. Please pray for me that my efforts will be successful and I will be able to ship this container of 250,000 meals for the suffering people of Zimbabwe. This time I can do more with my prayers to help - prayers with food attached for the people!

I know you may not can go yourself and touch hurting people - but you CAN support Moms Against Hunger!  And together we can make a difference to the suffering going on in the world today. I need partners to help me, Zimbabwe is disparate  for outside aid. 

I cannot turn my face away and do nothing to help.  Can you turn your face away?

Go to the Donate button here and give with me! Visit my site and see what kind of food I have right now ready to ship. I have the food already I just need the shipping money to do so!  Please give today.

www.momsagainsthunger.org

Who do you know that could help?

To all those who care about hurting people and are trying to push the word out about the serious need in Zimbabwe - to all their connections, family members, friends, co-workers and bosses - to everyone who reads this post today!  I am thinking this morning of those who I can touch to help with this shipment of food.   I will be making some phone calls to personally try to get their support to help me with the shipping costs.

I went to bed with a full tummy - and suffered the pangs of anguish thinking about the people I grew up with - who didn't sleep with food in their stomach. A child who is fed only water will not live long.  As a mother it hurts me to think of children who are suffering because they are hungry.  But what does an African  mother do when she has no money to buy with?  And the one pot of gathered sticks, leaves and root worms will not take care of her 5 children for the day. 
She is discouraged from the lack of her ability to feed her own.  Mothers in Africa love their children as much as American moms do.   

Please help me dear Lord to  gather the funds I need to help. 

I need 6500.00 still! 

Please support this worthy cause with me.  The Father of us all is watching to see the response to a sincere call for help! Click this link and help! Do you know someone who has the ability to help here?

www.momsagainsthunger.org

The Solved Heartache

Dear Reader,

Listen to this solution.   If just 1,000 people will give $10.00 we have the shipping money that is needed for the container loaded with Moms Against Hunger precious food  to get all the way to Zimbabwe. It would leave the Houston Port, go to Durban South Africa and travel up to Bulawayo Zimbabwe by train. Zimbabwe has declared that humanitarian food will be duty free! 

Can you do this?  Please click the donate button and help me.  Do not ignore the cry for help - you never know when you might need a helping hand down the road.  Sow this seed - I really need your help.

I don't have lots of red tape, or systems to go through to do this. It's a very simple thing to do.  I have the food RIGHT NOW IN OUR WAREHOUSES.  I just need men and women to partner with me. 

Brother can you spare a ten?
Sister can you give a ten?

I am deeply troubled about this situation,
Click the donate button and feed the starving with me.  It's so easy to do.
www.momsagainsthunger.org

Gayla 

I Am Serious.... I need help to do this.

I am so serious about doing something about the helpless suffering going on in Zimbabwe.  I put out a 'mayday' call to everyone in my address book.  A few have responded.  But I need MORE to help.  If just 1,000 people will give 10.00 each - we can ship a container of Moms Against Hunger rice product to them.  It is completely within the power of each person reading my blog today to do this. Please help! 

I got back one email saying "oh this things are just a chain letter - just ignore it" 

BELIEVE ME.... this is no chain letter, this is a real need, of thousands of people at a complete loss and helpless in the hands of those in control.

Chaos lies in the hands of starving people. 

Please click the donate button on the side and help me. Together you and I can help. 
Can we really say no?  The need is urgent -
 I want to go to sleep at night knowing that I did something to help. I spent my childhood in Africa - I can not ignore this need!

Moms Against Hunger - has the food, I just need the money to ship!  It's going to cost around $10,000 - please help.  
www.momsagainsthunger.org  go see what I am serious about doing. 

Alert - please help!!!!

Good morning,

Recently we received a personal visit from long-time old childhood friends from Zimbabwe Africa.  They came to tell us what is happening in Zimbabwe right now. I need to tell you this information – it is very urgent information.  Our friends arrived from various people that bartered  together to get a airline tickets for them in Zimbabwe. They felt like this was their only chance to get the outside world to please please help.

Their money system has collapsed completely – they have no currency in the country.  Only American money or South African Rand can be used as legal tender now.  How are people surviving?  They are bartering.  If someone has anything of worth in their home – it is now being used as money to survive on.  The conditions of society at large is perilously close to complete ruin.   People are now going without normal products and food.  Our friends are using their small yard garden to survive right now, as well as trying to feed the children around them.

Cholera is now in the nation, from the lack of clean water in their water purification systems.  No money to buy the purifying chemicals for cities to have clean water.  This is horrifying.   

The government has declared all humanitarian food shipments to be duty free.  It’s the one humane thing that has happened.  

 

Here is why I am emailing you - I have RIGHT NOW in my possession, a complete shipment of food that is ready to go, but I lack the money to ship it.  It costs about 10,000 US dollars to ship a container from us to Zimbabwe. 

 

Please would you help me – please forward my email to everyone in your address book.  I know we ‘grass root’ people could ship a container –  a small 20 foot one would hold 150,000 meals – a big one 40 foot would hold 250,000 meals .  If everyone just did something – we could help this poor nation who are at the mercy of circumstances beyond their control.   

 

Here is my website that can be seen what these meals consist of.  They are specially designed for starvation populations in the world.  There is a donate button to use on the top left side.  

 

www.momsagainsthunger.org  

 

Thank you and please help me. 

Dr Gayla Holley

 

PS If you are unsure how to send to all on your address book – scroll to the bottom and right click and scroll up – It will highlight everyone – then press send. 

 

Benzene - a carcinogen!

 

In this extreme heatwave we in Texas are experiencing - here's some valuable information I think you ought to read. It's one area that the general public should be told about because of the  the massive  cancer issues in America! It's just another one of the side effects in our modern world.
 
 Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.  Open the  windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning
after a couple of minutes.
 
Here's why:
According to a research, the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take time to observe the smell
of heated plastic in your car).  In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells.  Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer.  May also cause  miscarriage.  Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.
 
A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene.

If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the
Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level...
People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale,
in quick succession excessive amounts of the toxin.  Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver.  What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
 
 So friends, please open the windows and door of your car - give time for
interior to air out -dispel the deadly stuff - before you enter.
 
 Thought:
'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it,
you have a moral obligation to share it with  others.'

Who Are You?

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday  Morning  Commentary.

My confession: 

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.  I don't feel threatened.  I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees. 

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me.  I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto.  In fact, I kind of like it.  It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu .  If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. 

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.  I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.  I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country.  I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. 

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?  I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.  But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. 

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:  This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking. 

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina)..  Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.  She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.  And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out.  How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' 

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.  I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.  Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school.  The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself.  And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide).  We said an expert should know what he's talking about.  And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.  I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' 

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.  Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.  Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. 

Are you laughing yet? 

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. 

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. 

Pass it on if you think it has merit. 
  
If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did.  But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.  

As a pastor's wife - I often wish to speak up about what is happening in our world.  I believe this is important enough to pass along to all my readers.

I will never forget

The hot African sun burns through the horizon and finds a tall thin mother already outside looking in a dried field for anything..... something..... a small morsel of corn...... a bite of a locust..... a leaf even.  A hungry crying child can be heard in the morning dawn laying under the rugged tree of leafless branches. She scratches the hardened ground with her stick and glances back at her son.  He's still alive if he can cry.

Slowly tears gather in her eyes and she blinks them back trying to see the earth beneath her feet. 'There must be something here the animals didn't get, or the others'.  And the liquid pain overwhelms her ability to hold it back and tears come sliding down her gaunt face yet again.  On yet another day of starvation.

The sun blazes now it's full brunt hits the earth and the heat forces her to walk to her son and hold him while she rests - needing her strength to pick up his small weight. And walk on to look in other places.  

Starvation is agony I have seen it myself.

 I am trying to make a difference .......... I will never forget.

www.momsagainsthunger.org  

Summertime...... bummertime

Sometimes unfortunate accidents can occur when one is moving just too fast!  I have a prayer request for you today. Picking up a new knife at a  BBQ and not watching carefully, D cut herself on the hand.  Not a big cut - and she said it  really did not hurt when she did it.  But then suddenly she could not move her thumb!  An emergency room trip finds out she has cut the tendon!  So they reattached it and send her home.

Put a half cast on and send her home.  One week later - she feels a 'pop' and knows something bad has happened.  So I take her back - and she goes into full surgery this time, and they reattach the tendon again.  This time they give clear instructions about not moving her right hand whatsoever.  She gets a complete cast from fingers to elbow.  Not fun in the hot summertime heat! 

Next time you handle a sharp knife pay close attention - the surgeon's repair work will leave a scar that the original cut will not. It's the inner damage that can cause so much nerve, tendons and muscle damage.
Pray for her...... for quick healing - for complete healing.

Manifestation and Affirmation

This morning I had a visitation from the Lord that I publicly give Him honor for.

Upon awaking I opened one of my personal journals and reread some precious words that the Lord had spoken to me in my prayer time.  These are powerful documents that I have not shared with others just yet.
Just renewing and refreshing my mind in the Holy Spirit before anything else of the day began.  And I told Him again of some issues in  ministry that are concerns to me.   Moms Against Hunger, Role Models International and Community Bible Chapel Prison Bible School to name a few.

I  went to the kitchen as normal and while making coffee and singing a praise song to the Lord I looked up and  saw a flash  at the window. 

I briefly glimpsed the back of a man  dressed in bright white  and he passed the window.  Just for a single moment in time I froze still looking.....   

I thought at first someone is in my back yard.  So I went to the window and looked - could see nothing.  So I instantly went outside to check.

No one was there.

I know what I saw.

The Lord let me physically see for a flash of a second - an angel.

And He is here, and moving on the behalf of the assignments God has given to us.

Something is about to happen.... and I give Him full praise and glory for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!