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The Commandment to Bless
The Commandment to Bless seminar represents the "first fruits" of First Fruits of Zion's new prayer resources. To introduce this new resource, on the mitzvah of blessing God before and after one has eaten, a string of seminars are currently scheduled (a few additional locations will be announced in the next couple of weeks).
The impact of this simple mitzvah--one will see--is far reaching. Each command in Scripture serves a unique role in the whole of honoring God's Law, and the commandment to bless is a unique opportunity to connect the mundane act of eating to worship. This unique seminar will introduce the historical prayers of the people of God from both greater Jewish tradition and the tradition of early believers in Yeshua. This seminar will also teach some of the simple and catchy melodies for these prayers enabling families and congregations to rejoice and bless God in unison at mealtimes.
God willing, we will have our new resources with us at these events. We are racing to get them to the printers by the end of this week. Once we get these off the press and on our shelves, we will make an announcement on the web regarding the cost and availability.
We are eager to share these new resources with each of you. We have put hundreds and hundreds of hours into the creation of these new materials on prayer, and as I mentioned above these resources on the "Grace After Meals" are just the first fruits of our larger prayer resource projects. In time we hope to have quality children's materials that train our young ones in the patterns and importance of prayer as well.
If you live in the Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania or Illinois areas, I hope you will check and see if our meeting locations are within a reasonable enough distance to accommodate your participation. We look forward to meeting you. There are still a couple of dates that are not listed as we work out final details. If you live in the Columbus, Cincinnati, or Indianapolis areas and would like to work with us to get a seminar in your area we still have some dates available toward the end of June.
If you do not live near these areas, but would like to schedule this or a similar First Fruits of Zion seminar later in the year you can send us an e-mail by going to our contact page.
Please pray for the currently scheduled events with us. And know that as you pray for us, we are praying that these events will have a positive and lasting impact on the greater Messianic community and they will be a source of encouragement to the local body.
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Visitor Feedback:
Shalom Boaz,
I think its great that you guys are doing this seminar. I only wish you could come out to Northern California. Consider Redding, Chico, or Sacramento. With the right push, we could probably get a good conference together out here.
Andrew H.
***Reply***
Good morning Andrew.
We have other requests from Southern CA and could arrange a series of seminars on the West coast later in the year. We'll keep track of the requests and put soming in place. We need to come back to CA--we have not been there for a while. Shabbat Shalom.
Andrew | May 15, 2008 5:50 PM
In your scheduling of Northern and Southern Calif., please don't forget Southern Oregon - the Medford/Grants Pass area is just a short distance from the Calif. border. Thanks. Yvonne
Yvonne | May 23, 2008 5:22 PM
Well... if you come so far as southern Oregon...the Puget Sound area of Washington would probably have several interested Congregations!
Daryl Olson | June 2, 2008 9:11 PM