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Ark Ministries Hope of the World When a little girl, I thought the rain was caused by angels crying. You grow up and learn that angels and God are not weeping. Or are they? The childhood inno‐cence of the cause of rain is longtime gone, but man's in‐humanity to man, the abuse of power and authority, vio‐lence, and hatred grieves God. Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach wept over Jerusalem, so Messiah cry‐ing over the world would not surprise me as his tears would now mingle with mine. God is just; true justice is in his judgments. The con‐sequences we face as indi‐viduals, bodies of believers, communities, nations, and the world will be just. It is not a matter of believers being off the hook. It is where our hearts are in sin‐cere repentance and faith. When we see wrongs, when witnessing evil but do noth‐ing about it, are we not en‐abling and part of it? You may wonder what you, one person, could do, but a con‐fessing believer can pray. Remember when two or more are gathered together in his name he will be there. (Matt. 18:18‐20) We are supposed to pray. Every‐thing good starts with inter‐cessory prayer. It does little good to cry over the injus‐tices, be depressed about them or confess how worse it will get. Even worse, it is wrong to rejoice over our enemies. We should mourn for their eternal conse‐quence if they do not repent and accept the Messiah. The truth is, it will get worse ac‐cording to the scriptures of end times. Prayer will make us stronger, persevering through our faith, but not praying amiss. Interceding for others and not allowing our hearts to be broken comes through prayer. We can still contact those in au‐thority over us and share our voices. We can still call and leave a message for our representatives. Still, we need to first pray, or there will be no Godly power be‐hind our actions. Let us not add to God's grief by apathy or immobilization. Jesus Christ, the Messiah, gave us spiritual power and author‐ity to b

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In subsequent years the art has used rich area of symbolism to bring re‐ligious ideas home to people’s minds and hearts. Jesus about was the central motifs for artists through the cen‐turies. In the same way, Sanctuary has become a motif for artist for creat‐ing concepts of peace and faith.

KANSAS CITY (AP) — The new $1.5 billion Kansas City International Air‐port will officially open Feb. 28, with a Southwest flight to Chicago Midway International Airport at 5 a.m. as the first flight out, city and airport officials said.

JEFFERSON CITY — Google is making a $50,000 donation to the Missouri FFA Foundation in support of their Learning by Doing Classroom grants program. The Missouri FFA Foundation plans to utilize the funds over the course of four years to sup‐port the updating or purchase of new technology in 40 agriculture educa‐tion classrooms across the state.

LaGrange, Ga. — Karson Troth, of Marshall, was recently named to the LaGrange College Fall Semester VPAA’s List. To be eligible for this honor, students must maintain a cu‐mulative grade point average of at least 3.6 while taking a minimum course load of 12 hours.