The Western District Welcomes You!

Thank you for visiting the Western District Foreign Mission's Department blog. Our intent is to provide you, the pastors, ministers, and saints of the Western District and the United Pentecostal Church International as well as our friends who would like to visit a place to be informed of events happening in our district and to share their thoughts concerning missions with us. We appreciate you taking the time to look over our site, to read the different posts, and last but not least to share your thoughts.

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Missionaries traveling in our district:

May 2012

~Dwane Abernathy - Belize, Central America
~Robert McFarland - Israel/Palestine

June 2012

~Robert McFarland - Israel/Palestine, Middle East
~Jason Long - Nicaragua, Central America

July 2012

~Crystal Reece - Tonga, South Pacific
~John Hemus - United Kingdom, Europe

August 2012

~Crystal Reece - Tonga, South Pacific
~Cynthia White - Jordan, Middle East

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

~EASY? - It is NEVER easy, but it is IMPORTANT!


It's Not Easy...but Important!


~Let's be honest. Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person.

~It's not easy to be honest when it might be costly, to play fair when others cheat or to keep inconvenient promises.

~It's not easy to stand up for our beliefs and still respect differing viewpoints.

~It's not easy to control powerful impulses, to be accountable for our attitudes and actions, to tackle unpleasant tasks or to sacrifice the now for later.

~It's not easy to bear criticism and learn from it without getting angry, to take advice or to admit error.

~It's not easy to really feel genuine remorse and aplologize sincerely, or to accept an apology graciously and truly forgive.

~It's not easy to stop feeling like a victim, to resist cynicism and to make the best of every situation.

~It's not easy to be consistently kind, to think of others first, to judge generously, to give the benefit of the doubt.

~It's not easy to be grateful or to give without concern for reward or gratitude.

~It's not easy to fail and still keep tryingto learn from failure, to risk failing again, to start over, to lose with grace or to be glad
  for the success of another.

~It's not easy to avoid excuses and rationalizations or to resist temptations.

~No, being a person of character is not easy.

~That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement.

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