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You know you need a ministry mentor, but everyone you ask turns you down. According to Sam Simmons, you may be taking the wrong approach. In this article he'll share with you four key decisions you'll need to make before you ever pick up the phone and call a potential mentor. [more]

"In Africa there is a fruit called the 'taste berry,' so called because it changes a person's taste buds in such a way that everything eaten after it tastes sweet. Giving thanks is the 'taste berry' of Christianity. When our hearts are full of gratitude, nothing that comes our way will be unpalatable to us. Those whose lifestyle is marked by thanksgiving will enjoy a sweetness of life unparalleled by any other." - Robert Strand, The Power of Thanksgiving (Evergreen Press, 2001)

The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that 265 million turkeys will be raised in the United States in 2006 – up three percent from 2005.  Together, all the turkeys produced in the United States in 2005 weighed 7.2 billion pounds and were valued at $3.2 billion. - Source: U.S. Census Department

"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Truly grateful people can't be stopped. They bubble and overflow, refreshing others. Their habitual gratitude serves as a springboard to give a reason for the buoyant hope bouncing within them. They attract those who are stuck in the cares of this world and woo them to the eternal Good." - Ellen Vaughn, Radical Gratitude (Zondervan, 2005)