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Baptisms - July 2024
This has been an interesting and fruitful spring at A Ray of Hope, they are not all like that. On July 14th I baptized 8 guests, all of...
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- Aug 21
August 2024 From the Desk of Dave McLean
A Testimony of the Critical Importance of Hope In last month’s A Ray of Hope’s Newsletter I wrote about how to obtain hope. This...
- Jul 26
July 2024 From the Desk of Dave McLean
Simple Math I took a fair amount of math in school and college, but I find it’s the simple math that I use the most, particularly in the...
- Jun 19
June 2024 From the Desk of Dave McLean
Our God Is Real, Our God Is Interested, Our God Is Able Our A Ray of Hope guests love to hear testimonies in our Bible study and I love...
- May 22
May 2024 From the Desk of Dave McLean
We Are A Home, A Family And A Church I tell people who come to A Ray of Hope that we are a resort. We’re a last resort, but we are a...
- Apr 3
March 2024 From the Desk of Dave McLean
Would You Like God To Speak To You? As I look back over my life, the first I can remember picking wrong friends and the beginning of...
- Feb 20
February 2024 From the Desk of Dave McLean
In 2008, my stepfather, Norm (Pop), whom I was very close to, asked me if I would distribute some personal effects of his to various...
- Oct 16, 2023
September 2023 From the Desk of Dave McLean
I did not come to the Lord until I was 30 years old, and after I came to the Lord, I stumbled in a big way into sin. I got caught up in...
- Aug 29, 2023
August 2023 From the Desk of Dave McLean
I believe it is so important to see our need in order to see our God. Have you ever felt like you haven’t seen or been seeing your God? ...
- May 10, 2023
Looking for Land from the Desk of Dave
A burden that has been on the hearts of the A Ray of Hope leadership for some time is to acquire five to ten acres within approximately...
- May 5, 2023
February 2022 From the Desk of Dave
Last month I asked the question; what kind of God are you looking for? I ask this because many people are critical of God. So, this tells...
- Jan 1, 2023
January 2023 | From the Desk of Dave McLean
The past two months, we’ve looked at Hebrews 11:1 which says, “Now faith is the substance [assurance] of things hoped for, the evidence [pr
- Dec 2, 2022
December 2022 From the Desk of Dave
The past two months we’ve looked at Hebrews 11:1 which says, “Now faith is the substance [assurance] of things hoped for, the evidence...
- Oct 4, 2022
October 2022 From the Desk of Dave
Last month, we looked at Hebrews 11:1 which says, “Now faith is the substance [assurance] of things hoped for, the evidence [proof,...
- Sep 3, 2022
September 2022 From the Desk of Dave
We talk about Faith a lot at our Bible Studies, because Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he...
- Aug 1, 2022
August 2022 From the Desk of Dave
I have to tell you that our Bible studies at the shelter are pretty awesome, we don’t work out of a book study or book, we just talk...
- Jun 1, 2022
June 2022 From the Desk of Dave
I love the conversations I have with our residents at the shelters. A good number of our guests are trying to overcome heavy drug or...
- Mar 1, 2022
March 2022 From the Desk of Dave
The last two months I have been talking about the subject of, “What kind of God are you looking for?” This month we’ll look at what kind...
- Jan 1, 2022
January 2022 From the Desk of Dave
What kind of God are you looking for? I encounter many people who are bitter toward God or they malign Him because He’s “let them down”;...
- Dec 28, 2021
November 2021 From the Desk of Dave
We by nature are Reaction based in the way we live, and we develop this from childhood. We react to our circumstances and surroundings...
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