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Do you want to enrol in an Academic Bachelor programme at the University of Antwerp? You will need to fulfil a number of admission requirements.
Below you can find more information about the admission requirements for the Academic Bachelor programmes at the University of Antwerp.
COVID-19 info for international applicants
In order to enrol in an academic Bachelor programme, you need to have (at least) a secondary education degree which entitles you to enrol in a comparable programme in a university of the country in which the degree was conferred. In case an entrance examination is applicable in your home country, the results of this examination can also be taken into account.
The qualifications in the table below fulfil this requirement and will allow you to enrol directly with the registrar's office in accordance with the enrolment procedure. If your degree of secondary education is not mentioned in the list or if you need to apply for a visa, you will need to follow an additional procedure (see below) to determine if your degree can be accepted for enrolment and/or to obtain a letter of acceptance required for a visa.
Please note that degrees and certificates from states/state actors which have not been internationally recognised cannot be taken into account.
Students who's degree was already recognised by NARIC as being equivalent to a Flemish diploma that gives direct access to the programme already comply with the diploma requirements. These students don't need to submit an application for admission. Please note that a NARIC equivalence does not exempt the holder from other requirements (e.g. language).
Dutch language proficiency can be shown in two ways:
Without proof of proficiency in Dutch, enrolling for one of our Dutch programmes is not possible. Please note that no other language certificates than the ones listed above will be accepted (such as certificates from Adult Education Centers (CVO)). Furthermore, certificates can not be older than 2 years.
Want to learn Dutch?
If you don't master Dutch yet you can opt for the one-year preparatory language programme offered by Linguapolis. Please note that it's not possible to obtain a student visa solely on the basis of this language programme. When applying for a visa you'll also need to proof that you can start a bachelor's programme after completing the language programme. Thus two admission letters are requested to apply for a student visa: one for the preparatory language programme and one for the bachelor's programme. To simplify things our university has devised one application procedure for both programmes (please read below for more information). As a result, it's not possible to apply for a bachelor's programme at our university while taking a language programme somewhere else.
In certain situations, additional requirements apply in addition to the standard admission requirements:
- Students who wish to study medicine (Bachelor or Master) will have to pass the doctor's entrance exam (information only available in Dutch) and provide written proof of this upon enrolment.
- Students who wish to study veterinary medicine (Bachelor; starting from academic year 2019-2020) will have to participate in the 'ijkingstoets diergeneeskunde' (information only available in Dutch) and provide written proof of this upon enrolment.
- Students who have a Chinese degree: The APS (Akademische Prüfstelle) is a mandatory academic screening for most students who have a Chinese degree. These students will not be able to obtain access to higher education in Flanders and to receive a Belgian student visa without the screening. The screening is done by the German Embassy in Beijing and consists of two parts: a formal check of the diploma and an interview of the candidate to test his/her academic knowledge. The screening can take several months before a decision is proclaimed; it's therefore recommended to start the procedure on time. Please visit the APS website for detailed information.
Some categories of students can be exempted from the APS procedure:
Additionally, some students can be exempted from the second part of the APS procedure (academic interview):
Students who want to apply for an exemption need to upload a document in their online application in Mobility Online which clearly proves that they belong to one of these categories. In case the proof is found to be valid the Registrar's Office will contact the concerning authorities to grant the exemption.
Always read the programme information and check the admission requirements first before submitting an application. You can find the link to the application in the application procedure below. Please read the full procedure before proceeding!
The applicaton process consists of three major parts. Each part will trigger a specific evaluation.
The combined results of the evaluation of all parts will determine if your application will be accepted.
The application procedure at the University of Antwerp is free of charge (please do not deposit any money because it cannot be returned). However, take into account the deadlines and that the legalisation and translation of documents for part 3 takes time and can be expensive.
The applicant agrees with the following conditions by using the application procedure:
The admission board of the programme you selected will screen your educational history and your motivation to determine your access to the programme. This process may take up to 6 weeks after you uploaded all required data and documents (holidays and closing days are not included in the 6 week-period). If the admission board gives a positive recommendation, you can proceed with part 2 of the application.
You need to provide all necessary data and electronic documents for this part of your application before the deadlines mentioned under "Application deadlines".
Start your request for bachelor admission in the electronic application Mobility-Online (applications have closed for 2020-2021, applications for 2021-2022 will start on 1 December 2020). Need help with the application? A user guide (PDF, 500kb) is available.
During this step your Dutch language proficiency will be checked. If you already master Dutch, the submitted proof of your proficiency will be evaluated to see if it meets the requirements. In case you would like to take the one-year preparatory language programme, an additional screening will be done by Linguapolis. In order to start this screening you'll first need to deposit 2000 euro in advance (as a prepayment of the tuition fee for the language course). Once the amount has been received a skype interview will be planned to test your language abilities.
The registrar's office will screen the submitted hard copies of your documents and verify the authenticity of the degree. If needed, your previous educational institution(s) will be contacted. This process may take up to 4 weeks.
The registrar's office has to receive your hard copies before the deadline mentioned under "Application deadlines".
We cannot stress enough the importance of submitting a complete file well before the deadline. Incomplete hard copies (e.g. without legalisation and/or translation) that arrive close to the deadline will make it impossible to offer the applicant a possibility to furnish new documents and therefore lead to the rejection of the application.
Please be aware that the visa procedure can take more than three months, especially during the busy summer period. This also stresses the importance of submitting a complete file well before the deadline. It can't be guaranteed that visa applications that have been submitted late will be processed on time.
Do you want to start in the academic year 2021-2022 in Flanders in a bachelor or in a preparatory (language) course and do you have to submit an application? Please complete your electronic application between December 1, 2020 and the date mentioned in the table below. Please note that the application procedure consists of two parts, both with their own deadlines.
*European Economic Area member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithowenia, Luxemburg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom (or other nationalities with a permanent Belgian residence permit)


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Melanocytoma of the optic disk: A review
Jerry A Shields1, Hakan Demirci1, Arman Mashayekhi1, Ralph C Eagle Jr2, Carol L Shields1
1 Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA2 Department of Pathology, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Correspondence Address:Dr. Jerry A ShieldsOcular Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, 840 Walnut Street, Suite 1440, Philadelphia, PA - 19107 USASource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2039_19
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2039_19
Melanocytoma is a deeply pigmented variant of melanocytic nevus that classically occurs in the optic disk, sometimes with contiguous involvement of the adjacent retina or choroid. Historically, this tumor was often confused with malignant melanoma both clinically and histopathologically. Today, however, it is generally recognized by its typical clinical features that differ from most melanomas and erroneous enucleation is rarely done. Histopathologically, melanocytoma is composed of intensely pigmented round to oval nevus cells with benign features. Although traditionally believed to be a relatively stationary lesion, it is now known to exhibit minor enlargement in 10--15% of cases and can cause minor visual loss by a variety of mechanisms. In rare instance, it can induce severe visual loss due to spontaneous necrosis of the lesion or compressive optic neuropathy. More importantly, it can exhibit malignant transformation into melanoma in 1--2% of cases. Ophthalmologists should be familiar with melanocytoma of the optic disk and affected patients should be followed periodically.
Keywords: Choroid, eye, magnocellular nevus, melanocytoma, melanoma, optic disk, optic nerve, pseudomelanoma, retina, tumor, uvea, uveal tract
This classic review article published in Survey of Ophthalmology is reprinted with permission from Elsevier. Copyright (2004). Shields JA, Demirci H, Mashayekhi A, Eagle Jr RA, Shields CL. Melanocytome of the Optic Disk: A Review. Surv Ophthalmol 2006;51:93-104.


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This girl love bags too and he was using one as her comfort zone when we went to SR. He has problem with car motion and the big bag she was carrying, she hugged it so tight and arrived in grandma's house without screaming or puking. She forgot her betty boop bag at grandmas so when we arrived there she went to look for it as it was filled with lollipops and candies.
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What the Fed Meeting Could Mean
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The outcome of today's Federal Reserve meeting is expected to set the tone for trade in the U.S. dollar heading into 2014, whatever decision is reached on the highly-anticipated tapering of monetary stimulus, CNBC reports.
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With the UK-wide lockdown still in place, Film Critic Rhys Lloyd-Jones looks to cinema for an answer, and finds that we are far from alone in these isolating times
As of March 23rd, following the example of many countries around the world, the UK has been under lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. With the new rules in play, it has now been almost two months since many of us have ventured much further than the end of the driveway. Trapped in the house, cabin fever can start to creep in, and it is easy to feel stir crazy every now and then. One comfort in this new status quo is the extra time for many film enthusiasts to indulge in film marathons and movie watch alongs until our hearts content. But for the delightful escapism cinema offers us, art often imitates life. Self-isolation is a recurring theme in some both classic favourites and modern hits. The effect this has on the characters range from hilarious to horrifying. In these situations, maybe we could learn something from these cases, or recognise the mistakes not to repeat. Whether you learn anything from this list, or just take comfort knowing you could definitely be handling this lockdown a lot worse, here are five examples of self-isolation on the big screen (spoilers ahead):
1) The Shining
When Jack Torrance takes up his position as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel for the winter season, he and his family brace themselves for several months of isolation. Jack, famously portrayed by Jack Nicholson, decides to use to the time to work on the manuscript he has been writing. Unperturbed by the massacre of the last family who holed up in the hotel, Jack and his wife, Wendy, along with their son, Danny, settle in for what promised to be a relaxing break in the picturesque mountains. That is, until the ghostly apparitions begin appearing, in the guise of creepy children and jazzy waiters. Jack and his sanity finally snap, and you might say his manuscript comes somewhat sinister. 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.' Before you know it, Jack has an axe and is barrelling through the snow towards his son, presumably not for a hug.
- What Jack did right: Jack decided to use his time in isolation to work on his craft. He set out to be productive and, in his defence, he did manage to get quite a few pages written.
- What Jack did wrong: Jack also decided to start wielding an axe and threatened his family. This is no way to behave.
2) Avengers: Endgame
After failing to stop Thanos wiping out half of all life in the universe, Thor, the God of Thunder, struggles with his guilt and grief. After avenging his mistake with a swift swing of his axe, he isolates himself in New Asgard, somewhere in Norway. One of the most shocking moments of Endgame for many audience members was to see the usually chiselled Chris Hemsworth don a fat suit and a mane of greasy hair. Whilst some beats were played out for quick laughs, the film took a gamble in how they developed this lonely god, and what transpired was an honest and unique change from the seemingly untouchable superheroes that they usually shower us with. Thor was shacked up in a literal shack, playing video games and eating junk food, vulnerable and emotive. In isolation, this is an easy way to feel, and there is no shame in that. It says a lot that despite this, Thor was very much still worthy.
- What Thor did right: Thor took the time in isolation to go for a style change. Whilst his self-care routine might leave a lot to be desired, that beard was the envy of all Nine Realms.
- What Thor did wrong: Thor cut contact with the outside world, and isolated himself emotionally as well. In hard times, it would have been okay for the God of Thunder to ask for help.
Image courtesy of Marvel Studios. All rights reserved.
3) In Bruges
Despite not being physically trapped in one location, this seems to make very little difference to Ray, the hitman who finds himself laying low in Bruges. Appalled at the idea of sightseeing, he claims Bruges to be the most boring city on the planet. Unimpressed by the Gothic cathedrals and castles his friend Ken shows him, Ray moodily sulks for the rest of his 'holiday', isolated from the outside world. In a whirl of comedic gold, tragic grace and almighty eyebrows, Colin Farrell chews up the scenery in an isolation story of friendship and loyalty. Ray, despite likening Bruges to purgatory, realises that life is worth living (he does realise this with a gun to his head though), and takes his chance at redemption. In Bruges is not a typical example of isolation, but the trapped panic of Ray is something we can currently relate to.
- What Ray did right: Eventually warming to the city, Ray takes it upon himself to explore and try and make the most out of a bad situation. While not all his escapades are advisable, his determination to have fun is somewhat admirable.
- What Ray did wrong: Ray lets the pressure of isolation get to him, and he begins to take it out on Ken, his friend. When everyone is in the same boat, it is best to be kind to each other.
4) The Lighthouse
On a desolate island somewhere in New England, Thomas Howard (Robert Pattison) takes up his post at a lighthouse, steeped in eerie gloom, with only Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) for company. The Lighthouse is a visceral experience. The sullen silence between the two begins to break into maniacal laughter, bouts of violence and horrific hallucinations. Punctuated by an ominous foghorn and the sudden appearance of a mermaid, Howard and Wake start to fracture both inside and out. Stepped in references to Greek mythology and oedipal complexes, the relationship between the two burns hot and cold. Masked under their thick, forceful accents, is an underlying respect, which switches to hatred, then to love, back to vengeful wrath. As tales of isolation go, The Lighthouse is a reminder that you could always have it worse. That being said, if any of us could spend a night folk dancing with Willem Dafoe, at this point, we'd take it.
- What Howard and Wake did right: The two men eventually overcome their animosity and begin to trust each other. This is undercut slightly by their later attempts to kill each other, but for a brief moment, the two of them make the most of the company they have.
- What Howard and Wake did wrong: Isolation drives them apart and the two of them spiral into biblical acts of violence. Avoid this, if possible.
Image courtesy of A24. All rights reserved.
5) The Breakfast Club
What could be worse than a barren isle in the midst of a storm? High School detention, of course. John, Claire, Andrew, Brian and Allison, each polar opposites of each other, report for all-day isolation at their school. As a John Hughes film, this experience would not be complete without self-realisation and self-expression. As this cohort of clashing personalities lament the situation, they begin to realise that the perceived difference between them is not as gaping as they though. As they bond over their experiences with peer pressure and parental control, they gain to empathise with each other. The Breakfast Club is not an isolation story where the protagonists are driven mad, but instead an example in which the time taken to listen to each other deepens a mutual respect between the bunch. Not only this, but as the group leave for freedom, that triumphant punch in the air is something we can all look forward to when we leave lockdown.
- What the group did right: As stereotypes are broken down, the group learns never to judge a book by its a cover. A wholesome, earnest lesson learned.
- What the group did wrong: Taking into account the 1985 release, some fashion choices are questionable.
This is a limited sample of isolation on the screen. Films such as Rear Window or Cast Away explore the perils and triumphs of lockdown and each have their own lessons to be learned. Whatever the case, the time aside we now have to watch these films is a welcome break from a hard situation, but one we can overcome. Settle in, stay inside and treat yourself to the movies.
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After Shannon McNamara's wedding, she sealed up her matrimony gown and didn't open it until three decades later. However, when she did, she got the shock of her life. There was certainly a wedding dress inside the box, but it was a totally different design. Despite a sinking heart, McNamara stayed hopeful that her dress was out there.
After Shannon McNamara's wedding, she sealed up her matrimony gown and didn't open it until three decades later. However, when she did, she got the shock of her life. There was certainly a wedding dress inside the box, but it was a totally different design. Despite a sinking heart, McNamara stayed hopeful that her dress was out there.
The worried mother had intended to present the dress to her daughter Caroline, for her own impending wedding. As a result, she hit social media, no doubt expecting to come up empty-handed. But another party soon offered a lead that shed some light on where the dress could be. Needless to say, McNamara pursued it.
McNamara dared to hope and her optimism paid off. She found her beloved dress just in time for her daughter's wedding! On the other hand, the garment still bore the vintage 30-year-old style that probably first attracted the original bride. Times and fashions have changed since then, though, so what was Caroline to do?
Well, Caroline wasn't willing to let the wedding dress go simply because it looked dated by today's standards. Instead, she decided to give the gown the makeover it sorely needed and the transformation is incredible. When you see how modern it looks, you won't believe it's the same dress.
McNamara, who hails from the town of Franklin, Tennessee, actually has two daughters, both of whom are grown up now. Nevertheless, that hasn't stopped her from keeping active, and she still has responsibilities. To be more specific, she works for two different nonprofit groups: GraceWorks Ministries and Williamson County Public Library System.
GraceWorks Ministries is faith-based charity that provides aid to those who struggle financially by fulfilling their basic needs. In addition, they also run a discount thrift store for people who want to further support the charity. Williamson County Public Library System's name says it all, though. It provides reading material both electronic and traditional to its patrons.
McNamara also has a husband whom she married back in 1986. It's an occasion she obviously holds dear to her heart, because she has fond memories of the wedding dress. She wore a traditional ivory gown beaded at the front with long sleeves, a high neckline and an open back.
In addition to the floor-length dress, McNamara also wore a headpiece of matching color and style. Designers applied a fascinator to the top, which not only served as decoration, but also held the bride's veil. Dressed as such, the bride walked down the aisle and married her groom. But the gown was a catalyst for a future adventure.
That's because when McNamara took her wedding dress off, she sent it to a local dry cleaning company. The business was called White Way Cleaners, although it's long-since closed and has been replaced with a Mexican eatery. As part of the service, the company sealed the bride's gown up for storage after laundering it.
And the dress stayed in storage for thirty years, until the day that Caroline got engaged… Or so McNamara thought. When her daughter announced the good news, she became nostalgic and brought up her own bridal dress. Indeed, the busy mom-of-two told ABC News in 2017 that she'd kept her wedding gown sealed for just such an occasion.
"We'd always said that when one of the girls got engaged, we would open up my wedding dress, take a look at it and relive old memories," McNamara revealed. However, the dress inside the box wasn't the one she remembered from her own nuptials. It was still ivory, but the sleeves and decorations were completely different.
McNamara continued, "[Then] I noticed the bows on the sleeves. The bows on the sleeves weren't on my dress. The dress is [also] short-sleeved and my dress was long-sleeved. So after that moment, I knew it wasn't my dress." She also recounted the mixed feelings upon finding a stranger's bridal gown in place of her own.
The mother-in-law-to-be then explained how she felt to Inside Edition in 2017. She said, "I was a little shocked, a little sad… But I wondered who's dress I had." It was a good question. And one that Kim Jones, originally from Nashville, T.N., also had occasion to ask. She, too, had discovered a wedding dress that didn't belong to her.
In fact, even though the women had never met, a missing dress wasn't the only thing Jones had in common with McNamara. She also married her husband just a month before McNamara's wedding in 1986 and took her gown for dry cleaning afterwards. She used the same company, too, and likewise kept her dress sealed for a long time.
Where the women's stories differ, though, is that Jones brought her wedding dress out of storage in 2012. She actually wanted to show the gown to her daughter Emily, but got the same nasty surprise as McNamara. Jones, who now lives in Acworth, Georgia, described the event to ABC News in 2017.
"[Emily] pulled [the dress] out and I saw the sleeves," Jones said of her daughter. "That's not my dress, I don't have long sleeves." But how did she feel having lost such a meaningful and sentimental item? Obviously, her initial reaction was one of both disbelief and astonishment, as she told Inside Edition in 2017.
"I just about died," Jones elaborated. "I'm like, 'That's not my dress. It's just not my dress.' And, I just… My heart sank." Her second thought, though, was for whoever was missing their own bridal gown. As she informed ABC News, "I felt sad that I had someone else's dress."
"It made me sad," Jones continued, "because I knew one day this was going to happen to somebody else." As she correctly assumed, the dry cleaners seem to have accidentally switched the dresses after laundering. As a result, Jones set out to try and find the gown's original owner so they could exchange them.
Jones did her best to locate the person who had her missing dress. She tried word of mouth and even contacted a local newspaper, The Tennessean, to help find her counterpart. ABC News even covered the story back in 2012 and spoke with her at the time about the search. She began, it seems, by attempting to locate the dry cleaners.
Jones told them, "I had my bridesmaids comb the streets of Nashville to see if any of the White Ways were still open, but they'd shut down." Actually, after 80 years of business, the dry cleaners had only just closed. Then, as the days went by, she came to realize her efforts were in vain.
"For two or three days, I couldn't believe it," Jones revealed. "Then we've just kind of laughed about it and said what's meant to be will be." And she didn't hold a grudge against White Ways for the mix-up, either. She said, "I'm not mad, I just want to give [the other bride] back her dress."
Still, Jones wondered what happened to the other bride and hoped she'd meet her one day. "Hopefully, they've just moved to Minnesota or something with the dress under their bed," she said. "They may be just like me where they haven't opened it to realize that they have the wrong dress."
However, eventually Jones began to question whether she'd ever find her original dress and debated getting rid of its replacement. She recalled, "I looked at it and thought, 'Well, it's been four years.' And then I thought, 'No, put it back.' I felt like eventually [finding the original owner] would happen."
As we now know, McNamara did indeed find out about the wedding dress mix-up and began her own search. But hers was significantly less protracted than Jones', thanks to social media. The charity worker posted a picture of the dress on Facebook with a request to find its owner and swap gowns.
McNamara's Facebook post read, "Is this your dress? Preserved at White Way cleaners, Nashville, T.N., December, 1986. Perhaps you have mine?" Within two hours, one of her neighbors found Jones' 2012 article about the accidental dress swap. She subsequently told the charity worker, who couldn't believe what she was seeing: the dress was hers.
The charity worker told ABC News, "A friend of mine in the neighborhood writes me with an attachment with an article from four years ago. I told my husband, 'That is it.' I recognized it right away. And we had been at the same dry cleaners." And the story doesn't end there. Indeed, it seems the two brides shared yet more serendipitous links.
For example, both women attended the same high school, which they graduated within two years of each other. They also had a friend in common: Jones' daughter-in-law's mother. Thanks to that connection, in no time at all, the pair got in touch with one another. And it overjoyed them both.
Even Emily was happy to finally find the truth. "You found our dress," she wrote on McNamara's Facebook post. "You just made one happy mama and daughter! Thank You!" Jones herself also added a comment saying, "Words cannot express how excited I am that you opened that box."
The women then arranged to meet at McNamara's house for the much-anticipated dress swap, which Inside Edition caught on camera. The video shows the two meeting for the first time, and they sweep each other up in a hug. Then the women exchange expressions of gratitude for looking after their respective dresses all those years.
"This is so sweet," McNamara says on the video, "I feel like we're sisters!" Then the two head inside to reclaim their own wedding dresses and get acquainted. They spent some time reminiscing over their individual wedding photos and McNamara confesses to feeling a little overwhelmed. But in a good way, of course.
"It's emotional to finally meet [Jones]," McNamara said in an interview with Inside Edition. "It's emotional to have the dress in my hands from the most special day 30 years ago. And the dress is preserved, and [Jones] took such good care of it." In addition, McNamara called her dress' minder "a friend for life."
However, if you think that's the end of the story, there's even more to come. After going to all that trouble to find McNamara's dress, Caroline then decided to use it for her own wedding. It needed some alterations to make it a bit more modern, though, as the bride-to-be showcased on TV.
Indeed, Caroline, McNamara and Jones all appeared on popular daytime program the Rachael Ray Show in 2017. It seems the celebrity host arranged for a company called Bridal Reflections to make changes to the frock. But before she stepped on stage in the new dress, the bride-to-be donned the original vintage gown for comparison.
Then, the bride-to-be arrives on the show wearing the updated dress to enthusiastic applause from the audience. McNamara's tearful expression speaks volumes about how emotional the moment is for her. In fact, she can't hold back the flood as she takes in the gown and how beautiful her daughter looks in it.
But what did Bridal Reflections change about the dress, exactly? Caroline herself describes things in detail on the show. "Well, we really just wanted to modernize the dress," she explains. "We obviously cut off the sleeves, which really cleaned it up a little bit. We cleaned up the lace and made it more straight across."
The change that impresses Ray the most, though, is Caroline's addition of pockets. It even gets a high five from the host! And McNamara and Jones look equally pleased with the practical decision. Bridal Reflections also made some changes to the back of the dress to further update its look.
"[The company] made the back a little different – they deepened [it]," Caroline says of Bridle Reflections. "Then they added lace to the sides and it's just beautiful. They took off the beading, too." Ray describes the end result as "priceless, classy and classic," but what did McNamara and Jones think of the alterations?
"It's just beautiful, you are gorgeous," Jones reveals first. Then she jokingly references the decoration on her own dress saying, "I have a bow if you want one." When McNamara's turn comes to voice her opinions, she says,"It's stunning," and then struggles to find more words. Caroline actually seems to have rendered her mother speechless.
After a few seconds – and spurred on by Ray – McNamara continues, "It's so her! It is so… it looks so much more like her. Yeah, it's beautiful… Great." And then came the big day when Caroline got married to her groom, Sam. They wed in November, so the bride also paired her dress with a cold-weather shawl.
"It was a wonderful day," the mother-of-the-bride wrote on Facebook. Everyone in Caroline's wedding photo certainly look like they're having a great time. But no one looks happier than the bride and groom. And no doubt McNamara was delighted to see her modernized wedding dress ushering in a new chapter in her daughter's life.


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OGDEN, Utah, May 7, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — Officials have identified an 81-year-old man whose body was recovered from Ogden River Monday afternoon.
A news release from Weber County Sheriff's Office said Richard Wood, of Huntsville, died from drowning.
"Richard was a very popular resident in the Ogden Valley as he worked many years for the Powder Mountain Ski Resort," the news release said. "At this time, it is unknown how Richard got into the swift-moving river."
A Facebook post from Weber Fire District said crews responded to a report of a drowning near the Smokey Bear sign up Ogden Canyon at approximately 11:10 a.m.
Heavy Rescue teams from Weber, Ogden, and Riverdale Fire Departments, as well as Weber County Sheriff's Office and Search and Rescue searched for approximately an hour before spotting the individual nearly a mile downstream, the post said. For the next two hours the crews worked on body recovery.
"Our thoughts go out to the family and friends impacted by this tragic event," the post said. "Please be careful around rivers or any body of water, as water is high and drowning dangers have increased."
Powder Mountain released the following tribute on its Facebook page:
Powder Mountain is saddened to share that it has lost a Pow Mow icon, coworker, storyteller and friend. Richard Wood, known as "Woody", passed away yesterday unexpectedly.
A Roy, Utah native, Woody began driving the Powder Mountain dirt road in his late teens to help the Cobabe family access the mountain via his Jeep. Woody spent time away from Utah while serving in the U.S. military. Upon his return to Utah and moving to the Ogden Valley, Woody began working alongside Powder Mountain manager Chuck Panter to develop a free shuttle service on Powder Mountain Road to access the 1,000+ acres of powder skiing we now know as Powder Country. In 1981, Woody's knowledge of the road and infectious spirit made him the perfect candidate to start the shuttle service that would become a cornerstone of the Powder Mountain experience.
A few years later, Woody took on the additional responsibility of night manager. Woody spent his summers supporting the continued development of the ski resort with his dump trucks and skills as a heavy equipment operator. Woody officially retired after the 2017/2018 season but he could not stay away from his beloved Powder Country and the thousands of fans he had developed over the years. During the 2018/2019 season, Woody routinely got behind the wheel and helped haul happy skiers and snowboarders out of the powder paradise he helped create 38 years earlier.
Anyone who has ever spent time at Powder Mountain knew of or interacted with the legend. Many were able to call Woody a friend and enjoyed his company and storytelling. As the unofficial historian of Pow Mow, Woody was happy to share stories about the Cobabe Family, the hot tub parties at Sundown, the old bar across the parking lot, the cougar sightings and many other tales.
Woody was always ready to lend a helping hand either at Powder Mountain or in our local community. His impact on Powder Mountain and the Ogden Valley is immeasurable and the lives he touched through his actions and spirit are innumerable. Woody is truly an institution at Powder Mountain and a beloved member of the Powder Mountain family. He will be forever missed, but never forgotten.
We will share information about his services as they become available. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with this untimely loss.


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What a great and gracious God we serve! How measureless is His love and matchless His ways. Being so far removed from those great historic revivals of the last couple of centuries we cannot envision what genuine revival is like. Sadly, we have been plagued in more recent times with the cheap, gaudy, and false 'manifestations' that have been claimed as being true visitations, but when held up to biblical scrutiny they have failed the test. But when GOD rends the heavens and "comes down" (Isaiah 64:1-3), though you cannot measure those floods of Revival "upon the dry ground" (Isaiah 44:3) there are unmistakable evidences of the Holy Spirit's quickening work in the Church and the overflowing impact in communities.
God's initial work is necessarily in the Church. Charles Finney rightly concluded that a revival consists in the return of the Church from her backslidings, and in the conviction of sin and repentance on the part of the Church. Of course, Finney was wrong in his ideas of how revival starts, asserting that it is nothing more than the right use of appropriate means; that it can be planned or programmed like any other series of special meetings – something for man to do! One can see how this could well engender all manner of techniques and gimmicks and human manipulation, resulting NOT in genuine revival but in what is pseudo. David had it right when he pleaded with the Most High: "Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you" (Psalm 85:6).
Surely no one will deny that all genuine revivals have stamped upon them the hallmark of God's sovereignty. They are always the result of divine impulse, never human. When speaking of a movement of GOD in Revival, Arthur Wallis said it:
…bears this mark of spontaneity when men cannot account for what has taken place in terms of personalities, organizations, meetings, preachings, or any other consecrated activity; and when the work continues unabated without any human control.
A movement of the Spirit can only be controlled by a Divine administration (1 Cor.12:4-7), which while awesome, powerful, and profound, it is characterized by simplicity. Looking back to the Church's glorious beginnings as it moved forward in the power of the Spirit, we are compelled to exclaim with William Cowper (1731-1800), a wonderful hymn-writer and friend of John Newton:
Oh, how unlike the complex works of manHeaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan!No meretricious graces to beguile,No clustering ornaments to clog the pile,From ostentation, as from weakness, free,Majestic in its own simplicity.
I concluded the last article (CETF # 58 pp 4-8) saying that in Revival awesome things occur by God's sovereignty. Isaiah said that when God came down "You did terrible things that we did not look for." (64:3) That is, God did awesome things that His people did not look for, or what they had never before witnessed, and which they deemed they had no right to expect.
This was certainly the case in the great Welsh Revivals. From the 17th Century to the beginning of the 20th Century there were some amazing and powerful spiritual awakenings in the Principality of Wales. Beside its political and cultural history there is in Wales a thrilling evangelical Christian history with seasons of exceptional spiritual renewal. What grace on God's part to raise up such outstanding spiritual leaders and preachers as Howell Harris (1714-1773) and Daniel Rowland (1713-1790), contemporaries and co-workers with George Whitefield and John Wesley in the 18th Century Methodist Revival. Then there was William Williams (1717-1791), who was also a great hymn-writer; and later, John Elias (1774-1841), Thomas Charles (1755-1814), and Christmas Evans (1766-1838), to name but a few. These humble and godly men, in the main Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, were remarkable ambassadors of eternity in the courts of time and greatly used by God!
It is helpful to note the conversion of Howell Harris in 1735. How significant that was in the providence of God. He had come under great conviction of sin while listening to a sermon and received mercy through the blood of Christ. It was on Palm Sunday of that year at the Talgarth Parish Church. During the service the Vicar, announcing that there would be a Communion Service the following Sunday, said that he knew there were many people who did not come to the Communion because they felt they were not fit to partake of it. He went on to say,
If you are not fit to take Communion you are not fit to pray, if you are not fit to pray you are not fit to live, and if you are not fit to live you are not fit to die.'
These words went to the heart of Howell Harris with great force. He had never been a riotous person but he had lived a loose life; so these extraordinary words of the Vicar brought about such deep conviction of sin, which led to an agony of repentance. Howell's own written testimony was this:
I was convinced, and resolved to leave my outward vanities, for as yet I knew and saw very little of my inward corruption … I knew as yet nothing of the inward self-denial which our Saviour enjoins; I had no knowledge of the blood of Jesus, the only Fountain open for sin and uncleanness (Zech.13:1). I was still a total stranger to the life of faith, and therefore all this while in a damnable state, and in danger of final destruction."
What a confession! What a testimony! What an insight into the kind of uncompromising preaching by God's servants in that day. O that we had such faithful preaching in ALL the pulpits of our land today!
Here is the striking detail recorded of that man's conversion. He immediately began to tell others about what God had done in his life, and to hold meetings in his own home encouraging others to seek the same assurance that he had of Christ's forgiveness. It marked the commencement of a mighty Revival at a time when the spiritual condition of Wales in that early part of the 18th century was very low, with its spiritual darkness, lifeless religion, consequent immorality, and hypocrisy. But GOD "came down" and that Revival had an ongoing impact during the remainder of the 18th century, Howell Harris playing a prominent part in that Awakening. O, what God can do when we earnestly seek Him – whatever be the outward appearance of things! As Adrian Rodgers said,
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
What stands out as significant with these Welsh preachers of the 18th and 19th centuries was their powerful Bible preaching ministries, and their uncompromising proclamation of the Gospel despite the terrible persecution and hardships they endured for the truth. Some were Christian ministers of the established Churches, and were even deprived of their livings by bishops for (as they stated it)"preaching schismatically and dangerously to the people." God honoured them, and the impact of their ministries can only be explained in terms of the faithfulness and sovereignty of God – the sovereignty of God as regards time, place, and persons; to think that God was at work so wonderfully through these men as they served Him independently of each other.
At almost exactly the same time as God was using Howell Harris, He was doing the same through Daniel Rowland. They had never heard of each other; long distance separated them from one another, but it was taking place at the same time. We also know that things were happening in George Whitefield's ministry at the same time – and simultaneously a like spiritual Awakening was taking place with Jonathan Edwards in America. What is this? Nothing other than the sovereignty of God at work! This is not man's work; it is GOD "coming down," manifesting His glorious Presence and Power, and perfecting His mighty purposes in His church in answer to prayer.
Much could also be said of the movement of God in the 19th century in Wales. God raised up that wonderful yet simple country pastor, David Morgan, who was notably used by God in the beginning and increase of that spiritual awakening. He was 45 years of age when the 1859 Revival broke out. There was also the younger, 26-year old preacher, Humphrey Jones, whom God used greatly in that Revival when more than 100,000 were added to the Churches in Wales in that hallowed time of Divine Visitation. He had earlier applied to be admitted to the Wesleyan ministry – but was rejected cf. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29. However, sensing the call of God on him to preach, and his burden for revival in his homeland of Wales, he resolved to preach in spite of this disappointment. God was with him. The evident, and remarkable power and pathos, that attended his praying impacted many as he held meetings for prayer each night. When he preached people were found in tears seeking peace with God. There were occasions when even before he had finished preaching, like at Pentecost (Acts 2:37-38), scores of people were praying aloud, calling on God for mercy, until Humphrey Jones' voice was drowned by such crying.[8]
One can appreciate something that he wrote about preachers and preaching in a letter to a friend at that time, with a view to seeing the Revival spread. He wrote:
… for one thing, to be a man of fervent prayer in secret; to be there several times a day, wrestling with God; to wrestle each time as though it were the last; refusing to get up from your knees until an earnest had been given that the Lord had heard you. As the Lord in faith, and with great fervency, what to say to the people; going straight from the secret place into the pulpit each time (like Moses from the Mount to the Camp) Then will the anointing follow your preaching, and every word you say will be received as from an angel of God . . . The other thing is to preach pointedly and rousingly, with severity and conviction; aiming continually at the conscience; charging the people with their sins to their very face, giving no regard for men's good or bad opinions; and avoiding the exhibition of self during the delivery of your sermon; another is, not to say anything to amuse the people. I would wish to preach each time as if I had to die in the pulpit when I had done preaching – as if I had to go direct from the pulpit to judgment.
Profound words of advice from such a young man. Does this characterise our disposition to such a holy stewardship as God has called us to? Is this the pulpit preaching of our churches today? and we wonder why we are in such a deficient spiritual state, generally speaking, what a challenge to us as preachers! God help us!
When I read these histories and how God "came down" I become more and more impressed by the fact that the work of God in true revival is never superficial and passing. It is deep, affecting, and lasting in its fruit in changed lives, transformed church life, family worship receiving tremendous impetus by a renewed God-fearingness, raised moral standards in communities, and the things of God becoming of paramount concern. One of the ministers, Rev. W. Evans of Aberaeron, reported one of the striking characteristics of the 1859 visitation was its effect on young people and even on children. He said:
The youth of our congregations are nearly all the subject of deep religious impressions. Many of them seem as if filled with the spirit of prayer. Very young people, yes, children from ten to fourteen years of age, gather together to hold prayer meetings, and pray very fervently . . . When it happens . . . that children only, or servants profess spiritual piety in a family, they instantly crave permission to have family prayer, and thus Divine Worship is established in nearly every family in the country.
How blessed those Revival days of 1859-60! Ah, if only things would have continued with undiminishing glory! R.B. Jones has an important chapter in his account of the 1904 Revival, where he asks the question, Do Revivals last? He makes this comment: "It seems a great pity that it appears to be the habit of all Revivals that they do not 'last'." He then goes on to speak of "lasting fruit," and the Revival's "after-glow," giving evidence of the Revival's impact many years afterwards.
One cannot but be reminded of Israel's history, the times when God met them, restored them and blessed them, only to read later of their spiritual demise and sad departure from their God and Redeemer. In the Book of Judges we have the detail of Israel's history under no less than thirteen men whom God raised up during the nation's tragic decline and disunion after the death of Joshua, when "every man did that which was right in his own eyes." (17:6) There were seven periods of apostasy, seven periods of servitude to heathen nations, yet in faithfulness and mercy God "came down" and wrought by His own power seven extraordinary deliverances. So it was in Wales, with all those gracious Revivals of the earlier years, towards the end of the 19th century there was a marked spiritual decline. But while there appeared to be no deliverance from this hopeless chaos, GOD graciously intervened in sovereignty and divine pity, "bringing a clean thing out of an unclean" (Job 14:4) far beyond human capability, scheme or aspiration.
How we thank God for many dear saints who were wrought upon by God to seek His face again for another divine visitation. By the year 1900, an evangelistic outreach known as the Forward Movement had planted 30 new churches, primarily in South Wales, with an overall attendance of close to 2,000, mostly new converts. Among the leaders of the Forward Movement was the Presbyterian minister, Seth Joshua, noted for his influence before, during, and after the 1904 Revival, and indeed the one chosen of God to have a direct and significant influence on the life and ministry of the young Revivalist, Evan Roberts.
Seth Joshua had been one of those fervent intercessors, reaching out to God for Revival in Wales, and often prayed as he walked along the banks of the River Neath that God would raise up a young man even from the coal mines – which He did, for Evan Roberts was just a boy of 11 years when he left school to become a coalminer with his father, until he was about 20 years old when he became a blacksmith's apprentice with his uncle in nearby Pontarddulais. But he did not stay there very long, for from being a teenager he had strong spiritual desires, praying regularly that God would visit the nation yet again in Revival Power. The day came when, at just twenty-six years of age, he felt compelled to go into the Calvinistic Methodist Ministry and in order to prepare for enrolment in Trefecca Theological College on September 13th 1904 he went to the Newcastle Emlyn Grammar School.
It was just two weeks later he heard Seth Joshua preach at a Convention meeting he attended at Blaenanerch, 5 miles north of Cardigan in West Wales. Little did he realise at that moment that he was at the crossroads of his spiritual experience. It was in that meeting the young Evan heard the evangelist pray "Lord, bend us." The Holy Spirit said to Evan, "That's what you need". During the meeting he kneeled down in the church with his arms over the seat in front of him, and was bathed in perspiration as he agonised before the Lord. He later recalled how he eventually prayed aloud after others had prayed. "I cried out, O Lord, bend me! Bend me! Bend us! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!" You can sense the anguish and passion in that cry. That actually became a motto of the revival, 'Bend the church and save the world.' At the following meeting Evan experienced a powerful filling with the Holy Spirit. He testified, "I felt ablaze with the desire to go through the length and breadth of Wales to tell of the Saviour." Many see this as the beginning of the Revival. It is somewhat significant that the theme Scripture of The Revival, inscribed on the Evan Roberts Memorial monument at Moriah Chapel in Loughor, is Acts 2:38 – "Repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Yes, GOD CAME DOWN! And He came in answer to prayer. Revival broke out in Loughor, and within two weeks the Welsh Revival was national news. Whole communities were radically changed as, through the preaching of the Word of God and His awesome convicting presence, men and women found themselves drawn into a powerful experience of God, knowing peace with God and the forgiveness of sin through the precious expiating blood of Jesus. A conservative estimate of 200,000 people were converted to Christ and added to the churches in Wales in a brief period of four to six months. Wales was again a God-fearing nation. GOD had "come down" to meet with those who sought Him for spiritual renewal. Jeremiah 29:11-14 sums up the situation so fittingly:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then you shall call upon Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you shall seek Me, and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found by you, says the LORD.
Not only was there such a powerful manifestation of God in the Principality, but sparks from the fire of such a Divine awakening soon began to ignite fires in more than a dozen other countries. Edwin Orr documents the impact of that Revival as it was felt in each of the five continents of the world! Writing on the subject of Prayer and Revival, he made reference to the 1904 Welsh Revival,
The Welsh Revival was the farthest-reaching of all the Movements of the Awakening, for it affected the whole of the evangelical cause in India, Korea, China, renewed the revivals in Japan and South Africa, and sent an awakening over Africa, Latin America and the South Seas … The story of the Welsh Revival has often been told. Most Christian people, including scholars, have been unaware of the extent of the Awakening in the rest of English-speaking countries, in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, South Africa, Australia and faraway New Zealand.….The Archbishop of Canterbury called for a nation-wide Day of Prayer. Thirty English Bishops declared for the Revival after one of their number, deeply moved, spoke of confirming 950 new converts in a country Parish Church. The Awakening swept Scotland and Ireland… Scandinavia, Germany, North America, Australasia, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Chile. As always, it began through a movement of prayer.
That latter statement resonates in my heart, especially in a day when the church has abandoned the prayer meeting: "" When will we learn that there is NO other way to Revival? I would emphasize again that it is as you read the history of those great revivals of the past that you discover that God came when concerned saints were pleading in concerted, fervent, and sustained prayer for Him to "come down." I long for the day when there will be such an awesome manifestation of GOD in our midst, as local churches, that those around will have to confess, "God is truly among you" (1 Corinthians 14:25). Indeed, if we are to be what our Lord intends us to be in our generation, then we must know an energizing by the Holy Spirit – the SPIRIT OF LIFE permeating our beings, sanctifying our natures, revitalizing our spiritual lives, enthusing our hunger for Truth, and impassioning every element of our love for all that is divine and holy. That is what we must long to see in this upward heart-cry to the only one who can bring it to pass: "Will YOU not REVIVE US again, that Your people may rejoice in You?" (Psalm 85:6).
Let me focus your thoughts, then, on the crucial need we have of getting before God IN PRAYER. God has ordained the place of PRAYER. Jesus said, "My House shall be called the house of prayer"? (Matt.21: 13) Let's be honest: in the changing patterns of Assembly life, the meeting that has suffered most is the prayer meeting! Other aspects of Church life and activity are deemed more important and acceptable to us than the lowly struggles of the prayer-arena. We will do almost anything but pray! I cannot but inquire now, "Why do we need to pray?"
Psalm 85 yields some answers for us, which we do well to pay attention to.
Will you not revive us again...? – verse 6.
That is how revivals are born. You cannot organize them; you have to agonize for them! It's not simply a matter of trying to stir yourself up. How often have we done this, and it's not long before we are back in the former state of spiritual apathy and shallowness. God addresses such a condition through HOSEA, a prophet of keen spiritual discernment and an intense devotion to God. In chapter 6:1-3 it appears that Israel has returned to the Lord, but it is such a shallow revival – the result of such shallow repentance. So God exposes their unreality and emptiness, the superficiality of such "revival" in verse 4:
What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? What shall I do to you, O Judah? For your piety is like the morning cloud, and like the dew which goes away early.
Note the imagery here: the "morning cloud" being a dense mist that billowed in at night by those summer Mediterranean winds, but which vanished very quickly with the rising of the morning sun; and "the dew", distilled in the night, welcome as it was with all its promise, evaporated more quickly than the mist. If God looks for anything, it's reality and sincerity. He looks for a genuine turn around in repentance, and that is born in the place of prayer, for THAT is God's own special work. Again and again we are confronted by this truth: only God can revive! Without prolonging the illustration of Hosea let me hasten to say that, even with His great disappointment and displeasure, God reminds His people through His prophet of His loving care and compassion, and the yearning heart of God is seen to break open in amazing and tender mercy (chapter 11:8-9):
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah (and Zeboim)? My heart is turned within Me. My compassions are kindled together. I will not execute my fierce anger ... I am GOD and not man...
Hosea never saw the results of his pleadings with Israel, but God was faithful.
That's how we must plead with God, for only HE can revive His church. Apart from HIM all human wisdom becomes folly, our intellect is blind, and whatever carnal energies are employed in any work for God, all will prove to be utterly fragile, flimsy, and totally inadequate to promote the eternal cause of a Holy God. Samuel Chadwick was right when he wrote:
The Church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure… There is a superabundance of machinery; what is wanting is power. To run an organization needs no God. Man can supply the energy, enterprise and enthusiasm for things human. The real work of the Church depends upon the power of the Spirit.
We need the Holy Spirit! What a difference He makes. That is why Jesus declared not only that the Holy Spirit would come after He had ascended back into Heaven, but that the Holy Spirit was indispensable—"If I do not go away …[He] … will not come… " (John 16:7). There's the truth of the Holy Spirit's indispensability. The Church needs Him for its virtuous well-being, its vigorous life, and its victorious mission. Pentecost saw the beginning of a new era for the world, a new power for righteousness, a new basis for fellowship, and a new dynamic for mission in a world that must hear of Christ's Gospel to be saved --Romans 1:16-17 and 10:13-17. And not only so, but with Pentecost came a new dimension in the Church's prayer-life. Romans 8:26-27. How wonderful, and so merciful of our God – the saint who is in trouble, or who has some pressing burden not knowing just how to articulate it in prayer before God, finding the Divine Paraklete (the Holy Spirit) pleading on his behalf pleading "with unuttered groanings" or with "sighs that baffle words" (Denney) – Romans 8:26. No language is adequate, yet the prayer is understood by Him who searches the heart. Jeremiah 17:10 – "I the Lord search the heart…" What a blessing to know we have a Helper – the Holy Spirit – with us in our prayer life!
Now then: I might say that we are confronted with perhaps one of the greatest of mysteries: Why does God choose to work in this particular way of involving US in prayer for the achieving of His purposes. All I know is that HE DOES. So in relation to prayer and revival why do we need to pray? BECAUSE GOD HAS ORDAINED THIS MEETING PLACE WITH HIMSELF.
This whole Psalm of David (Psalm 85) is a prayer, the intimate outpourings of an enlightened but burdened heart that knows the reality and glory and overwhelming experience of conversing with the Eternal, Infinite, and Holy GOD! This is the place of PRAYER – the meeting place with God, wherever that may be: it can be the home, some quiet spot where you can commune free of interruption with God; and especially the gathering of God's people, "the HOUSE of PRAYER!"Let us be gripped by this truth: God has ordained a meeting place with Himself for all who know Him.
… let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. ….. there I will meet with you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel -Exodus 25:8,22.
How awesome!
With David the meeting place with God was well established. In Psalm 27:8 he tells us,
When God said, Seek my face; my heart said to You, Your face, LORD, I will seek.
His many Psalms bear out the fact that David was constantly before the Almighty in prayer, and praise! Will we in this blessed New Covenant era do less? Sadly, so many Churches may have departed from "the old paths" of truth and righteousness, and forsaken the place of intercessory prayer. But I am glad that God has not written us off! He is ever drawing us to seek His face as never before. Just as in this Psalm 85, verses 1-3. We must turn our eyes to HIM and all our prayers fervently directed to Him, knowing REVIVAL comes in answer to prayer cf. 2 Chronicles 7:14 with Habakkuk 3:2.
I do not apologize for repetition. Wherever there has been a REVIVAL, in Biblical or Church history, you will find PRAY-ERS behind it. Pentecost came in answer to prayer--Acts 1:12-14; 2:1-4.
Often there has been witnessed some startling outburst and a deluge of varying proportions and impact, but preceding that there is always a purifying and preparatory process, at the heart of which is such fervent, specific and protracted praying. Some have prayed for years before the breakthrough has come. WHY? Only GOD knows. Revival is a sovereign work of God.
The 1904 Welsh Revival goes back beyond the memorable month of November of that year when God manifested Himself in such power and glory in the Principality, commencing with His remarkable visitation at Moriah Chapel in Loughor, near Swansea, where Evan Roberts came forth as God's instrument in that visitation. There were evidences of spiritual awakenings earlier in that year in a few places, particularly further west in New Quay. However, more particularly do we need to understand that for a considerable time concerned and burdened souls had been pouring out their hearts before God in intercessory prayer, entreating God to "come down." Such passionate pleading is the indisputable forerunner of all Revivals. Then comes that crucial moment in God's providential and renewing activity when His presence and power become openly manifest and mighty things take place that not only shakes the churches but their communities. The Reverend R.B. Jones, whom we have referred to as having given us valuable insights into the 'O4 Revival' in Wales, makes it so plain that revivals have their springs in prayer. He wrote:
God seems to have so ordained that most, if not indeed all, of His activities in the moral and spiritual realms should be the responses of His heart and power to the prayers of His people.
I cannot conclude this article without a reference to what is the last significant spiritual awakening in the British Isles, when in the 1950s God "came down" on the Isles of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Scottish Hebrides. God did use Duncan Campbell, yet the Revival was born in faithful, passionate PRAYING. In particular, it was in a small cottage by the roadside in the village of Barvus where two elderly sisters, Peggy and Christine Smith, 84 and 82 years of age respectively, sought the face of God over a protracted period of time for Revival. Peggy was blind, and Christine was bent almost double with arthritis, so that they found it difficult to attend public worship. But their cottage became a prayer sanctuary. AND GOD HEARD THEM. He revealed to Peggy NOT only that revival was coming but also the identity of the instrument God had chosen to use: Duncan Campbell, though he testified to the fact that the Revival was already in progress when he arrived there for meetings. He was supposed to be there for just about three weeks, but remained for three years, to give sound teaching to establish the new converts and to consolidate God's renewing work through the Word of God. That Hebrides revival was born in prayer.
It's the same when considering the WELSH Revivals and ALL Revivals: prayer is always predominant; and we will have revival when we are seriously concerned enough about it to spend more time before God in prayer. I feel a pulse of sympathy beating with Charles Haddon Spurgeon, when he said to his London congregation:
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival – men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.
[To be continued]
AERON MORGAN and wife Dinah, have served the Lord for more than fifty years. They are Welsh and have pastored churches in the UK and Australia, where they now reside. Aeron served on the National Executives of the British and the Australian AoG fellowships. He was the first General Superintendent of the British AoG, and was Principal of the Australian National Bible College for twelve years. He was also an adjunct faculty member of the South Pacific Bible College in Suva, Fiji. Now retired from active pastoral ministry he fulfils an extensive itinerant ministry in many countries speaking at churches, Conferences, ministers' seminars, and short-term teaching in Bible Schools. Aeron has a website - www.aeronmorgan.org


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As assistant director of food service in the Trumbull school system, Laurie Stolba prepares meals as if her own children will be eating them. Because they do.
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Stolba and Betty Sinko, food service director, are planning a series of "thank you" surprises for the 50 school lunch employees next week in recognition of National Food Service Appreciation Week. Sinko, who has 40 years in the business, said the program has come a long way from the days of the stereotypical lunch lady ladling mystery meat onto students' plates.
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Planning the school menu includes gathering ideas, and weighing the suggestions and student feedback against the equipment's capacity, availability of food, and cost. Each meal sells for $3 or less, and Food Services is a self-sustaining department that receives no funds from the Board of Education.
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The dining scene may still contain classic staples like burgers and school-made pizza, but it has also evolved to include many more types of cuisines and ethnic food experiences than in the past, Sinko said.
Students are also encouraged to try new foods, and sometimes the novelty of a new culinary experience goes all the way to the top.
"Students today put Sriracha sauce on everything," Sinko said. So after ordering a supply, Sinko said she gave it a taste test, sampling the chili pepper-based condiment directly from the packet, with eye-watering results.
Still, Sinko said, the experience helped her stay on top of food trends, and was a valuable experience in preparing a menu that the students would enjoy.
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President Obama focused his weekly radio and Internet address on urging Congress to increase taxes on millionaires and billionaires, renewing his proposal to enact the so-called Buffet Rule – although it has little chance of passing in a heated election year.
The Buffett Rule plan, scheduled for a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate April 16, is named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has been quoted extensively as bemoaning that his secretary pays taxes at a higher rate than he does.
Many wealthy Americans – including Buffett and GOP front-runner Mitt Romney – earn primarily investment income, which is taxed at 15 percent.
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Obama proposes that those earning at least $1 million annually — whether in salary or investments — should pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes.
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This FREE Grow pillow pattern is based on the popular Grow quilt pattern found in the SQ shop. That quilt pattern includes instructions for king, queen/full, twin, throw and baby sizes. So once you finish this pillow, you may have to make a matching quilt so it's not lonely on the couch!
Welcome, friends! If you are looking for a fun, creative outlet with lots of community support, you have come to the right place! Wednesday, September 23 marks the first week of our Shine quilt sew along!
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It's time to Shine! Starting September 23, 2020 we will launch the final sew along of the year featuring the Shine quilt pattern. Shine is the third design in a series of four quilts that represent the four seasons in a year.
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Welcome to the first annual We Sew Together sew along for charity! This four-week sew along allows lots of flexibility, but doesn't skimp on coupons and prizes. Over the next month we, as an online community, will sew any quilt pattern you choose for any charity from this list – The Ultimate Guide to Quilt Donations: A List of Where and How to Donate Quilts.
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Thrivers, you made it! You are so close to victory you can probably smell it, and it smells like spray starch and sewing machine oil. Yummm! This week we wrap up our six-week sew along making the Thrive quilt pattern.
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Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans
January 2018
Our Mission
To End Veteran Homelessness in Minnesota
Our Vision
To provide assistance throughout Minnesota to Veterans and their families who are homeless or experiencing other life crises leading to homelessness
To all our MACV Friends and Partners
This month MACV welcomed four new team members to join us in our mission of Ending Veteran Homelessness. Please take a look at their bios below and extend a warm welcome to them! In addition to our new team members, we are spearheading a master leasing initiative to further serve Veterans who have barriers to housing such as an eviction or justice involvement. MACV is paving the way for our Veterans and we recognize that we are able to do this through the incredible support of our community. Please take a look at our January highlights and from all of us at MACV,
MACV believes in community and we will End Veteran Homelessness together.
To find out more about MACV, including ways to help, please visit our website.
To all of our supporters, on behalf of all of us at MACV, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
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Donating to MACV just got easier and it won't cost you an extra dime. When shopping on Amazon, go to
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New MACV Team Members
Executive Team
Brian Peterson
Chief Financial Officer
Brian is joining MACV with 15 years of experience providing financial, operational, and strategic leadership for nonprofit organizations. Brian most recently served as a consultant for nonprofits, and previously co-founded and helped to build a national youth leadership nonprofit. Brian believes stronger organizations make a bigger difference, and is committed to building upon the work of those who have served MACV since its founding to continue to further our mission for veterans in Minnesota. Outside of work, Brian serves on two nonprofit boards and spends as much time running, hiking, fishing, and exploring Minnesota as he can.
Regional Staff
Guy Sing
South Region Case Manager
Guy enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1995 and retired in 2016 as a Master Sergeant. He has two tours in Iraq with 1-12INF 4ID and 6-8 CAV 3ID. Guy and his family moved back to Minnesota after his retirement and decided to make Rochester their permanent home. Guy has a genuine passion for our Veterans and he is very excited to join the MACV team in Rochester.
Justin Goff
Resident Services Coordinator
Linden Grove
Justin enlisted in the MN Army National Guard in 2000, has 10 years of active service, two tours to Iraq. He is currently assigned as the Maneuver Senior Leader Course Instructor with the 2-175
RTI. Justin has been married to his wife Jessica for 15 years. Together they have 2 children, son Ayden (14) and daughter Paisley (9). Justin enjoys hunting, fishing, skiing, and snowboarding with his family. Justin has also coached little league baseball for the past 8 years. Justin has worked as a case manager for the past two years working specifically with veterans and is looking forward to being able to continue to serve veterans through MACV.
David Mirambeaux
Metro Region Case Manager
David Mirambeaux has been in Minnesota for 15 years and has been heavily involved in making a positive difference in his community. He has a published book called Count-Time, An Offenders Guide to Success, and is currently working on another one that is called, "Diary of an Abusive Relationship." He has worked at the Domestic Abuse Project as a mens group therapist and has volunteered in many non-profits since his arrival in Minnesota. He has worked as a Reentry Counselor for Goodwill Easter Seals, as a cook for Catholic Charities Dorothy Day Center, and is attending Metropolitan State University pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Human Services.
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans (MACV) | Phone 833-222-MACV (6228) |
January 2018 Highlights
North Office
A special thanks to KBJR, UMD athletics and AAR for selecting MACV to once again receive the proceeds from the sale of Operation Hat Trick hats. Net proceeds will benefit Veterans through MACV. What a great 2018 design with the Bulldog right on the front. Click below to order yours today!
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Metro Region
Our President and CEO Neal Loidolt met with our partners at Central Roofing to thank them for their incredible support to MACV during our WCCO Home for the Holidays telethon and event. Their efforts to help MACV will go a long way toward serving our Minnesota Veterans.
South Office
Ryan Frank
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. The money was raised from a Free Will Donation Burger Event held at the Armory in Redwood Falls, MN.
Our South Regional Leader Sadie Rezac performs outreach at the 10th Project Community Connect in Rochester with MACV team members Mike Montalto and Guy Sing. More information about this event can be found on our Facebook page and by clicking
Upcoming Legal Clinics
Minneapolis Legal Clinic
When: Tuesday February 6th
Time: 9:00am-2:00pm
Where: VA Medical Center
Flag Atrium Balcony Room 2S 114
Anoka Legal Clinic
When: Thursday March 1st
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Where: Anoka County Government Center
2100 3rd Ave. Room 237 Anoka, MN. 55303
Program Spotlight
Over the years, MACV has taken the lead in the fight to end veteran homelessness in MN and in doing so noticed a troubling pattern; veterans with high barriers experience homelessness the longest. In March of 2017 MACV launched its Master Leasing pilot project. Four units were acquired and offered to veterans experiencing homelessness. All four veterans were previously turned away from housing opportunities due to criminal justice involvement, poor credit, and troubled rental history. MACV was able to house them through Master Leasing.
What is Master Leasing:
MACV enters into a legal and binding contract with an owner and the veteran rents from MACV.
Why Master Leasing:
To serve Veterans experiencing homelessness who can't find housing due to evictions, justice involvement, or who do not qualify for market rate rent or existing programs.
How does Master Leasing help Veterans?
Provides a fresh start to build positive rental history
Keeps Veterans connected with outside case management and supportive services
Increases overall housing stability for Veterans with barriers to housing
For the first time in two years, Bob finally has a place of his own to call home. "The home I've gotten from MACV is terrific!"
To find out more about our MACV Master Leasing initiative, please contact our Housing Specialist
John Robertson
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Join Bill Bell for a drive to Port Angeles and the Olympic Peninsula. We'll meet at the General Store in Port Gamble, WA for breakfast (Optional) at 8:30 a.m., followed by the driver's meeting at 9:30 a.m. in front of the store. The drive begins at 9:45 and we'll travel some twisty roads to our ultimate destination of Lake Crescent Lodge for lunch. On the way to the Lodge, we will be stopping off at the Port Angeles Spit and the Salt Creek Recreation Area west of Port Angeles with three restroom stops along the way before the ultimate destination of the Lake Crescent Lodge.
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