(Part one of two)  A continuing audit of financial records of St. Martha Parish in Okemos, Michigan, has increased the amount potentially embezzled from parish funds from $1.8 million to nearly $5 million it was revealed at a July 7 hearing at Ingham County District Court in Mason, Michigan.—Dan Morris-Young

“In justice, I shall behold your face, O Lord” (Psalm 17:15a).  “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest” (Matthew 9:38) and not harvests for laborers for themselves.  Always remember Jacob who “contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed” at a place spelled Peniel in one place and Penuel in the next (Genesis 32:26, 31, 32).