Teachers Saving Children® Inc. - National
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Volume 16, Number 2
December 2005
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“But Joseph said to them, ‘Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.”
Many years earlier Joseph’s brothers had acted out of personal animosity towards Joseph. They hated their brother, and though originally they had planned to kill him, they finally decided to sell him into slavery and deceive their father as to the truth of their actions (Genesis 37).
Yet as Paul writes in Romans 8:28 “…we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Joseph, who did have some spiritual refining that needed to be done in order to be used by God for a specific purpose, was being placed exactly where God wanted him – in Egypt. It was in Egypt where God would use Joseph’s gifts of administration and wisdom to save life – the life of the Israelites, the Egyptians, and all the nations that came to Egypt to buy food during the time of famine that had threatened the known world.
God’s goodness through Joseph did not stop there. Because the Israelites were preserved, they eventually became a great nation. Hundreds of years later, it was through the descendants of Abraham, Joseph’s great grandfather, that God brought Jesus into the world as a babe. And it is through Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross that salvation has been made available to every person and nation. Given this perspective, we can see that the “many people” that were saved through God using Joseph in Egypt far exceeded those that Joseph could ever imagine. From the very beginning of time God’s plan has been to bring salvation through a right relationship with Him to the entire world.
Yes, sometimes it seems that life’s circumstances are meant to harm us. But as we face each one, let us remember that “God works for the good of those who love Him” (Romans 8:28). He has placed you and me exactly where He wants us so that He can accomplish His purpose through us for “the saving of many lives” – both physically in the saving of preborn children and spiritually in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with those all around us.
Have a blessed Christmas season!
Last spring individuals contributed $3850.00 towards the Teachers Saving Children® exhibit at the NEA Expo 2005 in Los Angeles. Thank you for your generosity in assisting Teachers Saving Children® with this great opportunity and ministry.
By faith, the Teachers Saving Children® Inc. – National Board of Trustees has made a decision to apply for exhibit space at the NEA Expo 2006 in Orlando FL. The purpose of our exhibit area will be to promote and provide educational classroom materials, especially for science and health teachers. We will once again be putting the facts and the wonder of human development before the largest group of decision-makers in the teachers’ union. The exhibit application fee is $1300. Currently we have $1125 designated towards the 2006 exhibit. As soon as the designated monies reach $1300, then the application for the exhibit space will be submitted. Once again we are asking for your generosity so that we might expose more individuals to “awesome” photos, fetal models, and descriptive brochures that show children at various stages of development growing inside their mothers.
Please make checks payable to “Teachers Saving Children® Inc. – National” and designate any amount towards this endeavor as “NEA/Wonder of Life Exhibit.” Only designated amounts will be applied towards this endeavor. Thank you in advance for any amount you can contribute, no matter how large or small, and for helping to educate teachers about “The Wonder of Life.”
The prognosis for a happy life may seem dismal when a child is conceived in the worst of circumstances, but John Roger Meir of Alliance, Ohio, maintains that every human life has purpose and promise. And he should know, because “Roger” was born in a maternity home, nine months after his fifteen-year-old birth mother became pregnant.
Roger and his wife Kathy recently celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary. Both are active in the Alliance Evangelical Friends Church, Alliance, Ohio. Kathy is the church secretary, while Roger serves as the outreach elder, making him responsible for an active sports and recreation program among many other activities at the church. Through his involvement in another church group, “Love in Action,” he and others do roofing and home maintenance-type work for people in need. He works as a paramedic for Rural/Metro Ambulance, sometimes doing 12-hour shifts; other times pulling 24-hour stints on the job. He and Kathy are the parents of two sons, one of whom is also a paramedic, who sometimes works right alongside his dad. Roger and Kathy are the grandparents of five.
Roger’s story lies not only in the happy life he now leads. Actually, his story lies in the process, in the incredible events that took him full circle, which he believes was no coincidence at all.
“I was adopted when I was four days old. My adoptive parents felt that babies shouldn’t be killed,” says Roger. “My father was a volunteer fireman. He wasn’t a churchgoer, but I started getting involved in church, myself, when I was a teenager. Dad died in 1990.” Roger was at his father’s bedside, talking to him about God, and less than 24 hours before death, his father accepted Christ. This man who had provided for his son’s earthly life, had been guided by his adopted son to eternal life. Roger’s adoptive mother died in 2002—two years after his biological mother had re-entered his world and his family.
“I met my birth mother after finding out bits and pieces of information that I really hadn’t looked for. I don’t believe in coincidences. She came over to the house. I found, from my adoptive parents, that I had been named after a ‘Miss Rogers,’ who worked at the maternity home where I was born. It was the Friends Home, a home for unwed mothers located in Columbus, Ohio. Later I came to realize that I had grown up only five miles away from my biological mother and my relatives, and that the very church that I go to now helped support the maternity home where I was born,” he said.
Roger works through his church’s outreach program to fund buses going to the Washington D.C. March for Life each year. He is, also, one of the people in charge of painting and rebuilding 1,000 white crosses at his church for their spring churchyard displays, in memory of children killed by abortion. He’s a part of the team of workers who set up the crosses. He says, “We have a pregnancy fundraiser every year, and I’ve been able to assist with that. Our church helped to build and to organize the Alliance Pregnancy Center.” Roger’s biological mother volunteers at the local hospital and sometimes at the pregnancy center, too.
Recently, Roger’s birth mother came to his house, on October 15th, for his 56th birthday, and her son has come to a conclusion. “God doesn’t make mistakes. Regardless of how you came into this world, God has a plan for you.”
Roger Meir is today a part of a paramedic team that works regularly to save people’s lives. He often finds himself tending to the care and emergency treatment of alcoholics, drug addicts, and people who, he says, “feel they don’t have self worth.” Roger contradicts that with, “Every human life is important,” and his own life is the truest testimony.
Editor’s Note: This story is the result of a phone interview between Roger Meir and Judy Bruns. Mrs. Bruns is a writer and a Language Arts teacher living in Coldwater OH.
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For complete details concerning the events of January 23rd,
please contact your local Right to Life Chapter or State Right to Life office.
For those pro-life teachers and school employees who can't go to Washington DC,
it is suggested that you attend the pro-life marches or rallies being held in your own local areas.
CONSIDER TAKING A PERSONAL DAY
TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS HISTORIC EVENT
Note: NEA is asking for an approximate number of educators who will be visiting the headquarters on this date. Please contact Judy Bruns @ brunsj@adelphia.net or 419-678-8019 for information and to RSVP (an RSVP is not required, but helpful).
THEN MARK MARCH 18, 2006 PM ON YOUR CALENDARS
TEACHERS SAVING CHILDREN® INC. OF OHIO
WILL BE HOSTING A DINNER FOR PRO-LIFE EDUCATORS
WATCH FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS IN THE MONTHS AHEAD
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