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Should you have any questions, comments, ideas, or just need general information about PassionWorks, Inc., its hunger and homeless efforts, or anything about any of the organizations thoughts and endeavors…OR…should you wish to review our financial records —

Please contact us at:

PassionWorks, Inc., 452 East End Avenue, Brick, NJ 08723
Phone: 732.272.3477
Email:  info@passionworksusa.org
Website:  www.passionworksusa.org
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Click On The Above GoodShop Logo & Help PassionWorks, Inc. While You Shop!
Follow The Instructions Below To Use GoodSearch & To Make PassionWorks Your Charity Of Choice.
Then Use GoodShop As You Would Using Any Of Your Favorite Online Stores!

GoodSearch Instructions Are As Follows:

1. Go to www.goodsearch.com
2. Type passionworks (one word – no spaces) into the “I support” box and click on “verify”.  The words “PassionWorks, Inc. (Brick, NJ) should pop up.
3. Then, using the “search” box just above the “I Support” box, search the Internet just like you would with any search engine.
4. Since GoodSearch shares its advertising revenue with charities and schools, every time you search the Internet at GoodSearch, you’ll be earning money for PassionWorks, Inc.  It’s that simple!
5. Every time you search the Internet using GoodSearch, PassionWorks, Inc. earns $.01!  If everyone on our database does this and searches 1-2 times per day…the earnings could be amazing!

You can keep track of our estimated earnings by clicking on “amount raised” once you designate PASSIONWORKS, INC. as your organization of choice.  The more people who use the site, the more money we’ll earn, so please spread the word!

 

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Now you can raise money for PASSIONWORKS, INC. just by searching the Internet at www.goodsearch.com – and it doesn’t cost you a dime!  You use GoodSearch.com like any other search engine – the site is powered by Yahoo! – but each time you use it, money is generated for PassionWorks, Inc.  Here’s how it works: 

1. Go to www.goodsearch.com
2. Type passionworks (one word – no spaces) into the “I support” box and click on “verify”.  The words “PassionWorks, Inc. (Brick, NJ) should pop up.
3. Then, using the “search” box just above the “I Support” box, search the Internet just like you would with any search engine.
4. Since GoodSearch shares its advertising revenue with charities and schools, every time you search the Internet at GoodSearch, you’ll be earning money for PassionWorks, Inc.  It’s that simple!
5. Every time you search the Internet using GoodSearch, PassionWorks, Inc. earns $.01!  If everyone on our database does this and searches 1-2 times per day…the earnings could be amazing!

You can keep track of our estimated earnings by clicking on “amount raised” once you designate PASSIONWORKS, INC. as your organization of choice.  The more people who use the site, the more money we’ll earn, so please spread the word!

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God’s Persistence…

 

My wife Vicky and I live off of Mantoloking Road in the Cedarwood Park area of Brick Township.  Like so many towns on the New Jersey shore in recent years, our neighborhood, once nicely wooded with streets heavily adorned with trees and fall foliage, has succumbed to office complexes, strip-malls, cement, and white lined blacktop parking lots.  In fact, our whole region has altered its scenic look to make way for consistently heavy influxes of people, which then leads to more housing needs, bigger or new school complexes, a need for more places of employment, more office buildings, an increase in the number of places to shop, and an expansion of our roadways so we can transport ourselves around to all the places we need to go.  Our schedules are full, our stress levels high, and there barely any places to walk around in woodsy silence anymore.One afternoon on a shopping excursion a couple of weeks ago, I parked the car in one of those mall parking lots, got out, locked the car door, and proceeded to hunt around for an abandoned parking lot shopping cart that I could use rather than grabbing a new one at the front door of the store.  At that moment in the distance right in the middle of the lot my eye caught a bit of color stemming up through the solid blacktop, the only other color within thousands of square feet of black background and white lines.  As I walked closer to the color, I discovered it to be a flower!  Yes, a flower with petals of vibrant blue and violet!  I looked around with wonder as I could not find another hint of plant life within thousands of square feet of where I was standing, yet this one tiny plant had found the only thin crack in a four inch thick sheet of tar roadway…and it rose up to bloom and persisted on giving life and color to what I consider to be a dark and cheerless landscape.

 

I laughed to myself and smiled up to God and thought, “Boy, your persistence is amazing.  Your beauty and creation will not stop coming through for us no matter how hard we try to block it out and pave over it!”  And what timing!  I just finished reading Thomas Merton’s book, “When The Trees Say Nothing.”  In the introduction, aptly titled, “The Forest Is My Bride”, there is a quote from Merton’s Waters Of Siloe which reads

When the monks had found their homes, they not only settled there, for better or worse, but they sank their roots in the ground and fell in love with their woods…forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same silent language, reminding the monk that he is here to develop like the things that grow all around him.     (Waters Of Siloe, pp. 273-274)

I am burned out and tired.  This ministry in which I serve is taking its toll on my health.  Merton’s writing on nature, while very simple brought me to peace and has helped me to stay in tune with God’s work around me rather than the human work around me.  I remember that God is God and God will always work wonders, even when things seem black and cheerless.  This is the way with Jesus.  God sent us his son so that whoever believes in him will not perish but will have eternal life (John 3:16).  Times were not so wonderful 2000 years ago, black and cheerless back when Jesus physically walked the earth within his human vessel.  The people were looking for a savior to bring them hope.  God heard the people’s cry and delivered his promise on that wonderful morning when Jesus the Christ was born.  I must remember and meditate on the belief that God’s persistence is and always will be amazing and no matter how much life’s burdens seem to weigh me down and block out God’s creational and eternal beauty…God will never stop coming through for me and us!

Lo, in the silent night, a child to God is born.  And all is brought again that ere was lost or lorn.  Could but thy soul, O man, become a silent night!  God would be born in thee and set all things aright.
(15^th Century / Author Unknown)

Pastor Chuck Gianakos <><
Executive Director, PassionWorks, Inc.
Founder, Project Reflection Ministries