It was eighty-five years ago – November 9, 1935, to be exact – that Freda Elizabeth Cochran and Lewis Ermon Bean became a young married couple in Washington County, Maine. I knew them better as Mama and Daddy. Actually, they…
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October was a busy and wonderful month for Love From Above – apart from my not being able to be in ‘the other land that I love’, Romania! Meds were supplied to the two orphanages (Albina and Barza Mica) –…
I was so tired after being out and about doing so many errands recently – not to mention the ache in my lower back from a recent injury – that I decided I could just absolutely not get back to…
Love From Above was thrilled in September to have been able to send all the funds needed for veggies for this Fall, Winter, and coming Spring to our ‘kids’ at Barza Mica. THANK all of you who helped in this…
This is a familiar story to you — The apostle Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus spent much of his adult life terrorizing and persecuting early followers of Jesus. He seemed to feel it was his duty – that…
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Our world is still upside-down, inside-out, or as my Dad used to say when something in his workshop just wasn’t fitting together right, “ee-yaw”. Well our world’s new ‘abnormal’ is very ‘ee-yaw’! The European Union has closed their borders to…
I once heard a speaker say that there are three ‘epoch times’ in the life of a follower of Christ. The first is ‘formation’. ‘There is a time to be born . . .’ (Ecclesiastes 3.2) And, August was the…
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Though it breaks my heart not to be able to be back in ‘the other land that I love’, I am delighted to report that Love From Above has kept up it’s ministry in Romania – and on so many…
I read this information recently from one, Sir John Glubb, (1897-1986) the British diplomat who studied four-thousand years of human history and who found that there was a pattern to the decline of great nations. He said that the last…
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Little has changed from last month. That’s what a pandemic can do to a world. We are still sending funds to our precious orphans at Barza Mica for food and meds – and funds to Ovi for our folks at…
