What can the Chaplain do for me?

My primary job as Chaplain of the V. L. O. A. is to conduct the Sunday morning worship service at our reunions. In addition, should you have the need to talk with someone who has "been there, done that," I am available to listen.

I have been asked to initiate prayer requests using email from time to time. I thought it might be more effective to post prayer requests here on our web site. So if you know of a family or one of our own in need of our spiritual support, send a simple email request describing the need and the person or family in need, to me at the address below.

If you want to talk, call: 352-341-1390

Send Prayer Requests and other communications to:  Maverick36@tampabay.rr.com

God Bless
Rev. John E. Doyle

Quarterly Devotional  - - - July 2010

Many years ago, before I attended the seminary, I pastored a small mission church in Tennessee.  Ruth and I have tithed as long as I can remember and I was preparing a sermon on tithing.  I was trying to find an illustration that would bring home the point that, if you trusted God with your tithe, He would not let you down when you had a need.  After having a "message void moment," I remembered something that illustrated the point perfectly.

One Sunday a long time before I became a pastor and money was tight, we were at the point where, if we tithed that morning, we would be broke and payday still about a week away.  We tithed and trusted God.  If I remember right, on Tuesday we received a check in the mail for almost the same amount of the tithe.  It seems we had bought some furniture on time some time in the past.  An audit showed we had paid too much.  That was the reason for the check.

However, the real reason was that when God promises to provide, He is true to his word.

Chaplain