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Greetings all,

Letting everyone know that after somewhere around 28 years, when our annual hosting expires on 08/24/2025, Millennium Weekend Ministries we will not be renewing. Lack of interest for the past many years makes it clear to Esther and me that it does not make any sense to continue to keep the site running.

Many thanks to the handful of folks that have stuck it out with us. Perhaps very soon we shall all meet when we hear the glorious voice of our Savior calling us home to the Father's house. Certainly any who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ alone for their salvation, repenting with a "broken and contrite heart" (Ps 34:18 and 51:17) will find mercy and will indeed be caught up together to meet our Savior in the air.

What a glorious day that will be.

In Christ alone,
Andy
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Royal Marine threw himself onto grenade

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    Royal Marine threw himself onto grenade

    A Royal Marine who threw himself onto an exploding grenade to save the lives of his patrol has been put forward for the UK's highest military honour.
    Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, 24, a reservist from Birmingham, survived because his rucksack and body armour took the force of the blast.
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/7321647.stm
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    Re: Royal Marine threw himself onto grenade

    The young Lance Corporal frantically scanned the ground through his night vision goggles. And there it lay. He and his three comrades had SEVEN SECONDS to live...

    What brave Matt did next could make him the first Royal Marine since 1945 to win a VICTORIA CROSS.

    In an astonishing act of self sacrifice he FLUNG himself at the grenade, FLIPPED on his side next to it and lay there with only his backpack for protection as he prepared to SAVE his pals by SMOTHERING the blast with his body.

    Matt, 24, recalled: "I thought, ‘I've set this bloody thing off and I'm going to do whatever it takes to protect the others'.
    http://forums.military.com/eve/forum.../2430058671001

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      Re: Royal Marine threw himself onto grenade

      Reminds me of the special I saw of one of our own Marine's (I think she was a Marine) receiving a medal for using her body as a shield from incoming fire while some of her wounded comrades were behind her.

      Unbelievable bravery...

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