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Success is … Propelled by a passion, the power of effective persuasion, and unfaltering persistence to achieve your career aspirations in 2012

What about YOU?

It's the end of 2011. Ask yourself: What have I accomplished?

If you are totally satisfied with your accomplishments, that's terrific. If not, then select the sentence below that describes you best:

1. I am not sure what my next career step should be.2. I know where I want to go but do not know how to get there (from here)3. I cannot seem to arrange interviews.4. I can arrange interviews, but I am challenged to get the job that I want.5. I considering starting a business … What do I need to know?6. I want to change career paths to a brighter future … How do I get started?

But First … A Holiday Treat“Where’s The Line For Jesus?”

Please Welcome Our Guest Speaker… Pastor Tom LatimerSt. Stephen’s United Methodist Church

• Biography: Tom Latimer

– Senior pastor of St. Stephen UMC. – Came to Charlotte in June 2009. – He has served churches in the WNC Annual Conference for 30 years

including appointments in Gastonia, Greensboro and Brevard. – Holds B.A. and M.Div. degrees from Duke University. – Married to Jennie Hayworth Latimer since 1980. – They have one child – Powell, 23. He is the high school sports editor

at the Wilmington Star News. – Two dogs, Toby an Airedale, and Reilly an Irish Terrier. – Hobbies: golf, jogging, table tennis, Duke basketball

Managing the Stress of the Holidays While Unemployed

Psalm 23Psalm of David

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters;

3 he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake.

4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff— they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.

Isaiah 40: 28-31

28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

29 He gives power to the faint,and strengthens the powerless.

30 Even youths will faint and be weary,and the young will fall exhausted;

31 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Matthew 6:25-33Do Not Worry

25 ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how

they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 2 9yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow

is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?”

32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

33 But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Romans 8: 31-39God’s Love in Christ Jesus

31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

32 He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?

33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who

is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or

persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,

‘For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.’

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Looking Forward to 2012 …

• December 15th: Guest Speaker – Pastor Paul Craig, MUMC… and a Holiday Surprise for those in attendance …

• December 22nd: No Meeting Scheduled – Merry Christmas !• December 29th: No Meeting Scheduled – Happy New Year !• January 5th: Next Regularly Scheduled Meeting

• Kicking Off 2012 , Focused on Success !!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !

¡Feliz Navidad y Feliz año nuevo!Joyeux Noël et bonne année

Frohe Weihnachte unn ein gudes neus JahrPrettige kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!

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See you next week…..