You're not going to be here. As you know, Paul's letters or the Pauline Epistles are arranged in the New Testament in descending order of their length, with the exception of the

Book of Hebrews. These 14 letters comprise 173 pages, just about 43% of the entire New Testament.

This week we will be looking at the small epistle of Paul to the Philippians and another

even smaller epistle to the Colossus.

And we will be looking at one particular very wonderful thing Paul taught.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian magazine's Come Follow Me

me podcast.

This week's lesson title, I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me,

is especially significant to me, so much so that I have this right on my desk and I see it

multiple times each day. I look at it because it really does

give me strength. It gives me courage to try hard things. I have to say Scott at

the outset that we have been overwhelmed by the generosity and kindness of you, our podcast

listeners and our amazing Meridian readers as we have been actively pushing this year's

humanitarian project for Meridian Cares and Rising Star Outreach.

I don't know what the numbers will be when we actually released this podcast,

but as of this writing and recording, after a little more than two weeks of the campaign.

You wonderful people had given more than 142,000 of the 200,000 we're trying to raise.

How can we thank you enough? Please be assured that every penny that's

raised for this project through Meridian Cares goes right to the building of the school for the

children of the leprosy affected there in Bihar, India.

Maureen, when you and I went to Bihar, we were overwhelmed with compassion for these

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