Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our Reading titled, Serving Together in Jesus, was written by Jennifer Benson Schultt.

Rescue workers cooperated to help three men stranded on an island in Micronesia.

Teamwork was necessary because a widespread health crisis required them to limit their exposure to each other.

The pilot who first spotted the castaways radioed a nearby Australian Navy ship.

The ship sent two helicopters which provided food, water, and medical care.

Later, the U.S. Coast Guard arrived to check on the men and deliver a radio.

Finally, a Micronesian patrol boat taxied them to their destination. We can accomplish a lot when we work together. The Philippian

believers pooled their efforts to support the Apostle Paul. Lydia and her family welcomed him

into their home. Clement, and even Eudia and Sintickey, who didn't get along, all worked directly with the apostle to spread

the good news. Later, when Paul was imprisoned in Rome, the church gathered essentials for a

care package and delivered it via Epaphroditeus. Perhaps most importantly, the Philippians prayed

for him throughout his ministry.

The examples of believers serving together in this ancient church can inspire us today.

Cooperating with fellow believers to pray and serve others as God leads and empowers us

accomplishes much more than we could ever do on our own.

It has been said, individually, we are one drop.

Together, we are an ocean.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Philippians chapter 4, verses 14 through 20.

It was good of you to share in my troubles.

Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the Gospel, when I set out from Macedonia,

not one church shared with me in the matter of

giving and receiving, except you only. For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid more

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