Announcements - Thank You - Prayer List

 Anyone wanting to do the devotions or teach a class, please see
Pastor Kim. We welcome everyone’s sharing. 

Story Telling– Public Library. Sept 5 -7 PM Come listen
to or share a story or poem or song. Pastor Kim is hosting
this. Last months was fantastic. John Rubin told a story.
Laughed!!! If you need a ride, call Martha 316-249-545 
Sept 11- Women’s Bible Fellowship at Faith Church. Will resume
at 9:00 AM. Juanita Wolfley will have the lesson.
 Sept 17th– Pot luck and Games after church– Fun Day-. All are welcome.

Aug – Mission trip to Arkansas –Was a great Mission trip.
Sharon Morton will do a presentation the end of Oct.
 
Huge Thank You to…
All those that are helping this church family to grow...& to God for all his Blessings!
Walt Kraft & Juanita Wolfley for their classes on Sunday
Also A Huge Thank You Every Week to…
Our Pianist Pat Kraft and Song Leader Priscilla Wenzel 

 Prayer/Praises Requests

 Carole Teel’s Nephew, Gary- Blood & family. Not doing well.
 Oleta McGee–health– .and the loss of George.
 Sharon & Larry Anderson– Sharon heart recovery & Health of
Larry.
 Walt Kraft– relief of pain. Tim Kraft– Healing from Bypasses
 Judy Brown’s Daughter Jennei– Health.
 Lela McCaslin– Health.
 Ivy Woodard’s Son– Health.
 ALL our Church Members and their health.
 All the Christians being persecuted.
 Pray for Pastor John in Pakistan.
 Pray for our Pastor Kim and Priscilla to be safe at their work.
 Pray for our church members to be able to reach out and touch people with
Gods message and encourage them to come to Faith Church.
 Pray for our Military!
 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

My Time
Looking back in time I sometime wish I'd done A little better with my time A little less on the run
The hurt I've felt I brought it alone The cards have been dealt The results are my own
I'm thankful for the hard times For they strengthened my faith Forgiveness for the crimes That's what my God saith.

Our Daily Bread
The Bible in One Year, a story and verse for each day. A great study for every Christian which will bring you closer to GOD!  This is a Must Read for every Christian! The new September, October, November Daily Bread is available in the entry way, pick up your free copy today!  

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Sunday August 27 2017

Lessons from Esther

Pastor Kim Wenzel

Approx 450 BC - 450 yrs before Jesus, 100+ years after Babylonian captivity

- King Xerxes - 127 provinces - India to Ethiopia

-Queen Vashti

-New Queen - send most lovely female from each province.

-Esther wins the job! - with out spot or wrinkle - bride of Christ

-Mordecai - a Jew, related to Esther - told to bow down to Haman

-Haman - represents Satan the adversary - was the Prime Minister - wants to kill ALL Jews

Haman convinces Xerxes to sign order to kill all Jews.

Mordicai asks for Esther’s help.

Esther 4:13-16   

 Mordecai sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed. 14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”

15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”

Bride of Christ ready to die to save God’s people!

Haman has a plan to hang Mordecai - It backfires

Today's Verse

 Psalm 8:3-4
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him

Announcements - Thank You - Prayer List

Aug 27th- Fourth Sunday Devotions by Juanita Wolfley 9AM
Story Telling– Public Library. Sept 5 -7 PM Come listen
to or share a story or poem or song. Pastor Kim is hosting
this. Last months was fantastic. John Rubin told a story.
Laughed!!! If you need a ride, call Martha 316-249-545 
Sept 11- Women’s Bible Fellowship at Faith Church. Will resume
at 9:00 AM. Juanita Wolfley will have the lesson.
Anyone wanting to do the devotions or teach a class, please see
Pastor Kim. We welcome everyone’s sharing. 
Aug – Mission trip to Arkansas –Was a great Mission trip.
Sharon Morton will do a presentation the end of Oct.
 
Huge Thank You to…
All those that are helping this church family to grow...& to God for all his Blessings!

Also A Huge Thank You Every Week to…
Our Pianist Pat Kraft and Song Leader Priscilla Wenzel 

 Prayer/Praises Requests
 Oleta McGee–health – and the loss of George.
 Sharon & Larry Anderson– Sharon heart recovery & Health
of Larry.
 Walt Kraft– relief of pain. Tim Kraft– Healing from Bypasses.
 Judy Brown’s Daughter Jennei– Health.
 Lela McCaslin– Health.
 Ivy Woodard’s Son– baby stroke possibly.
 ALL our Church Members and their health.
 All the Christians being persecuted.
 Pray for Pastor John in Pakistan.
 Pray for our Pastor Kim and Priscilla to be safe at their work.
 Pray for our church members to be able to reach out and touch people with
Gods message and encourage them to come to Faith Church.
 Pray for our Military!
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
Remember, Faith Church is a Praying Church!!

Someone’s Memory
Have you ever found yourself going
around in circles? Like when water
drains from the kitchen sink.
The water swirls faster and faster near
the end. Like time flies by as you get
older and more distinct.
Have you ever heard the phrase , down
the drain? Followed by, no need to cry
over spilt milk?
Well , we can't change the past but we
can call the cat so the milk doesn't waist
and leave us with guilt.
It takes time for the water to return in
the form of rain. To water flowers and
bring life to everything.
Just remember that we are all
someone's memory and we control what
kind of memory it will bring

Our Daily Bread
The Bible in One Year, a story and verse for each day. A great study for every Christian which will bring you closer to GOD!  This is a Must Read for every Christian! The new September, October, November Daily Bread is available in the entry way, pick up your free copy today!  

We have some folks who have selected Faith Church because it gives them a place to use their spiritual gifts. If you are interested in doing something special, present yourself to the leaders and we'll work hard to help you get started.
Visit our web site to keep informed...
Try our BLOG : faithchurchofgrove.blogspot.com
or
www.FaithChurchOfGrove.com
We have a calendar, access to church
directory, ability to put in prayer
requests, online giving,
calendar of events, last weeks
sermon, Harp music, Library and Much More.
Let us know what you think and want!  
 
 The Worship is over. Let the Service Begin!

Sunday August 20 2017

Sermon: “Rise and Fall of Empires”

Life Cycles of Empires

Pastor Kim Wenzel

German philosopher Hegel(1770-1831) said:

“What experience and history teach us is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1987), a highly honored British general and historian better known as Glubb Pasha, wrote about the collapsed empires of the past. In his 1978 book The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival, he described a common pattern fitting the history of some fallen empires. They went through a cycle of stages as they started, expanded, matured, declined and collapsed.

1. The age of outburst (or pioneers).
2. The age of conquests.
3. The age of commerce.
4. The age of affluence.
5. The age of intellect.
6. The age of decadence.
7. The age of decline and collapse.

Decline

1. Rampant sexual immorality, an aversion to marriage in favor of “living together” and an increased divorce rate all combine to undermine family stability.  Bible speaks so strongly on this topic. Why? Family break down.

Greeks slid into homosexuality just before Rome conquered them. Homosexuality became acceptable before fall of Rome.

-Infanticide: Affluence and fun lead to a lifestyle desiring freedom from responsibility. Children become a burden - birth rate drops or infanticide becomes the norm. 

2. Many foreign immigrants settle in the empire’s capital and major cities. The mixture of ethnic groups in close proximity in these cosmopolitan places inevitably produces conflicts. God gave Israel advice before the Promised Land

3. Both irresponsible pleasure-seeking and pessimism increase among the people and their leaders. 1 Corinthians 15:32  “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

4. The government provides extensive welfare for the poor. In the case of the city of Rome, which had perhaps 1.2 million people around A.D. 170, government-provided “bread and circuses” (food and entertainment) helped to keep the masses content. About one half of its non-slave population was on the dole at least part of the year.

Mark 14:7  You will always have the poor among you, and you can help them whenever you want to. But you will not always have me.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12

10 Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”11 Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business. 12 We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living.

Today's Verse

Mark 11:24
Therefore I tell you,
whatever you ask in
prayer, believe that
you have received
it, and it will be
yours.

 

Announcements - Thank You - Prayer List

Aug 20th– Bible Questions and Answers– Walt Kraft 9AM
Aug 20th– Monthly Lunch and birthday celebration.  Games after church– Fun Day-Bring small salad. Pizza provided by Luckens.
Aug 27th- Fourth Sunday Devotions by Juanita Wolfley 9AM
Story Telling– Public Library. Sept 5 -7 PM Come listen
to or share a story or poem or song. Pastor Kim is hosting
this. Last months was fantastic. John Rubin told a story.
Laughed!!! If you need a ride, call Martha 316-249-545 
Sept 11- Women’s Bible Fellowship at Faith Church. Will resume
at 10:00 AM. Juanita Wolfley will have the lesson.
Anyone wanting to do the devotions or teach a class, please see
Pastor Kim. We welcome everyone’s sharing.
 
Huge Thank You to…
All those that are helping this church family to grow...& to God for all his Blessings!
Also A Huge Thank You Every Week to…
Our Pianist Pat Kraft and Song Leader Priscilla Wenzel

Prayer/Praises Requests
 Oleta McGee–health– .and the loss of George.
 Sharon & Larry Anderson– Sharon heart recovery & Health
of Larry.
 Walt Kraft– relief of pain.
 Mary Morris– Pray for success of pace maker
 Judy Brown’s Daughter Jennei– Health.
 Lela McCaslin– Health.
 Ivy Woodard’s Son– baby stroke possibly.
 ALL our Church Members and their health.
 All the Christians being persecuted.
 Pray for Pastor John in Pakistan.
 Pray for our Pastor Kim and Priscilla to be safe at their work.
 Pray for our church members to be able to reach out and touch people with
Gods message and encourage them to come to Faith Church.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

Anyone wanting to do the devotions or teach a class, please see
Pastor Kim. We welcome everyone’s sharing.

Thankful to God
There was a man, he came from above He was almighty , yet gentle as a dove, he was love
He made the lame to walk upright, made the blind receive their sight He gave heed to the widows mite, every-thing he did and everything he said was right
Stripes they were many, thorns on his head Beaten without mercy until he was just about dead, Jesus bled
Then the Father, said to his Son," I am pleased with what you have done" Come up here and sit by me and with your blood I'll set men free
Now He is knocking, so open up your door To life everlasting and so much more.

Sunday August 13 2017

Genesis 13: 1-18 (NIV)

Sermon: “Ruth –Part 2”

The Great Dividing Wall
  Pastor Kim Wenzel

Abram and Lot Separate 

Abraham leaves Ur of the Chaldees

Ur of the Chaldees is a City in Babylonia which is in modern Iraq, near Nasiriyah in the southeastern part of the country.

1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. ² Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. ³ From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier ⁴ and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.⁵ Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶ But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. ⁷ And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.⁸ So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. ⁹ Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”

¹⁰ Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: ¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. ¹³ Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
¹⁴ The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. ¹⁵ All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring^[a] forever. ¹⁶ I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. ¹⁷ Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
¹⁸ So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.

Footnotes: 

Lot's family became Moabites - Ruth represents Moab  

The practical way that Ruth expressed her love to her mother-in law Naomi

1 She stuck with her. 

2 She adjusted to her    

3 She reached beyond her comfort zone.                                                                              

4 She offered encouraging words.   

5 She put Naomi's need above her own.

Boaz is an Israelite from Bethlehem, what a coincidence. 

Naomi hatches the plan.     

Ruth 3:1-18 (NIV)      

Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor

3 One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home^[a] for you, where you will be well provided for. ² Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. ³ Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. ⁴ When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”

⁵ “I will do whatever you say,” Ruth answered. ⁶ So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.
⁷ When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down. ⁸ In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!
⁹ “Who are you?” he asked.
“I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer^[b] of our family.”
¹⁰ “The Lord bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. ¹¹ And now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble character. ¹² Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I. ¹³ Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.”
¹⁴ So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
¹⁵ He also said, “Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he^[c] went back to town.
¹⁶ When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did it go, my daughter?”
Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her ¹⁷ and added, “He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
¹⁸ Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ruth 4:13-17 (NIV)

Naomi Gains a Son

¹³ So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. ¹⁴ The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! ¹⁵ He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
¹⁶ Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. ¹⁷ The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

The Genealogy of David

¹⁸ This, then, is the family line of Perez:

Perez was the father of Hezron,

¹⁹ Hezron the father of Ram,

Ram the father of Amminadab,

²⁰ Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

Nahshon the father of Salmon,^[d]

²¹ Salmon the father of Boaz,

Boaz the father of Obed,

²² Obed the father of Jesse,

and Jesse the father of David.

1300 Years before Jesus!! 

  Today's Verse 

Psalm 8:3-4
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him

 

Announcements - Thank You - Prayer List

 Anyone wanting to do the devotions or teach a class, please see
Pastor Kim. We welcome everyone’s sharing.
Story Telling– Public Library. Sept 5 -7 PM Come listen
to or share a story or poem or song. Pastor Kim is hosting
this. Last months was fantastic. John Rubin told a story.
Laughed!!! If you need a ride, call Martha 316-249-545
 Aug 13th– Mission trip to Arkansas over weekend.
See Brian Morton
Aug 13th:- Second Sunday Devotions by Juanita Wolfley 
Aug 20th– Bible Questions and Answers– Walt Kraft 9AM
Aug 20th– Pizza/ Games after church– Fun Day-Bring small salad.
Aug 27th- Fourth Sunday Devotions by Juanita Wolfley 9AM
Sept 11- Women’s Bible Fellowship at Faith Church. Will resume
at 10:00 AM. Juanita Wolfley will have the lesson.
 
Huge Thank You to…
All those that are helping this church family to grow...& to God for all his Blessings!
Also A Huge Thank You Every Week to…
Our Pianist Pat Kraft and Song Leader Priscilla Wenzel

Prayer/Praises Requests
 Oleta McGee–health– and the loss of George.
 Sharon & Larry Anderson– Sharon heart recovery & Health
of Larry.
 Walt Kraft– relief of pain.
 Mary Morris– Pray for success of pace maker.
 Judy Brown’s Daughter Jennei– Health.
 Lela McCaslin– Health.
 Ivy Woodard’s Son– baby stroke possibly.
 ALL our Church Members and their health.
 All the Christians being persecuted.
 Pray for Pastor John in Pakistan.
 Pray for our Pastor Kim and Priscilla to be safe at their work.
 Pray for our church members to be able to reach out and touch people with
Gods message and encourage them to come to Faith Church.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

Thankful to God
As I look ahead at the challenge that lay before me I try to see my dream come true the way that it should be
Although the challenge builds strength to sustain the dream I can't imagine why it appears harder than it would seem
Through it all, looking back, I realize I made the pathway I've chosen what to believe As I live each and every day
With a dream in my heart I'll travel on step by step Always thankful to God For my soul He has kept.

The Worship is over. Let the Service Begin!

Sunday August 6 2017

Sermon: “Ruth and the Healing”
  Pastor Kim Wenzel

When there is no bread people leave.

Naomi Loses Her Husband and Sons a high cost

1 In the days when the judges ruled,^[a] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. ² The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.

³ Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. ⁴ They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, ⁵ both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem

People do come back when there is bread available.

⁶ When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. ⁷ With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.
⁸ Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. ⁹ May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.”
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud ¹⁰ and said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.”
¹¹ But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? ¹² Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons— ¹³ would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!”
¹⁴ At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
¹⁵ “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”
¹⁶ But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” ¹⁸ When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
¹⁹ So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
²⁰ “Don’t call me Naomi,^[b]” she told them. “Call me Mara,^[c] because the Almighty^[d] has made my life very bitter. ²¹ I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted^[e] me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”
²² So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.

Ruth Meets Boaz in the Grain Field

2 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.

² And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.”
Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” ³ So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.
⁴ Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, “The Lord be with you!”
“The Lord bless you!” they answered.
⁵ Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?”
⁶ The overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi. ⁷ She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”
⁸ So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. ⁹ Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”
¹⁰ At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”
¹¹ Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. ¹² May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
¹³ “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”
¹⁴ At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.”
When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. ¹⁵ As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves and don’t reprimand her. ¹⁶ Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke her.”
¹⁷ So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.^{[a] 18} She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.
¹⁹ Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!”
Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
²⁰ “The Lord bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.^[b]”
²¹ Then Ruth the Moabite said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’”
²² Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.”
²³ So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Footnotes:

(Moab is the historical name for a mountainous tract of land presently in Jordan. The land lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea)

 Ephrath is a description for members of the Israelite tribe of Judah as well as for the possible founders of Bethlehem.

ephah is probably about 30 pounds

Boaz is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament  

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Today's VersePsalm 34
I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. I will glory in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and re-joice. Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together.