“Power of 64” is a Global, Heartfelt, Passionate, and Partnership Call by the Vine and Oak Foundation;
not to only alleviate the “common enemies of man”...

But to:

Eradicate it from the face of our Earth...

“What I'm interested in seeing you do is:

Sharing your food with the hungry,

 

 Inviting the homeless poor into your homes,

 

Putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad,

 

 Being available to your own families.

 

Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once.

 

Your righteousness will pave your way.

 "The GOD of glory will secure your passage"

 

“If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out,

 Your lives will begin to Glow in the darkness,

 

your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight.
You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community

liveable again”

Isaiah 58:7-8

A STRATEGY THAT WILL HELP GET THE JOB DONE

So you want to work for me, eh?” said the rich-but-stupid land baron. “What should I pay you for tilling my ground?” “Oh, I wouldn’t require much,” replied the young-but-smart plowman. “Do you like to play chess?” “Well, of course! What intelligent man doesn’t? But what does that have to do with your wages?” The young man pulled out a chess board from his luggage. “If you will put a penny on the first white square, that will be my first month’s wage. Then, at the end of my second month, double it – put two pennies on the second white square. Then, double it again each month, until you have filled each of the thirty-two white squares. After that, I’ll work the rest of my life for you for free. ”This offer the land baron could not pass up. He figured out that he would have to pay this man a salary for only a little less than three years, and then he could count on the plowman’s labor for decades to come – at no cost! and besides, a penny for a month’s work? Exceptional value! At the end of a year, that would only be $20.48 total! He felt a little twinge of guilt about taking advantage of this foolish youth – but not much. “Done!” cried the land baron. They entered into a contract and the young plowman went to work. Things were a little tight for the plowman that first year. You can’t buy many hamburgers for $20.48. But an interesting thing began to happen. The wages that the land baron had to put on the thirteenth square came to $40.96. The fifteenth square required $163.84. The twentieth square took $5,242.88 and the thirtieth, $5,368,709.12. The thirty-second and Final Square required a whopping $21,474,836.48. The young plowman could afford to work for free after that, since the land baron had paid him a total of $42,949,672.95 for less than three years’ work, and was now bankrupt anyway.   (by Christopher B. Adsit)

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