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July 28, 2010 Peter Holden will talk about our faith and Love. Starts at 7:30pm. Or follow us on GLY webchannel TV.

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Open or Close…, how do you like to live your life. Open to Love or closed to Love. God created us to Love and be Loved.  Are you afraid?

Wendnesday march 31, 2010 ministry night at gly cafe. Peter Holden will talk about how to be and stay strong when things get tough.

GLY wishes all our friends a blessed new year. We hope to see you soon. Don’t forget our ministry night on the last wednessday of the month at the GLY Cafe, 32 School street,  8pm. Admission free. God Bless. Many more events to follow in this new year. Just visit our website GLYBooks.com, click on special events.

see you soon

Ones upon a time there was a good man who builds a house.

On that day he met this man, and the man told him he had no house.

Okay, said the man with the house, “I let you live in my house if you cook me a meal ones in a while”. The man agreed. The owner of the house filled up the refrigerator with food, paid all the bills and waited for his meal. Day’s past, even months past never receiving a meal. When the man asked where his meal was, the answer always was it takes time to prepare a meal. The owner of the house saw that many of his own friends received meals from the man in his house, but he did not. So when the owner asked, “Why don’t you give me one meal you normally give to one of my friends? No, replied the man, I need all of your friends, it gives you a better reputation, but don’t worry, I feel that soon I have a meal for you. One day the man was upset and told the owner of the house that if he does not fill up the refrigerator, he could not cook meals for all the owner friends, and that looks really bad. The owner told the man he had to be careful with his money and was not able to fill up the refrigerator. The man got even more upset and told him that this was his house and his refrigerator, and that he was responsible to fill it. “I only live here, the man replied”.  The owner filled up the refrigerator, paid all the bills and hoped the man would cook him a meal soon. One day one of the owner’s friends told him that the man was having a party. The owner waited for an invitation for the party in his house with his friends but he did not receive an invitation. Maybe it is going to be a surprise party for me, the owner thought. But the party came and went. All were invited, but he man who built the house and paid for all the food was not. After the man who lived in the house presented the man who owned the house and the friends and the refrigerator with the extra cost related to the party, the owner had enough. He never received one meal and probably never will. He placed the man back on the street. The man was so blinded he did not understand why?

WIN… WIN. Starts November 16, 2009. Every week you can win the gift of the week. We Give you a CLUE, find it at GLYBooks.com and win.

GLY Religious store has conducted it’s own limited market study for the small local mom &  pop store including Christian Retail. Many of the small store owners we have interviewed are considering closing, reducing staff, or minimizing product selection. We have noticed that our customers buy only what they need.  It is a target buy, and not so much impulse buying. Impulse buying is mostly gone. Customers come in for communion, confirmation, baptism, wedding or funeral items. But the nice bracelet displayed on the counter, is disregarded at the present time.

Also the increase in local and government taxes has made small business extremely difficult. Sales tax, property tax, city tax, insurance costs, income tax, mortgage payments and even in Nassau county an energy tax and now a MTA Tax. Government is taking to much from small business and we are the businesses who have created most of the local jobs. Increases in product costs and taxes forced us to let 15 people go.  It is time for government to protect local small businesses. Decrease taxes, payroll taxes, property taxes, delete the MTA tax and energy tax in Nassau county. Give small business some breathing room. Why does big business get all the brakes. Elect a government that protect local businesses. Main street could be ghost street soon if no action is taken to protect small business. I estimate that this recession will continue for atleast an other year.

Help was there for AIG and the big financial institutions. What about your own mommy and daddy shop?  Without small business protection, employement numbers will keep going up. People have less money to spend. Have no money to put in the bank, bank cash capital shrinks and have to let people go. Investment monies not available people can not buy houses, cars or property. In other words ”Wall street is out of business”.

A Healthy ecomomy starts with small business, which results in profitable big business. Not the other way around. I think that many polititians forgot this principle of economic success

This Wednesday October 28 at 8 pm at the GLY Cafe, I will speak about seeking the light or seeking darkness. Many Christians think they are walking in the light but still walk the wide path. Making excuses for their life situations. Many are to comfortable and not willing to take a stand against wrong. The bible has set it’s Godly rule we have to follow as Christians, protect our God against attacks, speaking out against  laws created or being created by our government which is an attack on biblical principles. Were do you stand? The path is narrow. Are you willing to separate yourself  from worldly temptations or excuses?

Want to hear more. Come to our ministry night every last wednesday of the month.(except December)