GOOD MORNING WEST OAKS FAMILY!

Demi & Tim Tebow work together to help others develop their "true beauty" with Jesus as their model. Early on in Tim's life, in a remote jungle, he met Sherwin, a young boy born with a deformity. "His feet were on backward," Tim says, "and his village looked at him as cursed and insignificant." But before leaving the island, Tim and two of his friends led Sherwin to faith, showing him the hope and purpose he had in Christ. "Since that time," Tim says, "I knew a big calling in my life was to fight for people who couldn't fight for themselves."

Demi shares his passion for others and loves to help those with special needs find their internal worth. This passion started after she discovered her own true inner beauty through Christ. A few months after Demi, a former Ms. Universe, were married, they were asked to do a joint Q&A onstage. She stated, "Tim and I were going to be asked a few questions, but my plan was to have Tim answer as many as possible, until the interviewer asked me to talk about "true beauty." I had squeezed Tim's hand hoping he could answer the question for me, but he couldn't because that was my battle to fight. The moment I started talking, trying to answer the question while truly having no idea what was about to come out of my mouth, the Lord showed up in my heart. He allowed me to answer that question not just for the audience, but for myself. In one of the moments where I felt the least worthy, the Lord answered not just the interviewer's questions but my own questions: What is my value? How much am I worth? What is "true beauty." That day and that interview marked a turning point for me - I wasn't exactly sure what came next, but I chose to remember who had made me, and with that assurance came a new type of confidence.

Her passion for helping special needs people started with her sister who is intellectually challenged. In 2021, Tim shared another tribute to his faithful dog that will bring joy to many children and their families: Bronco and Friends: A Party to Remember, his first children's book. "What inspired me," Tim says, "were thousands of kids who are shamed, who are literally thrown out on the street, who nobody wants because they're born different, because they look different, because they have special needs."

Yes, many call Tim and Demi "beautiful people" simply by their outer looks. But Christ has enabled both of them to discover their own inner beauty through their Christian walk.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Jeanette James, Judy & Grayson, Tom Parlier Sr., Ruby Messer, Nancy Mosely, Priscilla Laughlin, and Donna Scott. Keep praying for our Pastor Tommy, our pastor's wife Teresa, and our West Oaks Academy school's children and teachers

DID YOU KNOW?

• --Another Christian film is due in September. God's Not Dead: In God We Trust is a Christian film scheduled for release on September 12, 2024. The film is about Reverend David Hill, who runs for Congress after the death of a favored incumbent.
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WIT & WISDOM:
• Lover builds a bridge over which truth can pass.
• "If we doubt God's Word about one thing, we shall have small confidence in it upon another thing. Sincere faith in God must treat all God's Word alike; for the faith which accepts one word of God and rejects another is evidently not faith in God but faith in our own judgment, faith in our own taste." --Charles Spurgeon
• The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which heaven ordains. Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society" (George Washington).
• Faith trusts not what the eye sees, but what the Word promises" (Charles Bridges).
• He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity is wise for a moment, but a fool forever" (Tillotson).
• You can make more friends in 2 months by becoming interested in other people than you can in 2 years by trying to get others interested in you.
• By nothing do we show our true character more clearly than by what we think is laughable
• "So you've got a problem.? That's good. Do you know of a single instance where any real achievement has been made in your life or in the life of anyone in history which was not due to a problem or problems faced?" (C. Stone)