From: Eddie Chumney
To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: Where was the newsgroup/

Dear Mishpochah (family):

Many of you may have been wondering ... where was the newsgroup? I
haven't received any newsgroup for two weeks!

Aha! For those of you suffering from 'withdrawal symptoms', now you
know what the children of Israel felt like when they were in the
wilderness without water! In Hebraic thought, Torah is synonymous
with water. So being without water is like being without Torah / Word
of God ... OR .... possibly the newsgroup?

The reason why you have not received any newsgroup e-mail the past
two weeks is very simple. I have been very busy (as usual).

I work four days a week (10 hours a day) and fly to NY from Ohio
the other three days of the week to teach the Hebraic roots of
Christianity at a church in Long Island. This alone makes my life very busy.

In any event, I attended and spoke at the 'Restoring the
Tabernacle of David' conference from July 6-8 in Tampa, Florida.
Furthermore, I have received a FANTASTIC response to the 'Blowout
Special' (my three books --- The Seven Festivals of the Messiah, Who
is the Bride of Christ? and Restoring the Two Houses of Israel -- for
$28 postage paid) and have been busy trying to fill these orders.

I am ALWAYS on a VERY TIGHT schedule and it is ALWAYS a challenge to
get everything done pertaining to the ministry that I need to get
done each week.

I am NOT complaining because what I am doing to help others around
the world to be blessed and to understand and embrace their rich
Hebraic Heritage in Messiah is a labor of LOVE. The Hebraic Heritage
newsgroup started in November 1996.

I was really blessed and encouraged by those newsgroup members who
attended the conference in Tampa who came up to me and expressed
'thanks' for the Hebraic Heritage newsgroup because the newsgroup has
helped them to learn SOOOOOO much about their Hebraic roots.

My answer? Helping others to grow in Messiah and understanding
their Hebraic roots makes these last almost 5 years of the newsgroup
existence and my labor of LOVE to be ALL worthwhile!

For those of you who needed a summer break, consider no newsgroup
these last two weeks to be a 'vacation' to rest and soak in what you
have learned so far. For those who were suffering 'withdrawal', after
a two week absence, you are once again receiving this weeks newsgroup
e-mail.

For those who took advantage of the 'blowout special' incredible
offer, I will be mailing the orders that I received the last week of
June and the first week of July on Wednesday, July 18 via the USPS.

While I make my best effort to send out a newsgroup each week,
there MAY be times when I have so many things to do that we may miss
a week or so once in a while.

May God continue to bless you in your studies and I pray
that the Hebraic Heritage newsgroup will continue to be a rich
blessing to our members.

Shalom in Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l