work at Grays Harbor Pentecostal Church

21/02/2026

09/01/2026

Real peace shows up when we stop trying to control tomorrow and place it in God’s hands.

Breathe—He’s got what’s ahead. 🌿

05/12/2025

Peace be still “

27/11/2025

God’s Blessings to everyone who reads this today “,Also Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving “❤️❤️

26/11/2025

The winter of 1620–1621 had nearly broken the Plymouth colonists. Disease, hunger, and exposure killed about half of the people who had stepped off the Mayflower. The survivors were wary, exhausted, and deeply uncertain about their Native neighbors, whom they had mostly seen only from a distance.

On March 16, 1621, a single figure walked into their midst. He was Samoset, a sagamore (leader) of the Abenaki from what is now coastal Maine. To the Pilgrims’ amazement, he greeted them in English, a language he had picked up from English and Basque fishermen on the northern coast.

Samoset asked boldly for beer, then stayed to talk. He told the colonists about the local geography, the nearby peoples, and the great losses they had recently suffered from epidemic disease. Crucially, he explained that the land where Plymouth now stood had once belonged to the Patuxet, whose villages had been emptied by sickness years before.

Samoset’s visit was not just a curiosity; it was the first thread in a political alliance. He returned a few days later with Tisquantum (Squanto), a Patuxet man who spoke even better English after years of captivity in Europe. Squanto taught the colonists how to plant corn, use fish as fertilizer, and locate vital resources.

Samoset also helped arrange a meeting with Massasoit, the sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy. The result was a peace treaty promising mutual defense and trade. Remarkably, that agreement held—though imperfectly—for roughly five decades, giving the fragile English settlement a chance to survive.

Later that autumn, the harvest made possible by Native knowledge led to the 1621 feast that Americans remember, somewhat mythologized, as the First Thanksgiving.

Behind that story’s simplified images stands the real turning point: a single man, walking into a struggling camp and saying “Welcome” in the enemy’s language.

04/11/2025

21/10/2025

No Kings!”