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I was very touched after reading the Upper Room for November 20th. It quoted the Scripture from John 16, "You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name." When I was 4 1/2 years old our neighbors ask my parents if they could take me to Sunday School at the Methodist Church. My Father had never belonged to a Church and my mother was a member of the Christian Church but didn't attend. They allowed me to be taken to Sunday School and when this family moved my mother would still take me so I could go to Sunday School, but didn't attend herself. I continued to be active in the Church attending weekly MYF meetings and as a teen singing in the Choir. At some point my mother transferred her membership and when I was 15 my father had a very serious heart attack. During his recovery he also became a member of that Methodist Church in Madison, Kansas. Little did I know that at 4 ┬╜ years old I was chosen to bear fruit&my parents eventually being involved in the Methodist Church. What ways were you chosen to bear fruit? – Betty Patrick