Henry John Heinz

'Her children rise up and call her blessed...' Proverbs 31:28 NKJV

Good Morning Everyone,
One more day here in the sun. It has been a nice vacation and time of rest but God has also given us opportunity to rise up and witness. As I read today's scripture it reminded me of all those women in my life who pushed me to Godly values. At age six, Henry John Heinz began helping his mother tend the small garden behind their family home. At twelve, he was working one and a half hectares of garden, using a horse and cart for his three-times-a-week deliveries to grocery stores throughout the city of Pittsburg. He went on to found his own company and named it 57 Varieties. The Henry John Heinz Company was incorporated in 1905, and today, over one hundred years later, it sells more than thirteen hundred products worldwide, ranging from tomato sauce to baby food. But there are other things you need to know: Henry John Heinz loved Jesus and was deeply involved in the promotion of Sunday school in Pittsburg and around the world. His company was noted for pioneering safe and sanitary food preparation and for being ahead of its time in employee relations. He provided free medical benefits, swimming and gymnasium facilities, and promoted women to positions of greater responsibility, making them supervisors. He earned a reputation for enhancing the working and living conditions of his workers. In his will, Henry John Heinz said: 'I desire to set forth at the very beginning of this will, as the most important item in it, a confession of my faith in Jesus Christ as my Savior. I also desire to bear witness to the fact that throughout my life, in which there were unusual joys and sorrows, I have been wonderfully sustained by my faith in God through Jesus Christ. This legacy was left to me by my consecrated mother, a woman of strong faith, and to it I attribute any success I have attained.' Moms are you doing your part with your Kids? Amy and I been praying for all of you that God will rise up our moms at Calvary so you may be called Blessed! If you read the rest of this verse, it says and "there husbands praise them." Lets be a church that is raising up people who raise up others to love Jesus Christ like Henry John Heinz...