Posted in Family on Apr 20th, 2010
Remember Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story? Ralphie’s dream gift was a Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle. I loved the scene where Ralphie imagines that he saves his family from the bad guys who try to storm the house from the back yard. The family cringes under the table in [...]
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Seven of us crowded into a van and headed west to Holland, Michigan from Hudsonville. We were scheduled to serve lunch to the Holland Mission residents. One of the residents is from our church and is completing the program and learning to be a certified builder by trade. This was the first time a band [...]
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I sat next to an old man today as he rested on a special hospital chair that tilts to a bed for him to have cataract surgery. He needed a ride to the outpatient client and surely a ride home. I wanted to be his chauffeur. He is my friend, Ray. He is 3 weeks [...]
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I am in the home of Volodya Volianyk with his wife, Nadia, and three lovely daughters–Ilonka, Susan and Danka. Volodya is the new pastor of God’s Design in Lutsk, Ukraine. He has a pastor’s heart, a leader’s vision and a pioneer’s courage and tenacity.
Because he is the father of daughters, I have an immediate affinity [...]
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Posted in Family, Friends, Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
May the Presence of God in Jesus be your greatest hope!
(snowman created by Julie)
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I want to get in touch with how Mary, Joseph and others experienced the first Christmas. The ones who walked around shocked at angels showing up here and there making outrageous proclamations. Zachariah doing his priestly office stunned in the Holy Place. Mary and Joseph just an ordinary couple, anticipating a Jewish married life under Herod and Caesar. [...]
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