Colorful drives in the country, apple orchards, pumpkin patches, fall festivals, hot cocoa and hot apple cider, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, leaves on the ground…here in the Midwest, these are the things that remind us of Fall. The world around us changes as we prepare for a new season. As families and friends, we take this…
Category: Outreach
The Great Commandment Comes Home
“What happened to ALL my pans?” I still remember my mom’s flabbergasted question to my family after returning from an early January trip. She was about to prepare dinner and brought us all into the kitchen to give an account for the damage. My older sister and I looked sheepishly at each other and said,…
Missions Testimony
After days of travel and training, we were finally settled into our camp nestled on the mountain at an old ski resort. It was a challenging afternoon of being pushed out of my comfort zone as I tried to make friends with teenagers that spoke an entirely different language than me; so, you could say…
The Forgotten
As a young girl growing up with an alcoholic father, I often wished that I had siblings to share the ups and downs of my childhood journey. Although I never had a brother or sister to share these difficulties, I learned that even though I felt alone, I always had my Heavenly Father beside me…
Making a Real Connection
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 (NIV) Today’s world moves faster than it ever has before. We have devices that can send photos of our kids to distant family in an instant and a Google search for “orange shoes” pulls up 1,570,000,000 results…