Santa and Jesus.

Merry Christmas!

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Craft ideas.

    One of the stores I visit most often is the teacher supply store Lakeshore Learning, It has a lot of     decoration materials and books and learning manipulatives.   It’s fun to shop there and be inspired about   the all potential things I could do with my afterschool program. They also offer FREE [...]

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Holiday cupcakes.

This year I starting baking and had a lot of fun with cupcakes. It’s not that hard to jazz up a basic cupcake and this website gives great ideas for Holiday and Seasonal Cupcakes.
Frosty the Cupcake
1. Frost a cooled cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with white icing. 
2. Flatten a large marshmallow on waxed paper with [...]

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Christmas Present Delivery!

Yesterday we had the privilege of delivering Christmas presents to the students of our after school program. Local churches sponsored with us to make sure each child got about 3 to 4 presents each! It was so fun to see the excitement in the kids’ eyes when we arrived. Some kids [...]

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How a seminarian thinks.

I have a fuzzy memory.
Years ago when I was a student a Fuller Seminary my friend Elizabeth and I were talking about u2 and the 6 degrees of separation thing.
Elizabeth: My sister’s friend’s choir teacher is the mother of the woman who married The Edge.
Me: Cool.
Elizabeth: (Surprised that I’m not more [...]

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Trip to Friendly’s.

Throughout the year kids can earn “urban dollars” for good behavior, bringing and doing their homework, etc. At the end of the semester they can cash in those “dollars” for a reward. For one of our rewards trips, we went to Friendly’s last Monday night. Friendly’s has a great kids menu – [...]

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Jesus changes lives.

My friend’s church did one of those cardboard testimony things in a recent Sunday service. Initially I was skeptical and dismissive because “cardboard testimonies” seem to be the latest cool, hip thing to do. But, then I watched it and immediately was reminded of how powerful it is that JESUS CHANGES LIVES. [...]

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Where.

These are the states in which I have lived:

Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
These are the countries in which I’ve lived:

 USA, Germany, China, Australia

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