Delightful.

Last Friday I spent an evening with a few delightful boys at Chuck E. Cheese.  They were so awesome to hang out with and worked together as a team to get almost 800 tickets within 90 minutes!

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Spring Break 2009 – Camping

One word to describe our trip camping with the boys – adventure!

On Thursday we had a lot of fun putting up our tents and building a fire. We roasted hot dogs and s’mores. And by 9pm it was dark and we went to our tents for the night.
However, by 3am, we were still [...]

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Baby Preacher

What a great way to start the morning. It made me laugh.

Found via Internet Monk

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New jeans – love hurts.

Drew Benton writes very eloquently about an experience with friendship and love hurting, from an urban ministry perspective.
Several weeks ago I was approached by one of my homeless friends out in the parking lot of Safehouse Outreach. He told me that he thought we were the same size and wondered if I had any jeans [...]

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Spring Break 2009 – Washington, DC

We had a GREAT time visiting Washington, DC this week with some of our 4th grade girls. It was an action packed three days.
On Monday our surprise activity was visiting Adventure Park USA where we got to ride a roller coaster, go karts and play games. We went out to dinner at CiCi’s [...]

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Washington, DC here we come!

Today our Spring Break trip begins with a three day visit to Washington, DC with our fourth grade girls! Thanks to all of you who donated money! We’ll be visiting the National Zoo, the White House, Capital Building and a couple of museums. Should be a lot of fun!
Pray for us, please!

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Easter Party

Last Tuesday we had several volunteers give us an awesome Easter party – making Easter baskets, an Easter egg hunt and games. The kids got lots of candy and prizes and had a great time. My friend Mijin was also visiting from Little Lights Urban Ministries and it was great to see her [...]

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The Easter Story

I couldn’t find an Easter dvd to show my kids. The ones available were either watered-down Gospel cartoons or too brutal for children like The Passion of the Christ. So…I made my own!

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Jim Collins on Distinguishing Great Talent

Arloa Sutter points out what Jim Collins shares about distinguishing great talent:
How do you distinguish the truly great talent from the rest?
The right people don’t need to be managed. The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
The right people don’t think they have a job: They have responsibilities. [...]

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How Children Come to Faith in Christ

From Between Two Worlds who got it from the first source Ryan Kelly:
How do children come to faith in Christ? Check out the following radio interviews with Jim Elliff that are available for free online:
1. Genuine Salvation: More Than a Prayer
2. How Children Come to Faith in Christ
3. Taking our Children to Church: Is [...]

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