There was  a marriage conference  held here at the Training Center and so I volunteered to help the Gomez family run the children’s program. A few days before the conference, we got word that there were only five children signed up for the program and one was a baby. So Brianna and I prayed asking […]

Have you ever seen a spruce tree with white flowers??? Thankfully, this single tree (other than some deer that were lost) is one of the only things on the farm that suffered long-term damage from the “long winter”. We didn’t weed-whack around it for a while and the Lord “made it beautiful in His time”. […]

One day the phone rang. It was Aunt Judy calling all the way from eastern Pennsylvania. She had found an art store that was going out of business there and giving away their extra matt board. Knowing that we were starting an art business, she wondered if we could take it. Of course we were […]

Earlier this month I joined the Christiansen’s, Gomezes and Julie for a relaxing staff retreat in the beautiful countryside of MN. I’d never been there before and enjoyed my stay immensely! We had a grand celebration for Norm and Marlys’s 40th wedding anniversary, went hiking at national parks, boated down the St. Croix river that […]

Dad was really blessed to share the following testimony at the ATI Regional Conference in Indianapolis. God has been so good to us through 25 years of homeschooling! Here is a link to the video:  http://familysupportlink.org/2010/08/18/video-lessons-learned-from-25-years-in-atidon-staddon/ Another post you might enjoy on the ATI Family Support Link Live! is Daniel’s testimony from the Bible Bee!

       “And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against  them with an army of a thousand thousands, and three hundred chariots. And Asa went out before him, and . . . called to Jehovah his God, and said, ‘O Jehovah, it is nothing to You to help between the mighty and him with no […]

Saturday I flew into MN to meet up with our In The Gap team for a staff retreat! At the airport I enjoyed observing many grand reunions of those who had had a long day of travel. Suddenly faces lit up from across the room as people ran to greet their loved ones with a […]