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The Constitution, Part I

A well-remembered gathering from this time last year!

Here between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, let’s remember and honor the document that has been such a foundation for us. The United States Constitution is much shorter than you may at first think. If you are a good reader you can read it—all of it—in about an hour! How grateful we can […]

An Experience of a Lifetime

Learning the mechanics of a chainsaw.

What a joy to be back home! My time in TX on the Emergency Response Team at ALERT was full of challenges (like the Caleb Nelson Memorial Race), but also tons of fun.  It taught me responsiveness to people’s needs and skills to help in times of disaster. Through the two months I learned both […]

Opportunities Abounding

Jonathan's team had done an excellent job on landscaping!

“…The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, He also is become my salvation” (Isaiah 12:2).   In the midst of a collapsing world, we can respond in one of two ways: Fight a host of temptations OR Enter into Christ’s victory; Say “Goliath is too big to fight!” OR Say “Goliath is too […]

Congratulations Barbara!

What a time of rejoicing it was!

I am so grateful for the opportunity to the Lord gave me last weekend to be there for Barbara Sutton’s graduation from Verity! It was so kind of her and her parents to bring me along! I was overjoyed when I heard that Bill Federer was speaking at the graduation! He told us to imagine […]

A Walk in the Park?

This was the pathway

Thanks to the hospitality of Uncle Tim and Aunt Melba, we were able to include a thrilling hike on Grandfather Mountain to an already-thrilling trip to North Carolina for Matthew & Amanda Wilkes’ wedding. Robert & Kendalyn had hiked this way before. They gave the rest of us an idea of what to expect. James […]

A Change of Plans

Teaching VOH

It was going to be a full week! I would arrive back at HQ from WV on Monday evening in time for a school board meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings I would teach VOH and for a couple hours a day from Wed – Fri. I was very excited about volunteering at a local school! […]