We’ve been home from the Lighthouse Family Retreat for a week now. It was so much fun! We met some amazing people… the other volunteer families as well as the families who are battling cancer. Every day we played, laughed, ate (A LOT), swam, danced, ate (some more), helped, encouraged, loved, and slept like babies. […]
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Lighthouse Family Retreat
July 21, 2012 – 11:20 am
Tomorrow the kids and I are headed to the Gulf. Unfortunately, Jeremy has to man the store and cannot get away for an entire week. We will be meeting a group of volunteers down there from Lighthouse Family Retreat. I found out about this organization through a friend of mine who attended one of their […]
Backyard Bible Study
July 19, 2012 – 10:58 am
Last year our church did away with the ever traditional Vacation Bible School. The backlash from this decision was unbelievable. For some people, no VBS meant they needed to attend a different church. Some folks just needed to bitch and moan about it until they thought the decision would be reversed for this year. Unfortunately […]
Journey to Bethlehem
December 3, 2011 – 11:24 pm
Eight or nine years ago our church began performing an outdoor drama of what the journey to Bethlehem would have been like in the time of Jesus’ birth. In the first few years there was a lot of trial and error, but now we have really great props and an awesome set-up and we really […]
Summer Two Thousand Eleven
August 21, 2011 – 3:12 pm
It’s hot. The end. What’s that? You’d like to hear a little more about my summer? Well, okay. But it mostly revolves around being too hot to do anything that doesn’t involve air conditioning or a swimming pool. Except for this: I went to Youth Camp for a week with the middle and high schoolers […]
