School, Ten Thousand Villages

Ten Thousand Villages School Kits Collection

Hi Everyone!  I'm back from a week at Mission Camp in Ashe & Alleghany Counties, NC.  It was a great week, and more will be posted later.  I wanted to post quickly about the 10,000 Villages Drive to collect kits for displaced school children. The email this week said:"Ten Thousand Villages launches its 11th school supply… Continue reading Ten Thousand Villages School Kits Collection

family, ocean

Life’s a beach…

 My cousin, well 3rd cousin once removed or something like that, has been written up in the local paper, and it's a story worth reading.  Tommy Adams, from Galax, VA just turned 50. He's my mom's first cousin. He was injured in 1974 just before he started high school and became a quadriplegic.  He recently… Continue reading Life’s a beach…

Bethlehem, Communion, Czech Republic, John Hus, Mark, Martyr, Moravian, risk, Ruth, saints

Sermon for 7/4/10: "Risking It All" (Ruth 1:1-19-Favorite Things Summer Worship Series)

"Risking It All" Sermon for 7/4/10 Favorite Things Summer Worship Series John Hus Communion Ruth 1:1-19a; Mark 8:34-38 Let us prepare our hearts and pause in prayer from a hymn from Hus's time: The Word of God, which ne're shall cease, Proclaims free pardon, grace and peace, Salvation shows in Christ alone, The perfect will… Continue reading Sermon for 7/4/10: "Risking It All" (Ruth 1:1-19-Favorite Things Summer Worship Series)

clergy, leadership, wages

That’s what they said…

Here is some food for thought for this first weekend in July.  I present another edition of "That's what they said.." Considering a Career in the Clergy...by Michelle Goodman http://abcnews.go.com/Business/career-clergy/story?id=11057335 Prophetic Leadership isn't an idle phrase... by Amy Butler http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5300/9/ Hourly wages... what is fair and reasonable? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-ceo-pay-hour-workers-year/story?id=11067470