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Experience Joy!
How often have you heard grandparents and parents say, when talking about the children they love, the most important thing to them is for their grandchild or child to be ...
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Our Greatest Work
As we see the condition of the world around us it is so easy to think there is nothing we can do to help the situation. We feel hopeless and ...
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Let’s Talk Grandparenting Ministry – the Single Grandmother
Last year I had the wonderful opportunity to hear a number of people talk about grandparenting ministry and what it might look like in a church. Cathy Jacobs, from Pass ...
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A Legacy of Truth
“Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have. I consider it right, as long as I am ...
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Tradition: Ceremony and Serendipity
“Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.” Exodus 23:14 When I was a child, our family had an annual Christmas tradition of re-enacting the Christmas ...
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Let’s Talk Grandparenting Ministry – The Role of Grandparents
I believe churches need to take seriously their responsibility to engage, equip and encourage grandparents to pass on a heritage of faith to their grandchildren. As you consider ways to do ...
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Should You Be a Surrogate Grandparent?
“God sets the lonely in families…” (Psalm 68:6) Sometimes God takes a deep longing of our hearts, a lost dream, and remolds it into something far beyond anything we can ...
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It Happened on Halloween Night
I remember the night my oldest grandchild trusted Christ as Savior. A Sunday evening. Halloween. Mission’s conference at church. One of the components of our mission conferences was the kid ...
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Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite!
Courtesy BedBugs.org Most of us can remember our mothers or grandmothers tucking us into bed at night and whispering, “Don’t let the bed bugs bite.” As a child I never ...
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Be Steadfast About Passing On Your Faith
Psalm 103:17 tells us; “But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children.“ This is the message ...
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