In just two weeks, the most exciting thing to happen in Family Ministry will be taking place in Frisco, Texas! What is this, “most exciting thing”, you ask? Well, it is the first-ever grandparenting conference… the Legacy Grandparenting Summit! You may be wondering how a grandparenting summit is the, “most exciting thing” to ever happen […]
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For those of you who don’t know him, it is my privilege to introduce you to a dear friend of the Legacy Coalition, Ward Tanneberg. Ward has been a pastor, Executive Director of CASA 50+ Network, and now most recently, pastor-at-large for Westminster Chapel in Bellevue, WA. He is an accomplished author and hosts a blog
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My grandparents recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. That is an incredible accomplishment and an amazing gift to my family. It is also a declining reality for older couples. There’s a tendency to believe that divorce is something that happens to young couples, but there is a growing trend called “gray divorce” that occurs in
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THE REAL WORLD OF A SINGLE GRANDPARENT When my children were in high school, I watched “Good Morning, America!” every day. As I fixed breakfast, packed lunches and shooed my sleepy teens out the door, I listened to the breaking news on TV. One day Robin Roberts, an anchor person on The Morning Show, told
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One of the most powerful things we can do as grandparents is to pray for our grandchildren. Over and over in Scripture, God promises to hear, listen to and answer our prayers! Many grandparents believe this and are focused prayer warriors for their grandchildren. There is also another very powerful thing we can do as grandparents
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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 happy? Our world chases after happiness. We think more, bigger, better, newer, cooler will all equate to happiness. But it does not. Oh, yes, people
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 completely surrounded by the evil that takes place. We desire to work at helping the situation but it seems there is no work we can
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 the Legacy, spoke about the challenge facing the single grandmother; and today I’m delighted to share with you some of what she had to say.
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“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 in this bodily tent, to wake you up with a reminder, knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has
“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 Story from Luke 2. Besides my parents and occasional cousins, I had five brothers and sisters, so we had a plentiful reservoir of actors to don bathrobes and
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