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Dec

1

…It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!…

Hello there wonderful Family & Friends!

We have an exciting announcement regarding our kids Christmas initiative this year! In an effort to allow for more flexibility, newness and out-of-the-box ideas in reaching out to your community with the Reason for the Season –Jesus– we’d like to propose the following: *a 2009 Christmas Magazine*.

This would be filled with photos & mini-testimonies or photo captions of what your child did to bring Christmas cheer to someone. Your part would simply be to find out how the Lord wants to use your child/children’s particular strengths/talents, and then have fun…putting those into action! Then all you would have to do is e-mail us a photo & a little explanation to go along with it.

We’d like to ask that all participants e-mail their contribution by December 30th!

To make things as simple & as efficient as possible we are going to e-mail you the PDF file (Lord willing by January 15th), and you could then print out as many copies as you need. You might want to print out some extra to give to your family & friends too!

Here are some examples of *’deeds of Christmas cheer’* to give you an idea of the types of deeds that we’d love to include in our magazine. A child could:

Bake a treat & give it to a neighbor

Give candy canes & tracts at a park or another type of event

[you could attach the tract to the candy cane & carry them in baskets]

Read Christmas stories to younger children

Draw or paint something & give it to someone

Make a Christmas card w/ a verse written inside

Donate toys or clothes to a shelter or needy family

Send a gift to a kid on a needy mission field & pray for him/her

Sing at a retirement community & say a prayer for them

Put on a play & then hand out tracts

Make & send an encouraging card to a relative or contact

Rake a neighbor’s yard or help out in some other way

Give (or make) a little gift for a teacher

Give away a toy that he’s not using to a needy kid

As you can see, the possibilities are endless. We’re sure the Lord has heaps of ideas, so have fun finding out what He has in store for your child!

To recap things for you; the starting date for this is December 1st and the last day to send in your photo/caption (or mini-testimony) is December 30th. The file would then be sent to you, DV, January 15th for you to print out copies as you needed.

Isn’t it exciting thinking about what the Lord has in store for our children this Christmas season?! We’re excited!

Much love & Christmas prayers for you & your kids,

Your Friends…from the fantastic land of CP!

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Aug

25

By John Dillin, The Christian Science Monitor, August 19, 2008

When I go on my daily four-mile walk and see a penny lying on the ground, I pick it up. Scottish habits die hard, even when your family has been in America for over 300 years.

Recently here in Arlington, Va., the lowly penny became symbolic. For the first time, it now costs one cent to draw a gallon of water out of the tap in your home. Yes, even water prices are going up fast. Enjoy a long shower? That’ll now be 40 cents. Wash your car? Fifty cents. Water the lawn for an hour? Two dollars.

Gasoline, airplane tickets, cooking oil, bread, and now, water–sometimes it seems that the price of everything is headed for the moon.

But you can do something about it.

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Jul

9

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Apr

24

After reading this article, you may want to pray about the food reserve situation in your home & get some extra staples if you find a good deal. Below are some links for dehydrated food items, which is an option. Of course, stocking up extra on what you use daily is one of the best ways to prepare. If you have any insight, tips or you have found a good, easy way to keep your emergency food situation current, please do share them.

Articles:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080423/BUSINESS/868303815/1001

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120881517227532621.html

Links:

https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/food_storage/dehydrated_foods.htm

http://www.internet-grocer.net/bulkitms.htm

http://www.frontiersurvival.net/

http://www.aaoobfoods.com/staples.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2220971_store-food-long-term-survival.html

http://www.survivalsupplys.com/Bulk-Discounts-c-17.html

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Mar

11

Marriage Partnership

For 20 years Marriage Partnership has offered real, biblical, practical insight for bedroom issues. Here are some of the best.

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Dec

3

December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Honey beats meds at soothing kids’ cough

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Oct

11

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Oct

7

Adapted from Surprised by Remarriage by Ginger Kolbaba (Revell)

Try these eight tips for navigating the murky waters of communication:

1. Do be honest. Keeping secrets does nothing but frustrate you and perplex your spouse.
2. Do bring up an issue within 24 hours, or forget it. Don’t allow a problem to remain hanging.
3. Do keep to the issue. If you start discussing who should babysit and end up arguing over discipline, you’ve moved off track. Take a break and return to the issue when you’re both rational and calm.
4. Don’t criticize. You can complain–offer something specific to the situation. But criticism can involve blame and counterattacks and is sure to put your spouse on the defensive.
5. Don’t make threats. “If-you-then-I’ll” This puts your partner on the defensive. Someone on the defensive will never hear you–which means no change will happen.
6. Don’t play the blame game. Really listen to your spouse’s complaints; think them over before you discard them as ludicrous. They may have a tiny kernel of truth. If so, accept responsibility.
7. Don’t make assumptions. You don’t know what’s going on in your mate’s head. Rather than assuming something that may be a figment of your imagination, ask.
8. Do say no to the “D” word: divorce. It’s amazing how easily this little word can pop into your head, and worse, your mouth. This doesn’t mean just not using the word; it means not even thinking the word.

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May

21

Marriage is a lot like running a marathon–but the rewards are even better.

By Billy Milton, Marriage Partnership

Any athlete will tell you that the glamour event of Olympics track and field is the 100-meter sprint. Just watch these runners at the starting line–they strut like peacocks, showing off their muscles; pulling faces; mugging for the cameras; getting ready to explode from the blocks for 10 seconds or so of amazing effort. Nearly everyone can name a great sprinter or two–Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis, Linford Christie. Now, how many truly great marathon runners can you name? Not so many, I’ll bet. Although the 100-meter sprinters get the glory, they’re useless at any distance over 400 meters and almost certainly couldn’t run a marathon, despite being extremely fit. One of the main reasons sprinters won’t run a marathon is that they just can’t wrap their minds around running 26 miles in one go. The thought terrifies and defeats them before they even attempt it.

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