Service


Random acts of kindness.

I found this posted on a friend's pinterest page.  It is something that could be done most anytime.    




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Operation Christmas Child



Here is a great way to focus kids on helping others.  We are looking forward to doing this next week.  November 14-21 is the collection week.  You can find more information for packing your shoe box here.  We are hoping to make it a little party for the kids.


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Loving Others




"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”    Matthew 22:36-40

Megan, a friend who is living with us for a couple of months, challenged me with the idea of raising our daughter to live to give.   It is a total mind shift but I believe a biblical one.  "You shall love your neighbor as yourself", is pretty far reaching.  I have to admit that I do a lot more for myself than those who have greater needs around me.  So in a small way we began to love our neighbors.  We needed bread so we made some for us and some for our neighbors.  Calissa had a blast and talked about her little friends next door and across the street who were going to receive the bread.  We made it a little more special than usual.   





 I need to get a food marker to draw eyes on next time. 

On a little more serious note, I have been thinking a lot about the way we live for awhile. 
I have curtains, a couch, plenty of food, toilet paper etc.  There are many around the world who are dying from lack of food and I have the ability to help if I were to love them... I could go with a lot less so that they might have life.  I know I can't afford to feed all the hungry in the world but I can feed some, I can love some.  What if I spent just as much on others as I do myself?  




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We had the pleasure of visiting with some good friends this last week.  They have a little girl named Genna who turned one in March.  While talking I found that Genna and her mom go door to door and ask for prayer requests.  After praying, Genna gives a glow tract to the people.  These pictures are staged but I found it interesting that when Genna knocked on the door and there was no answer, she promptly tried to stick the tract into the door with no direction or encouragement.  Her mom says that she loves going out and is such a happy little girl during and afterwards.  What a wonderful way to raise a child to share Jesus with others while in the process, actually sharing Jesus.  


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Little Dresses for Africa was previously posted...

Here is one of the dresses made at a sewing party.  It was made out of a pillow case.  This particular dress is going to go to Fuji with a medical mission trip led by Carmie Hadley.

While making the dresses, my daughter kept clarifying that the dresses were being made for other little girls who didn't have clothes.  I want to do this again when I have older children that are learning to sew, it is VERY simple to make.

If you are interested in the mission trip, they go several times a year and are in need of those in the medical profession.  I can put you in contact with the leader.  





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I grew up delivering May Day flowers to our neighbors.  I approached the door timidly with a little knot in my stomach.  As I rang the door bell, my heart raced as I tore away in the hopes of not being discovered. 


Now we will start the tradition again and use it as an excuse to share more than just flowers with our neighbors.  We desire to share the joy and hope we have found in Jesus.  You can go here to order tracts.  

This is how we are making our "baskets":










Have a happy May Day  :)



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We are going to be making some little dresses for people in Fiji out of pillow cases.  The ideas comes from a program called Little Dresses for Africa.  This would be perfect to send with any mission trip and to help kids learn how to sew.  

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