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Friday night’s Twila Paris concert with the World Vision Korea Children’s Choir was a great experience! Twila Paris’ concert tour came to Huntingdon, PA last night. We enjoyed hearing her sing some of her classic songs, including, “The Warrior is a Child,” “We Bow down,” and “He is Exalted,” as well as a couple songs … Read more
What if … we were to consider each day a blessing of God? Drew Carey debuted the new game show The Power of 10 last week. The public is asked different questions, polled and the contestants have to guess what percentage answered a specific way. The second airing asked a question something like this, “What … Read more
Football and leadership — learning leadership from coaches in the NFL. I have been a football fan since I was about 8 years old when I watched a game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers. From that point on, I was a Cowboys’ fan. Over the course of the years, however, I … Read more
The mercies of the Lord are new every morning. The church is a short distance from home, so I usually walk there. Sometimes I haven’t taken a flashlight with me and when I get out of a meeting at night, a dreary night, I can hit a place of complete darkness. A bit of fear … Read more
Our proposal hearings have been scheduled for the last week of September in Wilmore, KY. Finally, we have our proposal hearings scheduled at Asbury. Randy’s will be Monday, 24 September 2007 and Joleen’s will be Wednesday, 26 September 2007. We’ll leave following a special, annual gathering of both of our charges (we get to do … Read more
A thumbnail sketch of the rest of the dissertation journey. We just posted an Adoption Timeline so we thought now we’ll post what the timeline looks like for finishing our dissertations. Our proposal hearings are currently being scheduled at the D.Min. office at Asbury. They’re expected to be in late September. Between now and then … Read more
We’ve been given a general idea about what the timeline for adoption might look like! Earlier this week, we received a response from AIAA, giving some kind of idea about what to expect, in terms of a timeline for the rest of the adoption process. We initiated the process last January with the general expectation … Read more
Gathering information on South Korea, the place from where we’re adopting a child. As we posted earlier, We’re on the waiting list for adoption from South Korea. We thought we’d share some links of sites with information about South Korea. Information: NationalGeographic.com US Department of State CIA BBC Travel Guides: Lonely Planet Tour2Korea Also, check … Read more
Defining the puzzle is a good place to start when preparing your talk. In a previous post, I reflected on the question, “What’s the puzzle?” in relation to our dissertation projects. Since then, I’ve been incorporating the question into my sermon prep. I thought I’d say a little about it here for other communicators who … Read more
Leaders value learning. Lifelong learning is essential for leaders. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church, says, “All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.” I love to read the book of Proverbs. Once while reading in the CEV, I was surprised by a powerful … Read more