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Volunteering: Active-Theology
August 25, 2012 Volunteering is a word used to present an idea of caring. However, it is not always adequate to relate what is really happening. Showing up and offering free tutoring, being a foster grandparent, ladling soup at a kitchen or helping distribute food at a food bank is volunteering. However, when such work…
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Body At Work
August 24, 2012 A cool thing happens when you volunteer, more than once. You begin to create family. For instance, as framing began on the Coburn Loop Home (2011fire destroyed home) Rita returned and it was like a homecoming. Rita and her children had dug footings and plumbing trenches weeks earlier and now here she…
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Life Begins After Fire: An Opportunity to Help
August 23, 2012 As we watch fires around the country yanking folks lives apart and taking out family homes, it is good to take a moment and remember prayers are needed now and physical help is needed in the months and years ahead. In February 2011 a windstorm and fire destroyed homes in White Swan. …
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Dough, A Cut Above
August 3, 2012 Forty-eight youth, electrical tools, water, and multiplying organisms equal what? A bit of chaos! An interesting day bubbles up when youth—pre-school thru sixth-grade—make bread together. With the phrase on the white board saying “There is a Fungus Among Us” youth entered the kitchen full of flour, mixers, and yeast. Most everyone has…
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A Future in Clay
July 21, 2012 My Future changes just a bit during the summer. Throughout the school year My Future is an extended learning time for middle and high school students. During the summer, though it becomes an extended learning center for pre-school to sixth grade students. Middle school students become mentors and high school (and high-school…
Chewing the Cud 