I love Christmas, well, what Christmas is truly about. The over-commercialized, Tickle-Me-Elmo-grabbing, Play-Station-3-stampedeing, lets spend-every-dime-on-junk-I-don’t-need, I’m-going-to-Wal-Mart attitude really sullies the season for me. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, I make both the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge appear cute and cuddly. I can do without the hype. I do love giving, though. I think that is part of God’s nature that He places in us. I love to watch my family open gifts that I chose especially for them. For some (including my wife), receiving gifts make them feel loved. (The good thing is these types enjoy small tokens as much as large ones.) Of course Christmas provides me many opportunities to provide presents for underprivileged kids and some of our service men and women away from home. Even though my small gesture won’t really impact these individual situations, it will hopefully provide a moment of happiness and joy. Better yet it i...
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Well I did it. I waited `til after Thanksgiving to post my Christmas mix. So far a lot of these songs are from last year (or years past), hell I even recycled the photo from last year’s post.… (in post Christmas Mix - Songs:Illinois Style from songs:illinois . Download this at eMusic Amazon iTunes )... more
The lights of the candles on the Advent Wreath break through the darkness, reminding us of the Light of Christ that we anticipate during this holy season. Where did this tradition come from, of lighting four candles in an evergreen wreath to mark the weeks preceding Christmas? Like many of our Church traditions, the use of candles in the midst of late fall and winter was originally a pagan tradition. According to Rev. William Saunders who wrote an article in the “Arlington Catholic Heraldâ... more
OK, I have a new project. My kids have been asked to make boxes for Operation Christmas Child. I love the idea and am kinda excited about it. I would really like to find cheap world maps, atlases, or globes to put in the boxes. Since this is a world-wide project, I have no idea were our boxes will go. I would like to include a note about us, our family, and our home - and a map to go with it so they know where it came from. It doesn’t have to be great, I’m thinking of the smal... more
On Monday, November 3rd HOLA of Garden City, Inc. will be collecting shoe boxes at the Garden City Library from 4:00-5:30pm for Samaritan’s Purse - Operation Christmas Child. HOLA invites the children of Garden City to participate in this holiday collection by filling a shoe box with items such as toys, pencils, toothbrushes, hairbrushes, etc. [...]... more
Cardboard shoe boxes are used for more than just packaging shoes. They are also often used for sending food parcels and also for Christmas shoe box appeals. Christmas shoe box appeals often put toys in shoe boxes for children in hospital or in third world countries. Some charity’s that run Christmas shoe box appeals are:
Operation Christmas Child
Samaritan’s Purse
The Rotary Shoebox Scheme
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Information and Promotion of Metropolitan Baptist’s upcoming Operation Christmas Child effort.
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Lee Hand Delivering Shoeboxes in Jamiaca in Feb. of 2006
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Not your ordinary fundraiser, Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God’s love.
Along with hundreds of others nationwide, my church participates in Operation Christmas Child every year. Since 1993, more than 61 million shoe boxes have been packed, shipped and delivered across the globe. People of all ages can be involved in this simp... more
I grew up with the idea that America meant something. America was a grand experiment in democracy laid out by our founding fathers whose vision allowed us, as a nation, to grow and prosper as a bastion of freedom for all of her citizens, or so I was taught… In the earliest days, America started out as a home for people who wished to worship an almighty God differently than what was ordained by the Church of England. Facing dangers and disease, those brave few suffered and died for this idea... more
Game Day Central From: puppetminister.blogspot.com Post Date: 2007-06-10 23:14:00
Better late than never... I’ve written skits to be used with Lifeway’s Game Day Central VBS program. Our hero, Dexter, takes the VBS Althetes (kids) for a behind the scenes tour of Game Day Central, only on ESPN, the Euphrates Sports Programming Network. Each skit introduces the key concept for the corresponding day of VBS. All 5 skits for only $2.50. Give your Althetes your best by teaching them to be their best in all things.... more
Good Friday From: puppetminister.blogspot.com Post Date: 2007-04-06 01:35:00
This day, Friday, almost 2000 years ago, a man was executed. This man was no ordinary man, however, this was God made in human form. This day He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor 5:21). I can’t imagine the suffering that Jesus went through in just a matter of hours. Any lesser man (than the Son of God) could not have bore the burden. I woke up this morning with the desire to read Six Hours One Friday... more
I have found a very cool blog dedicated to self improvement. Brian Kim - Check it out.... more
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