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Today we held a Thanksgiving “Turkey Gobble” in our ministry apartment. Our final count was 61 kids and about 15 volunteers in a two bedroom apartment. And we only own 45 chairs…you can imagine what eating a Thanksgiving meal in that crowd was like! Anyway, we had a great day. Besides many of our regular [...]

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It’s always good to have your camera cords! Since I found the case and cords, here are a couple of images from the last week or so:
Jason and Brandy hosted a Community Kids Fall Party for their neighborhood. They had games, treats, singing, outdoor play, cookie decorating and a “Glow Party.” Of course, we especially loved [...]

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Over 6,ooo volunteers from area churches are serving throughout Atlanta in their local communities this weekend. The end result will be cleaned up yards of senior citizens, food pantries and clothes closets organized and stocked, public school teachers blessed with thank-you gifts, visits made to nursing homes and donated furniture will be delivered to families in need.
In [...]

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Lydia loves nature: dogs, leaves, birds, bugs and exploring. We spied this beautiful monarch butterfly in the backyard. Lydia was a little leery of holding the butterfly, so we put it on her foot.  I haven’t seen anything much more adorable than that little baby foot adorned by God’s colorful creation!

Amanda had a Survivor party, to [...]

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God has been so good…so completely in the details of showing us how to launch Square Peg Ministries. Today, God reminded us of some important principles, courtesy of Andy Stanley’s book, Visioneering and the Old Testament’s book authored by Nehemiah, as interpreted by Yours Truly:
Nehemiah had a huge vision: rebuilding the torn down walls of [...]

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Friday was our first regular ministry afternoon of the new school year. We had a wonderful time. There was excitement and expectancy in the air. The kids were cooperative. We had put in a couple of days of cleaning, organizing and preparing…and it was well worth it!
This school year we decided to to our best [...]

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Here’s what I’m working on right now:
Concepts 21 Kids Club (see Square Peg Ministries tab above)- this is the last week of Superbook Olympics. We’ve been studying the book of Mark. We’re only going to finish through Chapter 5. However, we did learn a lot of Bible stories and where to find them. Most importantly, [...]

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I have missed the last three weeks of Kids Club! You know all those BGPs! And really, I think the week before that, we had a sandwich-making/selling fundraiser instead of our regular ministry- so it’s been a while.
I really love working with our kids. They are a joy- and even though I got sweatier today than [...]

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Saturday morning
I’m sitting at the computer in my typical after camp stupor- tired and dirty- but oh so glad to be home! We got home last night, but I just got my car unpacked. And now I’m as hot and sweaty as if I were still at camp! Even worse though, now I’ve got mountains of [...]

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