Happy Birthday, Jesus

Our final Christmas event for the kids in our ministry was the “Happy Birthday, Jesus” party. We played Christmas games, acted out the Christmas story complete with costumes, had a surprise visit from Vicki the puppet; aka, my daughter Amanda, passed out treat bags, sang Christmas carols, ate cupcakes and sang “Happy Birthday.” See how Miss [...]

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Apartment Improvement

After our Christmas program, which immediately followed the Holiday House which was just two weeks after the Turkey Gobble…we definitely needed to do some cleaning and improvements to our ministry apartment. So, Darrell, my hard-working husband, took a Community Service Day from work- and he and I spent the day getting some things cleaned up and [...]

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Christmas Under the Sea

Our firstKids Club Christmas program! Not as polished as most things I’ve helped to orchestrate- but just as exciting. Kids Club kids sang Christmas songs in Spanish and English. We presented the program twice so we could fit all our parents into our limited space!

                                                         

 

The new M&M Puppeteers did a fabulous job of putting together [...]

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Turkey Gobble

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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The “New” M&M Puppeteers

Tonight was our second week of practice. You can tell these are little girls! We have six 5th and 6th graders and one 9th grader (don’t ask!) Here are a couple of photos from the first practice. Seasoned puppeteers- you can see we made “eyeballs” for practice. We’ve used them, as well as real puppets both weeks- and Julie [...]

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Compassion In Action Day

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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A Few Random Pix/Vids from this week…

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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Oh my goodness.

It’s been over a week since I even opened this blog. I have been busy, busy, busy. Not at home much. And my brain has been too full! So, to catch up, here’s an alphabetical list of some of the stuff I’ve been doing!!
Amanda- she constantly “saves my neck”; as in performing with her puppet [...]

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Square Peg Stuff

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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Back to School!

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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