SqPeg eBay Auction

Thanks to Amanda and Mandi for organizing and taking photos of our Silent Auction items. Click on the SqPeg Auction logo to the right to see the first items Amanda posted. We’d love to have you shop with us!

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Hooray!

Our Square Peg Ministries website is finally up! First version, of course…but check it out. We’re excited!
www.squarepegfits.org

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Holiday House

Our main Christmas outreach at Square Peg Ministries this season is the Holiday House! Our kids earned “Christmas Bucks” during the last couple of weeks and were then able to spend them at the Holiday House. Well, thanks to some sponsors and donors and some wonderful volunteers- we were able to pull off a fun [...]

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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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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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School’s In!

The county in which we do our weekly ministry went back to school last week. We usually begin our Homework Help and Tutoring a couple of weeks into the school year so the kids are ready for our help. Today we had our annual Open House to begin signing up kids for the program. Here’s [...]

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