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Psalms 127:3-5 states that children are a heritage from the LORD, a reward from him. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are children born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend...
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This Christmas our church in St Jérôme adopted two orphanages that our good friends Titus and Stephanie Folden work with. We placed names and photos of each child on a table and each child was "adopted" by someone. In all, around 60 gifts were...
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Dear friends, Happy New Year! We are two short weeks away from our return to Brazil. It seems like it has been a long time since our arrival here in the US, and the time has come to return to the field. We appreciate your prayers as we have a couple of...
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Two weeks in… Hello from San J osé , Costa Rica! We’re finally here – yeah! We trust that each of you enjoyed a joyous Christmas celebration. We arrived in CR with all of our stuff and hit the ground running. Our ‘Big Brother’ (provided through the language...
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Happy New Year! Thanks for keeping us in your prayers. We had a wonderful Christmas with the kids down in Berkeley, and now we're in the Portland area looking forward to visiting churches and re-connecting with friends here. We will be at Grace Community...
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Every corner of the globe endured events of historic proportions, even as soccer, surfing, and polar bears served to arouse smiles. I ran into this breathtaking 120 photo anthology of 2008 over at the Boston Globe (via Steve McCoy ). Here are a few samples...
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Happy St. Sylvester!
This is St. Sylvester´s name´s day and the name used here instead of “New Year´s Eve”, so instead of asking someone what they are doing New Year´s Eve, we ask instead what they are doing for Sylvester.
This Sylvester day...
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Profile Mark & Mary Esther Penner · Missionaries to Japan for 25 years. · Grew up in Japan as missionary kids Mark –Spearheads a sign language Bible translation project in Japan The Need: As most Deaf have never heard Japanese, they learn it as a...
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Mark spearheads a sign language Bible translation project (ViBi) that plays a key role in the worldwide sign language Bible translation movement of over 50 projects. Mary Esther works with a non-profit that partners with local churches and their surrounding...
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Three Unreached Students Pray for three students who have had some academic challenges this year and for one in particular who has respect issues, that we would love him well and help get to the root of the problem. Also pray for their influence with...
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Jesus Loves Pray for the students at Faith Academy. There is one boy in particular who says he can't feel the love of the Lord and has asked Vicki to pray for him.
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Yesterday the kids were washing their hands in the upstairs bathroom. Naomi turned to me and calmly said, “Mommy, we couldn’t wash our hands downstairs because there is a beetle in the sink. Its about this big.” She held her thumb and...
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Santa was seen climbing a few balconies in our area. He certainly made his way around town pretty well. In some places we even saw the reindeer too. You can tell that the Santa on the left of this picture is an imposter….he’s missing his head…...
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This was my first Christmas away from home and my first Christmas back in the Ivory Coast in 8 years. Things are a bit different than the Christmas I missed at home in Maine so I figured I’d outline my time for you so you can get a picture of my Christmas...
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I recently ran into the somewhat new Vimeo HD . There are some amazing videos of artistic depictions of nature, the changing of the seasons, and other things. Sure, you've gotta use discernment, but check out these and see if the heavens do indeed...