God’s Power in Prayer!

A good friend of mine recently gave me a journal of what she prayed for me as I was doing ministry work this spring. I compared entries with my journal and found serveral times that what was prayed was exactly what I needed that day. God hears prayer! Here are a few examples: Jennifer’s journal […]

Preparations for an Amazing Opportunity

It is not too often that a missionary is paid by an organization in the host country to come and serve. But this is the marvelous provision that the Lord has made for the team that Donald will be serving with in Taiwan. (We plan to post more specific updates so stay tuned!) After notification […]

Cousin Dave Gets Married!

Last Saturday our family had the joy of attending the wedding of David and Elspeth! Both have attended the same church for many years and have known each other ever since they can remember. It was a beautiful wedding! Grandpa & Grandma Brannon and Aunt Evelyn drove up to Pennsylvania with us and made the […]

An Unexpected Suprise

Let me skip ahead to a special activity that we did during the 7th week of Life FOCUS. On Wednesday last week, Director Ritchie planned an outing as a reward for wholeheartedly working through the last six, intense weeks. We traveled to Green Acres canoe livery on the Whitewater River in Harrison, Ohio for an […]

Do you have a Testimony?

I was challenged with this question a few weeks ago. On the Sunday before Journey to the Heart, the Life FOCUS class was scheduled to go to the Pacific Garden Mission in downtown Chicago, a ministry founded in 1877 by Colonel George Clarke. The mission was hospitably providing a meal for homeless men who were […]

The 4th Week

Though the fourth week of Life FOCUS is long gone, it doesn’t mean that I should not post about it. Indeed, it was a very important week. Now that the students had learned and applied important truths of the faith, it was now time for them to go out and share it with other people. […]

Experiments in Sequential Reactions

Have you ever made chain reactions with dominoes? I have had a great time experimenting with this recently. What tremendous fun it was to set up tracks for the dominoes! They slid down ramps, fell over, through, and under bridges and tunnels, and traveled through many incredible patterns! I especially liked using stairs, slides, block […]

A Journey to the Heart

Imagine getting together with a small team of other like-minded fellows, heading out into God’s creation, and spending an entire week with God! That’s what Donald, James, and Jonathan are doing this week on a Journey to the Heart. Last Monday, three teams of fellows and two teams of girls headed up to the beautiful […]