Faxing at Crossroads…

 
This is a picture from a Crossroads “office” workshop…..’How to Fax’.  Staff meetings at Crossroads are rarely dull and business as usual.   Brother Summers neglected to wear his Superman Underoos (that’s right, for all you people that think the 30 and up crowd isn’t cool….we had Super-hero underwear in the 80’s….ha!) he did however play [...]

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Forgive me, it’s been many weeks since my last blog…

So, the holidays are behind us and we’re well into the New Year.  Things at Crossroads are going well.  Thanks to a couple of “great” benefactors, I have a brand new computer to work with.  It is so very fast and the monitor is amazing, I even have sound now.   Time to put the old relic [...]

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Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord….

As Thanksgiving rapidly approaches, I find myself working on a lesson for my elementary age small group.  We are discussing prayer and this week I want to explore how prayer is not only about asking for the things we need and want but is also about praise and thanksgiving for the many blessings we have [...]

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An evening in “Farmeropolis”…

Tonight was family movie night in “Farmeropolis”. We sat around our television eating pizza and watching “Kit Kittredge, An American Girl”. The movie was set in Depression-era 1934 and focused on a neighborhood in Cinncinnati, Ohio where people and families were struggling to find work and put food on the table. The film was very [...]

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Recommended Reading…

Thanks to a dear friend, I’ve begun reading a series of five books written by Francine Rivers.  The novellas are quick and easy to read and have study guides included…perfect for book club study and discussion.  Each book is written about one of five women from Scripture who played a role in the lineage of [...]

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Haters….what’s up with that?

Haters….Urban dictionary defines a hater as such…

-A person that simply cannot be happy for another person’s success. So rather than be happy they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.
 

-Hating, the result of being a hater, is not exactly jealousy. The hater doesnt really want to be the person he or she [...]

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WorkinG at Crossroads…

Remember the Oompah Loompahs from Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? No, not the ones from that horrible remake with Johnny Depp…the really cool and awesome original with Gene Wilder as that eccentric and kind candyman. Remember how diligently they worked… always singinG a catchy tune? Well, its not like that at all in the [...]

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Part Two…

For some time we simply taught our children about God in our home. My husband and I agreed that until (if ever) we could find a solid place to worship this would be the best route. I would say that we lost faith in religion around the time we left that church. I felt bad [...]

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Seeds of God…(Part One)

I grew up in the Bible Belt where, more often than not, everyone you knew subscribed to some version of Christianity. The concept of God is not new to me but like many I wasn’t always as faithful as I should have been. After moving to Illinois, finding a church where everything seemed right wasn’t [...]

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Office Games…

 
 
Back from vacation, I have resumed my duties in the Crossroads office and was quite dismayed to discover that my Shrek had been violently tortured and disfigured in my absence.  Apparently, Mick’s recent small group “discussion” was replaced with an interrogation session for my beloved Shrek where he had screws drilled into his eye, neck and ribs…not to [...]

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