Finding the Positives in a Significant Change By Linda Sasser, Ph.D. “It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear." Dorothy Evslin One woman was describing her first grocery shopping trip after her youngest child had left for college. She said she reached [...]
It was 25 years ago—January 1981—that the Forever Young ministry began here in Fullerton under the leadership of Dave Jobe. Seven years later, the Coulombe clan arrived on the scene to carry on Dave’s legacy and work with senior adults. Remember where you were 25 years ago? The changes that have occurred are staggering—in our lives, culture, world and yes, church. A vital part of healthy living is change, except for the things ordained by God as unchangeable.
While lying in a hospital bed at St. Jude last August, I was given the privilege of time to re-evaluate my life and life’s work. I discovered that when one’s body is broken, many values change. That which was so important no longer is. And that, which meant so little, strangely means so much. In the middle of the night I spent some precious moments reviewing my outlook on life—and death.
The Quality of Engagement By John Coulombe Provided by CN Building Adult Ministries Resource Center It all has to do with change. Winter blows in and snaps the buds, flowers and blooms into a new cycle of growth, renewal and life. As with the seasons of nature, so it is with the nature of man. [...]