This May, The Older Americans Month Tradition Robert Chism This article is being written as an early reminder in the hope that your Church will celebrate with the rest of the country through ceremonies, events, fairs and other such activities. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy created the tradition. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter changed Senior Citizens [...]
By Timothy M. Schroeder “...men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.” I Chronicles 12:32 (NIV) It was such a strikingly, beautiful home. From a distance it looked like everything was perfect. The house was arrayed in gray flagstone and accented with pristine, white-framed windows. The roof sparkled as its dark, [...]
By Ward Tanneberg One greeting I’ve never heard. By definition, an orphan is a child whose parents are dead. A family is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household, related to one another by blood or marriage, treated with a special loyalty or intimacy. An orphanage is a residential institution for the care and education of [...]
Footprints in the Mud I grew up as a young lad on a farm in eastern Washington State—high desert for those of you who have never visited this northwest region of America. We were “dry land farmers,” more than a few of whom possessed sturdy Danish heritage. Grain crops varied in bushels per acre depending [...]
Did you know that at military funerals, the 21-gun salute stands for the sum of the numbers in the year 1776?(One may find slight variations on this topic, but the following is generally accepted as a common description of folding the American flag.) All Americans should be given a lesson on the significance of our [...]