For Me What Will You Be When You Grow Up? 21 Jan 2021 By Katie Helmreich Some people are born knowing what they're going to do in life. Choosing a career, setting goals, or finding ways to serve seem to come as naturally…
Discipleship Tools… Our Family Calendar Tradition 15 Jan 202114 Jan 2021 By Kim Longden At the start of each year, we have the tradition of taking down the previous year’s kitchen calendar and going through it month by month as a…
Advent… Have A Very … Christmas 18 Dec 2020 By Justin Rossow I love Christmas time! Except when I don't. And a Covid Christmas brings up all kinds of mixed emotions (shaken, not stirred). My parents decided not to…
Advent… O Zoom, All Ye Faithful 16 Dec 202015 Dec 2020 By Katie Helmreich In those days a decree went out, that everyone should return to their own homes and stay there. This was the first pandemic in a hundred years,…
For Me Mom’s Trash Can 15 Dec 202015 Dec 2020 By Kim Longden My mom went to be with the Lord six months ago, and one of the things we brought from her kitchen to ours was her trash can.…
Discipleship Tools… Thank You Lord, For Pizza 17 Nov 2020 By Katie Helmreich Jane was almost asleep, basking in the glow of the mini Christmas tree I agreed to set up early, curled up in her bed with Bear and…
Discipleship Tools… Our Thankfulness Garland 13 Nov 2020 By Katie Helmreich I have been chasing after my youngest all day, cleaning up one mess after another. She glued a kitchen towel to the counter "on accinent." The bathroom was…
For Me… Want Help? 13 Oct 2020 By Katie Helmreich The children slaved away in the glaring sun, blasted by cruel winds, starving and dying of thirst. What had they done in their short lives to have…
For Me… Knows My Needs and Well Provides Me 22 Aug 202023 Oct 2020 By Katie Helmreich Ah, school supplies... There's something uniquely invigorating about a fresh notebook. Pristine erasers. Loading the lead and clicking it to the tip of the pencil. Cracking open…
For Me Faith Like A Child 19 Aug 202019 Aug 2020 By Kim Longden Oswald Chambers, a preacher who lived in the late 1800’s, says: A child’s awareness is so absorbed in his mother that although he is not consciously thinking…
For Me What Do I Know About Rest? 6 Aug 2020 By Katie Helmreich Back in the midst of distance learning and acclimating to the idea that everything could be suddenly shut down, I spent every spare minute to work out…
For Me Enthusiasm! 26 Jul 2020 By Katie Helmreich Enthusiasm! Dream big dreams! Do big things! Go, fight, win! Be AMAZING!!! There are days when we can do enthusiasm with all the cartwheels and exponential exclamation…
For Me Seek First His Kingdom 22 Jul 202022 Jul 2020 By Kim Longden It was ten years ago, and we were at a fork in the road. We’d just had our third child, we were in the process of moving,…
For Me Consider the Ducklings 19 Jul 202018 Jul 2020 I am the one in our family that has to shoot down the crazy ideas. Somebody's got to, it's crazy enough around here as it is! I can't tell you…
For My Friends Let it Shine 11 Jul 202011 Jul 2020 By Katie Helmreich Our 4th of July was absolutely idyllic. We celebrated with family and friends out in our backyard, paddling around in the creek with the ducklings, playing games,…
Discipleship Tools… A Reluctant Visual Faith-er 22 Jun 2020 by Kim Longden About a year ago, I reluctantly signed up to go to a Visual Faith™ presentation at our church. I was there to support friends who had coordinated…
For Me… Hidden Treasures 11 Jun 2020 By Katie Helmreich Every night for the past couple of months, my youngest has asked to do a page or two in her Hidden Picture books instead of stories. She's…
For Me… Growing Is Such A Pain 6 Jun 2020 By: Katie Helmreich Our ability to learn is such an incredible gift! The end of the school year is the perfect time to look back at lessons learned; this year…