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This past week our church teens, with teens from around the area, helped six homeowners and made the news in the process! Wichita Workcamp took on six houses to scrape, paint, and spruce up the yards, at no cost to the homeowners. The Wichita Eagle wrote a nice article about the event, pictures and video included. We [...]

We’ve arrived at my favorite part of summer: summer women’s Bible studies! I look forward to this all year because this one night per week connects me to other women of different ages, experiences, education, and levels of faith, and brings all of us together over God’s word.  Out of many, one!

Each week several different [...]

Earlier this month we went to Tulsa for the annual workshop. We weren’t sure if we were going to make it or not because a blizzard was in the forecast. When we left Wichita it was raining lightly, which turned into a downpour on our way to Tulsa, and then into a blizzard that night [...]

OK, so Samantha and I are a little behind the times as far as the Christian world is concerned, but I imagine there are a ton of people out there (even some reading this blog) who have not yet watched Fireproof. Let me give you my thoughts on the movie. Two disclaimers–first, as a once [...]

Yes, this is a picture of American children eating lentil stew…and loving it! Who knew?
Sunday’s lesson was on Jacob tricking Esau out of his birthright using a bowl of lentil stew as leverage. Esau had just returned from a long hunt and was so famished he thought he might die! Jacob took the opportunity to [...]

This week’s Abraham workshop was crafts. Using the Bible Times Crafts for Kids instructions we made tunics, belts (girdles), and headbands, and decorated them with symbols that reminded us of God’s promises to Abraham. Some kids drew stars and sand, some drew Egypt and the Exodus, there were a few drawings of Canaan, and everyone [...]

This past week’s Abraham workshop was Cooking with Sarah. Genesis 18 was our text, where the three visitors came “at the heat of the day” and Abraham and Sarah cooked a meal for them. We used The Good Book Cookbook as our guide to re-create these recipes.
On Sunday we made bread out of whole wheat [...]