4 Ways to Get the Most out of the Summer Student Experience

4 Ways to Get the Most out of the Summer Student Experience

This coming weekend marks the official beginning of summer. The weather keeps getting warmer and the days keep getting longer. Schools across our region are wrapping up classes for the year and students and families are shifting into the new reality that summer...

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There Comes Here

There Comes Here

June 20th is World Refugee Day (churches will observe it Sunday June 15 or 22). The first time I heard about WRD was in Dadaab, Kenya – now earth’s largest refugee camp with 500,000 of the planet’s 15 million internationally displaced people (there’s another 30...

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3 Ways to Help Kids and Teens Fight Porn

3 Ways to Help Kids and Teens Fight Porn

13 to 18 year olds spend more than 72 hours a week using electronic media. Porn is free and easy to access. Even if someone is not looking for it, it can easily find them. Every second $3075.64 is spent on pornography. The average age of first internet exposure to...

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Soul Detox Anyone?

Soul Detox Anyone?

I woke up this morning thinking about Lent and it occurred to me that Lent could be a time of soul detox. To “detox” the body is to go through a “treatment designed to rid the body of poisonous substances” (free online dictionary). A “soul detox”, I would define as a...

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