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We wanted to focus on real-life challenges and offer help and encouragement for parents.

And you knew that, contrary to the Christmas hymn “The First Noel,” the shepherds in Bethlehem’s fields did not “looked up and saw a star shining in the East beyond them far.” (Modern hymnals have revised that line to read “For all to see there was a star….”)

Jones and her church members went to work, putting together baggies filled with personal care items such as lotion, deodorant, shampoo and conditioner, lice eradication kits and facecloths.

It’s time to exit the survival mode and reconnect.

The missional leader understands it takes all (children, youth, and adults) to develop a mission mindset. Transformation does not happen overnight but will occur once everyone across all demographics strives to live out their daily missional tasks.

Throughout the Scriptures we find attempt after attempt to stop the Messiah’s arrival.

Sometimes it just seems easier to fight alone than it is to invite others into my struggles. I’ve also learned that some folks simply aren’t trustworthy.

Ruth sometimes theorized in her poetry, but it was theory based on observations, and rarely if ever about being a woman in a man's world. She thought of herself as a broken sinner in God's world. She simply did not think about "oppression" in gendered terms.