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March 3rd, 2010

One Million Arrows

When our oldest son Matthew was four years old, we read about the desperate condition of abandoned and orphaned children in India who must live on the streets and struggle for survival.  At that point, Matthew declared that he wanted to go to India and help those children.  Matthew is now 10 and actively doing [...]

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January 29th, 2010

One Million Arrows

Raising our children to change the world!  More information to come.

Did you recognize some of those kids?

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December 1st, 2009

Celebrating Christmas

There is an interesting discussion going on in the Raising Olives Community about celebrating Advent.  Our family is just learning and deciding what and how we want to celebrate this special time of year, so I’d love to hear your input on how you celebrate the coming of Jesus, our Lord and Savior to live [...]

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October 9th, 2009

The Government Can

I know that I’m about a month late on this video that has been sweeping the internet, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, I thought that I’d share it with you. Be prepared for a laugh or at least a chuckle over this 3 minute video.

Do you have any fun videos you [...]

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May 5th, 2009

Irena Sendler: Female Oskar Schindler

Have you read about this amazing woman who deserves to be honored? She has been called a female Oskar Schindler, but she saved twice as many people from the Nazi’s.

Irena Sendler died last May at the age of 98. In 1942 she joined the Polish underground and began rescuing Jewish children.  During her time of [...]

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