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I put 5,000 miles on the van over the past three weeks but it was well worth the many hours of driving as I felt like I was on a mission to bring my family back home again.

 Amanda bravely joined me on this cross-country adventure that started in South Texas on November 29th. We drove to Comfort, TX and dropped off at the cabin all the Christmas family reunion items before driving to Oklahoma City.  We spent the night in Edmond, OK with a dear family friend, Sharon Wilkie.…

Five Reasons Why God Uses Problems

by

Alex and Teresia Fellows

SIM Ethiopian church planters; retired;



The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you - depending

on how you respond…

Christmas had ended over a month ago but my tree still stood proudly and rather alone in the front living room window. I am sure even the neighbors were beginning to wonder if I would keep it up till Valentine's Day.  Our family dog Chloe had adopted the tree as her favorite place to sleep so she really didn't mind but I was dreading putting away the now very dusty tree and ornaments.

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A girlfriend told me last week that she had been searching for Thanksgiving "stuff" for her home to make the holiday a little more special this year. She found: after Halloween close out sale merchandise and Christmas. Squenched in between those two things in one drug store she found "18 or so Thanksgiving articles" and that was it. No holiday decorations, almost no Thanksgiving cards. We were in a consignment store that day and she…

We grabbed our Bibles, brief cases and two extra water bottles and hurried out the hotel door for the street below. My husband who is a professor of theology at Rio Grande Bible Institute in south Texas was invited to give a three day conference in a dangerous area of southern Mexico known…