Our First TRAIN Time!  We invite you to hop aboard TRAIN on Friday mornings 9:30-11am.  TRAIN is a Teaching Resource Advocating  Intentional discipling of the Next generation!  Today, the children, parents, and friends appropriated an incredible truth from God's Word:  "I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are your works" (Psalm 139:14).  Over the next couple of TRAIN sessions, we seek to create an environment that encourages hearts of gratitude.  For example, this morning we sang an interactive song about how "God made us Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Ankles, Legs, Eyes, and Nose."  The children enjoyed trying to locate the...

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 If the price of health insurance has got you singing the blues, just check out samaritanmission.org.  For home phone service saving options, Nancy says, check ooma.com

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  In America, to be useful, relevant, or apropos means that you have arrived.  It means that you have matured, outgrown the meaningless stupidity of your youth, and discovered what it means to live a life worth living--the good life full of purpose.  Dedicated to those who desire to live the good, unfettered life, my favorite magazine, Real Simple, devotes an entire section to "New Uses for Old Things".  Did you know that toothpaste could be used to polish jewelry, defog swim-goggles, or brighten fingernails?  Or that you could use doorstoppers to keep a laptop cool, multi-colored golf-tees as food markers...

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