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In: Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

My elementary art students and I are up to our elbows in paper-mache and we are all loving it! Our art room looks like a zoo complete with visiting guests in various stages of completion. Though by the end of my day I am feeling sick from the combined smell of flour, water, masking tape and newspaper I am thrilled that my students, and their parents too, are getting so much joy from this project! I am so thankful to God for this opportunity He has given me to do two things I love at once – teach and be creative. It is not alwaysRead More →

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In: Grace, It's Just Life, Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

Three trips to the city, a final Bible study meeting, a visit to the school health clinic, a challenging day of painting in my elementary art classes that gave me a terrible headache, a long hot morning watching Caleb compete in Track and Field Day, bread baking, Kids’ Club leading, wedding planning emails that took three hours to write, and a tiny bit of altered book crafting and gardening squeezed in made for an extremely full week. I saw God at work in my busy week! Running late because of the long detour around town, God allowed me to reach the hospital just in timeRead More →

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In: Taking After My Father, Uncategorized

A long time ago in fourth grade my art teacher taught me how to make a papier-mâché puppet. After a week of refreshing my memory on the process and making an example, Faith and I took all the supplies and went every day to teach a group of Christian young people to make their own puppets. The Lord arranged the schedule, helped me prepare for each day and on the last day of the workshop the students had ten very nice looking puppets. It was a huge blessing to spend a week with these terrific young people and watch as each puppet came to lifeRead More →