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Monday Night Monkeys

By: | 2 Comments | On: April 12, 2011 | Category : teenagers

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Mondays at our house are always just a little bit different. Last year, we got rid of the trampoline, which was a scary thing to have with 30 kids at your house.  But you know, I’ve discovered they will pretty much be monkeys anytime, anywhere with just a tree in...
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Teenager Lesson #5 Is Your House THE House?

By: | 2 Comments | On: January 9, 2011 | Category : teenagers

Tonight is the last night of the weekend.  Mr. Wonderful and I are home alone.   The girls have gone back to college and the boy is out to a movie because tomorrow he has no school due to teacher conference day. Can we all pause a  moment and ponder...
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Truly Giving Thanks for Some Awesome Teens

By: | 0 Comments | On: November 24, 2010 | Category : teenagers

Monday night was one of my very favorite nights of the year. It’s the night that our youth small group that meets in our home each Monday has our annual “Adopt a family for Thanksgiving” night. The kids bring food to make a complete Thanksgiving meal for weeks ahead of...
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Compassionate Kids, So Glad That These Are Our Future

By: | 1 Comment | On: November 6, 2010 | Category : teenagers

If you’ve read my blog before, you know that both Mr. Wonderful and I are pretty passionate about working with youth.  These are a few kids from our Monday night small group. One thing we talk about over and over at our small group is to look for those kids...
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Teenager Lesson #4 Teenagers Need Encouragement

By: | 9 Comments | On: July 25, 2010 | Category : teenagers

We’ve all heard the stories.  Someone, somewhere told someone else” they’d never amount to anything”. There are those stories of a person who believed the lie. There are those stories of a person who  fought to discredit it. And then there are those stories of a person who was encouraged....
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