3 words that changed my life

October 29, 2003, That was the day I got the dreaded words, “You have cancer”. GULP!!  finding out that I had stage 2 breast cancer sent our lives into a tail spin.  I remember taking my daughter to a friend for a Halloween party, and feeling like I needed to comfort my friends.  I think for the first [...]

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Please pray

Please help us pray for a family in our church.   Their son Isaiah has been fighting leukemia for over a year.  They leave tomorrow for Seattle so Isaiah can be evaluated for a bone marrow transplant.  Pray that God will touch his little body and heal him and that all will go well in Seattle.http://www.overcomeaml.org/

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Do we speak God’s language

I was involved in the Vineyard for about 18 years.  The founding pastor of the Desert Vineyard where we attended in California was Brent Rue( www.brentrue.com).  His heart was for people to be naturally supernatural.  We would have bible study on Tuesday night and after, we would have what he called lab.  This was a time [...]

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Practicing Hospitality

OK, so we are trying to get our family ready to go to the Monster mash at our daughter’s school and out of the blue a friend calls and needs us to take her son for the night.  As I looked around my house (which needed a little attention), and thought about the fact that [...]

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What is worship?

Rickard and I have been discussing this for awhile now.(OK, we have been arguing).  I was apart of the Vineyard movement for a long time, and worship (music)is one of thier highest values, and so there was worship at every service you attended.  Now, we are doing other forms of worship.  We do the daily office [...]

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Dwelling in the word

I still have many thoughts swirling around in my head from our time in Seabeck, but one thing that I keep coming back to is dwelling in Luke 10.  A few months ago Rickard came home from an Allelon thing and told me about it.  He explained that some of the people there had been doing [...]

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For the sake of the children

In 2001, Rickard started a new job.  He began to work with a friend who asked 3 questions in regards to our life in the church.  those questions threw our life into a tail spin..  We began to question the church and what we were really suppose to be doing.  That started us on this [...]

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REFLECTIONS

Rickard and I spent a few days at Seabeck retreat center discussing the idea of a missional order.  it was great to meet people who are where we are, some who are where we have been, and some who are where we want to be.  For me it is always a comfort to meet kindred [...]

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