Thus said the Lord my God,
"Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter..."
So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders and I took two staffs, one I named Favor and the other I named Union and I tended the sheep.
Zechariah 11: 4, 7
This is our job.
This is our family.
This is why we have done what we did.
It is our privilage.
What more can I say.
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
Monday, February 11, 2013
We Did Something Kind of Radical
After many years of the most of the family gracing the doors of Christ Community Church here in Waseca we decided to start attending another church in town as a family called Real Life Church.
It was both a very difficult decision but yet an easy one all mixed up together. How can that be? Christ Community has seen our family through many transitions and as a church served us beyond anything we could ever repay.
There have been relationships that I have felt very loyal to.
I am glad that Waseca is a small town and that the Body of Christ goes beyond physical church walls.
Thank you Christ Community for your years of service to our family.
Thank you Pastor Chris, Pastor Howard,and Pastor Zack for your love for Christ and laying down your lives for us brothers and sisters in Christ in the way you do.
Of course, the kids will still be participating in youth group at Christ Community. A few of the older kids will still be helping with AWANA and going to Club 180 on Friday nights. And that awesome gym!! The boys (and Joyce) can not get enough of it.
Why Real Life?
Before we moved down to Waseca we lived in the Twin Cities area and attended Evergreen Community Church. Close to two decades of our lives was spent laboring for Christ with Evergreen (and Jeff at one of it's sister churches down in Iowa). When we moved down to Waseca Evergreen was too far to drive to although we made the Sunday commute for two years until gas prices got too high.
I walked into Real Life and right away I was at home. It is very much the style and vision of church we left behind at Evergreen. Those who know me well know I personally struggled over these past years after leaving Evergreen. Greatly. I am home, now. I am settled. I am at rest. This quirky, odd, broken person is home.
I can write a whole lot on the nuts and bolts of our decision (some pretty and some not so pretty) but the bottom line is it was time to continue forward on the race that was set before us.
For Seven years that race brought us shoulder to shoulder with some wise, Godly, self sacrificing people at Christ Community and we are very privileged to have run along side of them. Now we look forward to running this new stretch of the race.
Grace, Lily, and Joel chillin' in the snack area at Real Life this morning.
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
It was both a very difficult decision but yet an easy one all mixed up together. How can that be? Christ Community has seen our family through many transitions and as a church served us beyond anything we could ever repay.
There have been relationships that I have felt very loyal to.
I am glad that Waseca is a small town and that the Body of Christ goes beyond physical church walls.
Thank you Christ Community for your years of service to our family.
Thank you Pastor Chris, Pastor Howard,and Pastor Zack for your love for Christ and laying down your lives for us brothers and sisters in Christ in the way you do.
Of course, the kids will still be participating in youth group at Christ Community. A few of the older kids will still be helping with AWANA and going to Club 180 on Friday nights. And that awesome gym!! The boys (and Joyce) can not get enough of it.
Why Real Life?
Before we moved down to Waseca we lived in the Twin Cities area and attended Evergreen Community Church. Close to two decades of our lives was spent laboring for Christ with Evergreen (and Jeff at one of it's sister churches down in Iowa). When we moved down to Waseca Evergreen was too far to drive to although we made the Sunday commute for two years until gas prices got too high.
I walked into Real Life and right away I was at home. It is very much the style and vision of church we left behind at Evergreen. Those who know me well know I personally struggled over these past years after leaving Evergreen. Greatly. I am home, now. I am settled. I am at rest. This quirky, odd, broken person is home.
I can write a whole lot on the nuts and bolts of our decision (some pretty and some not so pretty) but the bottom line is it was time to continue forward on the race that was set before us.
For Seven years that race brought us shoulder to shoulder with some wise, Godly, self sacrificing people at Christ Community and we are very privileged to have run along side of them. Now we look forward to running this new stretch of the race.
Grace, Lily, and Joel chillin' in the snack area at Real Life this morning.
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Another Fun Wednesday Night
The captivating Bible Story
The visual aids
The kids hard at work making lasagna for a family at church who recently had her fourth baby.
Looking very good!!
We each had a smidgen for our snack
Of course, don't forget the cookies!
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
The visual aids
The kids hard at work making lasagna for a family at church who recently had her fourth baby.
Looking very good!!
We each had a smidgen for our snack
Of course, don't forget the cookies!
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
Monday, February 4, 2013
HeavenWord Handlers
This year's HeavenWord Handlers Performance team is in full swing!
Here is a video from Friday Feb 1st where the team performed during half time at Medford.
It is hard to know who is who in the video but from our family Grant, Alan, Joyce, Cyrus, Nolan, Josh, Odell, Ekie, Naomi, and Anya are all performing along with the rest of the team.
Saturday Feb 9th the team will be performing during both the Woman and Men's basketball halftime show at Augsburg college who will be hosting St. Olaf.
What a great job they all did!!!
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Be Kind...Go and Do Likewise
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
~Luke 10:25-37
The story of The Good Samaritan was our story for the evening on Wednesday.
Jeff was wanting to stress being helpful (which stems from having mercy on others or is that a stretch?) to the kids. There has been some umm... lack of helpfulness towards each other among the ranks lately.
Our game.
The task was to bind up the leg wound of Cat in the Hat
To accomplish that we needed to be helpful.
How?
(so clever I might add) The kids were to divide into teams of two, blindfold one team member while the other team member with words only directed the blindfolded youth to the bandages, and then to Cat in the Hat to bind up his wound.
Working on a word search.
A FUN snack!!!
Some mysterious person(s) dropped this off along with some other goodies on our door step this week. It made for an awesome snack!!
Thank you secret someone!!!
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
~Luke 10:25-37
The story of The Good Samaritan was our story for the evening on Wednesday.
Jeff was wanting to stress being helpful (which stems from having mercy on others or is that a stretch?) to the kids. There has been some umm... lack of helpfulness towards each other among the ranks lately.
Our game.
The task was to bind up the leg wound of Cat in the Hat
To accomplish that we needed to be helpful.
How?
(so clever I might add) The kids were to divide into teams of two, blindfold one team member while the other team member with words only directed the blindfolded youth to the bandages, and then to Cat in the Hat to bind up his wound.
Working on a word search.
A FUN snack!!!
Some mysterious person(s) dropped this off along with some other goodies on our door step this week. It made for an awesome snack!!
Thank you secret someone!!!
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sunshiny Day
Pumpkin muffins and southwest style scrambled eggs are a good way to start the day!!
Something to remember as the day moves on.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
~Steve Martin
Josiah's football pictures. What a handsome young man he is!
Elena's random doodling.
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
Something to remember as the day moves on.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
~Steve Martin
Josiah's football pictures. What a handsome young man he is!
Elena's random doodling.
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Just a Random Day
A few rounds of matching game with Lily.
If you do not like to lose you might not want to play with her.
Lily's sharp 5 year old memory is much better than my 40 something memory.
Reading drills
The never ending math corrections
A special something from Jeff.
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
If you do not like to lose you might not want to play with her.
Lily's sharp 5 year old memory is much better than my 40 something memory.
Reading drills
The never ending math corrections
A special something from Jeff.
Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy
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