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Church Revitalization and Our Cherry Tree
We bought a cherry tree about five years ago. We only have a small lot but we love cherries and I like to grow things. We waited until the fall when the few rejected trees at Rite Aid The Cherry Tree...
View ArticleVillage Missions Changes Health Care Coverage
Summary: Village Missions has chosen to suspend its self-funded health plan and purchase a fully-insured group plan from Regence BlueCross. History of Self-Funded Plan Nearly two decades ago, because...
View ArticlePictures of Village Missions Events and Churches
It has been quite some time since I posted links to the places and events that Carole and I have visited over the last several months. This is your chance to take an armchair visit to some of our...
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The Shortest Distance Between Two Points
“Flo,” my Garmin GPS. I like using a GPS. Being a location-challenged person, with all our travels its nice having that girl (we call her Flo) in the box tell me where to go! Sometimes it’s an...
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The Arctic Wooly Bear and Village Missions
I recently watched a program on Animal Planet about springtime in the artic. One creature that they referred to as the Wooly Worm (Banded Wooly Worm or Banded Wooly Bear) particularly caught my...
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The Widow’s Mite Today
A friend of mine gave me this coin, which is believed to be an actual “mite” from around the time of Christ. 41And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting...
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The Rural Church—Missional Community?
Sarah was in kindergarten when we moved to Red Feather Lakes, CO as Village Missionaries. Red Feather Lakes, elevation 8500 feet, is a fifty-mile drive from Ft. Collins, the location of the nearest...
View ArticleVillage Missions and the Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare
Background: When I became Executive Director in November 2000, Village Missions had a self-funded health insurance plan, in other words, we were our own insurance carrier. We collected premiums from...
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“Joy to the World” is a Christmas Hymn
What a wonderful announcement long ago in a field somewhere on the outskirts of Bethlehem! Shepherds, paralyzed by fear, heard a stunning and fear-allaying message: And the angel said to them, “Fear...
View ArticleThe Resurrection and Aunt Patsy
My Aunt Patsy just passed away a few hours ago and in a few days we will celebrate the death and resurrection of our Lord. Aunt Patsy was a strange mix of compassion, unbelievable generosity,...
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