As temperatures are soaring near and above 100 degrees, it's difficult to imagine that the Christmas season is just around the corner. Yet the time has come once again for the Children's Ministries team to begin preparations for this year's Christmas program. In this year's program, "An Unplugged Christmas," you can expect to see some real "acting" and hear some debut sol...
Keep ReadingFor everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. When my husband and I moved to Fairbanks, Alaska three years ago, we felt strongly that God had plans for us in the far north we just couldn't know what those plans would be. When we drove away from Greenwood in June of 2012 we didn't know where we would be living once we got to Alaska, I didn't ...
Keep ReadingRecently, I was given the opportunity to give my testimony of faith in Christ to our Sunday School class. The very task of summing up how God has been so gracious to me over forty-five years was overwhelming, especially staying within the boundary of thirty minutes. Preparing for this class spurred me to pull out some old notes, books, prayer journals, and studies that I h...
Keep ReadingAs some of you may know, Derek Hinckley and I recently drove all the way from Fairbanks, Alaska to Greenwood. We left Fairbanks on June 29th and drove until July 3rd, stopping pretty much only for gas, food, bathroom breaks, and sleep. On the way, we traveled through Alaska, the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Mis...
Keep ReadingRiding around on the farm this year seems to be a never ending journey of discovering new weeds growing in the fields. Although weeds are nothing new in farming, there is a resurgence lately of uncontrollable weeds that hasn't been seen in years. Despite the latest technology in science and or mechanical engineering, the unwanted plants seem to find a way to survive. In my...
Keep ReadingLately, there seems to be a theme to what the Lord is surrounding me withthe topic of wisdom. From Lysa Terkherst's The Best Yes, Vacation Bible School's theme of wisdom, Jeff is reading Proverbs to our girls each night at bedtime, and, last but not least, a book, Pursuing the Intentional Life by Jean Fleming. The unifying verse of the book is "Teach us to number our days ...
Keep ReadingThey are going away to school. They are our young people, the youth of Westminster Presbyterian Church. But, they are not the same ones we have already said "good-bye" to. Those were our three graduating seniors, Mary Dudley Pillow, Madeleine Coleman, and Sara Butler Makamson, who will be entering college this fall. Now, two other young people in the church are going away...
Keep ReadingYesterday, we began the new Sunday school quarter, in which each of the Elders will be presenting their testimony. Sharing each other's personal story of faith is a great way of sharing the Good News: Jesus saves, and this is how he saved me. With Father's Day, many of you had to leave after worship and didn't get to stay. So here's my story, and I hope it's an encourageme...
Keep ReadingDr. Norton is dean of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. He is also a friend of Westminster and the uncle of Kathryn Dyksterhouse. You can learn more about Dr. Norton here. His father's bio can be found on the RTS Charlotte website here. On this Father's Day I have countless memories of my father and his influence on my life. La...
Keep ReadingIt's bearing down on me. will be here in a couple more months. August 19th, 2015 I'll be 70 years old. I was born just 10 days after the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. One of the very first of the baby boomers. All my life I have been pretty upbeat, never really worried about getting old, always felt pretty good, even when I got to be 60, still felt p...
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