My Oregonian Metro Cover Story: Mentor Athletics helps kids develop relationships and life skills
For Darren Gulbrandson, who founded Mentor Athletics in 2003, youth sports are always about more than winning the game. They are also about developing relationships and life skills. Gulbrandson, 35, says he usually gets at least one call a day from the boys who...
The Shack author, W. Paul Young, to speak at Feb. 13 event
Join W. Paul Young, author of The Shack , Feb. 13, from 8-10:30 am as he shares the story of writing the popular New York Times best-selling book. The event takes place at Willamette Christian Church in West Linn, which is located at 3153 S Brandywine Drive. The...
Try de-tuning your kids — and yourself — one day a week
So my twins now have I-Pods. Okay, they bought them with their own money and I could have said no, but they were so excited so I gave in. they are just getting into this tech world so early in life. They are 12. Man, it seems the thing is glued to them. I keep telling...
Musing on gratitude and true faith
During a lunch outing with my good friend Kristi from Rolling Hills at Manzana's to celebrate her birthday, we spoke of gratitude and how you can build thankfulness into our kids' lives. Too many of our children have this attitude of I deserve it all and why can I not...
Adventure and getting beyond: Is it safe?
My mom friend Juanita and I were on an adventure hike at Tryon Creek State Park on MLK Junior Day, with our 12-year-old boys and my 6 year old boy plus our family friends from Sudan, their 12-year-old and 13 -year old kids. The four 12-year-old boys were meandering...
A barefoot pastor’s story
Though K.A. Masila Mani had been a long time believer in India, for a while he felt that he was not living a true Christian life. When he attended revival meetings, he wept before Jesus yielding his life back to Christ. And he was baptized. At that time, he felt a...
Rolling Hills Writers Connection January Meeting
We are having our next Writers Connection Meeting at Rolling Hills Community Church, Thursday, January 21 at 7 p.m. in the East Atrium of the church with all the comfortable couches (like last time). All writers are welcome. Connect, get inspired, hear...
Finally getting her Christmas tree
Yesterday we took over a Christmas tree that we had cut down in the Mount Hood National forest to our Sudan friends in north Portland. They are refugees, a family of 9, who live in north Portland apartments. The mom, Tifiso, was so excited to get her tree into her...
Rosemont Ridge Middle 6th grade Language Arts Class Visit
UPDATE- 12-18-09 -Hi, two of Mr. Snook's 6th grade Rosemont Ridge Middle School language Arts classes. Due to modern technology difficulties with the blogspot/google account where the www.imagesofamericawestlinn.com website is, we are extending the deadline to Jan. 4,...
Re-thinking the boxed in life sooner rather than later
I was recently talking with another soccer mom about my daughter Rachel being in Germany right now pursuing her dreams. Rachel is in language school so she can pass the German proficiency language exam required for admission into the German university system. Her...
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