The everyday wonder of riding bicycles at 5:45 am with my daughter this summer
I am so loving having my daughter home for the summer. I know this because I rise several days a week, at least three, to ride my bicycle with her to her job in Oregon City, where she works for Clackamas County as a temporary summer employed. She rides her bicycle...
My 11 -year-old twins’ first year at overnight church camp
Yesterday I sent my twins, 11, off to junior high church camp with Rolling Hills Community Church. They are incoming 6th graders and this is the first over night church camp they have gone to. I so wanted to be there as a leader but I am speaking at a...
Just give him a hammer and he’s happy
So, last night it is not the video games or the tv or the computer that is keeping my 6 year old son up (and to be honest, thankfully, there has not been a whole lot of that for him anyway). Instead it is the call of the hammer for my 6-year-old son. It was 11 pm and...
Not afraid of the questions
Is the church a place you go to?
I am thinking a lot about church. . .the universal church and the local church. Both are important, though recently there has been a lot of talk of how people do not like the local churches. They hate mega churches and large churches and institutionalized religion....






