Sower Project
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November in Vero Beach, Florida
We’ve been at Camp Realife in Vero Beach since the end of October for the November SOWER project https://sowerministry.org/ Realife is a Christian Youth Camp and Retreat Center in Vero Beach and they have another location in Marianna, Florida.https://realife.org/ Working with SOWERS here for the last 3 weeks we completed numerous projects they had on…
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How can they believe in Him, if they have not heard of Him?
Did you know, there are over 7000 spoken languages in the world? Wikipedia says that as of September 2020 the full bible has been translated into 704 languages and just the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,551 and portions of the bible into 1,160 languages. That means approximately 5,400 to 6,300 people…
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Traveling Across Kansas
If you live in Kansas, or are from Kansas, you may love it there. There must be nice beautiful places in Kansas but crossing the state on Interstate 70 is pretty boring and there’s not much to see. The most we have seen are farm fields and windmills. Both are important but not very interesting…
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Ever hear of General William Jackson Palmer? Glen Eyrie? Navigators?
Me Neither. But I have now. Glen Eyrie was our SOWER project for the month of July. William Jackson Palmer was born in Delaware into a Quaker family and was raised in Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_Palmer At age 17 he started working at a railroad company in the engineering department. He rapidly progressed with the company and…
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Here-n-there…
Tomorrow we leave North Carolina. It’s hard to believe we’ve been here two months already. We’ve experienced so much since we’ve been here. It’s not often that we get to spend time with our North Carolina son and his family and since we’ve been here we’ve enjoyed every bit of it. We came to North…
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Center for Intercultural Learning
We just spent the last three weeks working on a SOWER project https://sowerministry.org/ at the Center For Intercultural Training (C.I.T.) https://cit-online.org/ in Union Mills, North Carolina. Union Mills is just a small little community in the mountains of Western North Carolina. It’s about 50 miles east of Asheville. It’s such a small community we couldn’t…
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SOWER project at The Cove – Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
This post is going to be different than my previous posts. It’s going to be mostly pictures. As you pass through the entrance to The Cove, this is the sign you see. This explains the mission of this organization and the work they do at this location. Below are links to the organization so that…
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64th Florida Sheriff’s Boys Ranch Open House
That’s a wrap! The 64th Florida Sheriff’s Boys Ranch Open House & Horse Show ended Sunday. Due to hurricanes and COVID, they weren’t able to have an open house the last two years so it was good to see it happening again this year. It takes a lot of work to prepare for and put…
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Florida Sheriff’s Youth Ranch – Boys Ranch, FL
I could start off saying, there have been lots of changes since we were houseparents here about 4 years ago, but that’s not quite true. There have been some changes, but the mission remains the same – Improve The Lives of At-Risk Children. The Youth Ranches are built on the 4 Pillars of Work, Study,…
Escaping Normal RV 