Author: Adventures

When Your Plans Change

God Called several “Omaha’s” on us today.  This is when Paton Manning called a play but changes it in the middle of the down.  Today it rained most of the day. We walked to a school of 200 kids and just found 8 kids there. John told us how God helped him raise money to start this school. Then we walked down the hill to see a piece of land that he had to build new and bigger school building. We then went to Robert’s house to build him a new roof, but here God called another “Omaha” on us.  We were told that the wall that was rebuilt after...

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When Your Plans Change

God Called several “Omaha’s” on us today.  This is when Paton Manning called a play but changes it in the middle of the down.  Today it rained most of the day. We walked to a school of 200 kids and just found 8 kids there. John told us how God helped him raise money to start this school. Then we walked down the hill to see a piece of land that he had to build new and bigger school building. We then went to Robert’s house to build him a new roof, but here God called another “Omaha” on us.  We were told that the wall that was rebuilt after...

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In Praise of Our Millennial Generation

It’s common for students of culture to reserve some of their harshest criticism for the members of our millennial generation. They’re self-serving, aimless, and committed to nothing, so the critics say. Perhaps those critics have not met any of the dear twenty- and thirty-somethings who served us so generously in the days following the recent flood in Baton Rouge. Like tens of thousands of our fellow south Louisianans, our home was flooded the weekend of August 13 and 14. We took on over three feet of water, damaging the structure, ruining our belongings, and devastating our...

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In Praise of Our Millennial Generation

It’s common for students of culture to reserve some of their harshest criticism for the members of our millennial generation. They’re self-serving, aimless, and committed to nothing, so the critics say. Perhaps those critics have not met any of the dear twenty- and thirty-somethings who served us so generously in the days following the recent flood in Baton Rouge. Like tens of thousands of our fellow south Louisianans, our home was flooded the weekend of August 13 and 14. We took on over three feet of water, damaging the structure, ruining our belongings, and devastating our...

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