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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
There has been a number of changes in our family, so I thought I'd give an update on what's happening.
My daughter Patti is still living in Jersey City and working in NYC at the National Center for Chilren in Poverty. She enjoys the work she does (research, evaluating childcare programs, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Three years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Since then, the response of love and support from the church has been overwhelming. So many of you have been faith-fully praying for me, and your words of encouragement have been greatly appreciated.
Concerned friends constantly ask me how I’m ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
For those who may not yet know--three weeks ago, Janet and I became grandparents to a beautiful little granddaughter named Leah! And our son, Steven, became a proud dad!
There was a lot of uncertainty over whether the mother of baby Leah was going to give her up for adoption or ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I've come to a new appreciation of Ecclesiastes 12:1 which reads, "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come..." With age comes increasing "days of trouble."
I told my son the other day, "Don't get old." (You can tell when you're getting old, because you ...
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
For the last three weeks, Janet and I have been away on vacation. We flew out to California to spend a few days with Janet's sister and her family, then flew to Honolulu for a week-long cruise of the Hawaiin islands. We're celebrating our 30th anniversary (I promised Janet I'd ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Our daughter Lori got back last night (well, actually this morning at 4:30 a.m.) from India. She spent the month of July in India, mostly in New Delhi working with street kids who had been taken into an orphanage. In her last week, she did get to do some sightseeing--Taj ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
Last week was an exciting week for our daughter Nancy. In May, she graduated with a BS degree in nursing from William Paterson University. And she was recently offered a nursing position at Chilton Memorial Hospital in their pediatrics department. Her last big obstacle was passing the state boards. Until ...
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Lori is now in India. She'll be there for the month of July. July is monsoon season, so it will be a wet time. But the rains will help to cool it off (temperatures can soar to 115 and above).
Lori will be in New Delhi for three weeks serving in ...
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Greetings!
It's been awhile since I've blogged, so I thought I'd update you on what's happening with me and my family. We've been on vacation this week. Janet's sister and her husband, Joan and John, are visitng from California.
The early part of the week was a sleep-late, putter-around-the-house, catch-up-on-reading, run-some-errands kind ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
For those of you who don't know, we added a new member to our family recently. His name is Wendell. He's Welsh. And he's a terrier.
He was born on September 11, 2006. We got him from a breeder in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas when he was 3 months old. He flew ...
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