Post Theme: Backpacks for Kids “There are three stages to every great work of God…impossible…difficult…done.” Hudson Taylor I sat down to write this over two weeks ago, but was interrupted before I got very far. I think God let it get delayed because He simply wasn’t done yet! If you follow us on Facebook, then …
Post Theme: Christmas in July It’s shortly after mid-night. My alarm will go off in four hours and fifty-five minutes. I should be asleep. Instead, I’ve been lying awake, staring at the ceiling with weeping heart and racing mind. Things have been busy the past few weeks. But tonight the chaos dissolved into background noise. …
In 2015, God miraculously provided a home for FTN. We are so grateful for this amazing little space in which and through which so much has happened. It has housed Bible studies, backpacks and school supplies, prayer meetings, and has been the planning grounds for multiple Green Bean Projects. It has seen happy tears, sad …
This is a post I don’t know how to write. Imagine that. I’ve published six books and edited multiple books for others, and yet I don’t know how to verbalize what needs to go in a simple blog post. My mind has been running a hundred miles an hour for days on end, so give …
Post Theme: The Unspeakable Gift Often in our hurried culture, we hear people talking about their dread for the busyness of the Christmas season. People say they can’t wait until Christmas is over. They talk about how Christmas is just another commercialized holiday. Others dread Christmas shopping or the pressure to finish making their gifts. …
Post Theme: God’s Provision for the 2018 Backpacks. When Things Seem Impossible Last week, I sat in the FTN office completely overwhelmed. A week and a half earlier, we looked at our list of children needing school supplies. We also looked at our budget and the response we’d had of people wanting to pitch in …
Post Theme: A personal glimpse – I want to call you Mama. Flies swarmed all around me, their never-ending buzzing sending a tickling sensation across the back of my neck. The scent of warm manure and sour milk drifted in on the hot breeze that blew through the open doors and mingled with the smell …
Post theme: A Father’s Day Call to Valor The story is told of a little baby who was born and abandoned. She was left in a field, unwashed and uncared for. No one wrapped her in a blanket or held her close in those first precarious moments of life. People passed by. They saw …
Post Theme: Learning and Praying Together – Ministry Update, March 2018 “And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said… And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. …Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I …
2018 is off and running! It seems time moves faster every day. This year, things got off to an unexpected start at FTN. While it certainly wasn’t without its stresses, it has been a joy to see God show Himself Strong. In January, we received word that StateFund would be conducting a standard, end-of-the-first-year audit. …
