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To Create Jubilant, Festive Atmosphere
Chinese take their New Year’s celebrations from Israelite traditions.
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Who Ordered the Horrid?
We had just moved into our apartment in Nikopol Ukraine. Stuart, a missionary just north, in Belarus, helped us get settled and thought it would be a good idea to take me to the …
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Twelve Days of Christmas
Just asking why we have the traditions we do, and wondering if we should change them to make the holidays more enjoyable
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Dripping Candy Canes
Some cultures have had to make some adaptions to Christmas…
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Extra Leg Room
Micheal brings a whole new meaning to the term “Extra leg room”. He was adopted from an orphanage in Taipei, Taiwan, and was born with a rare condition in which neither of his feet developed, …
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Waukesha Strong
Our community is still reeling from the events of the Christmas Parade last weekend. The following testimony was shared from a friend. It is sensitive, so proceed with caution. “Tonight, our family was spared as …
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Your Turkey is Watching you
This story was provided by Valerie Merrill. They were missionaries in Belarus for fifteen years. They invited my husband and I to Ukraine to work establish the church in Nikopol from contacts they made in …
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Just minding my own business
With the change in season, my mind is drawn back to a time in Ukraine. There is a term in Russian, ‘babushka’, which technically means ‘grandmother’, but was often used to refer to any older …
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Rainy days
Typhoon season in Taiwan, we always had one or two rip through and cause a lot of mischief. I remember one year in particular; I was about fifteen. I went out on the front patio …
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Full Circle
When I was little, my parents were missionaries in Taiwan. There was an orphanage in our town called the Home of God’s Love. The director of this orphanage invited my parents to help them with …