Sometime during the 105-day Winter War in Finland, but before the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 12, 1940, my wife’s mother, Anna-Liisa Kumpulainen, fled for her life; as did just about everyone from her hometown. “The Russians were coming!” to take over her beloved Viipuri and all of the Karelian Isthmus. 400,000 … [Read more…]
Someone once asked John Wanamaker, “How do you have time to conduct a Sunday School program for 4,000 scholars, when you’ve got two large department stores to run, oversee the nation’s postal system as our US Postmaster-General, while also performing many humani-tarian and civic duties?” Mr. Wanamaker simply replied, “Sunday School is my business! All … [Read more…]
Everybody knows what husbands ought to do for Valentine’s Day. We either wrap up a box of Godiva chocolates, or arrange a dozen roses, or wine and dine our sweetheart at her favorite restaurant. And really good husbands do all three. I’ll pick this up again later – I need to run to the florist … [Read more…]
We are starting off this year with a Praise & Projection Service. Our Praise Band will lead us in several praise songs; and our elders, in a panel form, will project where we pray we will be and become in 2018. If you do not have a church you call your “Home,” then why not … [Read more…]
Joan was my older brother’s good friend way back at our home church. Now Joan had dated some of the guys from our youth group during her late teens thru her mid-20’s; but she never heard those words she so longed to hear, “Will you marry me?” She went on to date some other guys … [Read more…]
