The other night our Wednesday Bible Study group volunteered at Youth for Christ’s “Rally Point” outreach in Lima. The YFC building is situated in the heart of a quite hardscrabble neighborhood. And kids here, many of them, are in tough … Continue reading
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My son Jonathan and I volunteered at Rally Point, a ” Youth for Christ Outreach” in Lima Wednesday evening. After the meal, we listened to a man from Guatemala give his “testimony.” He was on a trajectory to be a … Continue reading
Wednesday night my son Jonathan and I played basketball under the lights in Lima, Ohio. That didn’t just happen. Several months ago, Jonathan and I volunteered for an evening at a Youth for Christ outreach called Rally Point. Following the … Continue reading
Mexico. The last two years have been the bloodiest to date there. A lot of it is attributable to turf wars between drug cartels. In the ultimate Catch 22, President Andres Manuel Lopez recently created a new National Guard with … Continue reading
photo by Joe While on my Buckeye Back Roads Tour, I stopped at the Apollo Career Center Campus today. Last week I’d interviewed a man who had graduated from a local high school, but his senior year was spent at … Continue reading
photo by Joe [pre-pandemic] This week I wrote a piece for the newspaper on a Youth For Christ (YFC) outreach in a hardscrabble area of Lima, Ohio. This place, as you see here (pre-pandemic), is usually bustling with youth activity, … Continue reading
Catching up on the last couple weeks… Late at night, I’m continuing to review the criteria, from state to state, to be an “official” write-in. Each state’s criteria is different and there is a jumble of protocol to meet (some … Continue reading
new-hope-pc.org photo I just interviewed a local park system “naturalist” who has a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from Iowa University. She said with those in the last two generations becoming increasingly unplugged, so to speak, from nature, many have … Continue reading
I just sat in on a school talk by the Coordinator of the D.A.R.E. Program in our county for a newspaper article. His topic was: “Bullying.” He told the youth there are four forms of bullying: verbal, physical, social and … Continue reading
Catching up yet more on the last couple months… I covered a National Day of Prayer event at Bluffton’s Town Hall for the local newspaper. Christians from all over the town, and nearby towns, converged on the building’s third floor. … Continue reading