News & Insights

It's amazing when the ministry we love intertwines with our daily lives. I've asked our very own Lee Ann Jackson to share a little about what's new for her youngest daughter, Rebecca:

There is nothing like a new book to get my heart pitter-pattering . . . the anticipation of a thought-provoking book that you just can't put down.

But what if you're 9 years old?

Yes, there are good enough books about adventures, school antics and even some with good enough pictures.  But, a 9 year old reading a book she can't put down? 

Every fall ...

Wood you find the connection between these ten clues?

1 - Go ahead, make my day.

2 - Wooden territory

3 - Hooray for it

4 - Beach-combing find

5 - Summer home of the BSO

6 - Guthrie's starting point

7 - Robin's forest

8 - Neatly-trimmed hedges

9 - Whistle-blower of the nuclear kind

10 - Wild Bill's RIP

When you're ready, wood you send an email to Peggy with your best guesses?

What do you love about Fall?  For the October edition of our Update newsletter, we asked broadcasting and ministry friends to share their favorites.  Take a look and tell us what you love about Fall!

Fall will always be special as it was a Michigan Fall, some 33 years ago, that I took who is now my wife Vicky on a great afternoon date of photography, capturing all of the great Fall colors.  Not long after that, I proposed.  Now, there is a busy life with our kids, grandchildren, church life and our businesses but, not a Fall goes by ...

Word: Called 

Part of Speech: Verb 

Definition: Demand or announce action

Synonyms: appoint, challenge, charge, command, declare, elect, ordain, proclaim, require, set apart, summon. 

"I believe I'm following what God called me to do." Anne Graham Lotz-as shared in recent Christian Post article (read more here.)

When I sit in my Sunday School Class and hear the contemplative answers and discussion about Anne's Into the Word Study, I'm thrilled that we're learning so much about God's Word!

When I read I Saw the Lord, I marked sections and pages of what Anne shared regarding ...

We beg your pardon, but we think you'll be clever enough to decipher these ten items:

1-Adam & Eve's original address

2-Yellow-banded desirable  

3-Schuller-ville  

4-HCJB Global neighbor  

5-Victoria's glory  

6-Shhhh, per Frances Hodgson Burnett  

7-Skiers / Day of Discovery  

8-NYC icon  

9-Babylon's claim to fame  

10-"Ya can't please everyone so ya got to please yourself" ... guess Ricky wasn't versed in Scripture!

We'll promise to let you know how you did...just email Peggy with your answers!

It hasn’t gone away.  We haven’t been able to spend our way out of this “Great Recession.”   No one seems to know what to do.  You can watch the presidential candidates debate back and forth about ways to fix the mess we are in, but I’m not sold that any of their plans will work.  One thing they all agree on is something has to be done…but the economy is so big, the dollar numbers so difficult to wrap your head around, and the red tape so thick it seems that only some yet to be ...