Posted on April 12, 2009 by jimkane
Today Easter Worship at the First Church of God in Kendallville was led by the 25 or so kids and teens as they did 3 One Act plays under the title of ‘It’s Friday But Sunday’s Coming.’
My wife has been our ‘unpaid’ childrens’ pastor for most our eight and one-half years here. It is her [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by jimkane
Being Holy Week, I am more focused and aware of spiritual issues and dynamics that perhaps at any time except Advent and Christmas.
As such, a couple of thoughts from others have prompted my thinking and writing today about the God I believe loves us and cares for us dearly and deeply and, because of [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2009 by jimkane
Hi everyone! I fully intended to post much sooner but it has been a very busy couple of weeks. This is a big weekend in our household as my oldest is in the local middle school musical this weekend, ‘Teens in Tinseltown.’ So practices have increased along with homework and then you add in my [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2009 by jimkane
Time magazine published a story about the challenges of rural pastors in their January 29, 2009 issue and it can be found here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1874843,00.html
I wrote something in my last post about this article but had not read it until last week.
I have been a rural/small town pastor for nearly 8 and 1/2 years now and [...]
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