Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
On Christmas Eve morning, a long-time family friend lost her battle with cancer and went to be with the Lord. She and her husband had been involved in ministry for many years.
At her funeral service the pastor challenged each of us to live our lives with eternity in focus. As ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
In 1976 someone gave me a ticket to attend the first NFL football game the Seattle Seahawks ever played. Being from the Northwest, I have been a Seahawks fan ever since.
After we moved to Springfield, Missouri, I took my children, Matt and Debbie, to Kansas City two or three times ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
My mother, retired missionary Ruby Wilkie, is visiting with us for the holidays from her home near Seattle.
She is active in her local church leading a women’s Bible study and working in other ways. For the past 13 years she has volunteered at her local public elementary school assisting the ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
In my parents’ early days on the mission field, my father, Earl Wilkie, sometimes rode on horseback in his travels around El Salvador. He preached to one group of people at a time. He taught in Bible schools with mimeographed notes and few or no textbooks. He wrote his missionary ...
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