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Posted on February 5, 2014
An Answer for the Pain
She approached tentatively from the back of the room where my team was leading a workshop about our special needs friendly VBS. When she reached me she excitedly said, “I didn’t know you had been a part of this VBS! I was in your special needs workshop this morning about…
Posted on December 17, 2013
Stealing Jesus
This is a piece our Executive Director, Vangie Rodenbeck, wrote a few years ago at Christmas. It is a reflection on disability, the spirit of the holiday season, and our reaction to hardship as believers in Emmanuel – God with us. Living day to day on the “autism spectrum”…
Posted on November 27, 2013
Come and Die
Read one PURE mom’s reflections on how her son understood his decision to be baptized. We have been talking with Noah for years about baptism. We probably started when he was about eight or nine years of age. All the rest of the kids his age were starting to make…
Posted on November 22, 2013
The Great Banquet
When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed are those who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.” Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of the banquet he…
