Reflections on trip to Tanzania  Jeff France October 20, 2020  It has been several weeks now since our return from Tanzania. When asked, “What was one of your best memories or highlights from your trip?”, this experience always surfaces the most.  Youth With A Mission (YWAM) has a big campus just outside the city of Arusha, then another smaller outpost many miles outside […]

He stayed in his spot. At least as he knew it to be. He looked down the court one way then turned and looked the other from the round circle of lines in the middle where he stood. Big clumps of children who mostly seemed bigger than he was raced up and down the court […]

I recently saw a short segment on a Sunday morning news show (as I was waiting to go to church) that really moved me. The true story goes as follows. There was an elderly couple that had gone months without being able to make their car payments on their 1998 Buick Century. The gentlemen had […]

“The eternal God is your refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms.”  Deuteronomy 33:27 Many times those who are most right are accused of being, or doing wrong; worse still are cases where individuals, deeply established in truth, are diminished or presumed unstable . . . in other words, out of their mind.  Time is […]

Recently our daughter and son-in-law left their 7 month old son Ezekiel with my husband and I to babysit while they went out of town for a few days. Of course I could include many pictures but I’ll spare you with the crazy grandparent behavior. An interesting thing happened. When Ezekiel’s parents excitedly returned home […]

There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something to keep control over its development, and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame. Fruits however, come from weakness and vulnerability. And fruits […]