A Child … is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to those things which you think are important. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they will be carried out depends on him. He will assume control of your cities, states, and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations. All your books are going to be judged or condemned by him. The fate of humanity is in.....

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the kind of clothes I wore, but the world may be much different because I was important in the life of a child...

Teach me the songs of your truth oh Lord, that I may hear fruit in you. Open to me the music of your holy spirit that with every note I may praise you. Out of your abundant kindness grant me this for you are sufficient for all our needs. Alleluia from odes of Solomon 2nd century..

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten, and you'll always be what you've always been!..

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see...

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares...

And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. Isaiah 32:17..

We cried tears when we learned that a child would be that your God had allowed you to quicken in me. We cried tears with our loved ones as they shared our joy and we thought about names for a girl or a boy. I cried tears as I thought of the things that we would do, all the things that your Daddy would pass on to you. And I cries as I thought if each inch you had grown, as I pondered the day you’d make yourself known. Then to think of the world you must enter brought fears......

Someone once told me to be the light. I couldn't until I let go of the darkness. - Bob Perks..

Poster: We make peace, inside…outside…all around, How about YOU?..

We are not weak, if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power . . . The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry..

You can only become what you believe yourself capable of becoming. - Bob Perks..

Wanting is the seed of dreams. Believing is the nourishment that makes them possible. - Bob Perks..

Too low they build who build beneath the stars...

Awareness of GodWe acknowledge the primacy of God.To look for God in the ordinary events of each day.“We believe that the divine presence is everywhere.” RB 19.1ModerationWe are committed to practicing simplicity and frugality.To be content with living simply and finding balance in work, prayer and leisure.“All things in moderation.” RB 48.9HospitalityWe practice hospitality and respect for all persons.To offer warmth, acceptance and joy in welcoming others.“Let all . . . be received as Christ.” RB 53.1Dignity of WorkWe are committed to the stability of place.To appreciate the dignity of work in God’s creation.“…that they live by the labor of.....