How to Plan Your 2012 Charitable Giving

December 26, 2011 By 6 Comments

Planning your charitable giving….sound intimidating?  It needn’t be.  It’s as simple as a conversation….with yourself. Most everyone has a “Holy Discontent” of some kind.  What is a “Holy Discontent“? What is the one aspect of this broken world that, when you see it, touch it, get near it, you just can’t stand? Very likely, that [...]

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How to Teach Our Kids to Serve – 8 Ways to Get Started

October 24, 2011 By 2 Comments
Gotch day 2 2009

“Serving humanity is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.”    ~Kelly Morris 2009 Ethiopia ~ Colin, Trevor and I with Bereket, Epherem and Rahel  Service to others is an important part of family life for the Morristribe.  However, this wasn’t always the case. While I grew up understanding the meaning of hard [...]

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"Kids Against Hunger" feeding the Hungry…in Kenya

August 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I know times are tough and money is tight. If you can give $10 to help feed these folks, it would be very much appreciated. You can donate quick and easy right here. If you can’t give anything right now, that’s ok….please pray.  It really is a matter of life and death. I met a [...]

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Give Back Friday: ONE Million Meals!

March 4, 2011 By 2 Comments

What a fabulous success the Kid’s Against Hunger ~ Million Meal Marathon was! Check out a short clip…. After a quick sandwich dinner, we piled all the kids in the bus, along with one additional teenager friend, and headed for Cincinnati.  Our goal?  To send 1,000,000 meals to Haiti. When we arrived, the place was [...]

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Give Back Friday: Donate and Teach

February 11, 2011 By 9 Comments

   I had the chance to have lunch with my wonderful man this week, he took this picture just as the coffee started to kick in…..Hazelnut coffee on a freezing cold day, ahhhhhhhh.      As the discussion this week has included a number of ways to save money, I want to conclude with a way [...]

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Give Back Friday:Cook for the Elderly

December 17, 2010 By 4 Comments

For the last 15 years or so, I’ve been blessed enough to have a widowed neighbor nearby. I say ‘blessed’ because it is truly a blessing to be reminded everyday of how fragile life is.  It is also a blessing to be reminded that someday I’ll be old (but with good hair!) and in need [...]

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Give Back Friday: Run to Help

December 10, 2010 By 8 Comments

Holidays in 2010 have created a new sense of awareness in me.  The very best gifts to be given or received are not at the malls…you possess them right now. It started in May, as a “Mother’s Day” post directed at the mother of my adopted children was on  my heart.   Her state of life in the [...]

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Orphan Sunday

November 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

  Orphan Sunday PVCC from Brandon Swanner on Vimeo.

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Pack a Box – Change a Heart

November 5, 2010 By 4 Comments

Packing boxes for Operation Christmas Child is an incredible blessing.  Not only does it bless a child somewhere in the world, but it blesses the child who packs it as well. What a precious time with my Mer, age 9 and Isaac, age 6.  We hit the Dollar Store, locating the plastic boxes first.  I [...]

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9 Books That Changed My Life

July 21, 2010 By 20 Comments

Besides being a Presidential trivia dork, I’m also a sucker for motivational quotes.  Here’s a couple of my favs from Charlie “Tremendous” Jones…  “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and  the  books you read.”                   “Leaders are readers.”    With that in mind, I [...]

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