Candy Gibbs

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Strength

August 30, 2018 • Community, Parenting, Teens

Strength is the physical power to carry out demanding tasks; emotional toughness: the necessary qualities required to deal with stressful or painful situations; and a source of strength or support. Another definition I read said, “the power to resist attack.” …


Fall, Football and The Walk

August 27, 2018 • Announcements, Community, Pro-Life Events

Fall, football and, you guessed it…the Walk for Life are all in the air! I am praying for you and your families as children and grandchildren head back to school. May the Father show them favor and allow them influence with…


TIME

August 23, 2018 • Community, Parenting, Teens

As I think back over my 40 + years of living…I realize that I have missed so much of it. I remember being a very little girl and being so excited that I would soon start school. I remember anxiously…


Warning- The Momo Challenge

August 17, 2018 • Ministries, Parenting, Teens

** Warning: the picture associated with this link is disturbing.** Well as the new school year begins, we have our first warning to post for all of you parents. https://abc7amarillo.com/news/nation-world/teens-target-of-suicide-challenge-spreading-on-social-media This newest evil attack on your children is called the…


Back to School

August 15, 2018 • Community, Parenting, Teens

“And Jesus came and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit,…


Honest Hard Work

August 7, 2018 • Community, Parenting, Teens

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 Summertime is a crazy time. I know in our home we anticipate sleeping in and the…


The High Places

July 30, 2018 • Community, Ministries, Women's Events

My family and I love the mountains. As a child, my grandparents had a cabin in New Mexico and my favorite thing was to pull into the mountains late on a Friday night. The smell, the stars and knowing that…


Live. Laugh. Love.

July 10, 2018 • Community, Ministries, Parenting

So what are some of the things we are doing “right”?  I asked my friend, Ana Hoeksema, to be thinking about that and she came up with some great thoughts… LIVE: Have you seen those cute wooden signs all over…


Kindness

June 22, 2018 • Community, Parenting, Teen Events

Oftentimes we say to our kids, “you should be kind… show her some kindness… can you please be kind to your little brother?”  But it is my prayer that we will begin to teach them in practical ways how to…


Be Smart

June 8, 2018 • Parenting

Have you heard the story about the little girl who ordered herself a $170 dollhouse and four pounds of cookies using the Amazon Echo!?  It’s just too easy to say “Ok, Google…is it going to rain today?” or “Alexa…I’m in…

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