Here are links to some of the ministries and resources that we talk about in the podcast.

www.careportal.org

Home - Sleep in Heavenly Peace (shpbeds.org)

Change a Child's Story™ | Missouri CASA Association (mocasa.org)

Be a Big | Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City (bbbskc.org)

ABOUT US | CORNERSTONES OF CARE | Cornerstones of Care

YWCA St. Joseph - Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women (ywcasj.org)

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Baldy of the Week: Yul Brynner

National Celebration: January 31 - Plan For Vacation Day

We celebrate National Plan for Vacation Day every year on the last Tuesday in January to remind us to plan our vacations and to take time off from work and school. Vacations help people spend some quality time with their family and friends, and it also helps with their mental health. Vacations also lead to an increase in tourism, which ensures a well-functioning economy. This day is important, so stop postponing your vacation and plan to take a few weeks off. Many brands and media houses also take part in this day to help people pick out destinations and provide them with the best travel outfits.

This Day in History: January 31, 1961 Ham the chimpanzee is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2

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National Celebration: January 24, Paul Pitcher Day (United Kingdom)

A very interesting day, Paul Pitcher Day is celebrated annually on January 24 and is observed most peculiarly. The people of Cornwall started this day to celebrate one of the most important events in Christian history — the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. They celebrate by drinking ale and destroying the empty pitchers. They then replace the pitchers with new ones and refill them with ale. This celebration occurs on the eve of the Conversion of St. Paul. The famous hurl of this celebration is “Paul’s Eve, and here’s a heave!”

This Day in History: January 24, 1984 - Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer

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National Celebration: January 17 - Judgment Day

Judgment Day takes place on January 17 every year. Even though it sounds serious, it is a fun holiday that reminds us that we are our own best judges and we don’t have to wait until death to realize our rights and wrongs. All you have to do on Judgment Day is simply take a glance in the mirror and be your own judge. The day is often summed up in a single quote: “Now you don’t have to die to see how you measure up to your deity’s standards. Just look in the mirror, wait for the answer, and go out and give it another shot.” Judgment Day reminds us to be kind and do good even when no one is watching.

This Day in History: January 19, 2013 - Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories

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National Celebration: Peculiar People Day, January 10

This is our opportunity to recognize and celebrate those who refuse to conform to the world’s idea of normal. It is always the people who are termed ‘peculiar’, ‘different’, ‘strange’, or ‘abnormal’ that set the world in motion because they live “out of the box”. They refuse to accept and live by the status quo and have the courage to do and be different. Whenever the world has seen innovation, it has always been the idea and effort of someone who just didn’t accept things as they are. So, let’s honor those uniquely different people on this day.

This Day in History: January 12, 1906 Football rules committee legalizes forward pass

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National Celebration: January 3 - Drinking Straw Day

Drinking Straw Day is celebrated on January 3 every year, the day Marvin Chester was awarded a patent for his innovation, i.e., the paper drinking straw. Imagine a world without straws. Sounds horrible, right? We often don’t realize this, but drinking straws have made our lives a lot easier, allowing us access to the bottom of the juice jar first, where all the good stuff lies. Drinking with a straw is much less messy, and we can take our time sipping leisurely.

HISTORY OF DRINKING STRAW DAY

The earliest form of the drinking straw was used by Ancient Sumerians almost 5,000 years ago. They submerged long and thin metallic tubes into big jars for brewing beer. The tube passed through the fermentation layers to access the liquor at the bottom. These tubes brought the liquid upwards and into the mouth of the Sumerians.

In 1888, Marvin Stone, originally a paper cigarette holder manufacturer, became the first person to file for a drinking straw patent. Before the paper straw, there was the rye straw, and one day, while drinking a mint julep on a summer day, Stone didn’t like the aftertaste of the rye. He also noticed that the straw was beginning to disintegrate because of the liquid. This led him to think of designing a better straw. Stone started by wrapping strips of paper around a pencil and stuck them to it. He realized that these makeshift straws didn’t leave a grassy aftertaste and didn’t disintegrate easily, unlike the rye. Once the design was patented by 1890, his factory Stone Industrial began the commercial production of paper straws.

In the 1930s, bendable straws were invented by Joseph Friedman. Friedman used to watch his daughter struggle to drink her milkshake using the paper straw, so he came up with the bendable straw, in 1937, by adding a screw in the middle to make the straw easy to turn and adjust without breaking. By the 1960s, with the rise of fast food industries, plastic replaced paper because the cost of mass-producing plastic drinking straws was much lower.

This Day in History: Epiphany or Three Kings Day - January 6

Epiphany comes from a Greek word meaning, “showing forth, appearance, manifestation, revelation.” On January 6th we recognize the Manifestation, or revelation, of Christ to the Gentiles—the good news that Jesus revealed God to all people.

Sermon: Seeing Like Simeon - Luke 2:22-40

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National Celebration: December 20, 2022 - Go Caroling Day

Once upon a time, Christmas celebrations wouldn’t have been anything without caroling, and this is exactly what is celebrated on Go Caroling Day on December 20. It’s about nothing else but merrily singing songs from door to door in the spirit of the holiday season. Christmas carols were very popular decades ago, before there was digital entertainment to distract us. As it became more and more uncommon to sing along to carols, Go Caroling Day revives and preserves this classic tradition.

National Celebration: December 21, 2022 - Blue Christmas

Blue Christmas is a Western Christian tradition that happens on or around the longest night of the year, usually December 21 the Winter Solstice. It is about comforting fellow Christians who are grieving and struggling to find joy and hope during the season.

National Celebration: December 21, 2022 - National Cookie Exchange Day

December 22 is National Cookie Exchange Day and the glorious occasion when festively-decorated cookie tins and boxes appear at cookie exchange parties. It’s a classic celebration where the host throws a holiday party for family and friends, to which everyone brings delicious homemade cookies to share around. The toughest decision is which cookies to take. Wintertime classics like thumbprint jam cookies or gingerbread are always festive, but since this day celebrates all cookies, go ahead and add in some funfetti cookies or lemon squares!

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National Celebration: December 14, 2022 - More Good Today Day

More Good Today Day is a special holiday celebrated on December 14 every year in the U.S. The holiday aims to encourage more people to practice kindness and generosity. It reminds people to take the time to think about the people around them and help in any way they can. This day reminds people to focus on the positive things in the world. This holiday is the perfect opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life. A small act of kindness can go a long way in making people’s lives happier.

This Day in History: December 15, 2022 - Francis Drake sets sail from England on an epic three-year circumnavigation of the world aboard the Golden Hind

Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580 (the first English circumnavigation, the second carried out in a single expedition, and the third circumnavigation overall). This included his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, until then an area of exclusive Spanish interest, and his claim to New Albion for England, an area in what is now the U.S. state of California. His expedition inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by Western shipping.

Drake's exploits made him a hero to the English, but his privateering led the Spanish to brand him a pirate, known to them as El Draque. King Philip II of Spain allegedly offered a reward of 20,000 ducats for his capture or death, equivalent to around £7,207,135.56 (or $8,816,416.86 USD) in 2022.

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National Celebration: December 6, 2022 - National Gazpacho Day

Ask anyone what they think of gazpacho, and they’ll say it’s the chilled, more delicate cousin of boring old tomato soup. But it wasn’t always made that way: gazpacho originated in Andalusia, a region of Spain, probably way back in the Middle Ages. Back then it was made out of a combination of stale bread, oil, vinegar, and water all pounded together with a mortar and pestle. At that time, Spain was part of the Islamic world, so the name gazpacho comes from an Arabic word for “soaked bread.”Nowadays, the primary ingredients are tomatoes/tomato juice, bell peppers, and cucumber, which get transformed into soup via a blender (you can use a mortar and pestle if you want to be really traditional about it). We know you’re hungry, so let’s all celebrate National Gazpacho Day this December 6!

This Day in History: December 6, 2022 - 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery

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