Katherine and I chat about how she began building relationships with refugee women in our community which eventually led to the launch of an educational workforce program, Hope Threads. 

Campus Crusade

Vickery Trading Company

Northridge Bible Chapel

“Of course, we want to pay them fair wages. We want to empower and equip them, but we want them to know Jesus and we want their kids to know Jesus.”

Windblown Jewelry– Rachel Calhoun

“We all can agree we need prayer, we make that a priority every week.”

“Basically, when you say fair wage you’re saying, above minimum wage in a safe environment.”

Documentary: The True Cost 

“You look all through Scripture and what is He [Jesus] doing? He’s meeting with the Samaritan woman and He’s meeting with and healing the leper and He is with those that are on the outside and He’s bringing them in. That was His ministry. When I’m thinking through my life and how I want to be like Christ and I want to be like Jesus, I can follow what He did.”

“Even the word refugee can be very polarizing for people with all of the politics going on right now. I’ll be honest, I don’t sometimes how I feel about that, but what I do know is that they’re here and they’re my neighbor and we are called to love them and to help them and I feel very passionate about that. Again, His entire ministry, Jesus while He was on this earth, was to bring in the outsider.”

Refugee Hope Partners

1. Volunteer in Hope Threads children’s program

Assimilate or Go Home by D.L. Mayfield

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Sam (my husband) and my oldest son join me for the 2019 Gift Guide for women, men and children.  We share gift recommendations in various categories including apparel, outdoor toys, experience ideas, books, jewelry, and more. 

Bennett's Favorite: Money Soap

Zoe's Favorite: Farmer’s Popcorn Cob

• Lego Mini-Figures

• Museum Membership

• The Legend of the Candy Caneby Lori Walburg, illustrated by Richard Cowdrey paired with a Nativity Set

Great age to gift Book Treasuries

• Mike Mulligan and More, A Virginia Lee Burton Treasury

• The Action Bible

• The Way of The Warrior Kidseries by Jocko Willink

Duplo blocks

Picasso Tiles

Legos  (Purchase a set geared toward their interests.  For example, my oldest son got Harry Potter Lego sets. My daughter got gymnastics Lego set. My youngest son got a Cars Lego Junior set)

Games

• Clue

Step 2 Naturally Playful Sand and Water Table

Melissa and Doug Sand Toys

• Sunny Patch Seaside Sidekicks Molding Set of 5 Animal Shapes

Stomp Rockets

Slackers 56’ Ninjaline Intro Kit

Hammock

Nerf Gun

Bubble Gun

Spiderweb Tree Swing

Gift Card Tree

Under Armor Shirt and Socks

Wallet with money clip

Monogrammed Stainless Steel Water Bottle

• Klean Kanteen

Cleaning Bucket filled with car cleaning items and gas gift card

Item for their sport or activity (shoes, money for lessons, racket, balls, leotard, etc.)

• Praying the Scripture for Your Childrenby Jodie Berndt

Audible Subscription

Set up free Libby Library App

House Cleaning Gift Certificate

Axe Throwing

Couples Overnight

Kayak Trip

100% Pure Sugar Scrub

The Right to Shower Body Wash and Soap

Gillette Fusion Pro-Shield Razor

Ruby’s Rubbish Graphic Tees

The Root Collective Boots

APPAREL: Men

Socks (DivvyUp!is a favorite)

Fleece

Boots

Dyson V8 Handheld Vacuum

HOUSEHOLD: Men 35:27

Chop Saw

Dewalt 20 V Battery Drill

K4 Kregs Jig

Miter Saw

Gabi’s Grounds Coffee

FOOD: Men 38:22

Beef Jerky (ex.Mingua)

Smoker  (ex. The Green Egg)

Designed for Joy Leather Earrings

• Grace Enough Podcast EP. 4: Cary Heise

Hope-Threads Mulit-Color Pendant Earrings

• Grace Enough Podcast EP. 47: Katharine Jackson

MVMT Watch

Garmin GPS Watch

Photo Calendar

Subscription Box

• Harry and David

Make a Donation in Honor of the Gift Recipient (ex. World Vision)

Plan an experience with the gift recipient

The Great Divorceby C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Lettersby C.S. Lewis

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Sam (my husband) and my oldest son join me for the 2019 Gift Guide for women, men and children.  We share gift recommendations in various categories including apparel, outdoor toys, experience ideas, books, jewelry, and more. 

Bennett's Favorite: Money Soap

Zoe's Favorite: Farmer’s Popcorn Cob

• Lego Mini-Figures

• Museum Membership

• The Legend of the Candy Caneby Lori Walburg, illustrated by Richard Cowdrey paired with a Nativity Set

Great age to gift Book Treasuries

• Mike Mulligan and More, A Virginia Lee Burton Treasury

• The Action Bible

• The Way of The Warrior Kidseries by Jocko Willink

Duplo blocks

Picasso Tiles

Legos  (Purchase a set geared toward their interests.  For example, my oldest son got Harry Potter Lego sets. My daughter got gymnastics Lego set. My youngest son got a Cars Lego Junior set)

Games

• Clue

Step 2 Naturally Playful Sand and Water Table

Melissa and Doug Sand Toys

• Sunny Patch Seaside Sidekicks Molding Set of 5 Animal Shapes

Stomp Rockets

Slackers 56’ Ninjaline Intro Kit

Hammock

Nerf Gun

Bubble Gun

Spiderweb Tree Swing

Gift Card Tree

Under Armor Shirt and Socks

Wallet with money clip

Monogrammed Stainless Steel Water Bottle

• Klean Kanteen

Cleaning Bucket filled with car cleaning items and gas gift card

Item for their sport or activity (shoes, money for lessons, racket, balls, leotard, etc.)

• Praying the Scripture for Your Childrenby Jodie Berndt

Audible Subscription

Set up free Libby Library App

House Cleaning Gift Certificate

Axe Throwing

Couples Overnight

Kayak Trip

100% Pure Sugar Scrub

The Right to Shower Body Wash and Soap

Gillette Fusion Pro-Shield Razor

Ruby’s Rubbish Graphic Tees

The Root Collective Boots

APPAREL: Men

Socks (DivvyUp!is a favorite)

Fleece

Boots

Dyson V8 Handheld Vacuum

HOUSEHOLD: Men 35:27

Chop Saw

Dewalt 20 V Battery Drill

K4 Kregs Jig

Miter Saw

Gabi’s Grounds Coffee

FOOD: Men 38:22

Beef Jerky (ex.Mingua)

Smoker  (ex. The Green Egg)

Designed for Joy Leather Earrings

• Grace Enough Podcast EP. 4: Cary Heise

Hope-Threads Mulit-Color Pendant Earrings

• Grace Enough Podcast EP. 47: Katharine Jackson

MVMT Watch

Garmin GPS Watch

Photo Calendar

Subscription Box

• Harry and David

Make a Donation in Honor of the Gift Recipient (ex. World Vision)

Plan an experience with the gift recipient

The Great Divorceby C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Lettersby C.S. Lewis

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"When Christ reached out to me and gave me faith to believe my life was radically changed.  His love filled me to the point that His love overflowed to my children."

7:50 Bible Study Fellowship

"When I first started reading the Bible I thought  I would open it up and I would hear God telling what I needed to do. It was only as I began to study the Word of God that I realized that the Bible is His voice lovingly directing me to know Him."

"When God calls you to something, as you well know, it is often out of your inadequacy that He says, 'Step forward with me in faith to do this and I will show you that I am trustworthy. It's not about what you're bringing to me. It's about what I will give to you.' As I depended on Him, I experienced His power doing in me and through me what He had called me to do."

Barbara originally wrote devotional's and books for her grandchildren while she was living in South Africa.

Bible Study Fellowship Easter and Christmas helps for children

"Christmas promises us so much more joy and deeper, lasting truth than tradition ever could."

"Advent is important because it's another time for parents to pass along the great truths of the gospel and to know God's Word has the power to change kid's lives."

A Jesus Christmas: Explore God's Amazing Plan For Christmas

16:09 Barbara shares some practical, non-stressful ways to participate in advent as a family.

"Jesus is the Prince of Peace....He ushers peace into our hearts as we make Him central in our family's life."

"Keep it simple. Keep Christ central in a simple way. It will be far from simplistic. It will just be simple in terms of time and activity."

"We step into the area of trying to make the tradition the main thing instead of keeping Christ central. There's lots of ways to keep Christ central other than sticking to a particular time and method. Don't make it about the method or the system or the tradition. Make it about Christ."

Layer the information.

"Our children will not understand all of that, but we can try to connect those truths to their world in something they do know." Example: Waiting for a sibling to be born.  Waiting for their birthday.

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"When Christ reached out to me and gave me faith to believe my life was radically changed.  His love filled me to the point that His love overflowed to my children."

7:50 Bible Study Fellowship

"When I first started reading the Bible I thought  I would open it up and I would hear God telling what I needed to do. It was only as I began to study the Word of God that I realized that the Bible is His voice lovingly directing me to know Him."

"When God calls you to something, as you well know, it is often out of your inadequacy that He says, 'Step forward with me in faith to do this and I will show you that I am trustworthy. It's not about what you're bringing to me. It's about what I will give to you.' As I depended on Him, I experienced His power doing in me and through me what He had called me to do."

Barbara originally wrote devotional's and books for her grandchildren while she was living in South Africa.

• Why Christmas?

Bible Study Fellowship Easter and Christmas helps for children

"Christmas promises us so much more joy and deeper, lasting truth than tradition ever could."

"Advent is important because it's another time for parents to pass along the great truths of the gospel and to know God's Word has the power to change kid's lives."

A Jesus Christmas: Explore God's Amazing Plan For Christmas

16:09 Barbara shares some practical, non-stressful ways to participate in advent as a family.

"Jesus is the Prince of Peace....He ushers peace into our hearts as we make Him central in our family's life."

"Keep it simple. Keep Christ central in a simple way. It will be far from simplistic. It will just be simple in terms of time and activity."

"We step into the area of trying to make the tradition the main thing instead of keeping Christ central. There's lots of ways to keep Christ central other than sticking to a particular time and method. Don't make it about the method or the system or the tradition. Make it about Christ."

Layer the information.

"Our children will not understand all of that, but we can try to connect those truths to their world in something they do know." Example: Waiting for a sibling to be born.  Waiting for their birthday.

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Rebekah and I chat about what her Christian life was like when it was legalistic driven vs. Bible and grace driven.  We chat about reading Scripture in context and allow Scripture to interpret Scripture. We also chat about some red flags of Christian legalism.

Titus 2: 4-5

Situational ethics can be easy to fall into as a child or new believer.

Deut. 22:5

"I took it personally that my parents were not on board...It was almost a security issue for me. I was basing my identity, my security, and who I was in these beliefs that I thought were thoroughly Biblical."

"I was a Pharisee...I would take something that may have been a principle...and I would add to it all sorts of additional requirements."

It was the light of Christ in another girl whose clothes did not measure up to her idea of Biblical dress.

"I would ignore the passage about Deborah."

"I got to the point where I would rather know what the whole cannon of Scripture says and be willing to embrace all of it and allow Scripture to interpret Scripture and be open to whatever it said and allow me then to have to be changed (which is painful, but it's worth it)."

Examples like Huldah the prophetess

"You have, maybe, a good intention, but you have become so afraid of doing something wrong, that you add all these extra parameters, all these extra barriers to keep you from that. Boundaries are good, but if you make those into law and force them on everybody else, act as if they're what the Bible says, then you have trouble. It was a thing of fear, because I wanted to honor God, but I couldn't just rest in what the Bible actually said believing that if God has not laid down a command in this area, apparently it's okay for there to not be a command....I couldn't rest in that. I had to add to it in order to feel okay, to feel better, to feel safe, and it became a thing where looking back on it, I thought I knew better than God."

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Rebekah and I chat about what her Christian life was like when it was legalistic driven vs. Bible and grace driven.  We chat about reading Scripture in context and allow Scripture to interpret Scripture. We also chat about some red flags of Christian legalism.

Titus 2: 4-5

Situational ethics can be easy to fall into as a child or new believer.

Deut. 22:5

"I took it personally that my parents were not on board...It was almost a security issue for me. I was basing my identity, my security, and who I was in these beliefs that I thought were thoroughly Biblical."

"I was a Pharisee...I would take something that may have been a principle...and I would add to it all sorts of additional requirements."

It was the light of Christ in another girl whose clothes did not measure up to her idea of Biblical dress.

"I would ignore the passage about Deborah."

"I got to the point where I would rather know what the whole cannon of Scripture says and be willing to embrace all of it and allow Scripture to interpret Scripture and be open to whatever it said and allow me then to have to be changed (which is painful, but it's worth it)."

Examples like Huldah the prophetess

"You have, maybe, a good intention, but you have become so afraid of doing something wrong, that you add all these extra parameters, all these extra barriers to keep you from that. Boundaries are good, but if you make those into law and force them on everybody else, act as if they're what the Bible says, then you have trouble. It was a thing of fear, because I wanted to honor God, but I couldn't just rest in what the Bible actually said believing that if God has not laid down a command in this area, apparently it's okay for there to not be a command....I couldn't rest in that. I had to add to it in order to feel okay, to feel better, to feel safe, and it became a thing where looking back on it, I thought I knew better than God."

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Danielle introduces herself and shares about working with Somali Bantu Refugees in Portland, OR while she was attending Bible College.

"That experience changed my life and it upended the way I saw the world...I really had to address these two basic questions: Is my religion really good news for people who aren't just like me?...The second, is my country good news for someone who isn't exactly like me?...That is, sort of, where my life has taken me, since I was 19, on this journey with God trying to ask those questions and having my life be changed mostly by refugee communities here in the U.S." 

"I have been working in refugee communities now for almost 15 years and I have failed to convert anyone to be just like me.  I'm a white, evangelical, middle class American woman and nobody has turned out just like me."

"Then, I was like, now what? In my classes I was never taught what to do when people were like thank you, but no. I sort of had the impression that you are supposed to move on. You are supposed to go find other people. You are supposed to keep going and try to find the ones that will convert and instead I felt God say, 'I want you to stick around. I don't want you to go anywhere'."

Catholic Charities

Study how Jesus did His own ministry to further understand the Kingdom of God.

Luke 4

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Danielle introduces herself and shares about working with Somali Bantu Refugees in Portland, OR while she was attending Bible College.

"That experience changed my life and it upended the way I saw the world...I really had to address these two basic questions: Is my religion really good news for people who aren't just like me?...The second, is my country good news for someone who isn't exactly like me?...That is, sort of, where my life has taken me, since I was 19, on this journey with God trying to ask those questions and having my life be changed mostly by refugee communities here in the U.S." 

"I have been working in refugee communities now for almost 15 years and I have failed to convert anyone to be just like me.  I'm a white, evangelical, middle class American woman and nobody has turned out just like me."

"Then, I was like, now what? In my classes I was never taught what to do when people were like thank you, but no. I sort of had the impression that you are supposed to move on. You are supposed to go find other people. You are supposed to keep going and try to find the ones that will convert and instead I felt God say, 'I want you to stick around. I don't want you to go anywhere'."

Catholic Charities

Study how Jesus did His own ministry to further understand the Kingdom of God.

Luke 4

• Proclaim good news to the poor

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Brandy and I chat about her extra marital affair and the work God has done in her life during the past 10 years since the affair ended. We chat about the unrealistic expectations we often put on our spouse, destructive behavior we use to numb ourselves, the Christlike invitation from her husband, and pressing in to recovery work.

6:08 Brandy shares how her faith journey with Jesus began

10:07 Brandy shares how she and Matt met.  She talks about the early years of their marriage

Youth With a Mission (YWAM)

"When God is pursuing you, you can not outrun Him...but I sure tried."

"We got married in 1995 and I expected that everything from that point on was going to be exactly as I had planned...We're going to have 2 kids. We're going to have a cat and a dog. a white picket fence and he's going to be the spiritual leader and I'm going to be the Donna Reid type of wife....and that is 100% not what happened."

16:45 Brandy shares some of the warning signs in her personal life and in marriage that she can now see were precursors to her extramarital affair 

It boils down to unrealistic expectations..."I had the notion somehow that Matt would be able to meet all my needs."

Brandy is an enneagram 4- "I need a ton of validation."  Matt is anenneagram 5.  "He is very much a thinker."

"I don't fault myself for having those needs, but I fault myself very much for where I was looking for those needs to be filled."

20:09 Brandy shares about how the affair began.  We chat a little about the danger of thinking, "It will never happen to me."

Every Young Woman's Battle

Every Young Man's Battle

"One day a door opened and we both just decided to walk through it.  And it wasn't anything either of us had planned. It wasn't anything we had set out to do, but it was definitely something...we had both imagined or fancied or fantasized about for years." 

23:55 Brandy shares her thought process and ideas about God while involved in the affair

"I was running so far from God....Our marriage looked like it was doing fine. Anybody on the outside would have said our marriage was good. And the whole time I am thinking, 'I am living a complete double life, but if God didn't want this to be happening, then why would He allow all of these opportunities for us to keep getting together. He wouldn't allow it, if He didn't want it to be happening. 'So it was the most bizarre justification you can possibly imagine, because I knew God wasn't approving of this relationship, but it didn't seem like He was closing the doors to it either and for some reason that seemed logical to me."

27:30 Brandy shares about when the affair was exposed

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