Dayo Benjamins-Laniyi Responds to Young Women Theme
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Meeting Drought With Abundance Part 3
In the first part of this series, Alicia described the drought facing her rural community and started explaining her personal journey of reframing to move from a mindset of drought to one of abundance. In the second part of this series, Alicia shared how prayer and scripture study has helped as she has worked to…
Meeting Drought With Abundance Part 2
In the first part of this series, Alicia described the drought facing her rural community and started explaining her personal journey of reframing to move from a mindset of drought to one of abundance. I love God and prayed many times to him with the deep concerns in my heart about money. I have the…
Meeting Drought With Abundance Part 1
June 28, 2018 Yesterday I woke up in the middle of the night. Insomnia. I was awake and worrying about drought. The local water board asked all of the church congregations in our area to talk about water cutback issues due to drought. Bishop Watson is a man of few words, a traditional sheep farmer,…
Meet Big Ocean: Jennette Jenkins
On any warm morning almost year-round, you could possibly find Jennette Jenkins hiking in the hills around Gilbert, Arizona. Jennette loves to be outside, and describes herself as athletic and enthusiastic. “I feel like I was blessed with a strong body, and I try to take advantage of that. I play basketball several times a…
Religious Freedom and Personal Faith
We believe in God, and our faith in a higher power grounds us in hope for a better world. We understand that our faith allows us the internal power and influence to effectively impact our external surroundings and world. It gives us a mentality of abundance (unity, purpose, and a positive outlook etc.) as we…
Ko Netzler: A Woman with Faith Undaunted
Ko Netzler beams from her hospital bed in the humble bedroom where she has spent most her days for the past 15 years. Surviving a car accident that she did not cause left her body partially paralyzed, but her soul and her faith suffered no lasting ill effects. Family and friends stop by hoping to…
Kathleen Peterson – Artist for Faith
In 1996, artist Kathleen Peterson and religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack embarked on a project to create a children’s book about world religions. In the early stages of the project they recognized a gap in children’s books on world religions. Those books that included non-Christian faiths would lump together all of the Christian denominations, whereas…
Freedom of Religion Scholarly Articles
Resources on Freedom of Religion I recently read several articles about freedom of religion and pulled important references and quotes from them to share with Big Ocean Cottage Leaders as part of our January 2017 campaign. Hope some of these are helpful to you as you plan your cottage discussion. -Alicia Moulton Big Ocean…