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Dear Dave,
I pastor a small church that is
debt-free. I’d like for us to save
an emergency fund for the
church, but I’m not sure what
would be considered an expense.
Investing in youth’s work ethic
QUESTION: Erin in Indiana
has three daughters, and one of
them is in 4-H. The cost of the
animals is expensive. Should Erin
have her daughter help pay for
this hobby somehow?
ANSWER: This is an expen-
Dustin Peden
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The church’s emergency fund
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Dear Jason,
I don’t really have a problem
with condos as paid-for investments. I own a couple of them
myself. When it comes to making
this kind of investment for the
first time, however, I would
advise that you keep a few things
in mind.
Based on equal price and
equal neighborhood, the average
single-family home will probably
increase more in value over the
years. Now, a nice, well-placed
condo will obviously go up in
value faster than a traditional
house in a lesser neighborhood.
So speaking in an overall sense,
they’re not bad investments if
you do your homework.
You have to think about what
you’re getting into and also take
into consideration a number of
variables. What are the HOA dues
or condo fees going to be? Is the
condo association being managed
well? That and the neighborhood
are the two biggest concerns I
have when buying a condo. A lot
of condo associations are very
poorly managed. And if they
Dear David,
In terms of mathematics, I
would advise looking at it the
same way you would a small
business. The goal, first and foremost, is to keep the doors open in
case something bad happens. The
secondary goal could be to pay
bills on time for the sake of the
church’s reputation, and the third
goal would be to do all this without putting a strain on the organization. In business, we would call
this fund “retained earnings.”
Technically, a church doesn’t
have earnings, but they do have
income. You’ll want to retain
some of that on a regular monthly
basis.
For a church, basic things like
payroll, utilities, insurance and
taxes would need to be covered
under an emergency fund. Coffee
and donuts, new hymnals, and
mission trips aren’t necessities.
You should already be running a
monthly and annual budget on the
church, so separate the necessities
per month and multiply that by a
three to six month figure.
There’s a huge level of wisdom involved in a church being
debt-free. Congratulations!
— Dave
sive game we’re playing. You
kind of primed the pump and got
it started, but each year, the animal rolls over. We can roll over
into another animal, she rolls that
back in, and then at the end of the
day after this goes on for a few
years, she may have some pretty
substantial profits tied up in these
animals that she’ll get out at the
last time she sells them through.
You’ll get your initial investment
back then.
You can afford the $5,000.
This is $5,000 on this instead of
$5,000 on competitive cheerleading, and there’s a chance on this
you break even and you won’t on
competitive cheerleading.
I taught mine work ethic for a
lot less than this. There’s a lot of
ways to do it. You can just buy
animals. You don’t even have to
go through all this other stuff, and
you can roll the animals over
once a year and actually make
money just farming, in a sense.
In these situations, if there’s
big dollars coming out of this
profit, so to speak, it’s going to
be rolled back into the project
until the project comes out, and
that includes setting some money
aside for feed and for vet bills
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Dear Dave,
I know when it comes to
investing you like mutual funds
and paid-for real estate. What do
you think about using condominiums as investment properties
instead of single-family homes?
Jason
Can you help?
David
ReTURn SeRviCe Req.
STD #4
Research efore buying a condo
don’t provide proper maintenance
or keep a certain percentage of
the complex owner-occupied versus rental, the condo association
or complex can lose the ability to
get normal permanent financing.
If they can’t get FHA, VA or conventional financing, the values
are going to drop like a rock —
because you’ve only got cash
buyers and investment buyers at
that point.
Research on these kinds of
things doesn’t take an awful lot of
work. Just call the management
company, and the realtor who’s
involved if it’s listed, and ask for
the documentation. Most of the
time this sort of stuff is public
information, so it’s not hard to
access. Some other questions you
might ask are: What are the
reserves for the roof? What are
the reserves for paint and the
parking lot? Are they collecting
enough to pay their bills, and are
they actually paying their bills?
Then you start looking at things
from a buyer’s perspective.
Would I want to live in here and
have my wife and children here?
Would a normal, reasonable person want to live here? If the
answers are yes, then you’ve
probably got a good, solid condo
complex.
— Dave
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and whatever else we’ve got to
do because you’re running a business when you’re running livestock—or at least hypothetically
you are. You should be.
That’s how I would do it, and
that’s how we did it when our
kids were running businesses
themselves. Our kids had a snack
business, and I bought the initial
run of the snacks and put them in,
but they did the restock of their
inventory out of their cash flow
and out of their profits. They had
to keep up with cost of goods
sold versus what they were selling it for, what the net profits
were, and make sure they set
money aside to be able to buy the
next round when they went over
to Sam’s or Costco or wherever
and loaded up on the restocking
snack business. is part of this lesson.
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Forgive me if I get a little personal here. Trying to keep up
with the volleys between attorneys assisting with the frequency
change enough to offer SOME
leadership has left me a little
bedraggled. God was working,
though, the night of the KCMI
Listener Appreciation Banquet.
Having turned over some of the
responsibilities to the staff and
emcee Chris Smith, I knew that
we were in good hands, as God is
faithful.
Many of you can relate that
when we are incapable, God is
more than capable. He always is,
even when we don’t realize it.
Psalm 18 begins, “I love Thee, O
LORD, my strength.” The
LORD is my rock and my
fortress and my deliverer, My
God, my rock, in whom I take
refuge; My shield and the horn
of my salvation, my stronghold.
During a somewhat emotional
ministry update, a group of pastors and friends of KCMI led by
Pastors Jake Roberts and Mark
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great detail. Most of you know
the challenge for the 96.9 frequency began nearly nine years
ago, when a large broadcasting
company from out-of-state needed a frequency to fit into the
nearly saturated Front Range FM
radio market. The CMI board
resisted due to the real possibility
of a shrinking coverage area
accompanying a KCMI change,
translating into loss of listeners.
For years we were able to remain,
as we waited on the FCC or the
other company.
Plans are in place for KCMI
to change to 97.1 FM in May.
Why? The turning point really
came in 2009, when the FCC
ruled that we must change. The
CMI board appealed, and after
three years of consideration, we
again were denied. Since then it
has been a matter of waiting and
trying to make arrangements for
our frequency change expenses to
be covered by the other company
as is standard. We have encountered great resistance in making
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in March. almquist announced the need for prayer for patience,
persistance, and provision as KCMi would be making a change
to its frequency neccesitated by a Federal Communications
Commission mandate.
those arrangements, so a turnabout is needed, which would
make God’s promises seem even
more real and remarkable. He is
faithful! In agreement with David
in Psalm 16, I have set the
LORD continually before me;
Because He is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.
The permit needed to make
the change was granted in
January. Now it’s time to move
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Phillips took the initiative to pray
for me and the station. I heard the
phrase “We’ve got your back”
more than once. How encouraging that supportive prayer was to
me personally and to the friends
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SCOTTSBLUFF—The 19th
annual CMI Missions Walk will
be held Saturday, May 7 in
Scottsbluff. The event will begin
at 8:00 a.m. at the east end of the
Monument Valley Pathways by
the YMCA parking lot.
Participants can walk three, six
or nine miles for a friend or family member committed to sharing
the gospel through long-term
missions or on behalf of someone
who will be ministering through a
short term missions trip.
The goal is to bring awareness
to the needs of missionaries and
provide an opportunity to do
something tangible to help meet
the needs of missionaries.
Others walk to help raise money
for a specific missions project or
ministry. As a reminder, all
money (100%) raised by each
participant will go to the missionary or project of their choice. In
the past, thousands of dollars
have gone to missions organizations through this event.
Stop by the CMI office at 209
East 15th Street in Scottsbluff for
a pledge sheet. Have your pastor
sign the sheet and collect your
sponsors then join us Saturday,
May 7. For more information call
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REDINGTON—Camp Rock is
ready to help area youth make an
IMPACT this summer. Camp
director Art DeVos has been
working for months preparing for
hundreds of children and teens
seeking for summer fun and faith.
DeVos said he is excited for the
season ahead.
“God has been so good. He
has blessed us as we have kept
our priorities in line—keeping
Christ at the center and focus on
having a real impact on lives
through Christ,” DeVos said.
As of late April, DeVos said
overall camp enrollment is running three times ahead of numbers a year ago.
“We currently have 210
campers signed up. Last year at
this same time we had 75.”
Camp Rock offers several
camps throughout the summer for
youth in grades K through 12.
The first camp session begins
June 3-10 with Mission Week, a
venture with camp staff and teens
to Preston, ID for a mission service experience. Regular week
camp sessions, held at the Camp
Rock facilities in Redington,
begin June 20 and run through
the first week of August.
Each camp offers a traditional
summer camp experience with
games, activities, cabin bunks,
chapel, bible lessons and devotions, food, and lots of fun and
new friendships. Camp Rock’s
focus is keep camp affordable,
with prices ranging from $110 to
$275. DeVos said the camp
capacity is also kept to a limit of
about 45 youth per camp session
in order to operate at a ratio good
for quality and safety.
Both sessions of Discovery
Camp for K-2nd graders are
already full. DeVos said next year
he hopes to schedule a third session to accommodate more
campers in that age group. Junior
(grades 3rd-4th), Intermediate
(5th-6th), Core (7th-10th), and
Mission Week (9th-12th) camps
are still open but filling quickly.
The Chuck Wagon camp week is
also held July 25-29 as an outreach ministry through Chuck
Wagon Church in Scottsbluff for
youth and their siblings in the
Scottsbluff/Gering area.
DeVos said the success that
Camp Rock is realizing—this is
now the fourth summer of seeing
growth— is also due to the support of the community.
“We’ve really been working
on building good relationships
and a lot of that has reflected positively,” he said. “There is an
appeal that we are a local
Christian camp that kids can
enjoy without having to travel too
far from home. People are beginning to see that we offer a very
positive and quality experience
for each camper.”
DeVos has also asked for the
KELSIE: Creator
formed into something so dazzling.
To me it was an obvious
example of what capable hands
could create, even from something as literally cold and lifeless
as ice, and how we applaud their
talent. God is our creator, as He
has made all things (He even
invented ice!) and we should
applaud His talent.
Not only is He the One who
made us, but He also is the one
who transforms us from our spiri-
camp to be blessed.
“Last year I started praying
for 300 campers this year. If that
happens, it shows God is truly
Camp Rock Dates
Mission Week in Preston, ID
(9th-12th grades) June 3-10, $275
Discovery Camp 1 & 2
(K-2nd) FULL
Junior Boys (3rd - 4th)
June 13-17, $200
Junior Girls (3rd - 4th)
July 11-15, $200
Junior Camp Co-Ed (3rd - 4th)
Aug. 1-5, $200
Intermediate 1 (5th - 6th)
June 20-24, $200
Intermediate 2 (5th - 6th)
July 18-22, $200
Core Camp (7th - 10th)
June 27-July 1, $200
Chuck Wagon July 25-29
(Offered as a community outreach
and coordinated through Chuck
Wagon Church for youth in the
Scottsbluff/Gering area, for siblings
ages 8-16 to attend together)
Register by the grade the child
has just completed in school.
Deadline to register for any camp
is 5 p.m. the Friday before the event
begins. Need based scholarships
are also available.
Contact Camp Rock at 308-2621585, email at office@camprock.net
or visit their website at
Camprock.net
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tual lifelessness. Ice cannot give
itself purpose or make itself beautiful, but another can. Similarly,
we cannot give ourselves purpose
or make our hearts beautiful, but
another can.
As found in 2 Corinthians,
“For God, who said, ‘Let light
shine out of darkness,’ has shone
in our hearts to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
and “Now the Lord is the Spirit,
and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is freedom. And we all
with unveiled face, beholding the
glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from
one degree of glory to another.
For this comes from the Lord
who is the Spirit.”
Kelsie is a former Nebraska
gal and KCMI announcer. She
now serves with Voice for Christ
Ministries at KAGV (Alaska’s
Gospel Voice) 1110 AM in
Houston, Alaska.
blessing this and
God is at work,”
he said.
One need
DeVos still
seeks to fill is
more male
counselors to
round out his
summer staff.
Camp counselors are
required to be at
least a graduating high school
senior and have
a willingness to
serve Christ and
children.
“They do
need to have a
heart for Christ
and truly enjoy
being with kids.
If they have that, I can teach the
rest,” DeVos said, explaining that
each camp staff member will
complete a two-week training
period before beginning camp
duties.
Volunteers are also welcome
to help prepare for the opening of
camp season. Camp clean-up day
is Saturday, May 7 from 9 a.m. to
Noon.
The public is also invited to
the Camp Rock Auction on
Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m. at the
Camp Rock facilities. Camp Rock
is located on Highway 88, 15
miles south of Gering on Hwy 71
then east 21 miles on Hwy 88 or
15 miles southwest of Bridgeport
on Hwy 88.
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Dear Target,
As I write this, 975,187 people have signed the American
Family Association’s pledge to
boycott your stores due to your
most recent policy change. I
expect that this number will easily balloon to well over a million.
For some time now, you’ve been
clear about your corporate position on a variety of issues related
to gender, sexual orientation and
marriage. Here are a few of the
press releases from the last two
years:
August 5, 2014: Target diversity business council leader talks
marriage equality (Target signed
on to an amicus brief in support
of redefining marriage).[1]
June 8, 2015: #takepride with
Target [2]
August 7, 2015: What’s in
Store: Moving Away from Gender
Based Signs [3]
September 10, 2015: Stronger
Together: Target Signs on in
Support of the Equality Act [4]
Though these policies were
controversial [5] [6], the reactions
to them have paled in comparison
to the outcry against your most
recent announcement. On April
19th, you declared that all Target
stores would “Continue to Stand
for Inclusivity.” Here is the statement from your press release that
has people concerned:
“[W]e welcome transgender
team members and guests to use
the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their
gender identity.” [7]
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I am the Executive Director of a
nonprofit organization that supports marriage as the union of
one man and one woman – and
despite your stance on marriage I
haven’t boycotted your stores.
I’ve always had misgivings about
boycott cultures. Recently, David
French wrote an article for
National Review in which he
summed up well some of my concerns:
“I believe that boycotts represent efforts [to] limit free speech
through economic reprisal rather
than rebut bad speech with better
ideas. Also, boycotts often end up
merely helping one progressive
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corporation at the expense of
another, without impacting
the underlying culture in any
measurable way. Finally,
boycotts almost always fail —
unless of course the boycotts are
led by progressives, and their targets are states led by quivering
Republicans. In that case, even
the threat of a boycott can cause
immediate capitulation.” [8]
Considering my proclivity
against boycotts, it has taken me
some time to come to this decision: As long as this policy is in
place, you will not receive my
business.
This isn’t about making a
political statement. It’s about
safety. Allowing men into
women’s restrooms and locker
rooms carte blanche compromises
the safety of women and girls
across the country. It recklessly
opens the door for sexual predators to obtain access to women
and girls in a moment of vulnerability and a state of undress.
As a husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend to
the many precious women in my
life I cannot tolerate a policy that
would put any of them in danger.
A Concerned Customer,
Al Riskowski
(Nebraska Family Alliance)
If you are concerned about this
policy, call Target Guest
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post a note on their Facebook. If
you would like to sign the pledge
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By Kelsie (Anderson) Vrenna
CrossTimes Columnist
The one room cabin was icecold. In fact, the walls of the
quant quarters were made of clear
ice. I sat down on one of the ice
benches at the table that was also
made of chiseled ice. Wearing my
rabbit fur hat, I grinned excitedly
at my surroundings, despite the
cold of the night seeping through
my well-worn coveralls. Leaving
the cabin, I ventured over to a
similar but larger structure, a five
room house built from ice. No
detail was spared, from the ice
beds and chairs to the decorative
bathroom sink and even toilet!
Ironically, there was a fireplace
with carved ice flames - it was a
fully furnished house without a
heating bill!
The cabin and house were just
two of many ice sculptures on
display at the annual ice festival
in Fairbanks, Alaska that I attended earlier this year. Artists from
around the world created intricate
statues and impressive structures,
which seen after dark were each
illuminated with brightly colored
lights. Frozen carved likenesses
of animals lined the street to the
festival. An igloo, ice train and
castle wall stood near the house
and cabin. And looking quite like
a picture from a children’s story
book, a small woods beyond this
scene was filled with this glowing art! It was amazing to see
how plain ice could be transSee KelSie on page 11
May 5 - Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast,
Gering Civic Center, 6:45 a.m.
Guest speaker is Dr. Judson
Martin. Tickets $7, available at
Gering Civic Center, City of
Scottsbluff, First United
Methodist Church Scottsbluff,
Northfield Church, Grace Chapel
and other local churches.
May 5 - Mayor’s Prayer Luncheon
in Alliance, 12 Noon at First
Baptist Church in Alliance. Call
Russell Saito (308) 641-6694 for
more info and tickets.
May 5 - National Day of Prayer
open prayer, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.,
Mitchell Berean Church.
May 7 - 19th Annual CMI
Missions Walk, 8 a.m. at the
YMCA Monument Pathway. Pick
up a pledge sheet at the CMI
office, 209 East 15th Street,
Scottsbluff, and have your pastor
sign sheet and collect sponsors.
Call CMI at 308-632-5264 for
more info.
May 14 – 8th Annual Summit to
Summit 5K, Summit Christian
College, http://www.summittosummit.org/
June 4 - Mitchell Berean Church
Uganda Missions Team yard sale,
8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 2002 Center
Ave. in Mitchell. Proceeds help
the team go to Uganda.
Aug. 11-12 – Global Leadership
Summit, Gering Civic Center,
http://www.willowcreek.com/eve
nts/leadership/
If you have upcoming events you
would like listed, send them to
crosstimescmi@gmail.com or call
KCMI at (308) 632-5264
upcoming community events
Panhandle FCA Golf
Tournament May 7
Panhandle Fellowship of
Christian Athletes (FCA) will
host its Panhandle Scramble golf
tournament on Saturday, May 7 at
Monument Shadows Golf Course
in Gering, Neb. This tournament
is a one of five qualifying golf
scrambles hosted by the FCA
throughout Nebraska. Other qualifying golf scrambles will be held
in Kearney on June 27, Lincoln
on July 18, Norfolk and Omaha,
dates to be determined. The top
three finishers at each local tournament will advance to the FCA
State Tournament Aug. 28-29 in
Valentine. The state tournament
winner will advance to the FCA
National Tournament in
November.
The FCA Golf Tournaments
are held as major fundraisers for
FCA programs throughout the
state and nation and helps support
the FCA’s ministries of student
athletes, coaches, camps, and
community.
The Panhandle FCA Golf
Tournament will begin May 7
with registration at 7 a.m. and the
shot-gun start at 8 a.m. Lunch
and awards will follow. Entry
fees are $300 per team or $75 per
individual. Volunteers are also
needed to assist with the event on
Friday. To enter, for more information, made donations to FCA
or to volunteer, contact Panhandle
FCA Area Coordinator John
Girard at (308) 760-4099, or go
to http://nebraskafca.org for all
FCA events.
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Auction is May 21 in
Redington
Camp Rock will hold its spring
Auction on Saturday, May 21
beginning at 10 a.m. at Camp
Rock facilities in Redington, Neb.
Camp director Art DeVos said the
auction will be a giant spring
clean-up.
“It will be a good way of clearing
out some excess items we have
and make some more room where
we need it,” he said. Items up for
sale include a 1947 firetruck,
camping supplies, chairs and
more. All proceeds of the auction
will go directly in the Camp Rock
ministry.
“The 1947 firetruck definitely
will be an item of interest,” he
said. “It’s definitely a collector’s
item.”
Games and supervision for children will be provided so parents
can come and enjoy the auction.
Food will also be available for
purchase in the camp dining hall.
Tours of the Camp Rock facilities
will be offered intermittently
throughout the day. For more
information, call (308) 262-1585.
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Mitchell Berean
Church Uganda
garage sale June 4
MITCHELL—Mitchell Berean
Church is sending a 17-member
missions team to Jinja, Uganda,
Africa in July. As a fundraiser,
the MBC Uganda Mission Team
is holding a yard sale on
Saturday, June 4, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at the Madhouse Youth Center,
2002 Center Avenue in Mitchell.
Donations are now being
accepted for the yard sale.
Donations of good clothing,
shoes, electronics, furniture,
books, kitchen items, lawn care
items, toys, tools, and any other
usable items are needed. Items
can be dropped off at the
Madhouse now through June 4.
Call or text Pastor Barry
Holbrook at (308) 765-1731 to
make donations of yard sale items
or monetary donations or for
more information about the
Uganda Mission Team.
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Christian Education
VHSA hosts home school conference
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May/June 2016
By Sherry Kaiser
CrossTimes Writer
SCOTTSBLUFF—“Any time
you say ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ your
brain believes you,” conference
speaker Connie Dietrich recalled
telling her daughter as she struggled to learn her multiplication
tables. That admonition turned
into an “I Can!” chant that Dietrich
challenged her children with during their difficult homeschool
years, but it was also an appropriate exhortation for a roomful of
homeschooling parents undertaking the responsibility of their children’s education.
Dietrich spoke from her experiences before a crowd gathered for
the recent Valley Home School
Association’s
Home School
Conference at the Harm’s Center
in Scottsbluff. The conference was
attended by novice, veteran, and
prospective home school families
from around the area, including as
far away as Lewellen and Kimball.
The conference focused on homeschooling issues and styles, offering several breakout sessions deal-
Photo by Sherry Kaiser/CrossTimes
Parent panel comprised of homeschooling moms lyn Carradine, beth brush, Raeanne andrews, lori McCoy, Pat lossing and Marlaina Seay who were
asked, “how do you know what works best?” and to name some of the pros and cons encountered in their homeschool experiences. Some of the pros
were that homeschooling allowed them to “redeem” their own educations by learning right alongside of their children and that daily family life provided
a lot of valuable “life lessons” particularly in families involved in agriculture.
ing with topics such as homeschooling legalities, high school
transcripts, scheduling, and learning styles and disabilities.
Dietrich, who says she didn’t
consider herself a “typical” home
school mom, remembers saying, “I
will try it for one year and if I do
not destroy my child’s education
then I’ll try it for another year.”
Often feeling scared and overwhelmed (“I worried I was not
doing it ‘right enough’”), Dietrich
confessed to the audience that
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changing, character building,
sacred work.”
A
special
panel
of
Homeschooling Moms that included Marlaina Seay, Pat Lossing,
Lori McCoy, Raeanne Andrews,
Beth Brush and Lyn Carradine
revealed the diversity that homeschooling offers. For instance,
Marlaina Seay, who is the Director
of Classical Conversations in the
Bluffs, explained that her family is
pursuing a classical education utilizing grammar, dialectic and rhetoric, while Pat Lossing looks for a
variety of sources that provide a
“well-balanced” curriculum which
she then passes on to another
mom.
In fact, many from the homeschool community support one
another by sharing their materials
either directly with others or by
making it available through the
VHSA Homeschool Library located at KCMI.
Lori McCoy said people they
knew were skeptical when their
family decided to homeschool, a
not uncommon response. She
described starting off as part of a
co-op of other likeminded parents
all using the same curriculum but
eventually ended up adjusting and
customizing material to fit their
students’ needs.
Raeanne Andrews says she and
her husband decided to try homeschooling after bullying issues in
she says her children are now gaining by leaps and bounds and
describes their style as ‘eclectic’.
“We tailored our curriculum. We
love it.”
Youth in Action
Community Christian School
students explore science
May/June 2016
Students at Community
Christian School in
Scottsbluff showcased
their scientific knowledge, skills, and daring
adventurism last week
during the all-school
Science Fair. Principal
Diedre admundsen said
the event was a great
way for students to get
excited about what they
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numerous vendor tables were on display including Stacia’s Studio,
Classical Conversations, aa Music, liz Williams, bob Jones Curriculum,
Teacher’s Corner, bible book Shop, Rainbow Resource, and Usborne
books, Dove Channel (homeschool), Discovery Toys and private sellers.
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husband came from a homeschool
background while she did not. Her
experience in the public school
system included a teacher that
really invested in her and taught
her how to learn so she says they
took a more traditional path that
she says helped as more babies
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“I appreciate that the Lord led us
in that,” said Brush, noting that
they led several of their children to
personal relationships with the
Lord through homeschooling.
Paying tribute to that teacher who
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are learning in science
and welcome families to
the school for a fun
evening of learning and
fellowship. Community
Christian School will
complete the school year
May 11 and welcomes
families to register their
K-6 grade students now
for the 2016-2017 school
year.
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The gering FCa booster Club hosted their year-end family picnic May
1 in gering with food and games for high school, junior high and elementary huddle members and parents. Upcoming FCa events include
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Local church wheels out inagural Tour de LaGrange
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Bicycling event to
benefit Tentmakers
Bible Missions
By Kay Grote
CrossTimes Editor
MITCHELL – Cycling enthusiasts—seasoned riders or first time
adventurists—are invited to
grease up their gears for the inaugural Tour de LaGrange bicycling
event. This two-day, 114-mile
road tour set for early July is sure
to be a rewarding challenge of
physical, mental and spiritual fitness.
Mitchell Evangelical Free
Church of Mitchell is sponsoring
the inaugural two-day Tour de
LaGrange Sunday, July 3 and
Monday, July 4. According to
organizers, this will be a fully
supported ride on all paved roads
with a different route each day. A
supported ride means all food,
water, and other provisions will
be transported and made available
for each cyclist along the route.
Each route should be about 55
miles one way. The starting point
on the morning of July 3 will be
at the Mitchell Evangelical Free
Church, with the route heading
west toward Morrill, Henry,
Torrington, Wyo., then south to
LaGrange, Wyo. The first day’s
journey will end there for the
night, with camping available at
Frontier School of the Bible, an
ice cream social and a memorable
fireworks show put on by the
Volunteer Fire Department.
The second day’s journey will
begin with a breakfast made
available before starting the 57-
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all bicycling enthusiasts are invited to participate in the inagural Tour de lagrange cycling event
July 3-4 with 114 miles of the most scenic roads in the area. Mitchell evangelical Free Church is
sponsoring the event, which is also a benefit for TentMakers bible Missions of lagrange, Wyo.
mile pedal back to Mitchell via
Highway 88 east to Highway 71,
over the Wildcat Hills down to
Gering and then west on
Highway 92 through Mitchell
Pass and back to Mitchell. It may
seem like a long distance adventure to some, but organizer Don
Booth said as long as each rider
can handle riding in 10-mile sections traveling about 10 miles per
hour, the route should be manageable for most.
“We will have support stations
about every 13 miles for food,
water, rest and repairs,” Booth
said.
This is more than just a scenic
bike tour, Booth said. The event
is focused on fellowship,
fundraising, and celebrating a
small town’s Fourth of July spirit.
The Tour de LaGrange is a brainchild of Mitchell E-Free Church
member Susan Gifford.
“Several of us thought a bike
ride would be a great event to do.
But then Susan suggested it as a
fundraiser for the TentMakers
Bible Mission,” Booth said.
“Once we decided that it just
grew and became very passionate
about it. I think this is something
God wants us to do with this
ride.”
Booth said the purpose of the
Tour de LaGrange is three-fold.
“One is we would really love for
non-Christians to ride with
Christians just for the fun and fellowship,” Booth said. “Bicycling
is a great sport to form new
friendships and support. We know
a lot of Christian bicyclists, but
we know there are also those who
do not yet know the Lord. This is
a great witnessing opportunity
among all riders.”
“The second is the fundraising. We are charging $35 per
rider to participate and we want
as much of that money as possible to go to the TentMakers Bible
Mission (TBM). The TBM headquarters and home office is located in LaGrange, WY where TBM
staff and missionaries’ focus on
performing the tasks God has set
before them in order to spread the
Gospel of Christ throughout the
whole world. Learn more about
TMB at their website
http://www.tentmakersbiblemission.org.
“The third is to help the town
of LaGrange. They have a fabulous fireworks display and we
just want to support that and try
to get more people to LaGrange
for the Fourth. We have also
reached out to two businesses in
LaGrange, the coffee shop and
Longhorn Café’, who said they
would be happy to be open that
day if there were people to feed
and serve,” Booth said.
In order to pull off this inaugural event, Booth said volunteers
are also needed.
“We need individuals and
business and church groups who
would be willing to help us with
the SAG (Support And Gear)
stops, hand out water and food,
provide snacks and things like
that,” Booth said. “This might
even be a good opportunity if
someone wants to sponsor or
bring some baked goods and fruit.
Cyclists love to eat so this is a
great way to serve.”
The Tour de LaGrange will be
capped at a maximum of 50 riders for this first year, Booth said.
“We want a good turn-out but we
also want to keep the numbers
manageable so we have a wellorganized event,” he said. All
rides will also receive a Tour de
LaGrange T-shirt with their entry
fee.
For more information about
the Tour de LaGrange, to register
or to volunteer, contact Don
Booth at
donbooth1969@gmail.com or call
(308) 630-0787.
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May/June 2016
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CONFERENCE: Home schoolers network, share ideas
invested in her, Brush says, “I still
do what she did.”
Lyn Carradine, a veteran of
homeschooling since the eighties
when the movement
was just getting started, says that, at that
time, “There just was
not a lot of material
available. So, we
went to the library.”
Explaining that
she is “not a purist,”
Carradine teaches
from a literaturebased curriculum,
finding inspiration in
the classic essay by
Charlotte
Mason,
For the Children’s
Sake. From a practical standpoint of the
struggles
with
schooling older children while caring for younger children, she says
she was fortunate to come across a
book titled, The Baby is the
Lesson, pointing out that “real life
is an excellent teacher!”
Carradine also extols the virtues
of having the freedom of working
with a child’s God-given bent.
“[Public school] teachers are burdened with the requirements that
the government puts on them. You
can let your
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into whatever is
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interest, their
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guests, Nick and Kathleen Lenzen,
serving
as
President
and
Conference Coordinator, respectively, of the Nebraska Christian
Home
Education
Association (NCHEA)
were also on hand.
NCHEA is a
statewide organization
for homeschool families
that supports home
schooling in Nebraska,
monitors
legislation
locally, nationally and
internationally
that
would affect home educating families’ rights to
home school and also
provides information
and support to families.
“We
noted
that
Scottsbluff area families
were having a conference and thought it was a good
time to visit with families in the
area,” said Kathleen.
She noted, “The NCHEA has
also been through a lengthy, two
year (plus) process with the
Nebraska State Department of
Education. The forms that must be
submitted
yearly
to
the
Department of Education by home
educating families were not in
agreement with a Supreme Court
decision. The change will affect all
home educating families that file
these documents. This seemed like
a good time to convey the information about the new language and
the process to families when many
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Photos by VHSA and Sherry Kaiser/CrossTimes
Pictured above, left to right: nick and Kathleen lenzen from
nChea; Marcy Thomalla, vhSa co-chair; lyn Carradine, vhSa
secretary; laura leggott vhSa chair, Raeanne adkins andrews,
vhSa treasurer; Connie Dietrich, Conference guest speaker.
Top left: homeschooling parent, Denise Reed, displays curriculum at a vendor table. numerous curriculum vendors were present
and parents were also given the opportunity to sell their used items.
bottom left: Speaker Connie Dietrich holds up a bottle of sand,
reminding parents that god’s thoughts of them and their children
were as numerous as the grains from Psalm 139.
would be gathered if the opportunity arose.”
Overwhelmingly the home educators agreed that the freedom to
use Biblical precepts and God’s
word, the freedom from destructive worldly influences, and the
benefits of important family time
that is built into the homeschool
experience far outweighed the
challenges.
“The greatest thing was instilling character,” Beth Brush
summed up. “It lets life come in
more. It’s helped all of us. If this is
what God has for you, He’ll take
you to it. Each day is about what
God wants.”
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Local Ministries
Summit Christian College plans summer events
Page 6 V CrossTimes
May/June 2016
Summit to Summit May 14, Summit Golf
Tournament June 20 highlight college’s events
By Kay Grote
CrossTimes Editor
GERING—Registration is now
open for what has become one of
the North Platte Valley’s most
anticipated outdoor activities. The
8th annual Summit to Summit
run/walk will be held Saturday,
May 14. This 7.2 mile course is a
favorite for both runners and
walkers, challenging participants
to make the trek from the Summit
Christian College’s parking lot to
the summit of the Scotts Bluff
National Monument and back.
Runners, walkers, and woggers of
all ages are invited.
Organizers say the Summit to
Summit is a great way to introduce the community to the
Christian college located along
Highway 71 in Gering as well as
the scenic beauty of the
Monument.
“Of all the events we do
throughout the year, this is my
favorite,” said Summit Christian
College President David Parrish.
“This is a big community outreach for the college. It brings in
all the community services like
the hospital and health providers,
AirLink, and introduces the community to them and what they
offer. But it’s also our chance to
introduce the community to the
great outdoor activities available
here around the Monument. We
(the college) are located right on
the pathway from Gering to the
Monument, so it’s a great oppor-
Summit to Summit May 14, Golf Tourney June 20
May/June 2016
The June 20 golf tournament is a Best Ball
Scramble consisting of a four-person team.
Entry fees are $60 per person and each
team is also asked to raise $1,000 each for
the college. Registration and sponsorships
for the golf tournament are now be accept-
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ed. Call Coop at (308) 632-6933 for more
information.
Summit to Summit May 14. 7.2-mile Walk, Run, Fun
Summit Best Ball Scramble June 20, Scotts Bluff Country Club.
Learn more at http://www.summitcc.net/
Photo by Kay Grote/CrossTimes
local runner John Seiler makes his way to the top of Scotts bluff national Monument during the 2015
Summit to Summit run/walk. This year’s event will be held May 14.
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pathway.”
In addition to the 7.2 mile trek,
the public is invited to enjoy a
health fair, breakfast and lunch
concessions, and children/family
activities including a bounce
house, pony rides, small amusement rides, fire truck tours, and
the landing and flight of the
AirLink helicopter. All the fun
begins at the Summit Christian
College parking lot at 7:30 a.m.
For the Summit to Summit participants, registration begins at 6
a.m. for those not pre-registered
by May 9. Runners are released at
7:30 a.m., timed walkers begin at
8 a.m. followed by all open walkers. Categories and entry fees are:
timed runners $25, timed walkers
$25, open walkers ages 16 and up
$15, open walkers ages 6-15 $10
and open walkers ages 5 and
under $5. All pre-registered
entries receive a T-shirt and swag
bag. Registrants on the day of the
event receive T-shirts as available. To register for the Summit
to Summit, go to summittosummit.org.
Summit College
Administrative Assistant Jackie
Coop said some changes have
also been made to the route this
year to accommodate the recent
rock slide on the Monument trail.
“The Park Service has been
really good to work with this year
to help us keep the event going
even though the foot path to the
top is still closed,” Coop said.
“We will be walking up and back
down on the Summit Road (vehicle route) only.”
Coop said this is also a big
event for the college to celebrate
and wrap up its end-of-theschoolyear. Summit Christian
College will graduate six seniors,
four Associate degree earners and
two Certificates of Christian
Education during their commencement exercise held May 13,
7 p.m. at Central Church of
Christ.
“We have several Summit
alumni who come back to either
participate or help out with the
event. It’s also held the day after
our commencement, so we have
family members here who enjoy
the extra festivities,” Coop said.
The college will also host its
major fundraising Summit Golf
Tournament on June 20 at the
Scotts Bluff Country Club. Coop
said this event has been a big success in recent years thanks to corporate and local business sponsors and the generosity of local
merchants.
“It’s our major fundraiser,”
Coop said. “Our goal is to raise at
least $40,000 for the college each
year.”
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Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint. -- Isaiah 40:31