I Love My Precious Mama
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I love my other precious Mama! Days after Mom in Saipan died, the Lord had already provided tickets for eight of us to make it there. We thought...
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A Tribute to Mothers
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It is not unusual for complete strangers to come up to me and thank me for my service to our great nation. It is a great honor to be thanked like that...
Read MoreThe Blessings of Good Neighbors
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We've moved over ten times in our almost thirteen years of marriage. Many months leading up to our move, we pray for our future neighbors...
Read MoreHappy Belated Birthday Pelaiah
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We celebrated Pelaiah's birth at the end of March, but, since we were in the middle of a big move from Northwest Florida to East Tennessee, I didn't get to finish what I started writing for her birthday until just now...
Read MoreSuccessful Kickstarter for I Know You Love Me, Mommy and Daddy!
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We're so excited to announce that our Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of I Know You Love Me, Mommy and Daddy was successful...
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A Moving Story Behind I Know You Love Me, Mommy and Daddy
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Around 2010, my father was having such a difficult time and was going through a time of depression. After speaking to my Mom, Anicia, I wanted to find some way to encourage him...
Read MoreLooking People in the Eye
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This evening as we were eating dinner Pelaiah (9) started talking to me. I was pretty hungry but as she spoke to me I looked up at her and smiled while still enjoying chewing my food...
Read MoreI Love Our Family
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"I love our family!" These were some of the words 11-year-old Heistheway said this morning at the breakfast table.
Read MoreKickstarter Take Two: Publishing this Christian Children's Book Worldwide
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We're thrilled to announce our second campaign to raise money to print Franicia's children's book entitled...
Read MoreHusbands, Love (and Listen to) Your Wives
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My Dad is the master (or at least he was when I was growing up) at spotting new rattles and squeaks in our family's cars. He performed all of the maintenance on our cars, so he was invested heavily in keeping them running well.
Read MoreA Habit of Thankfulness
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Thanksgiving -- what a wonderful holiday! Franicia and I have so much for which to be thankful. We are so thankful for you, our readers and supporters. We are most thankful to God for revealing Himself to mankind and providing a perfect Sacrifice for sin, Jesus Christ. We are also so thankful for our church, Mount Zion in Pensacola as well as our wonderful friends and family.
Read MoreInspect What You Expect: Leadership 101
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I've learned a lot about leadership during my time in the military. I've probably learned the most from the senior non-commissioned officers in Navy (Chiefs, Senior Chiefs, and Master Chiefs) and Marine Corps (Staff Sergeants, Gunnery Sergeants, etc). One of the first things I learned from them was "inspect what you expect."
Read MoreWe're Almost Launching Our 2nd Try on Kickstarter
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After revising our video's script and lowering our goal amount, we feel as if we are almost ready to launch another Kickstarter campaign. Our first Kickstarter campaign gave us a good idea of the type of support we should aim to raise. We also have more printing options for the children's book I Know You Love Me Mommy and Daddy which will be a benefit if we are able to raise a small amount or more.
Read MoreMailing Out the Rest of Our Giveaway Items
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Our busy weeks are over. We were able to stay in Arkansas longer than we had first expected. Shortly after we returned from our trip, we prepared for a church family conference. Then some of us caught a slight bit of the illness that was going around amongst our friends and church members.
Read MoreMy Morning Date
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Yesterday was a nice relaxing morning after having come back from an exciting and busy trip to Arkansas last weekend. Tim was home on leave so we could prepare and attend this week's church family conference.
We had house guests to prepare for but most things were taken care of already. I was looking forward to talking to Tim about a lot of things on my list but mainly because I love talking to my best friend.
Read MoreHusbands and Dads, It's Your Responsibility
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Paul, in Ephesians 5:23 wrote, "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." Unfortunately, most people associate the head with greater honor and assume that the wife will be trampled under the husband's feet if he is actually her head. Balancing Ephesians 5:23 with 1 Peter 3:7 really sheds some light on this subject, though. Peter wrote, "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered."
Read MoreWinners for the Kickstarter Giveaway -- Take 1
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Thank you to all who participated in our giveaway and support for the book. We hope to start a second campaign for Franicia's I Know You Love Me Mommy and Daddy book in the next few days!
Read MoreInterview with Debbie Hostetler
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Our good friend, Matthew Sample II, recently interviewed Debbie Hostetler, the precious woman that illustrated my book I Know You Love Me Mommy and Daddy. The interview is below.
Read MoreA Special Offer from Debbie Our Illustrator
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Debbie has so graciously allowed us to release a print of one of her paintings!
If we reach $5,000, one of our $100 (and above) donors will be randomly selected to receive one of Debbie's paintings on an 8X10 photo paper. One of the great things is that you get to choose which painting from the book you'd like to put up on your walls!
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