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VBS: Day #4

Lottie said to Maggie and I today, “VBS is like Christmas…it’s awesome and then it’s over and you have to wait another whole year for it to come again.”

And that is really one of the saddest things about VBS–it only happens once a year.

It’s been a great time so far. We have four teams, Surprise, Avalanche, Ambush,…

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Guest Teacher

My little sister is wonderful, which is why, when she called me this winter asking if she could come help at One Hope Academy over her spring break, I immediately told her an emphatic “yes!”


Audrey is a Dietetics major at Seattle Pacific University, so she offered to teach a nutrition class. The first day of class, Audrey introduced the…

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Bad Liars

Last week I arrived at getAHEAD to find one of the younger boys sobbing in the office.

I gave him a hug and looked at our “Strike Board” to see if he was in trouble, but his name was nowhere to be found.

Lottie stepped into the office and I asked her if she knew what was wrong.

“Jared…

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