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God Is At Work In Tulsa…

The particular neighborhood where Lottie was driving us sits just north of downtown Tulsa. I could see the lights of these Midwest skyscrapers shining over the tops of bare, leafless tree branches and brightening the dark, December evening. Our white van bounced through quiet streets, as Lottie told me about the children we were going to pick up. There was…

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The Good Soil

Yesterday afternoon I walked into the kitchen to find Jared and Tyler talking about the Bible class that had just finished. Jared was comparing some of the responses he had seen students have to the Word of God with the soils Jesus describes in Matthew 13.

I only caught a minute of their conversation, but I walked away thinking…

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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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