It's that (spring) time of year when life gets really busy! I'm working in the garden, attending either my daughter's or husband's or someone else's musical concerts on at least a weekly basis, and trying to keep up with regular life too. Last weekend I went on a retreat with the 9th grade confirmation students at church. It was wonderful! The retreat was called "culturing compassion" and led by our Pastor Dee Pederson and a member of our community, Kevin LaNave, who was formerly a youth minister and now told me has a business leading retreats, service projects, and other things of that nature. His business is called the Center for Service Learning and Social Change, and you can visit it here . He did a great job getting the kids interested and keeping them there with games, activities and conversations. "Culturing Compassion" was most specifically about poverty and Jesus' message to care for the poor. One of the things we did on Sat...
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