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Evening CelebrationTo celebrate our successful service project we took the whole group to a local favorite restaurant called Cajun Connection. In many ways inner city students remind me of small town kids. They are used to a manageable little world, so they sometimes fear or avoid new and different things. They resist leaving familiar surroundings. And they don’t think of themselves as citizens

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Second Work DayOn the second day we were assigned to salvage the timbers from about fifty very long beams. Originally constructed from 2x12’s, sometimes nailed two or three thick, they were so heavy that it several of us just to stand them upright, while others pried them apart with crowbars. Once they were pried apart, we hammered out the nails and stacked them for re-use. It was hard, hot,

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NickiWhen I returned from my exploration of the wrecked pier, Melony was talking to a woman on the beach. Later Melony said the woman had walked up and asked, “Are you relief workers? Can I tell you my story?” It turns out Nicki was a hematology technician in the blood bank of a New Orleans hospital. Just before the hurricane hit, she and her coworkers came to work prepared for a three-day storm.

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Cecile’s HouseIt’s difficult to find a particular house in a city where most of the street signs have been blown away. Many have been replace with plastic signs, but not all. So it took us over an hour to find our project site, the house of a woman named Cecile. Cecile works during the week, so she couldn’t be there on Friday morning as we turned into her driveway. But we had our assignment

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Thank YouI would like to thank all of you who gave money, prayers, and encouragement to us for our 2006 CiViL Groups Hurricane Relief Trip. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, we planned to take a dozen students from Stratford High School to the Gulf Coast to help rebuild homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In mid May we sent out an email request for prayer and funds, and we

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Written on May 5, 2004Thank you so much for your prayers on the morning of April 24 while I was running the Country Music Marathon! Let me share with you a thought I had while I was running. I felt so strongly about it that I pulled out my cell phone, called our office and left this message on the voice mail:"Puff-puff…This is Jim. I’m at the 10th mile of the marathon. And…puff-puff…I had an idea

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My wife Melony asked me, "Why ‘Dagger In Disguise?’" So I thought I’d say a little about the title. It’s taken from the title of a song I have never recorded, but that I love. I could explain the song to you as a way of explaining the title, but it would be better, I think, to post the lyric and let you draw your own conclusions. Here it is:DAGGER IN DISGUISESharpened to the point of letting

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Wow, it was a hard Fall, but it’s a great Spring! I was reading through last year’s journal, and when I got to mid-Autumn, I realized how tough the end of the year was for me. There are lots of reasons, but let me give you just one example. As you know we have been investing a lot of time and energy in Civil Groups, our character education program at Stratford High School. And it has grown

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To some degree this blog is still under construction. When it's ready, it will be linked to www.JimWeber.com and to www.touchstoneministries.org. You can go there now, if you like.If you've come from one of the web sites, you may notice that I’ve replaced the web site guest book with a blog. The guest book was getting a lot of attention from spammers and not much attention from fans. With the

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