Cheryl Ryan Chan, Community Builder

05/04/2025

This looks like a great program. Thanks to founder Pete Conway for reaching out about this!

Discover a life of adventure with The Bike Education Institute for Pirates! Lessons for Kids & Adults

04/05/2025

02/13/2025

Final days to register!

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02/08/2025

While Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion remains legal in many states, and other reproductive health care services remain protected by law.

11/09/2024

Comforting to me.

I have walked with God for many years. I have a lot of experience with Him, and I know for certain that He always works all things out for good to those who love Him and want His will in their lives (Romans 8:28). Believing this allows us to remain thankful all the way through any unpleasant situation we face.

Job, whose story is in the Old Testament, experienced terrible difficulties, yet he could still say:

"I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!"
-Job 19:25–27

What an amazing statement of faith. Job not only had lost everything, including his family and possessions, but he had also lost his health and was suffering with a skin disease that tormented him. An entire book of the Bible is devoted to Job, so powerful was his determination to choose thankfulness over despair.

God had said that Job was the most righteous person of his day ( Job 1:8), but the problem was that Job knew it and was proud of it. This caused him to feel self-righteous rather than thanking God for who He is and for what He had done for him. God permitted trials in Job’s life so that in the end he might be a better person—humble and free from self-righteousness.

God wants us to trust Him, to know that anything we go through will work some good in our life, and to believe that when the trials are over, the smell of the roses of God’s goodness will prevent us from focusing on the thorns of life.

11/02/2024

Always a privilege to be able to spread the message of how important every single person on a team is; they hold a piece of the story of each individual they support and they mean much more than the systems ever express to them. You are each heroes! Steward the souls, not the system!