• 3 Early Christmas Questions

    I’m sneaking Christmas Carols like a teenager does smokes.  It’s part JoLynn’s fault. She bought me shotgun shell Christmas lights for my birthday. What a wife. Playing the carols bring up some interesting questions… 1. Why would God leave gold streets, awesome power, and an angelic army and go… here? Dirt streets, baby power and…

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  • Mennonite Hunger Games

    Not Mennonite? Me either. This kind of makes me sad I’m not. This is my daughters latest post on her latetoeveryparty blog. I changed the title. Dad’s privilege. Click on her blog to comment or follow. Mennonite Hunger Games Posted on August 22, 2014 “About Mennonites: The Book for Outsiders” is coming along nicely. Many people…

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  • Was it a Dream, or Not?

    Have you ever had a dream so real, that when it was over you weren’t sure it was over? I used to have a reoccurring nightmare in grade school. I was running away from something or someone – zombies? – and trying to get back to the safety of my classroom. And, I kept falling.…

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  • So Many Christians. So Few Lions.

    We had a Cooley family reunion at our place last week. My brother and two of my sisters, with their spouses were here early enough to make a run up the Jemez Mountains. We are missionary kids. Pastors kids. We married believers. We don’t like lions. We stopped in Jemez Springs for coffee and a…

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  • Daughter’s Awesome COMPASSION Post

    This was posted on my daughter Megan’s blog. If you don’t follow her, you should. We were able to go see our compassion child – this is her take on the day, way better than I could write it. Compassion Sunday: Bregard’s Story Posted on July 11, 2014 This Sunday at our church is Compassion Sunday…

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  • Caleb English Camp Teacher

    You can watch an extremely SHORT video of Caleb Cooley teaching at mcmhaiti.org English Camp here. I thought there was much more recorded, but that’s’ what you get with an old man operating a smart phone. We are all back, all healthy, no one got the “bent man” disease, and we even got the old…

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  • UTube The (Insane) Love of God

    For those not on Facebook, here is the link for the Haitian ladies singing The Love of God in Creole. My dad used to sing The Love of God beautifully – he sang it at Megan’s Child Dedication. Anyhow the Haitian ladies we work with sing it at morning devotions and it brought back good…

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    UTube The (Insane) Love of God