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08
Dec 2017

August 3-7, daily Friday, August 7 – BLOCK PARTY! 9am-12pm Campbell home in Racine Volunteers Needed for Block Party! Backyard Bible School is happening this week!  Thank you for the generosity of all of you who have donated supplies, money, and time.  One of the most anticipated events of the week is our block party, which will be taking place on Friday, August 7, from 5-8pm.  We are expecting that this will provide a significant opportunity to begin to bring the community together for the sake of the Kingdom.  If you’re available and......

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08
Dec 2017

Picture yourself having an intimate, satisfying conversation with your spouse.  What are you talking about and how do you feel while you are imagining the conversation? Now, picture yourself talking to your spouse about your finances.  Did you get the same warm glow?  Or do you find that like many couples your most hopeless and frustrating conversations are about money?  Younger’s 2012 study and other similar studies on sources of marital conflict, reveals that money is the topic most likely to lead to a couple’s most severe and frequent arguments.  It is......

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08
Dec 2017

What if I told you that there are things that you can do that would improve both your individual and marital health? What if they were so easy that they did not involve studying, reading, individual or couples therapy, pastoral counseling or even a lot of contemplation? If you are like most people, you probably think that what I am about to say is too good to be true. Unfortunately, if you are like most couples, you overlook these simple steps that can set the stage for a healthier marriage and make......

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08
Dec 2017

Holy Week is approaching and this year the Olsen house will be HQ for food during the week. This is a way for us to provide for the hardworking tech people, musicians, readers, clergy, and coordinators who put so many hours into making Holy Week happen. If you are interested, we could use help in 3 ways: 1. Purchase food 2. Make food or baked goods/desserts 3. Clean-up help right before services start on Thursday, Friday or Saturday–mainly to put food away in the fridge and tidy up. If you would like......

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08
Dec 2017

This year Light of Christ will be sending the money gathered in the Good Friday Gift to the persecuted church in Syria and Iraq. On behalf of our fellow Christians, Archbishop Foley appeals to Anglicans around the nation: In Syria many of our brothers and sisters are engulfed by an ongoing humanitarian crisis. Areas of Aleppo that are home to around 400,000 Christians have been besieged and surrounded by the rebels for months. Many Christians have become malnourished owing to shortages and skyrocketing prices of food and other essentials. Access to water,......

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08
Dec 2017

Ways to Help Make Your Marriage More Fun When long term married couples are asked the question, “What do you value most in your partner that has helped sustain your marriage?” the most frequent answer is “They make me laugh!”  Research on the attributes that both men and women find attractive in their romantic partner indicates that the ability to laugh and have good humor is highly valued.  Research on ways to develop good mental health also shows that good humor is vital to your mental well-being.  Each time you laugh, your......

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08
Dec 2017

How often do you snuggle, kiss or keep in close physical contact with your cat, your dog, your toddler or your young grandchild just for the sheer pleasure of it?  How often do you use cute insider names, or say, “I love you” to your pets, young children or grandkids?  Now, be honest, when was the last time you did these same kind of things with your spouse? Do you give these signs of unbridled affection to your spouse with the same frequency and abandon that you devote to your pets or......

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08
Dec 2017

Most couples begin their marriage with great enthusiasm for being in love and assume that they will stay in love with the same effortless ease that they first fell in love. The experience of passion and romance is so powerful and profound that it leads to expectations of eternal devotion. The problem for many couples, however, is that several factors lead to an inevitable demise in their sense of being in love with their partner. First, science shows us that during the first two years of a romantic relationship, endogenous opiates (our......

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08
Dec 2017

When you first decided to get married, what did you envision?  Did you think about wonderful moments of togetherness as you encountered various life situations? Raising children? Serving your church or community as a couple?  Growing old together?  Chances are that you imagined many things that the two of you would do in synchrony, but you never imagined what would happen when the two of you were not working together so smoothly.  Almost no one does.  And then the inevitable happens.   You realize that you and your spouse are not on the......

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08
Dec 2017

Looking for a Lenten discipline? Here are some resource suggestions from a few of your fellow LOC parishioners: I. Books: The Lenten Journey; Notes, Prayers and Devotions for Lent and Holy Week (Olsen, Eirik, available at Light of Christ; look for the “little red book” on the Information Table) Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation (M.R. Mulholland Jr); Show Me the Way: Daily Lenten Readings (H. Nouwen) Lent and Easter: Wisdom from Henri Nouwen (J. Bauer); For Kids/Family, Good Dirt: Lent, Holy Week and Eastertide (L.F. Borgo & B.......

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