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July 4 Special – Family Life News – 7/04/24

July 4 Special – Family Life News – 7/04/24

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The Founders & and the Influence of Faith

Partisanship in Revolutionary Times … & in Ours

What Forrest Gump’s Lieutenant Dan shows veterans & civilians about Vietnam & about Hope

Colonials & the Earliest Debates on Religious Liberty

This is our Independence Day Holiday Special from Family Life News.

Greg Gillispie is your host for this series of special interviews for this patriotic weekend.
Trail Life USA – a Christian option to build the character and confidence of boys – 7/01/24

Trail Life USA – a Christian option to build the character and confidence of boys – 7/01/24

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Trail Life USA – a Christian option, for those concerned about how the Boy Scouts of America have changed

Trail Life USA offers camping, outdoor adventures, a process for advancing through ranks and badges, and connects boys and male teens with adult role models.

In some ways this seems like what Boy Scouting has been doing for over a century. However, Trail Life has only been in existence for about a decade. In those ten years, participation in Trail Life has mushroomed to over 60 thousand — that as Scouting USA (the new identity for Boy Scouts) has dropped by fully half, from two million to one million.

While COVID, child safety scandals, less emphasis on outdoors activities (and more on electronic devices) and a general decline in the status of many membership-based organizations, today’s guest says the BSA’s departure from its traditional values is a big reason why. Trail Life USA is a national Christian ministry with the goal of building the character and confidence of boys.

 

Trail Life’s CEO Mark Hancock tells us about the specifically Christ-centered and boy-focused programs for boys from kindergarten through high school. Their activities are a response to national research that too many boys particularly do not have strong, helpful, positive male role models. Today’s Family Life Interview delves into the reasons Hancock sees successes where Trail Life troops have been started in all 50 states.

 

 

 

For follow-up information

Find more about Trail Life, how to charter a troop, and where to find a program for your sons: www.TrailLifeUSA.com

Here is a report on why Boy Scouts are faltering while Trail Life is growing:  “No Longer an ‘Alternative'”

A former pastor (and dad of two sons) now leads Trail Life USA:  Mark Hancock’s biography

Family Life Noon Report – 5/27/24

Family Life Noon Report – 5/27/24

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Our Memorial Day edition of the Noon Report today includes special extended interviews with

  • Chaplain Nelson Chapman of the Erie Veterans Administration Hospital
  • Retired Army Reservist and V.A. Chaplain Bren Bishop
  • Vietnam-era Navy Medic Dan Miller, with the story of the National Cemetery in the Southern Tier
  • Pastor Scott Wise of Family Church Fredonia

The music included in these stories includes

  • “Taps“, the Civil-War era song, played at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery
  • “Journey Home“, a U.S. Army composer‘s song which is a tribute to her military grandfather, and all those who are brought home from battlefields to a hallowed resting place

 

 

Good Friday – Reflections on the significance of Good Friday – 3/29/24

Good Friday – Reflections on the significance of Good Friday – 3/29/24

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Good Friday – Reflections on the significance of Good Friday

It’s an age-old question:  What is “good” about “Good” Friday?

Family Life News asked two pastors — both of whom serve in regional roles guiding Pennsylvania and New York congregations — for their stories and interpretations of why we enter the solemn moods of remembering Jesus Christ at Golgotha and Calvary.

Listen for the recommendations of the Rev. Mel McGuiness and the Rev. John Pingel. They talk about Holy Week worship and spiritual reflections give valuable context to the Good News — for people of faith, as well as for anyone who has not delved into the significance of Christ’s arrest and crucifixion.

 

Mel McGuiness is pastor of the Kiantone of Jamestown, New York. He also is moderator of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Regional Fellowship of the “Four C’s” denomination. The Conservative Congregational Community Churches network is online at www.ccccusa.com.

 

John Pingel is president of the Eastern District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. He serves and leads over 120 congregation in that district, which stretches from New York, across Pennsylvania, and stretches into Maryland. Learn more about the LCMS at www.lcmsed.org.
An Interactive Good Friday Experience – Hometown Heroes – 3/19/24

An Interactive Good Friday Experience – Hometown Heroes – 3/19/24

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A Tonawanda Church invites the surrounding communities to experience first-hand what Jesus experienced on the original Good Friday.

Their interactive Good Friday experience takes place on Good Friday, March 29. Guests can drop in for as long or as little as they like, anytime between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. First Trinity Lutheran Church is at 1570 Niagara Falls Boulevard in the northern Buffalo suburb.

Carolyn Doster is one of the coordinators. She tells our “Hometown Heroes” interviewer Mark Webster about what families and individuals will discover as they “Journey Through Good Friday”. The Biblical story comes alive with an all-five-senses self-paced visit. It is family friendly, plus has advice for parents of very young children about two of the 16 scenes which may be too stark or need parental context. The First Trinity website offers a preview (plus information for people who are unable to attend in person).

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Step Up Your Health – Physical, Emotional, Spiritual – 3/06/24

Step Up Your Health – Physical, Emotional, Spiritual – 3/06/24

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Your mental health affects your physical health.

A body’s malady affects mental and spiritual health.

Stress plays out in tangible symptoms and increased risk of disease.

Our guest on this Family Life News Feature is one of three speakers at the “Step Up Your Health” one-day seminar at the Family Life auditorium on Saturday, March 9.

Dr. Josephine Ellis says human beings are created as one unified whole. Our bodies, minds and souls all interact with and affect each other. She tells us that the epidemic of mental health concerns is real. Stress at home, in relationships or at work also play out in physical ways.

She offers advice for people looking to enhance your health. Dr. Ellis seeks to emphasize “good health” as more than the absence of disease, but as the positive presence of good health and uplifting habits. In this podcast, she describes what she describes at the “Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine”. To make these lifestyle changes happen long-term, she says a person should focus on one small habit and let it grow into new patterns.

Dr. Ellis encourages all patients to openly discuss not only physical health, but when you go for an annual checkup or another office visit, to talk about how you are doing emotionally and mentally. 

 

Details about this event, including availability of remaining tickets are available online at FamilyLife.org/events. If you are not attending, or listening to this podcast after March 9, Dr. Ellis still has important information and advice that continues to have value for your consideration.

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