Home Swap in Grand Rapids Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the Grand River, is 25 miles from Lake Michigan. The population is about 200,000, but the population of the greater metropolitan area of Grand Rapids is over 1 million. Besides being a great vacation destination, there are lots of others reasons that Grand Rapids is an excellent place for doing a…
Imagine The Best Job In The World!
Imagine what a difference it would make if every pastor in every congregation could look forward to a three-month sabbatical every four years! Imagine especially what a difference this would make to pastors serving smaller congregations. Nothing silly about that! Imagine what a difference it would make if high school students saw the ministry as…
Fear, Failure, and Home Exchanges
The wonderful PBS series by Ken Burns, The Rooseveldts: An Intimate History is a great history lesson, and inspirational. The lives of three Rooseveldts were chronicled: Teddy, FDR, and Eleanor. They did not live fearfully, nor did they worry about failure. In his first inaugural address (1932), Franklin D. Rooseveldt uttered the famous phrase, “The only thing…