December 2021

Going in the right direction

Ryan Meng, Garden City High School Associate Principal, and Lucas Sullivan, Garden City Achieve Principal, gave a report on the post-secondary success rate and factor helping to improve the data at an October USD 457 Board of Education’s regular meeting.

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The beautiful dark of a cold December

“Holy darkness, blessed night, heaven’s answer hidden from our sight....we embrace your holy night.” – Dan Schutte, “Holy Darkness” Last December I fell in love with walking in the dark in my suburban neighborhood. I was six months out from a hip replacement, not quite fully healed, feeling stuck in my recovery and so I decided to take a daily walk at day’s end.

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CHURCH EVENTS

Many churches are using technology for their services either over their websites or Facebook pages to keep contact with their parishioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Others are having services as usual.

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Women work to pave own path

Jacki King, the women’s minister at Second Baptist Church in Conway, Arkansas, first felt a call to ministry as a college student. She decided to follow it, giving up her pre-med major and her spot on a college softball team for ministry training at a small Bible school with a mostly male student body.

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RB Ford sheds ‘Alabama transfer’ label

ARLINGTON, Texas – Jerome Ford envisioned helping Cincinnati win games and a conference title when he transferred there two years ago. The running back never really thought about facing his former team or being part of the College Football Playoff, though he will do both when the undefeated American Athletic Conference champion Bearcats play defending national champ Alabama in a CFP semifinal at the Cotton Bowl on Friday.

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