https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:36:01 +0000 Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:43:37 +0000 Mountains (Lacey's Song for Her Neighbors) https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/mountains-laceys-song-her-neighbors On a shady quiet street in small town Iowa stand side-by-side houses, each with 4 at-home kids, who could play only with each other through this long pandemic. The younger kids played house, hopscotch, and made-up pretend games. Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/worship/general-worship/mountains-laceys-song-her-neighbors Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:43:37 +0000 A 9-year-old’s Song Tops a Virus, Snow, and a Sideways Car https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/childrens-ministry/9-year-olds-song-tops-virus-snow-and-sideways-car April 2020 and you wake up – assuming you slept –           and you wonder what the day will hold. You know you’re surrounded by COVID-19 Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/childrens-ministry/9-year-olds-song-tops-virus-snow-and-sideways-car Thu, 09 Apr 2020 12:57:36 +0000 Living in a Shadow Doesn’t Mean It’s Dark https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/faith-nurture/living-shadow-doesnt-mean-its-dark Today outside our snow-splattered window I watched an eagle swoop down toward the ice-covered road. Then flapping its wings it rose up and up, and soared over our white barren field. And I recognized it for the sign that it was: Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/faith-nurture/living-shadow-doesnt-mean-its-dark Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:48:08 +0000 Moments with Maggie https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/books-crc-rca-authors/moments-maggie Moments with Maggie is a biographical poetic-prose collection of coming-of-age anecdotes that span the 20th century following Maggie as a child experiencing immigration to becoming the matriarch of five generations. Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/books-crc-rca-authors/moments-maggie Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:18:09 +0000 Maggie and the Big Move https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/books-crc-rca-authors/maggie-and-big-move As you read ‘Maggie and the Big Move’ you will join Maggie in the early 1900s as her family sails on a huge boat across the Atlantic Ocean from Holland to America, travels on a train from New York City to Iowa, and rides in the first car ever owned by someone in their sma Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/books-crc-rca-authors/maggie-and-big-move Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:37:02 +0000 Prayer for Families and Schools https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/community-engagement/prayer-families-and-schools Dear God, we humbly come before your throne of glory and gracewith prayers of petition and praisefor the families of our two churchesand for the local schools our children attend. Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/community-engagement/prayer-families-and-schools Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:12:44 +0000