https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Tue, 07 May 2024 21:39:46 +0000 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:55:56 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/prayer/nurse-nate-how-god-answers-prayer While hospitalized, John experienced an unexpected radical reaction to an opioid administered for pain control prior to a bone marrow biopsy. Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/prayer/nurse-nate-how-god-answers-prayer Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:55:56 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/community-engagement/impressions Sometimes it's not about what you do, but about the impression you leave behind.  We just spent a week in a condominium complex on the east shore of Lake Michigan.   Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/community-engagement/impressions Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:24:36 +0000 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 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 https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/lets-talk-about/novel-virus-altered-lives Ramifications of Social Distancing and Self-Quarantine as America attempts to Flatten the Curve Last week I was a senior citizen with Parkinson’s Disease, but active. My calendar shows that I was busy, busy! Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/spiritual-formation/lets-talk-about/novel-virus-altered-lives Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:56:40 +0000 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 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 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 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 https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/intergenerational-ministry/time-little-girl-stole-pastors-show I remember Christmas in the '50s when the children's programs took place on Christmas Eve, Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/intergenerational-ministry/time-little-girl-stole-pastors-show Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:23:38 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/intergenerational-ministry/lesson-3rd-graders-sheldon-iowa-christian-grade I think it's important to hear the echoes of generations long past sounding forth with the knowledge that generations yet to come will be grounded in Jesus' teachings, as displayed so sincerely and spontaneously by members of a 3rd grade class. . .  Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/children-youth/intergenerational-ministry/lesson-3rd-graders-sheldon-iowa-christian-grade Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:10:28 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/justice-inclusion/disability-concerns/attitudes/please-dont-dis-my-abilities I was not born disabled, nor have I been disfigured in any way. But the insidious invasion of my Parkinson’s Disease Patricia Haveman https://network.crcna.org/topic/justice-inclusion/disability-concerns/attitudes/please-dont-dis-my-abilities Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:41:18 +0000