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Intergenerational connection

Intergenerational Connection emphasizes the value of relationships across ages for mutual understanding and enriched familial and community dynamics.

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Families Having the Best Year of Their Lives

When Bill and Katie Swan left on the World Race in 2010, it changed their lives. They had been married three years, had a heart for missions, and wanted to…

23 February 2021

Why Young Men Need Initiation

Life is hard. We enter the world screaming, live 80 years and then spend our last years in some nursing home. To live is to cope with a series of losses that…

10 October 2018

You Can Change Your Family’s Future

What do you think: Can we can change the course of our family’s history by the way we live? Is this true in your experience? I’m living out the strug…

25 September 2018

A Better Way to Do Funerals

In my family, we are approaching a generational shift. Most of my parents’ generation has died or is dying. Along the way, we get to look at different ways…

Boomer Journeys – Discovering an Exciting Life

We baby boomers grew up in the ’60’s, a time of rebellion. We were raised by parents who remembered the horror of war and thought in terms of duty. They to…

23 November 2016

The Gift of An Extended Family

The morning began in a disconcerting way. So far, we have six house guests with a bunch more coming. I have a little coffee routine in the morning and was …

How We’ve Failed You

Every generation fails its sons and daughters in one way or another. We Baby Boomers were raised by absentee dads. We said to ourselves that we&r…

24 September 2012

15 Questions millenials ask boomers

Karen and I are coaching 64 20-somethings (World Racers – you can see their blogs here). I told them we’d answer any question they might want to ask us. So t…

06 December 2010

Understanding Generation Me

Generation Me is a book by Jean M. Twenge, an associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University. She writes about the generation born in the 7…

02 December 2010

Intergenerational mission trips are better

Tim Schmoyer is a top-rated youth ministry blogger. He just wrote this blog post after a trip with AIM to Haiti. When I felt like I needed to return to …

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