It came just a week after I posted my parenting and ministry battle cry…a self-reminder to stay faithful in planting the seeds. The news of fruit. fruitfulness in praying for neighbors. fruitfulness of continuing to host Shalom Nights each week to have a meal, worship and study Scripture together. fruitfulness in the simple act of […]

This morning, I, thinking myself quite the clever “preschool homeschool mother”, got out a big bag of various buttons and my muffin pans. I doled out large piles of buttons to my two and four year olds and showed them how they could sort them according to color or size in the different muffin holes. […]

  Commissioned to go “plant a church”…. Sent out to go “help” an impoverished, underresourced community…. Called to serve in a place that most would not choose… What does “plant a church” even mean? What are the measurable results to “show” for your work? How do  you know if you are even making a difference? […]

Where have the Iversons been all summer?!? Three full months, and no words? No blog posts? No adventures to recount? No thoughts or impressions from the Lord? No musings from the Living Word of God? Oh, they have been there. They have been mulled over while scrubbing pots and pans. They have been formulated while […]

Salt was flying. Sugar was spilling. Baking powder was pouring. Small hands were grabbing and snatching and dumping. Ingredients jettisoning all over the kitchen. A mommy was attempting baking… …with an overly eager two year old and four year old. Those little boys were so eager to help me make “gooten fwee bwownies” (Gluten Free […]

It had been a frazzling day. (Come to think of it, every day is a frazzling one with six kids). That Sunday we had ushered those six kids out the door early in the morning to attend worship at our “sending church”. We had scooted downtown to attend an event at the sight of the […]

WHY do I live where I live? Because I’m lazy. Too lazy to load up five kids in to the van and tote them over to a church service project.  Too lazy to get up on a Saturday morning and head down to the soup kitchen to serve a meal.  Too lazy to try to […]