Dee's News November-December 2012

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Serving Our Country in the Military

Let’s keep these soldiers in our prayers!

Ryan James Borntreger, Afghanistan

Aden Keim, Fort Gordon, GA

Jason Keegan, Saudi Arabia

*To add a name to the list, please contact Dee*

From Joe Keim:

Here is a photo of our first GED class (Sept 10, 2012).  Those who joined were Elise Shrock, Miriam Keim, John Shetler, John Yoder, Marvin Schlabach, Dan Schrock, Benji Shetler and Jonas Raber. 

The teachers, Al Eaton, Doug Plice and Aaron Wolfe, are donating their time to teach.

Miriam and Elsie are taking their GED so they can home school their children, while some of the boys are taking their GED so they can go to college and further their education.

Mosie Shetler, along with friends, and his pastor,  Dan Schmucker of the Salisbury Believers Fellowship in Spencer, NC, traveled to Honduras in late summer for a mission trip. The main goal was to begin a book ministry in Honduras. The trip was taken in September 2012.

Rachel Raber participated in the 5 K Annabelle’s Hope and Hearts Run Ohio on Saturday, October 6. Her husband, Eli and her “adopted” family, Arlen and Dee Yoder and Joseph Brown, were along to offer moral support and to cheer her on in the race.

According to the website, the first Hope & Hearts Run/Walk was held in Minnesota in 2006. April and Dan Wurst and Candy and Steve McVicar founded Hope & Hearts Run and began hosting the event in honor of their daughters, Kaila and Grace, who were both stillborn due to cord issues at 38 and 33 weeks gestation respectively. Hope and Hearts is about hope for the future through education and research and supporting the hearts of families who have lost to move forward.

Balloons were released to honor the memory of Rachel and Eli’s stillborn child, Jayden Lee. It was a lovely and meaningful event.

Andy and Levina Hershberger were baptized this past summer by their pastor, Eddie Miller. The Hershbergers attend River of Life Fellowship in Shreve, Ohio. What a wonderful day for Andy and Levina!

Paintball Participants:  Jonathan Keim, Josh Schwartzentruber, Tony Hostetler,
Joe Keim, Daniel Garber, Elmer Shrock, Samuel Girod, Johnny Keim, John Yoder,
Marvin Schlabach

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to teach your kids about being thankful. Here are some ideas to teach your children how to appreciate the blessings in their lives.

Giving Thanks Placemats:

The goal of this craft is to create a collage filled with drawings and pictures of all the things your children are thankful for. Cut photos from magazines, or print some photos from your computer. Older children can write captions under the photos or draw their own. Be sure to put the child’s name and the year on it. If you make this collage from two standard letter size pieces of construction paper taped side-by-side, you can take the completed collage to a copy shop when you’re done and have it laminated. It then becomes a placemat that you can use every Thanksgiving for years to come.

Thankful Paper Chain:

Another way to remind your children of their blessings is to create a paper chain. This is similar to a regular paper chain – where you cut strips of paper and connect them together as loops, but there’s one difference. You write on the strips of paper before you connect them. Write the things you are thankful for with your children. For instance, “Grandma plays games with me” or “My teacher is nice.” The fun part of this activity is to make the chain as long as possible – showing all your blessings. If you’d like to keep this up during Christmas, just use green and white paper.

Thanksgiving Tree:

This is another take on the idea above and works really well if you have several kids in the family. Get each child to trace their hand on yellow, red, or brown construction paper. Cut out the hand shapes and write (or have the child write) what they are thankful for on the hand shape. Cut a tree trunk shape out of brown construction paper. Glue it on a large piece of poster board. Let the kids add their hand shapes as leaves above the tree trunk, turning it into a beautiful fall colored tree.

Thankful Book:

This idea is similar to the others, except it’s more of a keepsake. Purchase a photo album or scrapbook kit and make a “blessings” theme. Add photos of loved ones, including stories about why they are special to you. Also, include pages of your favorite foods, favorite stories, favorite movies and all the other things that make you happy. Any time your kids feel down, you can open your blessing book to see all the reasons you have to be happy – and thankful for the blessings in your life.

For more Thanksgiving ideas, go to From the Apples4theteacher.com website: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/thanksgiving/

Easy Thanksgiving Cookies:
Makes 16 cookies

Ingredients
1 (16.5 ounce) package Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
1 (16 ounce) container white or chocolate creamy frosting
1 Candy corn
1 Orange decorating icing
1 White decorating gel
1 Miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits

Preparation

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on roll. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
2. Spoon white or chocolate frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feathers.
3. Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble turkey face and/or feet. Use white or orange icing to attach baking bits to turkey face for eyes and draw mouth.