Category: stories
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an unexpected blessing
Here’s a true story that needs a bit of background. A few months ago Maggie and one of her co-workers at Wheaton Youth Outreach decided to volunteer at the DuPage County Convalescent Center one Sunday morning a month. Every Sunday some volunteers run a church service for the residents of the Center. Maggie and her…
David Swanson
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parkview’s homeless ministry
A couple of Sundays ago, while walking through the PCC lobby, I peaked into the gym to see how things were going for the MANNA class. If you don’t know, MANNA is the Parkview ministry to those who are experiencing homelessness. I was amazed to see how many people were in the class. When I…
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feed my starving children
I had coffee with Scott, a long time PCC person, last week and he told me about a recent experience volunteering with Feed My Starving Children. I really enjoyed hearing about his experience and asked if he’d be willing to write it down so I could share it on the blog. Here it is. Thanks…
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couldn’t have done it without you!
I meant to mention this earlier in the week, but better late than never I suppose. Along with other staff and volunteers I got to the PCC building pretty early on Sunday to help with set-up for our outdoor service. Since we’d never done this type of thing before we wanted to make sure we…
David Swanson
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the summer of love turns 40
I posted the following over at rednoW.com about a couple days of my vacation. Last week Maggie and I spent three nights in a small house on a very lonely section of the northern Californian coast. We’d started our trip in Seattle, been to the Puget Sound, spent a night outside of Portland (after…
David W. Swanson 