CEM Tidbits

A team blog from the Heartland Conference Church Education Ministries board

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Personal Word

My husband and I bought our round-trip tickets and boarded the train early. We anticipated the day-long adventure on the historic, narrow-gauge railroad from Durango to Silverton, Colorado.
The engineer blew the signal, and the train lurched forward. As it chugged through town belching soot and slowly picking up speed, the passengers waved at motorists yielding [...]

A Divine Encounter

He was reading a book. I was reading a book. His was for adult sufferers of an emotional disorder. Mine was on prayer.
As the airplane leveled off at cruising altitude, I asked him if I could copy the name of his book for a friend who had been diagnosed with the same condition. “Sure,” he [...]

Point the Way

How startled I was to see an old car headed straight toward me down the wrong side of the highway. I stopped, of course. So did the vehicles in the other two lanes to my right.
What must I do? I wondered, as the jalopy veered across two lanes and rolled to a stop a few [...]

Memorize It and It’s Yours

In 1988, Robert Fulghum wrote a book entitled, Everything I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Those of us who have been in Sunday school most of our lives, might express the same sentiment about Christian education. Everything I really need to know I learned in Sunday school, and one of the most [...]