Our Stories Unleashed

Enjoying Life Together

Summer offers many of us a change of pace and routine. Families adjust their activities around breaks from school and enjoy vacations together. Kids attend camps. Many church members participate in mission trips. Long days afford us more time outside in the evenings to catch up with neighbors. Our work continues, but our schedules shift with the season. You know what all this means? A great opportunity to share meals together! We’ve talked a lot at UBC about using the dinner table...

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Building Potential

This past weekend our family celebrated my daughter’s birthday. As a parent, it’s such an incredible feeling to watch her and her brothers get older.  I love seeing their personalities develop and their passions emerge.  My daughter is a young girl with many passions and interests.  One thing that has consistently caught my attention through the years is her creativity.  Specifically, it’s not just the imaginative ideas that are often observed in...

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Abundant Provision

Many moons ago, HC Maples gave me a blackberry cane. Since I don’t trust my gardening abilities, I planted it next to my back door so I would remember to water it. Within a few years, the brambles took over the sidewalk, covering the path to our back yard.   The next year, we moved a few slips to a narrow fence row near our garage. Once again, the blackberries flourished. They grew, multiplied, and provided more fruit than we could imagine. Last year, we had berries in the...

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