Saving The Faith
Prayer Devotionals “Your faithfulness continues through all generations.” Psalm 119:90a Grandparents love to boast about their grandchildren, ready to show their pictures to anyone who will look at them. Grandmothers used to carry “Brag Books” with them but they don’t need to do...Grandparents Raising Grandkids (Part I)
General Interest Articles Cavin Harper, CGN Executive Director If the statistics are accurate, then more than six million grandchildren (as of 2000) in this country are being raised by their grandparents with or without the parents in the home. This represents more than six percent of all...
This Isn’t What I Expected
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Being a Grandparent of a Child with Special Needs Emily Pearl Kingsley wrote an article in 1987, called Welcome to Holland, about her journey as the mother of a child with disability. Essentially, it was about how being a parent of a child with disability is akin to...
What Is Your Response to the Resurrection?
Grandparent with a Purpose Blog Three days after the crucifixion, the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene, Mary, Jesus mother, and the other Mary went to look at the tomb where Joseph of Arimathea had buried Jesus’ body. They wanted to anoint and embalm his body, as was the custom. At that, moment...Expanding The Prayer Circle
Prayer Devotionals My friend, Peggy Powell sent me the following story in her “Praying Grandmothers” mailing.“Some years ago my friend, Sandy shared a prayer story that greatly encouraged me. Sandy prayed diligently for her son, Jim, all of his life, but as his teen years began tobud,...Grandparenting in the Midst of Transition
General Interest Articles by Charme FletcherIt will be three years ago this coming December that we watched our first and only (to this point) granddaughter be born into the world. Oh, what joy and love filled that birthing room! My husband and I had the wonderful privilege of being beside our...
