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Prepping for Our Fast
Read more: Prepping for Our FastAnn here! With Christmas festivities behind us, and hopefully some happy memories made, it’s time to turn our minds to our annual SUM Community Fast. The fast will start in a week’s time, on Monday 4th January. If you haven't already, check out my video from last week. Personally, I’m so in need of this…
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May We Cling Tenaciously to Jesus
Read more: May We Cling Tenaciously to JesusDear friends, Ann here. With only a couple of days until Christmas I wanted to wish you a special time with your loved ones. And I know I speak on behalf of the rest of the team — Lynn, Ian, and Tiffany — in saying a heartfelt 'Merry Christmas' from us! Here is a beautiful…
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Oh, the Sweetness of a Friend!
Read more: Oh, the Sweetness of a Friend!Hi everyone — Ann here, and a happy Advent season to you all! In the spirit of Christmas, I'd wanted to pick one of the stories from the Gospels to talk about today, but which one to choose? These stories are all so full of wonder. After some thought, I finally landed on a favorite…
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Waiting in the Dark – some thoughts on Advent
Read more: Waiting in the Dark – some thoughts on AdventI’ve always loved December. Living in Australia, it’s summer, the end of the school year so we always had our long summer break over December/January. It’s also my birthday month and … it’s Christmas. I still recall those days approaching Christmas when the presents used to begin to pile up under the tree. Most of…
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The Soul Redeemer – A Note From Dineen Miller
Read more: The Soul Redeemer – A Note From Dineen MillerHello SUMITES! I’m thrilled to be here today! I’ve missed you dearly and it’s been so wonderful to continue to watch this community grow under Ann’s wonderful leadership. When Lynn asked me to share my newest book release, I was overjoyed, because it’s the conclusion to Lexie and Hugh’s story. When I wrote The Soul…
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Giving Tuesday 2020 A SUMite Blessing
Read more: Giving Tuesday 2020 A SUMite BlessingGive, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. – Luke 6:38 All of you who give even $5. I bless you in the name of Jesus. If…
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A Donovan Clan Update – Thanksgiving 2020
Read more: A Donovan Clan Update – Thanksgiving 2020Hi My SUMite Family, I’m so proud of Ann Hutchison and how she has stepped up to help me with the blogging. She really filled in a space that was desperately needed when Dineen stepped out. Today, I feel like it’s time for a Donovan Clan update. The last update was Thanksgiving 2019 when Mike…
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Happy Thanksgiving
Read more: Happy ThanksgivingSUMites, we are taking Thanksgiving week off. You should too!!! *grin* Spend time with your families. Eat way too much food. Enjoy a slice of pie. Kiss your husband and do something adventurous and new with your kids. Give Thanks! We will see you right after Thanksgiving with a few announcements. Woo Hoo!! Stay tuned!…
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When a Spouse Leaves the Faith — Part 3
Read more: When a Spouse Leaves the Faith — Part 3Hi friends, Ann here! When a spouse leaves the faith — part 1 When spouse leaves the faith – part 2 I’d like to thank those SUMites whose stories have helped inform the last two posts on this topic. It is an intensely difficult path. The grief of a lost shared faith in marriage is…
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When a Spouse Leaves the Faith — Part 2
Read more: When a Spouse Leaves the Faith — Part 2Ann here again! When a spouse leaves the faith, Part 1 Today we're going to continue with the above topic, and I thought I would start with a little story: Last year, I attended a ministry conference. We were a small group, perhaps 100 in the room, and Auckland is a small place so we…
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When A Spouse Leaves Their Faith — Part 1
Read more: When A Spouse Leaves Their Faith — Part 1Ann here! Today I want to talk about a path that is walked by so many here, and it's a really difficult one: ‘When a Spouse Leaves the Faith’. In our community we have many a story to tell about how we found ourselves in a SUM. In my case, for example, I was far…
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Church, We Are Crossing Over!
Read more: Church, We Are Crossing Over!Dear friends, Ann here! I had a different post planned today, but that can wait until next week. Instead, I thought I'd share a few impromptu thoughts given the present events. We're watching wide-eyed as the US election plays out, and then across the Atlantic many Europeans are entering their second lockdown. It's all pretty…
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Living an Extra (Ordinary) Life
Read more: Living an Extra (Ordinary) LifePhoto courtesy of Stuart Miles and FreeDigitalPhotos.net Hello, dear friends. Ian from sunny Sydney here. It’s a big few days in America with the election and we all around the world watch on eagerly with prayerful hearts. Recently, I came across a little-known Saint, Alphonsus Rodriguez, who lived in Spain in the 1500s. Rodriguez was…
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On Shedding the ‘Unequally Yoked’ Badge
Read more: On Shedding the ‘Unequally Yoked’ BadgeHello friends, Ann here! It's been a couple of weeks since I last wrote, but in my last post I shared a story from our archives where the Holy Spirit had given us a caution about using the ‘unequally yoked’ label too much. To catch up, you can read that post here. Today I'm interested…
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Four Simple Things To Change Your Perspective
Read more: Four Simple Things To Change Your PerspectiveHey there SUM family, Tiffany here! On Monday I gave a little glimpse of what I have been enduring these past few months with work. I wasn’t sure how to put this into words but then I got the perfect illustration that came to me on Wednesday. I was at work. We were short staffed…
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Help! I’ve Been Thrown Into The Lions Den!
Read more: Help! I’ve Been Thrown Into The Lions Den!Hey SUM family, Tiffany here! I know there have been some people asking progress on my journey with running for the local school board. I honestly don't have a lot of information at this time. However, it is really great to have people reach out from my community and share that they have voted for…
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High Witchcraft This Halloween
Read more: High Witchcraft This HalloweenFor nearly three months the Lord has pressed upon me the urgency to pray against the witchcraft that will be unleashed on October, 31st this year. This particular Halloween arrives with a full moon and on a Saturday evening. It is ripe for massive participation by covens and satanists worldwide. I’m not sure how much…
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THIS MAY STING! Sorry… Ahem, not sorry????
Read more: THIS MAY STING! Sorry… Ahem, not sorry????So, ya….. This post may sting. This is an area that I have confronted over and over again throughout my life. How do we walk through life and handle the disappointments, the let downs, the betrayals without slipping down the slippery slope into the dark abyss of bitterness? My friends, I’m telling you, this sly…
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Taking Off the Badge
Read more: Taking Off the BadgeHi friends, Ann here! We’re currently looking at past words that God has spoken to our community. To catch up, here are the recent posts: Part one – 'Museum of SUM' Part two – 'God is Calling our Spouses' Now, this next word I’m going to share is one where the Lord gave us an…
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Waging War With God’s Words
Read more: Waging War With God’s WordsHi SUMites, Ann here! As you know, we’re currently looking at past words that the Holy Spirit has spoken to this community. In our archives there are places where the Lord has said something specific to equip us, and I’m in the process of pulling these words out, in date order, to see how the…
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A Word: God is Calling our Spouses.
Read more: A Word: God is Calling our Spouses.Hello friends, Ann here. Today I’m continuing from my post last week about this blog being like a wonderful museum of God stories. If you missed it you can catch up here. In that post, I described how God has given our community the occasional prophetic word over the years: words of wisdom or promises specifically…
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Our Coatings of Protection
Read more: Our Coatings of ProtectionHi SUM family, Ann here. Last week I had a ‘moment’ in my SUM life, as we do, that turned into a good wisdom lesson for me, so I'm going to share it today. It was about God's protection. I was reclining in my favorite armchair before bed one night, cocoa in hand, when something…
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Divine Connections
Read more: Divine ConnectionsPhoto courtesy of Multipedia and FreeDigitalPhotos.net Hello, Ian from Down Under here. I was fascinated to read Ann's Monday post about the history of SUM. And it brought back so many memories for me that I thought I'd go back in time and share my SUM beginnings. It was September 2012. I had always wanted to…
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The Museum of SUM
Read more: The Museum of SUMHi SUMites, Ann here! Lately, I've been thinking about how much this blog is a museum full of interesting stories. I wonder if any of you find it so? And, within it there are places where God has answered some of those questions we talked about in our last post. That's what I wanted to…