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Previous Events: Annual Freedom Celebration and American Spirit Boat Parade summer patriotic boat parade on Clear Lake and Galveston Bay
Spri ng ride from Houston area to Ft Hood Texas.
Stoa Farm
Støa farm … is located in Sigdal, Buskerud, Norway. Photos and description submitted by Judy Sosted In 1977 my parents and my husband and I went to Norway and visited the Stoa farm which was owned by Borghild Lien, the granddaughter of the man who bought it from my Great-great-grandfather. When h...
Paddle the appx 5 miles around the peninsula city of Nassau Bay Tx. From NASA Rd1 on Clear Lake to NASA Rd 1 bridge separates Nassau Bay and Webster. 1100 office buildings on NASA Rd 1.
The paddle the Nassau bay peninsula will start east side of Nassau Bay on Clear Lake with two stops/starts at Howard Ward and David Braun Park up Cow Bayou ( bordering between Webster and Nassau Bay 1100 Office building and ending at Nassau Bay Yacht Club for food and fun .
Seamanship
in Kansas City Hitchcock Police Chief Wilmon Smith on Thursday confirmed that a teen girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert had been found safe. She was in Kansas City, Missouri, the chief said. Working on a phone tip and a search of 13-year-old Leanna Willis’ email, police were able to track ...
Interest fact Norway and maybe other Scandinavian counties own the church property and houses of worship
Many houses in US don’t 100 years
A recent report found that the veteran su***de rate per day is closer to 44 deaths. That's more than double the Veterans Affairs' report of 17 per day
At the World Championships in Budapest in June, USA’s Anita Alvarez sank to the bottom of the pool.
Looking across the deck, then noticing she was under way too long, her coach, Andrea Fuentes immediately dove in after her fully clothed, pulling her to safety. Anita was unconscious and didn’t have the capacity to kick, paddle, or help herself in any way.
If Andrea would not have noticed, she would have drown.
But she knew Anita. She looked for her, quickly noticed she was under too long, then dove in without thinking twice.
This has resonated with me….
When you are under too long, who are the people that will look for you, notice, and dive in to pull you to the surface when you lose your strength to swim?
Who are the people that would do that for you?
And can someone count on you to be that person that would go looking and notice when they are under too long, diving in to support them when they are all out of fight and fuel to swim in these turbulent waters we call life?
- Written by Jakkia Ambler Hollingsworth
THe cruise business begins
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Good law
When traffic comes to a complete stop in Germany, drivers (by law) must move to the edge of each side to create an open lane for emergency vehicles.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her…. a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you be so fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude 🙏
Lutheran Church Charities. Comfort Dog Joy with father in law
May 14th 2022 be a paddle the peninsula event in Nassau Bay, benefits a very worthwhile military and first responders organization. Watch this location for details .
Thank you to all our volunteers for coming out and making the 24th Annual Clear Creek Clean Up a huge success.  Volunteers like you make this possible. Hope to see you next year!! 
My father and Lutheran church charity comfort dog Joy. Joy belongs to gloria Dei Lutheran Nassau bay
Norway eve
Midnight in Ålesund.
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Lutheran Church Charities Comfort Dog program.
Today is National Golden Retriever Day so I'm sharing this photo of last years Conference group picture. Thanks to LCC, ALL THE COMFORT DOGS and ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THIS MINISTRY WORK!🐾🎚❤️
Update, the first official weekend clean up will be January 11th! The Clean Up will be 5 weekends of course weather pending.
On this day in 1944, the Battle of the Bulge is interrupted by a little-known truce deep in the Ardennes Forest. Four German soldiers and three American soldiers shared a cottage and a Christmas Eve meal, thanks to the bravery of one German woman.
“It is the Holy Night and there will be no shooting here,” she reportedly told them.
Elisabeth Vincken and her 12-year-old son, Fritz, had been staying in the cottage near the German-Belgian border. They were looking for safety, but now the Battle of the Bulge was raging all around them.
On Christmas Eve, they heard an unexpected knock on their door.
They were scared, of course. Who could it be? Elisabeth carefully opened the door, only to find two men and another lying wounded in the snow. They were American soldiers—not something Elisabeth would have wanted to find! The penalty for harboring Americans was death. But the Americans didn’t try to force their way into the cabin. They just “stood there,” as Fritz later said, “and asked with their eyes.”
What mother could resist? Those soldiers were so young, they were practically kids. “And that was the way Mother began to treat them,” Fritz wrote. The Americans had been lost, but now they were invited into the warm cottage. It was awkward at first, but the German mother and the American soldiers found that they could communicate in French.
Elisabeth and Fritz had been fattening a rooster, hoping that Fritz’s father would return. Now Fritz was sent to prepare the rooster. It was needed for dinner.
Just then, another knock came at the door. Four German soldiers stood there; they also needed shelter from the cold. Could they come in?
Elisabeth had to have been frightened. What would the Germans do when they discovered the Americans? But Elisabeth did what she had to do: She looked the Germans determinedly in the eye, inviting them in—but also warning them about what they would find inside. “You could be my sons,” she told the Germans, “and so could those in there. A boy with a gunshot wound, fighting for his life. His two friends, lost like you and just as hungry and exhausted as you are. This one night, this Christmas night, let us forget about killing.”
The Germans left their weapons outside. Elisabeth retrieved the American weapons and left them outside, too.
The room was tense—at first. But then the mood shifted. One of the German soldiers had some medical training, and he began tending to the wounded American. Another produced a bottle of wine and some rye bread. As they sat down to dinner, Elisabeth said grace. “I noticed that there were tears in her eyes,” Fritz later wrote, “as she said the old, familiar words, ‘Komm, Herr Jesus. Be our guest. And as I looked around the table, I saw tears, too, in the eyes of the battle-weary soldiers . . . .”
The good will persisted into the morning. The men awoke, exchanged Christmas greetings, then worked together to build a stretcher for the wounded American. After breakfast, the Germans pointed the American soldiers in the right direction so they could find their unit. Then the two sides departed, each in a different direction.
The truce was over, but nothing could erase the hours of friendship that had existed in the midst of the horrific Battle of the Bulge. “God was at our table that night,” Elisabeth would say.
Many decades later, Fritz found two of the soldiers who’d taken shelter in his cabin. Naturally, that is a story for another day. :)
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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36th Infantry Band Texas Army National Guard playing in boat parade 2009
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