Operation Christmas Child
By JaneWalden

Operation Christmas Child also knows as the Shoe Box Ministry is a project of Samaritan’s Purse which is run by Franklin Graham. It distributes gift filled shoe boxes to children of natural disaster, famine and poverty to over 130 countries and territories. When children receive these boxes they also receive a book in their own launage called the “Greatest Journey”, about the love of Jesus Christ. After the children go through a 12 week course ...

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Swampyville's Q's
By Swampyvilles

Q: How do you feel about the treatment of the American Indians when our forefathers came to this country.

As someone living in the 20th century, I was not responsible for the way people who lived two hundred years before me had treated Native Americans.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them if that's what you're asking. Our so called stealing ...

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Swampyville's early life
By Swampyvilles

My Early life

I was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. My middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when my parents decided to name their next son Robert.

My father, Clyde Leonard Morrison (1884–1937), was the son of American Civil War veteran Marion Mitchell Morrison (1845–1915). My mother, the former Mary "Molly" Alberta Brown (1885–1970), was from Lancaster County, Nebraska. I am of Scots-Irish and ...

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Swampyville's - 1 fish 2 fish
By Swampyvilles

one fish two fish, red fish blue fish
black fish, blue fish ,old fish, new fish
some are red and some are blue. some are old and some are new.
some are sad and some are glad. And some are very, very bad.
Why are they sad and glad and bad? I dont know. Go ask your dad.
Some are thin and some are fat. The fat one has a ...

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Swampyville's - Seeds of the Unwanted!
By Swampyville

You're the Poet!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words
or use your own words.

Arise, be, bless, die, flies, fly, gain, green, me,
opportunity, pain, see, seen, tenderness.

Seeds of the Unwanted!
By L. Don Oliver

Snow melts and the rain falls,
Turning the fields to a lustered _____;
The life giving sun says good ...

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