Merry Christmas to all my Lawndale family! Thank you for bringing the story of Christmas into the hearts and minds of our community and beyond throughout the year. In our secular human world many people do not understand the significance of Jesus’ first coming. There are those who believe that Jesus’ main mission was to serve as an informational instructor. If that was man-kinds greatest need, God would have sent an educator. Others believe that Jesus’ main mission was to

Every parent has a never-ending list of tasks and goals for raising your child. There are never enough hours in the day or days in the week to get it all done. At the same time, modern parents are bombarded with distractions - some of which are essential to life while others are empty wastes of time. Because of our busyness and own sin problems, parents all too often feel guilty for not living up to how we know we should lead our children. In the midst of a parent's hopes and

In England, during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, thousands of orphaned children ran tattered and torn through the filthy streets of overcrowded cities. Due to their desperate circumstances, hungry, homeless children often resorted to a life of crime to survive and bore little hope of ever rising out of their hopeless conditions. A man of prayer and great faith, named George Mueller, knew something had to be done about the plight of the orphan. In 1836, he and