Today's Times

For those of you in the Clearwater, Cheney, Goddard and Garden Plain, Kansas area, check out today's edition of the Times-Sentinel newspaper. Some pictures and a story on the visit that our great friends made to help brighten the Easter season for children at Wesley Hospital. We can thank Kyrie for the good that continues to catch on! Thanks to everyone that participated and donated. Keep doing good!

From scrapbookin' to cookbookin'.

Thanks to our new friend Amy and her friends & family sharing their cookbook for Lindsey Moser's scholarship fund, we were encouraged, enthused and gratefully guided to create one of our own to raise funds for pediatric brain cancer research! And we would LOVE to include YOU, too!

Currently, we are accepting recipe submissions for the following categories:

Appetizers & Snacks
Soups & Stews
Salads, Vegetables & Side Dishes
Breads & Breakfast
Meats & Main Dishes
Pies, Cakes, Cookies & Candies
Beverages

And ... Kid Stuff (like easy recipes for kids to make or dishes that kids love)!

Another special thought to keep in mind: we're also thinking of giving special designation to those recipes that include robust, antioxidant ingredients also known as those "super foods" that are said to help prevent or fight against free radical that are believed to cause some cancers. So look for the tastiest recipes that include things like spinach, blueberries, garlic, onions, tomato sauce, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, brussel sprouts, flax seed/oil, red grapes, mushrooms, oranges, lemons, avocados, raspberries, pomegranate juice, grapefruit, sweet potatoes, rosemary, ginger and more.

To submit, just send your recipes to Jan at kyriesnana@kyriefoundation.org before the deadline: May 1, 2008.

Can't wait to see what's cooking in your kitchen!

Crop for our cause!

Announcing our first-ever Kyrie Foundation Krop fundraiser! For those of you new to the idea, a crop is where scrapbookers & paper crafters go to work on their projects, share a few laughs and recieve fun & fabulous freebies & prizes. So much fun!

Thanks to the dedication and generosity of our friend Christy and from her friends at ScrapFunattic & Scrappin Boot Camp, this kind of one-day event is planned to benefit the Kyrie Foundation!

Saturday, October 11, 2008 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Family Church, 11135 W Kellogg Wichita, KS
Registration will open June 1, 2008, but feel free to pass the news on now to those who you think might be interested.
$40 per seat, which includes lunch, dinner, goodie bag and shared use of our tool station.

We'll have lots more details to come on this regarding featured vendors, class offerings and prizes, so stay tuned! If you have questions in the meantime or if you would like to be a vendor, please feel free to e-mail christycmc@sktc.net.

Sneak peep.

More of the Easter Bunny & Eggbert's trip to Wesley Hospital to come! Here's a quick snapshot of the bunny hop wagon train making its way through the hallways.



A note: For those of you in the area, look for a write-up this week in the Times-Sentinel about Easter Bunny & Eggbert's journey!

Friday of Good.

Found this very apropos explanation of Good Friday by Ken Collins:

Calling the day of the crucifixion ‘Good’ Friday is a designation that is peculiar to the English language. In German, for example, it is called Karfreitag. The Kar part is an obsolete word, the ancestor of the English word care in the sense of cares and woes, and it meant mourning. So in German, it is Mourning Friday. And that is what the disciples did on that day—they mourned. They thought all was lost.

... There are a number of cases in set phrases where the words God and good got switched around because of their similarity. One case was the phrase God be with you that has turned into good-bye. So perhaps Good Friday was originally God’s Friday. But I think we call it Good Friday because, in pious retrospect, all that tragedy brought about the greatest good there could be.

I can see virtue in either terminology. If we call it Mourning Friday, as in German, we are facing reality head on, taking up the cross if you will, fully conscious that the Christian walk is seldom a walk in the park. But if we call it Good Friday, as in English, we are confessing the Christian hope that no tragedy—not even death—can overwhelm God’s providence, love, and grace.

Today, we're honoring the goodness of that sacrifice by creating some goodness of our own. The Easter Bunny & Eggbert as well as a few eggstra-special helpers are planning their visit to Wesley Hospital this evening, putting some good into Good Friday and some cheer into an otherwise tough day for children and their families undergoing medical care. Photos to come next week!

Also, please keep the Halley family in your prayers this Easter weekend.

Thankful Thursday

Today I'm thankful for support. I'm thankful for the way friends & family work together to lift one another up in times of trouble and days of loss. I'm thankful for how little favors, small gestures or an hour here and there can really matter to someone in big ways. I'm thankful for the way people come together to get things done. More than just coming together for entertainment or spectating, I love how friends & family can work together to better something, to do something, whether it's cleaning out the garage, planting a garden or working on a community project.

So we needed some good photos of Terry's beautiful bracelets that have been very popular, and who came to our rescue? A great friend with a great camera. Thank you, Shelby. These photos look incredible, don't they? Again, so thankful for that support.

Style One:





Style Two:





The Set:



What are you thankful for today?

Good thoughts from our friend Amy.

Thank you, Amy, for sharing another perspective, another way for us to care for others. So good to broaden our scope.

I went to pick up a diet coke yesterday from McDonalds (as I am completely addicted) and on the way home, I decided to drive by the cemetary where Lindsey is buried. It turns out that two other Mulvane teenagers were killed in a car accident on November 11, 2006, and they are buried across the way from Linz. We are also friends of the families that lost these boys and had heard that their headstones were to be delivered this week. As I drove out there, I saw the cars of one of the families and a few friends. I decided to drive on in and let them know that I was thinking of them and that God had for whatever reason, led me out there. They were putting together memorabilia to put under the headstones and just watching as they dug the dirt surrounding the boys graves. It was heartbreaking, but so peaceful for the family. Anyway, it brought me to this discovery.

As we go on about our busy lives, the lives of those who have been "left behind" after a death, also go on. However, they go on and have to face the daily void of losing that loved one. We are only faced with it when we remember or are put in situations like I was yesterday. I think of Sam and Kyle, Lindsey and Kyrie a lot. I forget to include their families in my prayers though as we just get so busy with every day life. As a reminder for these people whose lives are no longer "normal" I have written their names on a piece of paper and put it by my bed. That way , I can remember to pray for them every single day. I cannot imagine what it must be like to live without one of our children, but using that phrase is only good for awhile. Doing something for those people instead of constantly feelings sorry for them is what they need. The only thing that I can think to do on a daily basis is to pray for those that have been left behind. I guess I feel like that is a daily reminder to myself at how blessed I am, but also a daily reminder to God that those people need his constant arms around them. Anyway...I just want everyone to remember Kyrie, AND Jordan & Lacie. I want to remember Lindsey AND Stephanie & Kerry Moser, Kyle Adams AND his family, Sam Keys AND his family...we have to pray for the living and remember their battle is daily.

Love,
Amy

We pray for Ethan AND his family, too.