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Nicolson Family Newsletter 2016-01-17

By ICF on January 17, 2016 2 Comments

January 17, 2016

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for your thoughts and prayers with regard to Grahame and to our family. We appreciate you and them (the thoughts and prayers!) SO much as we navigate this challenge, placing our [...]

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Our great C – N Camp 2014 Leadership Trainees. How we ended up with 18 ladies and 4 men is a long story. (The guys didn’t mind the “ratio!”) Turn up your speakers and enjoy this three minute program of random images from last summer’s LT Week.

2015 Leadership Trainee Applications Open

By Grahame Nicolson on March 18, 2015 Add Comment

Since the early 1990s teams of motivated Christians have applied for and been accepted into the mid-June C – N Camp Leadership Trainee Program, meeting several hours each day for a week of worship & prayer, studies & assignments, discussion [...]

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Revealing the Granny Smith Apples and Tea “Mislead”

By Grahame Nicolson

In this blog post I will reveal the nature of my October 1 subterfuge. Several people (including by way of e-mail) have been crafty enough to nudge at [...]

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Granny Smith Apples, Tea, and a “Mislead”

By Grahame Nicolson

For reasons obvious to people who know me, I particularly enjoy Australian or Australia-related foods and healthy beverages. Crisp and sweet-tart, Granny Smith apples, either in one of Karen’s famous apple pies or fresh with fine cheese are among my [...]

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“Hey, Mister, I forgot to tell you….”

By Grahame Nicolson

 

Noted 19th Century theologian R. A. Torrey used to tell about an encounter between an affluent gentleman and a street urchin in Scotland. The story went something like this:

Years ago, on [...]

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A Constant and a Contest

By Grahame Nicolson

 

What is a “constant”? A constant may be defined as something that is unchanging or invariable.

Here’s a lyric we’ve adapted that celebrates the “constant of all constants,” an amazing book that in the photo you see uniting Karen [...]

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Grahame’s “Gold in the Pan” Philosophy of Ministry and a Contest

By Grahame Nicolson
The Philosophy

Since a few days ago when we enjoyed three separate phone conversations, the first with a 17-year-old girl, the second with a 21-year-old guy, and the third with a 20-year-old guy, I’ve been reflecting on a personal ministry [...]

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Grahame’s September Jubilee Celebration

By Grahame Nicolson

 

My salty old Latin teacher, Miss Butler, would surely have been able raspily to proclaim that the infinitive jubilaré means “to shout for joy,” and that our noun jubilee is derived from jubilaré which actually dates back to the Hebrew word [...]

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Mystery Blooms

By Grahame Nicolson

A couple of days ago while taking a morning walk around Karen’s gardens, I was reminded of something Lindsey Dolan told me at Anthony and Jennifer (Hendricks) Skinner’s wedding reception this past Saturday. Lindsey and some of our other Christian [...]

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June 13th Memory

By Grahame Nicolson

On Sunday, June 13th, 1965 (June 14th in Sydney), I was preparing to teach Vacation Bible School in Loma, Montana, when my friend Dave Dixon drove in from Big Sandy to tell [...]

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