Operation Christmas Child

Message from UALC: We pray for each shoebox that will be brought to Mill Run this week, from our church and other churches in the area. We pray for the journey of the shoeboxes and the individuals involved in getting them to the children. May the contents of these boxes bring necessities, as well as items of joy and fun to each recipient. We pray for the children and families whose lives will be impacted by the contents, and the message of God and his love.

There will be many more, but this was the stack on November 16, 2024.

The only time Democrats care about women

The same people who didn't care about 

300,000 children missing in the U.S. and possibly trafficked because of Biden's policies,

 
men in women's locker rooms and playing against them in physical sports,

 
who think normal people are Nazis if they don't list pronouns,

find 34 felonies in a bookkeeping error

 
can't tell us what a woman is but can serve as judges or professors

those same people will believe an anonymous woman (yes, for this they will say she's a woman) quoted in a leftist newspaper or social media site about any charges about a male Republican in line for an important corporate or political office.

The problem is left over cookie icing

 RFK Jr can't do it all alone. MAHA can do some things, but it's up to us to exercise, eat fewer calories, drink less and stop smoking. And I could stop cleaning up the bowl of icing after I make the cookies (like I just did).

Melt half a stick of butter, a few drops of vanilla, a dash of salt, and a few scoops of Hersey's cocoa (dark). Mix in enough powdered sugar to make it stiff. If it's too stiff to spread on the cookies, add a little half and half. Spread on cookies. Chocolate makes everything better.

What happened to Title IX?

I asked Google(?) who changed the original meaning of Title IX.

 
Sen. Birch Bayh wrote the original 37 words to insert in an education bill in 1972. It was signed by President Nixon. That still doesn't explain to me how President Biden was allowed to change the law in 2022 to add "Including Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity," in an Executive Order, creating chaos for females in all areas of education. That alone should have been reason enough for all women not to vote for him (or his stand-in, Harris). Let's see if this new case gives women justice. Eventually, women will win in the Supreme Court. There are now biological men competing in women's sports (and other endeavors) who are "women" on their word and nothing else--not drugs, not surgery, long past puberty, just a pure violation of Title IX and with the media as the handmaiden of the violence.

Gaslighters in the sciences

Laura Helmut, editor-in-chief of America’s oldest magazine, Scientific American, resigns after calling Trump voters fascists. She's the fascist. They always accuse others of what they are doing.

If that's what she thinks of us, she should stick by it, and not grovel to get her job back. If she can't handle an election, she needs the rest from a high pressure job and try coal mining, or working the window at McDonald's.

"Helmuth had apologized in a separate post, calling them “offensive and inappropriate” and that they don’t “reflect the position” of Scientific American.

“I respect and value people across the political spectrum,” Helmuth wrote. “These posts, which I have deleted, do not reflect my beliefs; they were a mistaken expression of shock and confusion about the election results.” "

A Bible verse to memorize

I've heard my whole life that memorizing text (poetry, Bible verses, instructions, math solutions, etc. is good), and I wish I could, but I struggle with memorizing. But I've found a Bible verse that's easy to remember, and it's a theme that appears throughout the Bible in many ways and in parables, commands, stories, songs, and history. It fits any period of history and doesn't violate anyone's culture or ethnicity. Psalm 37:3 "Trust in the Lord and do good." It's the same in any translation. Then I'll work on the next part which contains the promise that follows the command, and it is a command.

Men in women's sports

There's an easy way to solve this.   https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/trans-athlete-heckled-womens-sports?   See story below.  There can be a third league. The only reasons not to are 1) an agenda to destroy women's sports, 2) dismantle and destabilize women's sense of purpose and identity, and 3) to make unsafe for women those arenas of society that are set aside to protect or promote them. This will have no effect on Lesbians and Gays; they are women or men. Unlike the acronym, they are not natural allies.

 
We need to start at the universities with medical schools that "affirm" the nonsense at the taxpayers expense, like The Ohio State University, and the various children's hospitals. If men want to play "dress up" and wear mascara or women want to deform their bodies and be sterile, allow them to grow up first. These clinics are not kind, understanding or affirming.

"San Jose State University's women's volleyball was defeated by San Diego State University on Saturday, but the score was not what caused the most commotion.

The game saw around triple the usual attendance; however, much of the crowd was not happy to see SJSU's transgender athlete Blaire Fleming. Born Brayden, Fleming is a 6'1'' male whose inclusion on the team has sparked five separate forfeits from opposing teams and even caused his own teammate to speak out against him."

Billions spent on our election

Every election I think how the huge amounts of money could have been spent for better causes. But not this year. The money spent, both by Democrats and Republicans saved our nation to be a blessing to others. It secured our borders, it attacked waste and frivolous spending that would have been far more expensive if not reduced, it slowed down the wars, and perhaps it was the funeral for wokeism in our military, the bureaucracy and academe. It is the new Jim Crow. Is that too much to hope for?

 
The Democrats' money too helped just by showing us how ridiculous and divisive their policies and goals are. While trying to destroy us, they paid millions to show us the opposite of the values they touted with Americans held hostage for a Jan 6 riot, for Americans and allies killed in August 2021, for the coup that was the opposite of democracy, and their killing of babies and maiming of children.

According to Wall St. Journal today: "Kamala Harris raised more than $1 billion and spent more than $900 million [I don't know where the money Biden raised before he withdrew went], while the Trump campaign raised around $380 million and spent more than $350 million. In swing states Democrats had the edge in campaign spending across the board.

The margin was closest in Pennsylvania, where Democrats spent $109 million to Republicans’ $102 million. In Michigan Democrats spent $81 million to Republicans’ $18 million. In Wisconsin it was $49 million to $15 million, according to AdImpact. Mr. Trump won those states, but more narrowly than his advantage on the issues and the national turn to the right suggest he might have."

We Bruces contributed nothing except indirectly. Our money continued to support pro-life causes, religious freedom causes, conservative non-profits and our church. All those organizations have staff, volunteers and communication systems that speak the truths of the Bible and our Constitution. I hope they spent wisely and prayed about it.