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Volunteering on the Island Lesvos

January 4, 2016 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Andrew Frania volunteering in Lesvos {Mom of Many}

On Christmas Day, our son Andrew left his home in Wisconsin to travel half way around the world to volunteer on Lesvos, an island off Greece about 4 miles from Turkey. Daily he scans the horizon for boats full of refugees and then offers hope and safety once they make it to shore. 1000-5000 refugees from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey arrive on the island every week and need to be cared for and directed to resettle in Europe. I have set … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Family, Family Events, My Kids, Notable Acts Tagged With: Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lesvos, Refugee crisis, refugees, Syria, Turkey, volunteers

When God Blows You Away – Parenting Tip #8

November 18, 2015 by Val Frania 7 Comments

When God Blows You Away - the story of our son {Mom of Many}

Today's tip is very simple. Never give up on your kids - no matter what. Our only job as parents is to be faithful. We are to provide for them, love them, teach them and point them to God. When our job is complete and they go out on their own, God will take over and do His work. We must let Him do it and trust His methods. He knows. We don't. We just have to trust. Let me tell you about my son. We adopted our son when he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, My Kids, Notable Acts, Parenting tips Tagged With: Adoption, adoptive parents, family, military, parenting, parenting tips

Woman hiding with kids shoots intruder

January 22, 2013 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday. The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Notable Acts, Political

A Miracle for Justus

July 25, 2012 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago I asked many of you to pray for our little friend, Justus. He had been badly burned and was in immediate need of prayer. Here is his story: "It was Thursday, April 1, 2012, in the early afternoon when my phone rang at work. It was my wife and I knew something had to be wrong because she never called and knew that I wasn't supposed to answer.  I answered the phone with a lump in my throat and immediately knew. She was crying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Notable Acts

Akiane Kramarik’s Prince of Peace

December 17, 2011 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Check out the amazing story of Akiane Kramarik and her art here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Notable Acts

Iowa Couple Married for 72 Years Dies Holding Hands, 1 Hour Apart – ABC News

October 20, 2011 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

  By CHRISTINA NG Oct. 19, 2011 A devoted Iowa couple married for 72 years died holding hands in the hospital last week, exactly one hour apart. The passing reflected the nature of their marriage, where, "As a rule, everything was done together," said the couple's daughter Donna Sheets, 71. Gordon Yeager, 94, and his wife Norma, 90, left their small town of State Center, Iowa, on Wednesday to go into town, but never made it. A car … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Notable Acts

Christian Liberty – Permission to be Free

July 15, 2011 by Val Frania 1 Comment

I made reference a few days ago on my Facebook status that our Pastor, Weng Liew, had "hit one out of the park." He sent me his notes tonight and I have his points listed below. Make sure you slooowwwlyy read through them. At first glance they appear to be the typical sermon on Christian liberty, ie: do right, do your best, don't use your liberty to sin, etc. But take the time to read what he has to say. Read each word carefully. If you do, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Events, Ministry, Notable Acts, Spiritual Truths

Irena Sendler

October 9, 2010 by Val Frania 1 Comment

For many years Irena Sendler - white-haired, gentle and courageous - was living a modest existence in her Warsaw apartment. This unsung heroine passed away on Monday May 12th, 2008. Her achievement went largely unnoticed for many years. Then the story was uncovered by four young students at Uniontown High School, in Kansas, who were the winners of the 2000 Kansas state National History Day competition by writing a play Life in a Jar about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Notable Acts, Things I've Learned

Ben Stein’s CBS Sunday Morning Commentary

September 17, 2010 by Val Frania 1 Comment

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday  Morning  Commentary. My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees...  I don't feel threatened..  I don't feel discrimina ted against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Notable Acts, Political

Daniel Goes to College!

August 30, 2010 by Val Frania 1 Comment

Recently we were able to get funding for Daniel to go to Shepherd's college. He's happy as a clam and enjoying college life. His teachers told us at our visit last week that he's an excellent student. I said in my heart, "Of course he is, he's a Frania!" I guess I can't claim humbleness when it comes to my kids. The first year he will work on the basics like math  and grammar. The second year he will begin either horticulture or culinary studies. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Events, My Kids, Notable Acts Tagged With: college, FASD, Shepherds

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Don’t shoot the messenger.

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" Galatians 4:16

Learn to Learn

"The first object of teaching, then, is to stimulate in the pupil the love of learning, and to form in him the habits and ideals of independent study." ~ John Milton Gregory

Allergic to Smoke?

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." ~ C.T. Studd

Abraham Lincoln on Criticism

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

Consider the Cost

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." ~Winston Churchill

Charles Spurgeon

"Our blessed Lord reveals himself to his people more in the valleys, in the shades, in the deeps, than he does anywhere else. He has a way and an art of showing himself to his children at midnight, making the darkness light by his presence."

Progress through Perseverance

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; And who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight of life, knowing neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The Reformed Pastor – Richard Baxter

“We must carry on our work with patience. We must bear with many abuses and injuries from those to whom we seek to do good. When we have studied for them, and prayed for them, and exhorted them, and beseeched them with all earnestness and condescension, and given them what we are able, and tended them as if they had been our children, we must look that many of them will requite us with scorn and hatred and contempt, and account us their enemies, because we ‘tell them the truth.’ Now, we must endure all this patiently, and we must unweariedly hold on in doing good, ‘in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.’ We have to deal with distracted men who will fly in the face of their physician, but we must not, therefore, neglect their cure. He is unworthy to be a physician, who will be driven away from a frenetic patient by foul words. Yet, alas, when sinners reproach and slander us for our love, and are more ready to spit in our faces, than to thank us for our advice, what heart-risings will there be, and how will the remnants of old Adam (pride and passion) struggle against the meekness and patience of the new man! And how sadly do many ministers come off under such trials!”

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