October 5, 2024
Then Mother heard about the extraordinary garden at the Seventh-day Adventist church. She heard that children could go to a fun program at the garden. She told Kaston that they would go.
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October 12, 2024
A few nights later, something strange happened again in Sarah’s bedroom. Sarah was scared, and she pulled the blanket over her head and began to cry. Tatum heard her crying and came to her room.
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October 19, 2024
“Well,” the boy said, “someone in our family will probably get sick and die, or die in a car accident. You never know how it’s going to happen, but someone will die in the next month.”
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October 26, 2024
As Great-Grandmother Harriette grew older, the church also grew older. It began to fall apart, and water dripped down the walls when the snow melted. Finally, the church was closed.
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November 2, 2024
She would snuggle in bed at 10 o’clock at night. It was a little difficult to fall sleep because her older sister was still up and wouldn’t go to bed until midnight. Many people go to bed quite late in Savoonga, and they also get up quite late in the morning.
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November 9, 2024
Other girls wanted to pray for their parents and families. Some wanted to pray for themselves. They had friends back at home who took drugs, and they didn’t want to get mixed up in that.
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November 16, 2024
But no one was going to eat ground squirrel for lunch at the camp. If Kingston was disappointed, he didn’t show it. He joined the other children in heartily eating baked potatoes, brown beans, macaroni and cheese, and garlic bread.
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November 23, 2024
Kesia didn’t want to disappoint Josephine, but she didn’t want to go. It was still summer, and she wanted to stay outside to play tag and hide-and-seek and to climb on things.
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November 30, 2024
Liam stopped smiling. He didn’t like being corrected. As Adiv was talking, he ran away again. But this time Adiv knew where he had gone. He and another camp counselor, Jacob, went into the bushes and saw Liam scamper up a tree.
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December 7, 2024
The boat riders kept praying as they headed in the direction of the camp. Finally, two islands appeared on the navigation screen. The islands were located right in front of the shoreline with the camp. The captain steered the boat between the islands and slowed down the engine.
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December 14, 2024
Now, helping out at Vacation Bible School was a friendly teenager named Isaac. Isaac was 16 years old and he had flown to Bethel to help the grown-ups teach the kids about God. He kindly told Nelson that his behavior wasn’t appropriate. “You can join Vacation Bible School and have fun, but you need to behave yourself,” he said. “Otherwise, we’ll have to send you away.”
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December 21, 2024
“We are interested in adopting the child,” Robin said. “Yes, we are,” Frank agreed. Joy promised that she would give Frank and Robin’s contact information to the mother. She cautioned, however, that one or two other sets of parents also were interested in adopting the baby.
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December 28, 2024
Matrona and the others did everything that they could to get the boat unstuck from the sandbar. They got out of the boat and, standing on the sandbar, tried to push it back into the water. The boat remained stuck.
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