Author: cheez
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Types of Home Exchanges
There are two main home exchange types: Reciprocal Exchange and Non-Reciprocal (Balloon) Exchange Reciprocal Exchanges is how Christian Home Exchange was started. Member A stays in Member B’s home and Member B stays in Member A’s home. Simple! You stay in my home and I stay in your home. Balloon Exchanges allow you to earn…
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Put A Song Back In Your Pastor’s Heart With A Sabbatical
Sometimes, when we hear of how some of our pastor friends are struggling in their ministry, we remember the story of the parakeet who lost his song. Lester the parakeet’s sad story began one day when his owner inadvertently sucked Lester into the vacuum bag while cleaning his cage. After removing Lester from the bag,…
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A Prayer For The Journey
Life with God in Jesus Christ is a gift and it is a journey. Home exchanges can help remind us that this is so. The following prayer was included recently during worship at our local church. It is one of those wondrous and blessed gifts that attend the simple gathering together with other Christians for…
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More Than Just Blending In
God wants me to value my Christian faith enough to talk about it and act upon it. Photo: My Voting Values by onyxkatze is licensed under CC by 2.0.
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Become A Green Traveler With A Home Swap
When we go on vacation, our home sits empty. While away, it is easy to worry about the empty house—water leaks, mold growing, the failure of the furnace or air conditioner to keep running, adequate home security by the security system or alert neighbors. All the usual expenses for our home arrive each month and…
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Touch The Lives Of Others With A Home Exchange
My life shall touch a dozen lives before this day is done, Leave countless marks for good or ill ere sets the setting sun, This is the wish, the prayer I always pray: Lord, may my life help other lives it touches by the way. – Anonymous As a Christian, are you ready to begin…
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Home Exchange – Travel With A Friend
When we travel, we bring along a friend, Rick Steves. We recommend that all our family and friends take Rick along as their travel partner as well. Is Rick busy traveling with us, our family, and our friends? Well, we believe he is a busy traveler, but we have never met Rick. Rick Steves writes…
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Lifestyle Quotes
I came across a couple of quotes that help me as I struggle with my complicated lifestyle. I share them because so many of us put off “really living” and “traveling” because we make everything too complicated. First quote is from Confucius: “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” When I…
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Travel As A Lifestyle
As we prepared to move, in a box of old electronic devices, I found a telephone that had a “cord” attaching the handset to the phone cradle. I showed this ancient piece of equipment to our grandchildren, ages 8 and 10. It was like transporting them back in time. Something else from the old days:…
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Belgium and Home Exchanges
The full name for Belgium is “Kingdom of Belgium.” Belgium is one of the 150 countries which you, as a member of archive.christianhomeexchange.com/, can contact in the HomeExchange.com network. Currently (March 15, 2017), this network has 519Â available home swap listings in Belgium. The capital city of Belgium is Brussels with a population of more than…