Author: cheez
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Living A Global Life
Buying a home is an emotional experience. Your heart may even get to outvote your head in the decision. Usually, we love our homes. As a real estate broker, I have often seen people purchase a new home based on their sense of who they are. Their house is more than a house. It is…
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Home Swap in Grand Rapids Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the Grand River, is 25 miles from Lake Michigan. The population is about 200,000, but the population of the greater metropolitan area of Grand Rapids is over 1 million. Besides being a great vacation destination, there are lots of others reasons that Grand Rapids is an excellent place for doing a…
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Imagine The Best Job In The World!
Imagine what a difference it would make if every pastor in every congregation could look forward to a three-month sabbatical every four years! Imagine especially what a difference this would make to pastors serving smaller congregations. Nothing silly about that! Imagine what a difference it would make if high school students saw the ministry as…
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Fear, Failure, and Home Exchanges
The wonderful PBS series by Ken Burns, The Rooseveldts: An Intimate History is a great history lesson, and inspirational. The lives of three Rooseveldts were chronicled: Teddy, FDR, and Eleanor. They did not live fearfully, nor did they worry about failure. In his first inaugural address (1932), Franklin D. Rooseveldt uttered the famous phrase, “The only thing…
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The Netherlands and Home Exchanges
If you are thinking to travel to The Netherlands, be sure to check out home exchange listings in The Netherlands. The Netherlands is one of the 150 countries which you, as a member of archive.christianhomeexchange.com/, can contact in The Home Exchange Network. Currently (February 22, 2017), this network has 2,314 available home swap listings. The…
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USA.gov Resources For International Travel
Is it time to try something different? Maybe do a home exchange, instead of a hotel? Maybe seek an international destination? If so, visit USA.gov for some helpful resources. This site provides lots of international travel resources: * Americans Abroad – Assistance During a Crisis * Americans Living and Traveling Abroad * Authentication of Documents…
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The Great Commission and Home Exchanges
At a church I served as pastor, we had a guest pastor program called Pastors2Go. One of our guest pastors—on a clergy sabbatical from her job as Chaplain at the University of Leeds England—was leading a Bible study. Both she and her husband shared the importance of going and doing for Christian discipleship. They shared…
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The Home Exchange Staycation Is Win-Win!
The recession and deflated real estate prices left many feeling the blues. Thousands of dollars of home equity vanished. For some this means the loss of hope that they can take a vacation, retire, or go on a sabbatical. It is easy to think there is no light at the end of this tunnel—and find…
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Christian Home Exchange in Hungary
Hungary, located in central Europe, is a member of the European Union. Hungary is one of the 150 countries which you, as a member of archive.christianhomeexchange.com/, can contact in The Home Exchange Network. Currently (February 16, 2017), this network has 370 available home swap listings. The capital of Hungary is Budapest. This beautiful city has…
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Pulpit Exchanges
I just read a very exciting—and a very disheartening—article in a church newsletter. Two pastors in Montana did a pulpit exchange for one Sunday. The article refers to this as an “opportunity” for two pastors and two congregations to “link up” as those sharing life in the same community—and in Christ. News of two churches…