Tag: Compassion

• The Real Santa Claus

  

  At the height of a Colorado mountain snowstorm, the real Santa Claus blew in through the rustic front door of the main lodge at the YMCA camp in Estes Park on Christmas Eve 1969. It took two bulky men leaning against the door to get it closed from the inside as they fought the wind…

  Molly Mitchell

  October 10, 2025

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  Arkansas, Bentonville, Bible, Boulder, Christ, Christian, Christmas, Compassion, Faith, Jesus, Nampa, Nazarene, Scripture, Shoebox

• Pen Pal Marty

  

  When color TV came to our basement in the late 60s, it brought with it the bloody reality of the nightly news of Vietnam. The war had been safely gray up to that point. In 1968 I was just seven and in 2nd grade but “Hanoi” and “Saigon” were familiar words to me, though without…

  Molly Mitchell

  August 31, 2022

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  Bible, Christ, Christian, Compassion, Cup of Cold Water, Discernment, Faith, Jesus, Media, Nazarene, Nazarene Child Sponsorship, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, Scripture, Ukraine, Vietnam, War