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Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economyby Shane Hamilton
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Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly/i>
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Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests.
Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars and free-market fanaticism of the 1990s. As Hamilton shows, truckers helped build an economic order that brought low-priced consumer goods to a greater number of Americans. They piloted the big rigs that linked America's factory farms and agribusiness food processors to suburban supermarkets across the country.
Trucking Country is the gripping account of truckers whose support of post-New Deal free enterprise was so virulent that it sparked violent highway blockades in the 1970s. It's the story of "bandit" drivers who inspired country songwriters and Hollywood filmmakers to celebrate the "last American cowboy," and of ordinary blue-collar workers who helped make possible the deregulatory policies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and set the stage for Wal-Mart to become America's most powerful corporation in today's low-price, low-wage economy.
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Joe Cushnan
Jordan Kleiman
Jonathan Birchall
David Kusnet
Matthew Lassiter
Michael Foley
Joseph E. Lowndes
Peter J. Hugill
Jesse Walker
Michael Pierce
Independent trucking is for Hamilton what Kansas was for Frank--the locus that shows a part of what has gone wrong with American politics.
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"This detailed, closely argued book chronicles the U.S. trucking industry's history, particularly its role in rolling back New Deal policies and regulations. Hamilton is a knowledgeable guide to everything from beef trusts to the National Farmers Organization to the 1979 strike that opens the book, in which 75,000 truckers tried to shut down the nation's highway system. Economy and market buffs looking for a different perspective on America's 20th century economic evolution will find this intriguing and informative."--Publishers Weekly
"With the US again engaged in a debate over the merits of regulation versus the free market, the book's academic research touches on some timely historical issues. It is also a fascinating account of the political battles over the diesel engine and the refrigerated truck, which had emerged as the new technology of the 1920s and 1930s and a threat to the dominance of the railroad distribution system for beef and milk by a few large meat packing companies and local dairies."--Jonathan Birchall, Financial Times
"Trucking Country offers a finely crafted mix of cultural identity, regional tradition, economic history, legislative politics, political argument and policy transformation. Shane Hamilton uses the history and contemporary development of the trucking industry in the U.S. to reveal the social, economic and political dynamics that were instrumental in shifting the industry away from the heavy regulation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) towards deregulation, fragmentation, and free-market competition."--Michael Foley, Times Higher Education
"Independent trucking is for Hamilton what Kansas was for Frank--the locus that shows a part of what has gone wrong with American politics."--David Kusnet, Bookforum
"Trucking Country intervenes in [the] crowded debate over the demise of New Deal liberalism from a genuinely original vantage point: the political culture of independent long-haul truckers and the political economy shaped by the agribusiness corporations that they served."--Matthew Lassiter, Democracy
"If you want to know what really drives the US economy, then this thoroughly researched and well-written book is for you--and that's a big 10-4, Rubber Duck."--Joe Cushnan, The Tribune (UK)
"[B]y drawing together structural, institutional, economic, and cultural analyses, Hamilton has offered a dense, textured, and complex account of his subject. Trucking Country is essential to any understanding of the decline of the New Deal and the rise of economic conservatism at the end of the twentieth century."--Joseph E. Lowndes, Perspectives on Politics
"A brilliant read."--Fleet Transportation Magazine
"[U]ndeniably a major achievement. Shane Hamilton has written a brilliant book that will be required reading for anyone interested ill understanding the conservative groundswell of the postwar era."--Jordan Kleiman, Technology and Culture
"This is a convincing and useful book."--Peter J. Hugill, Journal of American History
"[A] fascinating study of the hauling business. . . . From the 1930s through the end of the Carter administration, Hamilton's history is thoughtful, detailed, and informative."--Jesse Walker, Reason
"Trucking Country is imaginative, thought-provoking, and persuasive. . . . [N]o scholarly work is more essential for understanding the transformation of Northwest Arkansas."--Michael Pierce, Arkansas Historical Quarterly
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By Shane Hamilton
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Chapter OneFood and Power in the New Deal, 1933-42
"The city-dweller or poet who regards the cow as a symbol of bucolic serenity," declared U.S. Circuit Court judge Jerome Frank in 1941, "is indeed naïve." Presiding over an acrimonious legal battle involving the price of milk, Frank noted that the liquid gently coaxed from a cow's udder might be "indispensable to human health," but it was also responsible for "provoking as much human strife and nastiness as strong alcoholic beverages." Frank had witnessed such nastiness firsthand as a member of the "Brains Trust" in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration. As legal counsel for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Frank spent much of his time shaping federal milk policies, attempting to hammer out compromises among dairy farmers, milk bottlers, deliverymen organized in labor unions, and urban consumers. Earning himself a reputation as a "brilliant wild man" and a "potent left-winger" for his work on behalf of small black and white farmers, Frank worked to craft agricultural policies that would also benefit urban workers and consumers, even if those benefits came at the expense of large farmers and food processors. Frank's prolabor and proconsumer efforts at the AAA put him at odds with the first administrator of the agency, George N. Peek, who pegged Frank as an intellectual city-boy and tried unsuccessfully to have him fired. Peek's successor, Chester C. Davis, likewise saw Frank's politics as counter to the USDA's core constituency of commercial farmers, and in February of 1935 "purged" Frank and dozens of his like-minded colleagues from the AAA. Milk politics alone did not doom Frank's career as an economic liberal within the Department of Agriculture, but his efforts to frame farm policy as an issue of concern to all Americans highlighted one of the central tensions within the New Deal.
The bitter fights surrounding the price of milk during Frank's brief tenure in the AAA represented a broader political struggle over farm and food policies during the early years of the New Deal. In response to the Great Depression, organized farmers, consumers, businessmen, and laborers all renounced laissez-faire ideology and demanded government intervention in the food economy. The New Deal policies erected in response to these conflicting demands engendered prolonged debates over the proper role of the state in regulating and administering the economy. Of particular concern was the decades-old dilemma of monopoly power in an age of mass produced and mass consumed food. Should the government break up monopolies such as the widely reviled "Milk Trust" or the "Big Four" meatpackers to protect the interests of small farmers and urban consumers? Or would action against these efficient businesses, which employed thousands of workers, actually do more harm than good in an economy reeling from underconsumption in the city and overproduction on the farm? The answers to these questions would dictate the future of New Deal economic liberalism, since government intervention in the food economy inherently affected every U.S. producer, consumer, and worker. Neither conservatives nor liberals could readily justify "free enterprise" in the farm economy at a time of worldwide economic crisis-yet neither could they agree on how the state could effectively intervene to benefit the greatest number of Americans.
From the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt's term in office until the entry of the United States into World War II, antimonopoly and agrarian rhetoric clashed with the reality of farm policies that benefited large-scale farmers and powerful food processors at the expense of smaller farmers, urban workers, and consumers. Beset by conflicting demands from all of these groups, liberal New Dealers such as Jerome Frank and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace struggled to balance the concerns of workers, consumers, and small farmers with the interests of corporate agriculture. Their efforts, though only partially successful, made government regulation of private farming and food processing enterprises a central but deeply controversial aspect of New Deal political economy. As later chapters show, the expansion of long-haul trucking transformed the nature of this political question, as powerful agribusinesses relied on unregulated trucking to develop "free market" solutions to the New Dealera farm problem. To understand that transformation, however, we must first understand the roots of the farm problem and its implications for the political economy of the New Deal in an era of railroad-based transportation. Despite the economic liberalism that animated the New Deal in a time of depression, the material reality of a transportation infrastructure forged during the Gilded Age required significant compromises-particularly the acceptance of a certain degree of monopoly power within the farm and food economy.
The Great Depression and the Farm Problem
The onset of the Great Depression in 1929 put farm prices and food costs front and center in U.S. politics, but the issue had deeper historical roots. The "farm problem" first became politically salient during the Populist movements of the 1880s and 1890s. Southern tenant farmers pressed by the credit squeeze of the crop lien system, along with northern plains farmers struggling to adjust to globalizing wheat markets, called for a strong federal government to countervail the power of the nation's "money interests"-landlords, banks, and especially railroads. Although the Populists failed to elect their presidential candidates in the 1892 and 1896 elections, they successfully put the farm problem on the nation's political agenda. Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century adapted many of the Populists' ideas as new legislation and policies, from the strengthening of the Interstate Commerce Commission to the establishment of rural producers' cooperatives to improve the leverage of farmers in agricultural markets. These policy efforts had some success in mitigating the farm problem, but even more important was the rising global demand for U.S. farm products that drove up prices in the 1910s. The period leading up to and through World War I witnessed a "golden age of agriculture" that significantly defused political agitation by farmers.
The farm problem returned to the nation's political consciousness with a vengeance in the 1920s. Huge surpluses created by production for World War I led to a postwar drop in farm prices and an agricultural depression. Congressmen from rural states in the South and West reacted by forming a "farm bloc" devoted to increasing farmer's incomes, either by limiting agricultural production, by dumping surpluses on foreign markets, or by guaranteeing farmers a "parity" price for their crops. Attempts to pass legislation such as the McNary-Haugen Bill foundered in the 1920s, however, as farm representatives from different regions of the country could not reach consensus on the proper mechanism for assuring steady farm incomes. But when the Great Depression struck in 1929, desperate farmers called urgently upon the federal government for relief. Herbert Hoover's Farm Board attempted to implement the least statist proposals of the McNary-Haugen era-particularly voluntary marketing associations to shore up farm prices-but with little success. Most farmers, as individual business owners, refused to cooperatively reduce their production to increase prices. The agricultural depression continued. As farm prices and credit structures collapsed, sending even formerly prosperous U.S. farmers deeply into debt, laissez-faire ideology lost its hold in the countryside, paving the way for heavy government intervention in the depressed rural economy.
One of the Roosevelt administration's first acts was to sign into law the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933. The legislation sought to shore up farmers' incomes through both price supports and production controls, making centralized economic planning the cornerstone of New Deal farm policy. Price supports were meant to guarantee stability in the agricultural marketplace, with the visible hand of government creating what Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace called an "ever-normal granary" through federal purchases of surplus crops. Production controls, meanwhile, would force farmers to reduce the amount of acreage planted to crops through an unprecedented extension of government power. These policies-which combined government subsidization with planned scarcity-helped raise farm incomes for many commercial farmers, but at the cost of forcing thousands of small farmers, tenants, and sharecroppers off the land. Even as the AAA sought to limit farmers' production, the scientific bureaus of the USDA continued to push farmers to use pesticides, fertilizers, hybrid crops, and tractors to boost yields. Encouraged by economists such as M. L. Wilson, who helped formulate the AAA production control policies, the USDA's technological and scientific efforts from the late nineteenth century into the 1930s focused on creating giant industrial farms where commodities could be produced factory-style. New Deal farm policies reaped rewards for the Democratic Party by securing solid political support from large commercial farmers, but also pushed many small, "inefficient" farmers out of the market. The AAA consequently offended conservatives as an affront to free enterprise while liberals decried the programs for harming the most vulnerable members of rural society. As we shall see, this tension between large and small farmers, and between conservatives and liberals, would shape farm policy debates for several decades after the economic crisis of the Great Depression.
The farm problem, however, was not just a problem for farmers. The price of milk, meat, bread, and produce impacted every U.S. family trying to put food on the table during a devastating depression. The AAA's focus on taming overproduction put farm policies at odds with other New Deal economic reforms, since raising farm prices increased the cost of food for urban industrial laborers and consumers, who were also members of the emerging Democratic coalition. Even as agricultural policymakers formulated plans for slashing production of midwestern wheat crops in the spring of 1933, unemployed factory workers queued up in breadlines in the nation's largest cities. In the summer of 1933 bakers began charging eight to ten cents for loaves of bread that had previously cost five cents. Consumers around the country blamed farm policies for inflating the price of bread and flooded the offices of President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace with letters demanding change. In the fall of 1933 and spring of 1934, the farm program came under heated attacks when Wallace ordered six million hogs culled and one-quarter of the southern cotton crop plowed under to increase market prices. Critics of the New Deal ridiculed the Roosevelt administration for destroying food and fiber when millions of Americans were starving and poorly clothed. The federal government appeared to be subsidizing powerful farmers and rural landlords at city dwellers' expense.
In an effort to stave off a full-scale revolt against New Deal farm policy, Wallace appointed veteran trustbuster Frederic C. Howe to the office of AAA Consumers' Counsel in June 1933. An ally of Jerome Frank, Rexford Tugwell, and other urban liberals in the AAA who hoped to transform the entire agricultural economy rather than merely raise farm prices, Howe gained the authority to investigate consumer complaints against food processors, distributors, and retailers. Although Howe's actions had no direct impact on New Deal farm policies, his office energized a growing consumer movement. By publishing the Consumers' Guide, a master list of food prices in the nation's major cities, Howe hoped to "awaken public sentiment and put its power behind the drive to get more money for the farmer without gouging the consumer." Howe worked assiduously to prevent profiteering in the food economy-so assiduously, in fact, that he was included in the "great purge" of liberals from the AAA in 1935. Although Secretary of Agriculture Wallace sympathized with and encouraged Howe's antitrust harangues, AAA administrator George N. Peek believed that consumer purchasing power was outside the ambit of the farm program. As Peek put it, the AAA was part of the Department of Agriculture, not the "Department of Everything."
The split between agrarians and urban-industrial reformers within the Department of Agriculture in the early years of the New Deal was due in part to the divergent personal histories of the individual policymakers involved. Agrarian reformers-represented by farm leaders George N. Peek and Henry A. Wallace, economists M. L. Wilson and Howard R. Tolley, and sociologist Carl C. Taylor-were all born in the rural Midwest, had been educated at midwestern land-grant schools, and either began their early careers working as farm businessmen (Peek and Wallace) or as agricultural economists or rural sociologists in the USDA/land-grant college complex (Wilson, Tolley, Taylor). Wallace, for instance, was the grandson of Henry Wallace-the founder of the influential farm journal Wallace's Farmer-and the son of Henry Cantwell Wallace, who served as secretary of agriculture under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. Before becoming Franklin Roosevelt's first secretary of agriculture, Henry A. Wallace attended Iowa State College, wrote scientific articles and political editorials for Wallace's Farmer, and in 1914 founded the hybrid seed corn company that later became Pioneer Hi-Bred. Wallace was no conservative-he firmly believed the federal government could and should intervene in the agricultural economy to nurture a Jeffersonian republic of landed farmers, and furthermore believed the government should play an active role in diffusing scientific knowledge to those farmers. Wallace's politics were forged, however, in the rural Midwest, where white family farmers did not encounter the same racial tensions and extremes of poverty and wealth that plagued the farmscapes of the South and West and the industrial cores of the nation's largest cities. The urban-industrial reformers who joined the New Deal Department of Agriculture, by contrast, formed their political consciousnesses in more cosmopolitan spheres far removed from heartland agriculture. Rexford G. Tugwell, Jerome Frank, and Frederic C. Howe were all born in the urbanized Northeast, attended prestigious private colleges, and spent their early careers practicing law or teaching in Ivy League universities. Jerome Frank, for instance, was born in New York City in 1889 to German-Jewish immigrants who later moved to Chicago. At the age of sixteen Frank entered the University of Chicago, where he studied political science before entering the Law School, from which he graduated with the highest grades in that school's history. After spending several years on Wall Street practicing corporate law, Frank met Felix Frankfurter, an influential Harvard legal theorist who, like Frank, sympathized with the politically and economically disempowered members of U.S. society. Frankfurter, a personal friend of Franklin Roosevelt, encouraged Frank to join the Department of Agriculture in 1933 as Rexford Tugwell's top legal aide. Frank took the job, and brought with him a host of like-minded cosmopolitan reformers, including a young Alger Hiss, Thurman Arnold, and Adlai Stevenson.
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We chose this hotel because it had some of the highest ratings...what are people's standards, these days? When we arrived at 4:30pm, one and a half hours AFTER the check-in time, we were told one of our two rooms was not ready. I asked what time check in was and I was told, "3pm but there's a Hockey Tournament group staying here as well." I'm sorry, but what does that have to do with your housekeeping department not having my room ready? We were given a $20 discount on the room, which we paid $189 a night for to begin with. When we pulled up to the hotel after driving through the ghetto for what seemed to be 30 minutes, I was shocked to see the location of the hotel. We were about a 10 minute drive from downtown Providence, not within walking distance of anything at all besides maybe a KFC. When we got into our rooms (adjoining), the bathroom is outdated, looks like housekeeping does not pay attention to detail when cleaning, and is the size of a small closet, literally. The sink drain had something crusted into it, the paint near the bottom of the door frame was old and peeling, and the shower had mold and mildew grown into the tile grout. It was disgusting. The bed was large but felt like sleeping on a piece of plywood. The comforter cover feels like it is made of some kind of water resistant plastic, and the pillows are huge and impossible for anyone to lay their head down on. I have been in many hotels before and I would even rate the Quality Inn in Great Lakes, Chicago, as being cleaner than this room. I have stayed at Courtyard by Marriott in Orlando, Florida and that hotel outdid this one by many, many miles. The adjoining room was the same story, so this tells me we didn't just have an isolated bad experience. We didn't use the pools or any other amenities, we only stayed for one night but when I visit a hotel, cleanliness and comfort are priority over the amenities.
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Washburn's Memorial Union serves as the center of campus life, providing educational, cultural, social and recreational services that are integral to the academic experience. The Union serves as the "living room" of campus, a place Ichabods have gone to relax, eat, meet and play since 1951.
April 18-22: Union Daze "Junk to Funk" National Earth Week
April 18: Earth Week Kickoff - Main Level - 11am-1:30pm - Eco presentation with LIVE ANIMALS from the Topeka Zoo! - "Junk to Funk" projects!
April 19: Gardening Day - Get your dirt on! - 10am-4pm - Volunteers begin work to revitalize the Union Courtyard - T-shirt giveaway!
April 20: Coffee Talks - Union Underground - 11am-1:30pm - Free Coffee & Discussion - Recycling, How are we doing? - The Tallgrass Prairie, What's it Good For?
April 21: Gardening Day - Get your dirt on! -10am-4pm - Volunteers continue work to revitalize the Union Courtyard - T-shirt giveaway!
April 22: Earth Day Fair - Scorch on the Porch -11am-1:30pm - Join us on the East Lawn for food, games, and entertainment! Reduce - Reuse - Recycle Vendors!
April 27: International Gourmet Buffet - All you care to eat buffet featuring cuisine from Italy, Greece, Pan-Asia, & Spain! Washburn A - 11am-1:30pm - $9 advance $10 door
May 3: Success Week Scorch on the Porch – 11am-1:30pm East Lawn
May 4: Coffee Talks - Union Underground - 11am-1:30pm - Free Coffee & Discussion
May 5: Cinco de Mayo Celebration – Great Food & Entertainment – 11am-1:30pm Union Market
May 9: Late Night Breakfast – Free Food, Games, Prizes, and Entertainment! 9pm-10:30pm – Union Market


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- Church Based After School Ministry: Presenting the Gospel to Children
- Church Based After School Ministry – Don't Give In To "BORING"
- KidTrek – After School Ministry: Are You Providing Relational Ministry?
- Church Based After School: WHAT IS YOUR INTENTIONAL GOAL?
- Church Based After School Ministry: What Type of Ministry Does Your Church Have?
- Church Based After School: "Life's A Pain"
- Church Based After School Ministry: SUMMER
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Church Based After School Ministry: Presenting the Gospel to Children
Posted in Christian After School Programs, Christian After School Training, Church Based After School Programs, Discipling Children, Presenting the Gospel to Children, Relational Ministry, Training After School Programs
Tagged After School Program Training, Discipling Children, Presenting the gospel to children, spirituality
Church Based After School Ministry – Don't Give In To "BORING"
We had a half-hour before the end of the day and I had four rambunctious sixth grade boys.
"Come on I have a game to teach you. Sit on the floor here with me."
They grudgingly came and sat down as I announced that we were going to play Rhythms.
"Rhythms? What's that!" one boy whined.
"I'll teach you this will be fun."
"The goal of this game is that you want to be #1. I will be the first #1 and you want to get me out of my spot by getting me to call off the wrong number or not being in rhythm." I explained.
I proceeded to show them how to hit their folded legs with their hands, then clap, then snap, snap. They had great difficulty getting their hands to cooperate – they immediately wanted to give up.
As I snapped my right thumb and middle finger I called "Number One." Then I snapped my left fingers and called "Number Four." Maurice was Number Four and he called out "Number Four" but couldn't get someone else's number out in time.
"This is BORING" Maurice complained and the other three chimed in "BORING!"
I insisted that they could do this, I insisted it wasn't boring – the complaints continued.
I praised them for their effort and promised it might take time but if we worked at it they would get it. As much as I insisted that they could do this they insisted that this was BORING and we should stop, "Can't we just play a game on the computers," they begged.
"No! You are going to do this," I continued to insist.
Then suddenly something happened, suddenly their hands and fingers did what they wanted them to do. Suddenly they were calling out the numbers – SUDDENLY I GOT OFF RHYTHM and had to go to the end of the circle. Raymond moved into the Number One spot.
The next thing we knew we were being called in for Family Time – the closing of the day.
I will forever remember as they headed out the door,
KidTrek – After School Ministry: Are You Providing Relational Ministry?
Imagine that someone came running in yelling,
"Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming! He's going to be over at the park
on ______________________."
Some of you would rush out because you would really want to see Jesus. Wow! What an exciting afternoon.
Others of you know this is going to be a juicy afternoon. The Pharisees are going to be there! Will they be able to trap Jesus this time?
Can you picture Jesus sitting there on a rock? The crowd is seated down all around him and there is a sense of excitement.
How will Jesus answer the difficult questions that the Pharisees are putting to him?
The air is filled with tension!
Jesus is calm. He knows that He has the answers and He gives them slowly and deliberately. You marvel at how He never falters. The Pharisees are never able to stump Him.
A baby in his mother's arms begins to whimper. He has been sick for more than a week. She has taken him to all the doctors. She has done everything that everyone has suggested, but still the baby has become more ill. She looks down at the pain-filled face of her precious infant thinking,
"Oh, if only I could have Jesus lay His hands on my baby."
The mother looks at the crowd that is between her and Jesus. A shiver runs down her spine; she knows what she has to do, but she is afraid. What will people think? What will the Pharisees say when she interrupts?
The baby whimpers again. The mother knows she must get her baby to Jesus.
She stands and begins to move, cautiously at first.
Then a father on the other side of the crowd sees her and, looking at his sixth grade son thinks, "Oh, if I can just get my son to Jesus, perhaps He'll pray for him; then I know he
will be less rebellious.
Suddenly others see and join them, pushing forward with their children, wanting so badly to bring their children to Jesus.
BUT – there is a barrier! How do they get past those 12 men?
"Don't bother Jesus with the children. Can't you see He is in an important debate right now? Take the children away," one of the men shouts.
"Move back! Move back! You are disrupting things! People can't hear with your crying baby. Take it to the back where it won't be disruptive!"
Can you hear the rebukes of the disciples as they push the people back?
But listen to Jesus' words:
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
Look what happens next! It says so much about the importance of our ministry to the children.
Jesus took the children in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them.
Jesus didn't minister from a distance. He did not hold his hand out and bless the mass of children from afar.
No, He took the children in His arms. He touched them! He held them!
Can you see the mother as she lays her precious infant in Jesus' arms? Jesus looks gently down at him and smiles. He softly touches the baby's forehead. What sweet words of blessing is Jesus praying over the child?
Watch for a few moments as Jesus takes one child after another and blesses them.
As you begin a new school year how are you going to bless the children? What does relational ministry mean to you?
Contact me at wanda@kidtrek if you need some help to think this through. How much of a difference do you want to make in the lives of the children you serve in the coming year?
Posted in After School Program Training, After School Volunteer Training, Child Discipleship, Christian After School Programs, Discipling Children
Tagged After School Program Training, After school programs, Child Discipleship, Discipling Children, No Child Left Behind, Relational Ministry
Church Based After School: WHAT IS YOUR INTENTIONAL GOAL?
I was living and working in a migrant labor camp in Texas – above are pictures of myself and husband (who I met while serving there). We were VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) Volunteers, part of President Johnson's war on poverty. I was just out of college and had such huge dreams of making a difference.
Never will I forget the day that Lupe knocked on our door and asked if I would like to accompany her to court. She was going to court with two boys, both 12 year olds. They had put bricks on the railroad track and derailed a train.
I didn't hesitate – to get out of the heat of the Texas sun and sit idly in the back of an air-conditioned courtroom sounded like an enjoyable afternoon. LITTLE DID I KNOW WHAT GOD HAD IN STORE FOR ME. As we entered the court I sat in the last row while Lupe went to the front to be with the boys.
The judge came in and asked the two boys to stand in front of him. Caesar wore a filthy, worn baseball cap. Pedro stood with his head bowed and never looked at the judge.
"Take that cap off!" the judge demanded in a gruff voice.
Pedro and Caesar didn't move.
"I told you to take that cap off! Take it off now!." the judge said in a slow gruff voice.
Again, neither boy moved.
Shouting this time, "Did you hear me? I told you to take that cap off! Do so now!"
Again, neither boy moved.
"You, you sitting out there," the judge shouted pointing at me. "You've come into our small community thinking that you know everything. You think that you can tell us how to run our community. Well we'll see. We'll see if you have all the answers or not! I'm putting these two boys into your custody!
He hit the bench with his gavel. I sat there not able to move. What had just happened? This was supposed to be an easy afternoon, a little time out of the heat. Now at 21 I had custody of two twelve-year olds. What do you do with two boys who are about to become teenagers? Were they to live with us?
As we drove back to the Labor Camp Lupe and I talked about the options available to me. We decided it would be best for the boys to spend nights with their parents and spend days with us. Joe and Ellen, my two roommates and fellow Vista Volunteers, had a good laugh as I explained what had happened – that is until they realized how this impacted them too.
One of the first things we learned was that Caesar wouldn't remove his cap because he had a scalp disease and his hair was all patchy. Joe took him to town to pick out a new, clean cap. A daily routine was making sure his head and cap were clean.
We checked with the school to see how they were doing. Because they were the children of migrant laborers and moved a lot the school was basically warehousing them. We requested they be tested. It took a little pressuring but eventually the tests were administered. Caesar had an IQ of 69, Pedro's was 48.
Caesar and Pedro had no idea what the consequences would be when they placed those bricks on the railroad track. They were merely having fun trying to balance the bricks.
For the next few months I worked hard with the school and their parents figuring out what would be best for them. In the end we were able to get them enrolled in a residential school for mentally challenged children.
I remember the day I took them to the school. They were excited and I knew that they were going to receive training that would give them skills to function as adults on their own.
As I drove out of the school grounds I had a sense of accomplishment, a sense I had done something good.
Caesar and Pedro were American invisible children – there was no one in their lives who cared enough or had the sophistication to get them the help they needed. Little did the judge realize what a blessing it was for those boys when he placed them in my custody.
But as the years have passed I have often felt that those boys may have been left behind.
Not once did I speak to them about Jesus.
What did I truly give them if I gave them the whole world but they lose their souls? Mark 8:36
Years later, when I was concerned about the outcome of my own children the Triune God taught me what motivates most of us in what we do as we serve others. Motivation for What We Do In the years that I served in inner cities I saw this motivation over and over again. Just one example of what I observed.
Posted in After School Program Training, Child Discipleship, Christian After School Programs, Christian After School Training, Church Based After School Programs, Invisible Children, Mentoring, Training After School Programs
Tagged After School Program Training, After school programs, After school training, at-risk kids, Discipling Children, migrant labor camp, Relational Ministry, vista volunteers
Church Based After School Ministry: What Type of Ministry Does Your Church Have?
Are you satisfied with the results of this Past year?
Look at the chart below – which type of ministry have you been a part of this past year?
If you would like to have a Youth Development Ministry read through the three following links.
At Risk Kids Need Secondary Nurturers
What At Risk Kids Receive from Secondary Nurtuers
Posted in After School Program Training, After School Volunteer Training, Child Discipleship, Christian After School Programs, Youth Development; Deficit Center
Tagged After school programs, After school training, At-risk kids;After school programs;children;Christian l, Youth Development, youth development training
Church Based After School: "Life's A Pain"
As we walk through life with children and guide them to walk with the Triune God it is important that we teach them the full truth. . .
Life often is a pain!
What are you teaching the children you serve, or your own children, about pain that never goes away no matter how much they beg God to take it from them? This is especially important as you serve at-risk children – their lives are filled with so much pain. Just because they grow to love Jesus and walk with them much of that pain will remain.
Please don't lie to them and tell them that if they submit to Jesus that everything will be okay. IT WON"T BE
When we try to sugar coat life we cause more pain. If you have been a follower of my Blog you have perhaps read My Heart's Cry – the story which taught me the importance of not over protecting our children.
My pastor, Todd Rettberg, is a pastor who truly pastors – he knows what you need when you are in the midst of pain because he lives with constant, continual pain that never leaves. I know from personal experience that he walks his talk. God has my husband and me on a very difficult journey filled with physical and emotional pain – Todd is walking with us through it.
I highly recommend his new book to anyone who serves children. It is important that we teach children that God doesn't always answer our prayers the way we want. You can find some answers to share not only with children – but adults who question if God cares when they are in the midst of pain and there is no relief.
Life's a Pain!
But God has treasures to impart through it.
As a pastor who suffers from chronic pain himself, Todd Rettberg knows what it can do to people and families. With straight talk, humor and compassion, he shows Christians how to find God In the midst of suffering.
Available at:
Crosslink Publishing
The e-book is also available at Amazon.
Posted in After School Program Training, After School Volunteer Training, at-risk kids, Child Discipleship, Christian After School Programs, Christian After School Training, Christian living, Life's A Pain
Tagged After School Program Training, After school training, Child Discipleship, continual pain, Discipling Children, faith, Life's A Pain, Nurturing Children
Church Based After School Ministry: SUMMER
Summer gives you amazing opportunities to touch the lives of the children you serve.
- Don't do the same old thing you do through the school year.
Kids need change – adults need change too.
Summer is a time to loosen up and have fun.
Summer is a great time to teach children how to take a vision – plan it out, develop the vision and then implement the vision.
Learning to plan is a vital skill that children must learn in order to succeed in life. In her book "A Framework for Understanding Poverty," Ruby Payne writes:
"If an individual depends upon a random episodic story structure for memory patterns, lives in an unpredictable environment, and has not developed the ability to plan, then …
"If an individual cannot plan, he/she cannot predict…
"If an individual cannot predict, he/she cannot identify cause and effect…
"If an individual cannot identify cause and effect, he/she cannot identify consequence…
"If an individual cannot identify consequence, he/she cannot control impulsivity…
"If an individual cannot control impulsivity, he/she has an inclination toward criminal behavior."
If we are going to disciple the whole child we must teach them the skill of planning. When you have kids for a week you can walk them through the process of planning and implementing an event. They discover, perhaps for the first time, that they are able to create, to do some critical thinking for the best outcome and they have the skills to actually carry through on what they have planned.
Samples of such Day Camps are: The Fun Zone (they create a Penny Carnival they hold at the end of the week), County Fair (they work all week to create a fair which includes art judging, animals, baking, plants and a carnival), Christmas in Summer (they study how Christmas is celebrated in different countries and create an evening celebration of all these customs for friends and families.)
The wonder and excitement as the kids implement what they have created is amazing.
Posted in After School Program Training, After School Summer Curriculum, After School Summer Programming, at-risk kids, Christian After School Curriculum, Christian After School Training, Church Based After School Programs
Tagged At-risk kids;After school programs;children;Christian l, Children's Summer Ministry, Teaching kids to plan


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There were 70 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. At that time, there were 1,457 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Burglary arrest: A delivery truck driver observed three men loading stolen property from a residence in the 19600 block of East Kettleman Lane in Lodi into a silver Honda Accord about 10:45 a.m. Monday. Sheriff's deputies responded, located the vehicle and arrested Jose Pimentel, 20, Salvador Collazo, 21, and Antonio Torres, 22, on suspicion of burglary, possession of stolen property and conspiracy.
Weapons arrest: Community Response Team officers responded to a report of shots fired about 8:50 p.m. Monday in the 2000 block of South American Street. Officers located the suspect, seized a loaded rifle and found shell casings in front of a nearby residence. Juan Pina Saucedo, 43, was arrested on suspicion of negligent discharge of a weapon and other crimes.
Pursuit and narcotics arrest: Officers attempted to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation at 11:11 p.m. Monday near Argonne Drive and Columbia Avenue, but the driver failed to yield. After a short pursuit, the driver pulled over and was found to be in possession of a small amount of methamphetamine. Ronald Gray, 48, was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and traffic violations.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 15 noninjury accidents and two injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. CHP officers also recovered two stolen vehicles.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 85 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday, including seven vehicle accidents, 67 medical calls and one structure fire.
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Smoot-Hawley was officially named the "Tarrif Act of 1930". The act raised or enacted tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. This incredibly protectionist move is largely credited with creating the Great Depression. Our current leadership thinks we should try it again. In a Wall Street Journal article the point is made that we may be headed into another Great Depression. ...Read More »
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America Goes Protectionist, Echos 1930's Era Actions
Still thickly in the middle of the biggest economic catastrophe since the great depression, American policy makers are making anti-free trade decisions that are eerily similar to the protectionist moves made during the depression. The A.R.R.A. (stimulus bill), has provisions in it that only allow the money to be spent on "manufactured goods" that are made in America. While a ...Read More »
Health Care, Tariffs, Tort Reform: It's Not About You
The current administration is positioning their policy initiatives as if they are intended to help the working class. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's not about us.Read More »
Experts Concerned on Coming Depression
In a recent Telegraph article, it is suggested that President Obama is making some historic mistakes in the handling of the American economy. The author goes so far as to say that these mistakes are the same as those made by leaders just before and during one of the darkest financial times in U.S. history – the Great Depression. The ...Read More »


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Mark Hyman portrays himself as a typical parent: highly engaged in the athletic exploits of his two baseball-playing sons, and eager to see them succeed. Maybe too much so, he now says.
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