give – Susan Norris

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Vintage Youth Pastor , Timothy Parker Have you heard about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge? It is going viral on social media everywhere. You can find videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. People accept the Ice Bucket Challenge and then challenging several of their friends before having a bucket full, or in some cases a cooler full, of ice water dumped over their heads. People young and old are doing it. Even celebrities are getting involved in this campaign. Check out what happened on the Jimmy Falon show. [youtube]http://youtu.be/b_kdke345NQ[/youtube] This is one of the most [...]

By Susan Norris|2014-08-18T08:35:41-04:00August 18th, 2014|Christ Follower, Human Sex Trafficking, Women, Young Adult|0 Comments

Give or take?

Do you like getting gifts? What about receiving them? I love, love, love to give people gifts. One of my favorite parts of Christmas is gift giving. I honestly have more fun watching people open the gifts I give them, than opening gifts myself, especially when it's something they weren't expecting. This Christmas my husband was the one I was able to surprise in a big way. He had opened all of his gifts, or so he thought, when I started looking around the room as if I was searching for something. I told him he had one more gift [...]

By Susan Norris|2014-01-17T08:15:18-05:00January 17th, 2014|Christ Follower, Women, Young Adult|2 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving!

How will you celebrate Thanksgiving this year? Will you be traveling to spend the holiday with family? Or will you be entertaining guests at your house? I will be cooking a feast, beginning Tuesday, preparing everyone’s favorite dishes for the big meal on Thursday. It is one of my favorite times of the year because I love to cook and have people gathered in our home. We have a tradition of inviting friends who don’t have family close by to join ours for the holiday celebration. Another of our traditions is to have everyone share what they are thankful for [...]

By Susan Norris|2013-11-22T05:13:39-05:00November 22nd, 2013|Christ Follower, Women, Young Adult|2 Comments

How to Give the Best Gifts

Have you noticed the mornings are cooler? According to the calendar, it will officially be fall this weekend; however, for many the day Big Yellow started rolling, taking children back to school, summer came to an end. One of the many things people do to usher fall in is start cleaning out their closets. A young friend of mine has taken this opportunity to host a clothing drive for Solomon House, a safe house for victims of sex trafficking run by Out of Darkness. She announced the clothing drive at her church and among her peers. Yesterday, she showed up [...]

By Susan Norris|2013-09-18T06:48:40-04:00September 18th, 2013|Christ Follower, Human Sex Trafficking, Women, Young Adult|0 Comments

Whatta ya have?

When you were little, did you buy lunch in the cafeteria or did you bring a sack lunch from home? Every now and then I would buy my lunch, but for the most part I would take my lunch to school. My mom packed the best sack lunches. I always had a sandwich, some type of chips, a piece of fruit and her homemade cookies. It was the perfect amount to fill me up for the afternoon and I never threw anything away. She knew exactly how much food I would eat and that's what she packed. There was another [...]

By Susan Norris|2013-03-05T06:47:57-05:00March 5th, 2013|Christ Follower, Human Sex Trafficking, Women, Young Adult|7 Comments