What she does…it’s a wow!!!

           Last night was a very interesting night in the life of Mark Aronowitz!  My beautiful wife has been substantially under the weather since Friday night of last week…and I was finally able to convince her that she needed to be home sleeping while visiting her with some fresh hot tea yesterday at lunch time.  [...]

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A great race…a great UMYF…a great weekend!!

          This past Saturday I ran my 3rd 5K road race since beginning my new lifestyle with the coming of 2008!  The Farragut 5K, which started and finished at Mayor Bob Leonard Park directly across from our home, was a fantastic course that ran through the Sedgefield subdivision!  My goal was to better my previous [...]

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Back to the races!!!

      I decided yesterday that I was going to enter my 3rd race since beginning a more active and healthy lifestyle when 2008 rang in!  I have lost over 40 pounds since January 1st, lost more than 6 pant sizes, and gained all kinds of confidence in myself.  More importantly, though, I know that I’m [...]

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If I were president of the entire world…

            Last night at UMYF Wednesday night Bible Study the ice-breaker was the following question…
IF I WERE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD MY FIRST DECREE WOULD BE…
(my youth are AWESOME…we had a lot of fun with this…here is what they came up with!)
1.  On Wednesday’s everyone shall wear Braids (short haired men must get extensions…balding [...]

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Fall has arrived…sort of!

           One of the regular topics of conversations between my wife and I here in East Tennessee has been our frustration with the weather.  We have basically had WARM and HOT temperatures since the Spring Season kicked off last March & April.  Here we are, almost to October and we’re still in the mid-80’s during [...]

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Undefeated still…they’re fighters!!

          Last night the Lady North Stars of North Middle School played their third soccer game of the young season, defeating Halls by a score of 7-1!  We had two girls due to injuries which left us with only 13 girls for the 70 minute game!  They played a gutsy little game against a team [...]

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Hear it…then do it!

              Over the last week since returning from Youth JAM 2008 we have talked about not just being hearers of God’s word, but completing the task by going into the world and DOING what God’s Word says!!!  It is a phenomenal challenge to live for Jesus as walking with Christ when you’re not around the [...]

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…and the clean-up continues!

             Fall retreat grew in numbers this year.  We took 41 kids and adults up into the mountains for an incredible weekend with each other and with the Lord.  Because of the increase in people we also had an increase in STUFF!  I had no idea I had purchased SO MUCH STUFF.  The clean-up has [...]

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…and the clean-up begins!

             Youth JAM 2008 is now in the rear-view mirror!  It was a FANTASTIC success!  30 kids had an incredible time up in the mountains while going after their personal relationship with Christ, learning about Faith, Hope, and Love from guest speaker Kelly Anderson from Cleveland Ohio!  Characters interrupted all weekend (Super Me & She [...]

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Here we go!!!

5 hours and counting until Youth JAM 08 departs from First Farragut UMC.  Preparations are in their FINAL MOMENTS as I am working on tying up a few loose ends at the church!  Please pray for our kids and adults this weekend as we pursue a closer walk with Jesus Christ in the mountains!  I [...]

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