I am on my way to the annual AACC (American Association of Christian Counselors) National Conference in Dallas Texas. I love this conference. I get to learn so much. I love touching base with my ministry partners. Everything about this…
A New Friend
A New Friend…. This last March I was at an AACC Church Leadership Conference in Riverside California. It was a lovely conference and I was able to develop some new friendships and ministry partners over that week. I always find…
Helping Kids Cope With Tragedy
WRITTEN BY WAYNE STOCKS Initial Thoughts When it comes to tragedy, it is important to remember that life presents us with a series of teachable moments for our kids. Some of those are not very stressful, and some are tragic.…
Helping Suicidal Children
By Barbara W. Wright, LPC, CCPS, and Linda Ranson Jacobs Valuable insights on the issue of suicide in elementary-age children Almost all the research that’s been done on suicidal youth is done with teens. Yet we know that latency-age children…
25 Things Children of Divorce Want Their Parents to Know – Part 3
June is almost over and I feel like it hasn’t even started yet. There are days that seem to last forever and then there are times when months just fly by. If you have been following along with my monthly…
Congratulations Alexa Marie West!!
Yesterday I celebrated the graduation of a beautiful young lady, Lexi. She is full of spirit. Her smile and laughter fills every room. She is beautiful inside and out. And she’s just like her beautiful Grandma Marilyn. Marilyn was my…
A Journey of Love Between Two Best Friends
Six years ago today my life changed forever. My husband and I had been fighting a rare disease called Amyloidosis that had been attacking his body for the past 3 months. We were on a journey to healing, just not…
Your Privacy is Important to Me
If you’re like me you have probably gotten an awful lot of emails over the past few weeks about privacy policy updates due to the GDPR. In case you haven’t heard of it, the GDPR stands for the General Data…
Eating and Exercise: Helping Kids Make Healthier Choices
Written by: Amanda Henderson With more than three million cases nationwide, the prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States is startling to say the least. One in five under 18 will climb the uphill battle of obesity, and many will…
25 Things Children of Divorce Want Their Parents to Know-Part 2
I hope you have read the new series part 1 that we started last month. We discussed the first of 25 Things Children of Divorce Want Their Parents to Know, We feel responsible for what happened. If you missed it…
The Real Battlefield
Dealing with your former spouse can be difficult. It can be exhausting. It can be very overwhelming. It can even feel useless at times. I liken it to being on a continual battlefield with arrows coming from all directions, not…
A Life I Planned
When we get married we never dream of a day when our love of a lifetime blows up and we find ourselves in so much pain. You try and try to make it work and for a million reasons it…
25 Things Children of Divorce Want Their Parents to Know Part 1
Today is the beginning of another series. In the past I have written a number of series in my blogs. I hope you remember the Top Ten Steps to Co-Parenting or the Seven Beatitudes to Co-Parenting. If you don’t, please…
What resolutions did you set for this year?
Happy 2018. What resolutions did you set for this year? My year came in with a bang as my father in law had a heart attack and had triple by pass open heart surgery on January 2nd. I’m hoping things…
SKOL VIKES!!!!
A quick “Shout Out” to my awesome daughter in law! For those of you who do not know, I live in Minnesota and this last Sunday was a day our dreams came true. No, we didn’t win the Super Bowl…
December 2017 Newsletter
Newsletter December, 2017 It was a GREAT year!! Thanks to all…
It was a GREAT year!!
Thanks to all of you, Sonset Point Ministries, has had a very good 2017. I was very very busy but happy to say I have accomplished everything that was set out before me. Thanks for making this year so…
Sonset Point Ministries is on the Radio!!
On Tuesday Dec. 5th I was a special guest on the radio show called Chained No More with Robyn Besemann. I shared on “Help! How Do We Help Our Teens Process Through Our Divorce?” Robyn and I had a great…
How Divorce Impacts a Child’s Relationship With God
by Linda Ranson Jacobs Over the last several weeks, we laid a foundation for examining how divorce affects the development of children (specifically spiritual development), how kids are wired to connect and recapped some of the impacts of divorce. Today, we…
Don’t Say goodbye. A post for the heartbroken.
By Elsa Colopy I saw you today. Your head was bowed, your shoulders slumped, your eyes to the ground. Your backpack looked like it weighted a thousand pounds. You crossed in front of my car at a stoplight – your shuffling…
Helping your special needs child cope with the loss of a loved one
Author: Jenny Wise Losing a loved one brings on complex emotions, and helping your special needs child understand and cope with grief can be overwhelming. Fortunately there is help. Dying and death. It’s normal to feel helpless when someone is…
AACC Conference 2017
I have just unpacked from an exciting week at the National AACC Conference in Nashville TN. It was great to meet new people and share the passions of so many! I have been attending this conference for the past 6…
The Journey; Divorce Through the Eyes of a Teen is finally here!!
Two years of hard work has finally come to an end! The Big D has been needing an update for years now. What started out as a name change and small editing project turned into a complete page-by-page revision. It…
Top Ten Tips for Co-Parenting- Part 10
Continue to celebrate your children! Birthdays, Holidays, school performances, school sports, dance recitals and sports events are still very important to your children. Just because you are not together does not mean you are done celebrating special events with your…
Ella Marie Smith
My step daughter, Ella, is getting married in 2 weeks. This is my last out of our 4 children to get married. It is hard to believe all of our “chickies” have fully flown out of their nest. Although this…