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Wild Camano Tour!

May 9, 2013

– by Christine Sine – The Wild Camano tour is over. On Saturday a small group of us gathered on the future site of the Mustard Seed Village on Camano island to tour the land, identify edible species and plant a beginning garden. It was an amazing experience. With the help of Nancy and Greg from [...]

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Simplicity isn’t Simple.

May 7, 2013

– by Christine Sine – For the last five year’s my husband, Tom and I have taken what we call the $2 challenge during the season of Lent. For at least one week of the season we restrict our food budget to $2 per person per day. It reminds us that half the world’s population still [...]

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Missing Resurrection – reprise

April 9, 2013

– by Andy Wade – 4/28/2012 (revision 4/5/2013) God smacked me upside the head with an amazing double rainbow the other day. The colors were so intense in one of the arcs that I could easily distinguish the many bands of color painted across the sky. I had to stop. I had to just stand [...]

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Cultivating Faith

January 28, 2013

– by Andy Wade – As I was reading the Bible this morning, another garden connection emerged. For those of you who are not gardeners, be patient, it may take a minute to get there. Today’s lesson started in Scripture, led me to reflect on the garden, then with new garden insights, led me back [...]

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I Am But a Worm (part-2)

January 23, 2013

– by Andy Wade — In my last post I mentioned the amazing restorative possibilities of the lowly worm. There is a Worm Theology that is quite old. In the presence of God, I am nothing but a worm. There’s been a diversity of thought about how this plays out, from “ pity-poor me” to “without [...]

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I Am But a Worm! (part-1)

January 21, 2013

– by Andy Wade – What a lowly and despised animal, the worm. Oh that I could live into it’s virtues! You might guess that I’m thinking about the garden again, and why not? It’s a sunny mid-January day and I’m looking out over my frozen garden. What appears at first to be frozen and [...]

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Propaganda Gardening

August 24, 2012

– by Andy Wade – This is a great TEDSalon video from England that challenges us to get moving, get moving even without all our “ducks in a row”. Food is a universal language, one which our communities will respond to. Many from the Parish Collective and others are already doing things like this. But [...]

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Listening in the Garden and Learning from God

August 14, 2012

– by Andy Wade – Sometimes things don’t go as you plan. That’s true in the garden, it’s true in daily life, and it’s true in the church. As I’ve worked with Mustard Seed Associates, as I worked as a missionary in Hong Kong, as I’ve worked locally here in Hood River, Oregon with FISH [...]

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Now Out in mobi and ePub Versions – To Garden with God!

March 21, 2012

That’s right, we’ve got To Garden with God out in Kindle and Kindle Fire-ready .mobi format and the ePub version for Nook, Nook Color, Sony Reader and Windows 7 Phone and other readers! Color and B&W ready – just order HERE and download the file you need!

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Bundle It!

March 13, 2012

by andy wade – How does a Christian organization become self-sustaining without “peddling Jesus”? As we anticipate changes headed our way we’re seeking to answer that question. The challenge is how to offer items and resources of real value that directly tie into who we are and what we believe in without slipping down the [...]

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