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I ran in the Special Olympics Torch Run again this year. I’ve been doing this since becoming a Police Chaplain in 2004 so this marks my third run. Every year, I vow to get in better shape so the next year’s run is easy. I’m nearly 52 now and easily in the worst shape of [...]

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Not to be confused with Veterans’ Day—when we remember our still-living veterans as well as those who have died, Memorial Day is for remembering those veterans who fell in battle. “These honored dead” were originally remembered on Decoration Day when the nation remembered those who had fallen in the Civil War by decorating their graves [...]

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Last Sunday I mentioned the need to be born again in order to be a child of God…that although you are God’s creation, you are not by default God’s offspring. Many people are surprised by this, as was Nicodemus. Jesus told him not to be amazed at his insistent teaching of the need to be [...]

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The total for the “Cop on Top” event was $6,784.96! Add that to the $2,483.66 raised through the raffle, the pancake breakfast, and outright donations, and you’ve got a total of $9,268.62 raised by the Graham PD for Special Olympics in NC.
The winners of the raffle were first prize: Angie Gantt, a teacher at Graham [...]

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When I left things at around 2pm, we had received over $5,000 in donations for Special Olympics of North Carolina so far over the 2-day event. The national chairman for Special Olympics stated that if we kept up that pace, we would set a new national record for giving in a 2-day period. Here are [...]

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Today and tomorrow, the Graham Police Department is doing “Cop on Top”—an officer is on top of the building for two days (well, 36 hours straight, 6am Thursday to Midnight Friday) to raise public attention and funds for Special Olympics in North Carolina. The goal is to raise $8,000. About $3,000 has already been raised [...]

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Well, we got Susan’s (my wife) mother moved from Ohio to here in North Carolina. A friend came to help me and brought two of his sons to help move her into the home. An aid took my mother-in-law, Mary, to her room in a wheelchair without the feet attachments on the chair. Mary is [...]

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I guess it’s appropriate that we’re going to Ohio today to bring my mother-in-law to North Carolina…to live. Thanks to Milford who loaned us his trailer, and Steve, who fixed the ground wire in my truck’s connections, we’re ready to roll (except that I’m still so whooped from cutting the grass yesterday…sometimes it just saps [...]

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I was so whooped yesterday. I feel fortunate to have even been awake for Mimmer’s birthday. But we did the gifting, and her sister came up from Durham, and we took her out to O’Charley’s, and I understand she did some midnight bowling. She came in late; I know that much. Happy birthday, Mims.

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This morning was the annual Peace Officers’ Memorial Service here in Alamance County, NC. This community service honors the lives of fallen Peace Officers in the county.

As a police chaplain, I was asked to offer the Invocation. Here it is:

Almighty and Everlasting God, how marvelous are your works and excellent your name. In this ever [...]

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