Posted on 02/04/13 in General,
Do you love SOS and want to support our work? Do you regularly shop at Kroger? If you answered YES to both of these, then we have some exciting news for you! SOS is now enrolled as a participating organization in the Kroger Community Rewards Program. You simply register your Kroger card through their [...]
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Posted on 01/22/13 in General, Serve,
In Tim Keller’s book Generous Justice, he defines “shalom“ in the following way: God created all things to be in a beautiful, harmonious, interdependent, knitted, webbed relationship to one another. Just as rightly related physical elements form a cosmos or a tapestry, so rightly related human beings form a community. This interwoveness is what the Bible [...]
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Posted on 01/07/13 in Christmas, Full-Time Staff, General,
Based on traffic to the SOS website, here are the three stories that YOU were most interested in in 2012: God did amazing things during our 2012 summer camps. Here are two blog posts that you visited a lot last year celebrating a great season of summer camps: Post-Summer Update & Summer Camp Update. [...]
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Posted on 10/25/12 in General,
Please join us for the… First Annual SOS COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARTY! This is a time you definitely do not want to miss! We’ll spend time together, listen to great music from the Binghampton Community Choir, and eat some good food. Here are some details: When is it? Tuesday, December 18 from 6:00 pm til 8:00 [...]
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Posted on 11/29/11 in General,
Recently Tony, Paige, and their family visited Memphis in the Fishbus. Their family is spending several months traveling around the U.S. to serve cities, organizations, and people. SOS was blessed by their service and company while they were here in Memphis. Read about their adventures with Big Dog and John at SOS here. If you [...]
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Posted on 11/24/11 in General,
We love this video and the idea from Advent Conspiracy. If you’re looking for a creative way to invest eternally this Christmas, consider giving gifts from our SOS Christmas Catalog. Whether you give to SOS or any other wonderful cause, this is a great time of year to show that you value Jesus more than [...]
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Posted on 11/04/11 in Culture, General,
This post is part of a series about 5 distinctives that are key to SOS’s culture. Check out the rest of the series here. These 5 culture distinctives are from David Montague’s talk to SOS summer staff alumni at the SOS 25th Anniversary. The third culture distinctive is that SOS believes that God loves and cares for [...]
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Posted on 10/28/11 in General, Justice,
This is a great short documentary about a great book concerning racism and the gospel. Worth a watch. And the book is worth a read.
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Posted on 10/25/11 in Culture, General,
This post is part of a series about 5 distinctives that are key to SOS’s culture. Check out the rest of the series here. These 5 culture distinctives are from David Montague’s talk to SOS summer staff alumni at the SOS 25th Anniversary. The second culture distinctive is that SOS believes and proclaims that our ultimate purpose is [...]
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Posted on 10/18/11 in Culture, General,
This post is part of a series about 5 distinctives that are key to SOS’s culture. Check out the rest of the series here. These 5 culture distinctives are from David Montague’s talk to SOS summer staff alumni at the SOS 25th Anniversary. Everyone in the SOS family recently celebrated SOS’s 25th Anniversary. During Friday night’s alumni reunion, David [...]
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