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Della Bartlett Henderson – My Grandmother

By rodneyb On April 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

We just returned home from my Grandmother’s funeral. She was a wonderful woman. I know that is easy to say now, but she truly was. As I think about her life I was struck with one thought. She was always on the go. Not on the go in a busy body sort of [...]

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We’ve Got Work To Do

By rodneyb On August 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been working at Youth Horizons for about 10 months. It has been a short 10 months filled with lots of learning and new experiences.

One of the things that I’ve learned is that there is a great amount of need “out there.” I know that may seem like a no-brainer to some [...]

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Backyard Mentoring

By rodneyb On June 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Just the other day I was visiting with one of our mentors, Ted. Ted is a business owner in Wichita and has been mentoring for a few months. He is a tall quiet man, loaded with wisdom and experience. His protege lives in the North central Wichita in a small house with a [...]

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News from the Mentoring Front

By rodneyb On June 2, 2010 · 1 Comment

I’ve been working at Youth Horizons now for about 6 months. In some ways, I’m getting comfortable and in other ways I feel like I’m just getting started. The more I learn and experience, the more I see and understand the need for mentoring.

Coaching is one of the responsibilities of the mentoring staff at [...]

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What do we do at Youth Horizons?

By rodneyb On February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The month of January was my first month as the Mentoring Director at Youth Horizons. I’m still learning and will hopefully continue to learn. The staff there is great and the mentoring team has been awesome. Jimi, Tony and Donnovan have helped a ton as I tried to sort through how mentoring works [...]

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Youth Horizons Christmas Gala

By rodneyb On December 8, 2009 · 1 Comment

Sunday December 6th was the annual Youth Horizons Christmas Gala. This is one of our big fundraiser events each year. Earnest sangs, Craig Curry performed, there was a silent auction and we enjoyed some great food provided by Timberline Steakhouse. Each of the tables for the event [...]

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One Month at Youth Horizons

By rodneyb On November 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been working for just over one month at Youth Horizons now. I sat down here thinking I would sum up all that I have learned in the last month, but you don’t have time for that.

Instead, I’d like to just share one way that I’ve been challenged over the last month [...]

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The Move from Vancouver to Wichita

By rodneyb On September 22, 2009 · 3 Comments

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The last few months have been filled with lots of transitions. As usual our kids weather the storm a little bit better than we do. I think that as long as mom and dad are around and the kids get a small dose of cartoons each week all is right with the world.

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Jesse Surgery and Back to Normal

By rodneyb On November 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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Several weeks ago our middle guy, Jesse was in the hospital having his appendix out. It was a scary time. He did amazing and the hospital was awesome as well. This is a video of his [...]

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Sponsor Caleb in the Terry Fox Run

By rodneyb On September 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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Friday September 26th is the Terry Fox Run. If you don’t know who Terry Fox is, listen up. He was a very inspirational figure in Canada. In 1980 after battling cancer, Terry set off to run across Canada to raise funds for Cancer treatment. He did not complete his run [...]

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