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This post highlights the incredible travel discounts available to military families through MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) programs. It introduces the four main Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) Resorts—Dragon Hill Lodge (Korea), Edelweiss Lodge and Resort (Germany), Shades of Green (Orlando, FL), and Hale Koa Hotel (Hawaii) which offer world-class stays at reduced rates. It also features other MWR lodging facilities across the U.S. and overseas, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Japan. The author encourages early booking and reminds readers that these affordable getaways are one of the best perks of military life.

This post explains the Disney Military Salute Discount Program, offering major savings for military families at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. It details 4-, 5-, and 6-day Park Hopper and Park Hopper Plus ticket options, available through base ITT offices or the Shades of Green Resort a Disney-area hotel exclusively for service members, featuring large rooms, affordable rates, and resort amenities. It also covers discounts for Disney hotels and cruises, helping military families enjoy magical vacations at reduced prices.

This post encourages military spouses to become entrepreneurs and highlights free resources that make starting a business easier. Featuring Ashlee Sullivan, founder of Woman + Warrior, it shows how creativity and determination can turn challenges like frequent moves and underemployment into opportunity. It lists top organizations offering training, mentoring, and funding guidance, including National Military Spouse Network, The Rosie Network, MilSpo Project, SBA Boots to Business, and Military OneSource. Military spouses can successfully build flexible, meaningful businesses that move with their lifestyle.

This post retells the powerful story from Joshua 4 where God parts the Jordan River and commands Israel to build a memorial of stones so future generations will remember His faithfulness. It explains why God calls His people to remember and encourages families to create their own Stones of Remembrance through crafts journals displays and storytelling. These simple projects help children see how God has shown up in the past and strengthen their faith for present challenges.

This post uses a simple Fall craft to help kids understand how leaves change color and how this process reflects God’s creativity and provision. It explains the science behind seasonal leaf changes in a kid friendly way and connects it to God’s goodness and sovereignty. The post ends with instructions for a chalk pastel leaf art project paired with Ecclesiastes 3:11 as a reminder that God makes everything beautiful in its time.

This post shares a powerful lesson on prayer learned during a simple bug hunt with young children. After failing to find any insects on a cold Spring day in South Korea, the author felt prompted to pray with her kids. Moments later, God surprised them with a tree full of ladybugs, showing that He cares about even the smallest requests. The story encourages families to pray boldly, trust God with every detail, and teach children that God can do more than we ask or imagine.

A reminder that Father’s Day shouldn’t only honor earthly dads—we should also celebrate our Heavenly Father, our “Abba.” God adopts us into His family through Christ and loves us with perfect, intimate care. The best gift we can give Him is sharing the Gospel with our kids in everyday moments and keeping our home centered on Him.

Jacob’s story in Genesis 28 shows that God often meets us most powerfully in our hardest seasons. Just as Jacob encountered God while sleeping on a rock in a desolate place, our own “rock and hard place” moments can become holy ground where God reveals His presence, guidance, and faithfulness. Hardship doesn’t mean God is absent—often, it’s where He does His deepest work.

This post explores whether COVID-19 should make us stop and pay attention to God the same way Old Testament plagues did. Scripture consistently shows that plagues were wake-up calls for people who drifted from God. The writer reflects on multiple biblical examples, America’s spiritual decline, and the need for personal repentance before national revival. The message is simple: change starts with your own heart. Seek God, confess sin, and ask Him to bring true revival.