A Note from Ms. Jess

Jan 2, 2021 | Preschool

January 2, 2021 You’ve heard the saying, parents.  “The days are long, but the years are short”.  I decided a couple days ago that Winter Break is basically an analogy to the parenting years when your kids are little, but just in a super compressed time period.  “The...

A Note from Ms. Jess

Dec 10, 2020 | Preschool

December 11, 2020 Semi-controlled chaos. I think that’s the best way to really describe what a preschool is like in the weeks before Christmas. And honestly, semi-controlled means we are all winning here.  Like one of our sweet teachers said, the classrooms look...

A Note from Ms. Jess

Dec 9, 2020 | Preschool

December 4, 2020  For the last 11 years, on the first weekend of December, my family travels to Williamsburg, VA.  My sister’s family comes from Maryland, my dad joins us from Emerald Isle, and we spend a lot of our time at Busch Gardens for their Christmas Town...

Christmas Challenge: Ann – Ella – Isaiah

Nov 10, 2020 | Adult, Children, Misson, Youth

Isaiah’s Journey Ann MacCormac and Ella Fischer Isaiah, 17 years old, had little schooling and no job skills, but needed to provide for his siblings, one of whom was mentally handicapped due to chronic malnutrition.  When my daughter and I travelled to Kenya in...

Christmas Challenge: Debbie Meets Melissa

Nov 10, 2020 | Adult, Children, Misson, Youth

Meeting MelissaDebbie Allen Several years back, I traveled with ZOE to Zimbabwe.  We went from place to place meeting with different working groups and seeing how they were succeeding with businesses and plans.  At one of the locations, our guide and the case manager...

Christmas Challenge: Sharon’s Story of Hope

Nov 10, 2020 | Adult, Children, Misson, Youth

Rwanda trip 2009Sharon Foster, MD I was privileged to go on a ZOE Medical mission trip to Rwanda in 2009, fifteen years after the genocide.  There were 16 members of the team lead by Susan Graebe.  This was my first trip to Africa and it began a love affair with this...