https://vimeo.com/468718868 88 years ago today, a champion was born. After overcoming Bright’s Disease as a young child, Paul Anderson went on to win the 1956 Melbourne Olympics before founding the Paul Anderson Youth Home. This year, as we prepare to celebrate 60 years of operation, we look back and remember »
I WANT TO DIE FOR HIM Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. – John 15:13 In July 1941, a prisoner successfully escaped what at that time may have been the most terrible place on Earth – the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. »
CAUSE AND EFFECT “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28 On this day, 81 years ago, German soldiers stormed across the Polish border and officially began the largest and bloodiest »
FINISH THE RACE Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that »
Freedom and Responsibility This weekend we celebrated the 224th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In all, 56 men from the 13 original colonies affixed their signatures to a document that, if the war were lost, would likely have served as “exhibit A” in their inevitable trials for »
My grandfather was the only father figure I had when I was a kid, and after he passed away, I had no one to look up to. When I came to the youth home in 1963 at the age of 13, Paul Anderson stepped in to fill the gap. From »
Our Father is Always With Us In May of 1945, just over 75 years ago, the forces of Imperial Japan were on the brink of defeat. Nazi Germany had surrendered at the beginning of the month, and Japan now stood alone, outnumbered, and surrounded. It was simply a matter of »
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The New Normal I cannot believe how much our daily lives have changed in the last few months. I don’t think any of us could have imagined the impact the coronavirus would have when we first heard about it. Here at the PAYH, we have been on a shelter-in-place order »
https://vimeo.com/409922856 If you read our newsletter, you’ve read the story of the 101st Airborne and how they stubbornly refused to give up the fight, replying with a simple “NUTS!” when the Germans demanded their surrender. Just like the 101st in Bastogne, we can sometimes feel a besieged. Fortunately, we have »
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. – Matthew 6:33 I was once asked what combat was like. Believe it or not, my answer described a feeling that I am almost sure a lot of you have been feeling. “Will ‘it’ happen »
As we await the time when we can resume some semblance of normalcy, I set up my office each morning on our screened back porch which overlooks the campus. It is a common thing for me to ponder my life in this place, on this hill. There have been many »
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