We are both excited and amazed at how God's faithfulness has brought us to the significant milestone of our 60th anniversary! During this Christmas season, we would love for you to join us in our continued celebration of God's goodness and grace. Our annual Community Christmas Program promises not to »
Paul Anderson Youth Home Honors Founders’ Memory and Heritage“The World’s Strongest Man” remembered for a foundation of faith during Founders’ Day celebration (VIDALIA, GA) The staff and boys of the Paul Anderson Youth Home (PAYH) took a break from their schoolwork and daily routine to honor the legacy of Olympic gold medalist weightlifter Paul »
A Little Grace Goes a Long Way “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” – Colossians 4:6 My parents might be shocked to read this, but I wasn’t a well-behaved child growing up. It seemed like I was »
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 »
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 »
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