Our Delimma

We need to raise $80,000 by September 15 to satisfy liens against a building that was given to us.  Once this is paid for we can then go in there and renovate this property so it can be used to raise children.  Here is a picture of the property: 

If you can help in any way please let us know.  You can go to our website Rebuilding Families Foundation and donate through there or you can go to PayPal and send payment to info@rebuildingfamiliesfoundation.org And when  you do donate, under comments, mark it as RFF01 so we know what the money is for.

 Thank you in advanced for what you can do.

The Influential Influence

There are many different types of influences in this world that push strongly on our children.  Which influences do you see affecting your childrens and teens?

Who’s the influence?

Are You Ready to Get Off The Nail?

A story was once told to me.  One day as I was walking down the road I saw a dog laying on the porch of a man’s house.  As I approached the man I heard the dog wimpering like he was in pain.  So I asked the man, “What’s wrong with the dog?”  He told me that the dog was laying on a nail.  I stood there shocked at first and then proceeded to ask him, “Well if it’s hurting him, why doesn’t he get off the nail?”  And the man replied and said, “Because it’s hurts more to get off the nail than to just continue laying on it.”

The Color of Our Thoughts

I was listening to an old recording of a sales seminar made back in the 30’s or 40’s. It’s called the strangest secret. It’s main idea is that we are what we think. Now this saying has passed many circles and has been said in many different ways. The bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart so is he.” A Cesar of Rome said it like this, “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

You and I are the products of not only our choices but our ideas and thoughts.

The Significant You: Defining Significance

A lot of us have grown up watching television, the actors and actresses, seeing famous people, having a desire to be like that.  Why are we like that?  Its because we have a desire to be significant.  We each have this desire (whether we want to admit it or not) to have significance in our lives and communities.

Today’s Children’s Living Enviroments

There is a change coming to our cities.  That which was then will not be now.  We can change things.  We will change things.  But to do it we need your help.

Did you know in 2006-  67 percent of children ages 0–17 lived with two married parents, down from 77 percent.  Nearly one quarter (23 percent) of children lived with only their mothers, 5 percent lived with only their fathers, and 5 percent lived with neither of their parents.  The proportion of all children living with a single father increased from 2 percent to 5 percent.