This Week's Program
Getting Along in Families
Ken Medema is a Christian musician, playing venues from 50 to 50,000. He has been playing piano since the age of five, has degrees in piano and voice performance and music therapy … and he has been blind from birth.
But there’s much more that makes Ken who he is. His family recently chose to live together – grandparents, parents, and children all under the same roof – in a multi-generational home.
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Natalie Francisco
Like Ken and Jane, my husband and I have three generations living in our house as has been the case for the last 16 years. It has not been all peaches and cream rearing our three daughters who are now adults in a home shared with my mother-in-law whom we invited to live with us after her husband died.
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My Turn speaker Natalie Francisco is the founder of this institute, and mentors women for kingdom living and giving “so that we all may experience the abundant life Jesus promised and reproduce ourselves in the lives of others.”
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Free Article: When Families Live Together: A Survival Guide
Shaping Your Family’s Future: A Resource for New and Expectant Parents, by Phil Haven and Carla Barnhill
This book is about how past, present and future relationships will affect raising your children.
Lasting Marriage: The Owner’s Manual, by Harvey Yoder
This “manual” looks at premarital preparation, relationship maintenance, and sustaingin a healthy marriage during the child-rearing years.
Together Again: A Creative Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living, Sharon and John Graham
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Nurturing Relationships
Mary and I married on a blistering hot day in June. We were young by today’s standards – just 21. We both had one more year of college ahead of us.
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“You’re never too old to make a difference.” So say the guests on next week’s Shaping Families. Four retirees discuss ways they are using their golden years as a golden opportunity to impact their communities and the world around them through volunteering.
Favorite Family Recipes
La Madeleine Restaurant's Famous Tomato Basil Soup
After visiting a French café by the name of La Madeleine in Houston, TX years ago with her husband, Natalie writes that she fell in love with their tomato basil soup. She writes, “It was the best I had ever tasted! After we could not receive the recipe from the staff there, my husband looked for and found it online, and we determined to make it ourselves. To my utter delight, it tasted exactly the same as the soup in La Madeleine’s restaurant!”
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