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[ June 4, 2025 ] Essential areas of financial planning for business owners from Ben Smith Investments Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] Worship that’s worth it Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] A parents’ summer survival guide Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] Come visit The Garden Patch in our new location – our farm! Community
[ June 4, 2025 ] Home energy conservation tips from Realtor Perry Thessen Community

Holiday memories – Empty Bowls Fundraiser is coming

October 27, 2024 tim@sokyhappenings.com Comments Off

The holidays are almost here, and for many of us, they are filled with pleasant thoughts of mealtimes shared with friends and family, large tables filled with turkey, ham, bread, and a vast array of […]

Essential areas of financial planning for business owners from Ben Smith Investments

June 4, 2025 0

Owning your own business provides you with many great opportunities, but it also comes with its own unique set of circumstances. Growing up with a father and grandparents who owned businesses, I saw firsthand the [...]
Worship that’s worth it

June 4, 2025 0

If you think “worship” is that time in the church service where you sing some songs, you’d be right, but it’s so much more. Online, worship as a noun is explained as “the feeling or [...]
A parents’ summer survival guide

June 4, 2025 0

HELLO SUMMER! We did it, moms and dads… we made it through another school year, and now it’s time to throw caution to the wind and embrace the chaotic season that is summer. Constant towing [...]
Come visit The Garden Patch in our new location – our farm!

June 4, 2025 0

The Garden Patch has made a change in our ongoing story! After many years in our great ole house in downtown Smiths Grove, we have moved back to our farm. Our roots are dug in [...]

Grace In Motion – A story

August 3, 2020 Comments Off on Grace In Motion – A story

Sharon’s parents had discouraged her and her brother, Sam, from dropping in on them unexpectedly. That need for privacy wasn’t out of character for the Carsons, so Sharon and her brother had no reason to [...]
Why is Passover such a big deal… in the New Testament!?

March 2, 2020 Comments Off on Why is Passover such a big deal… in the New Testament!?

As a Jewish boy growing up in a kosher home, Passover was a big deal – so much so that, during the Passover week, my mother did not let me eat lunch at school. She [...]
Be Happy Yoga & Salt Cave – Salt cave, chocolates and massage!

February 14, 2018 Comments Off on Be Happy Yoga & Salt Cave – Salt cave, chocolates and massage!

submitted by Be Happy Yoga and Salt Cave Time for Valentine’s Day, the Winter Olympics, and more cold weather (possibly even more snow)! Valentine’s Day means chocolate. Did you know that February is National Chocolate [...]
Saving for higher education

August 31, 2020 Comments Off on Saving for higher education

The COVID-19 pandemic has everyone’s life in a spin, that’s for sure. Yet as we all know, time marches on. Our children and grandchildren (and ourselves, for that matter) continue to grow older. Their financial [...]