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The story highlights the unique challenges faced by best friends Toucan, Giraffe, and Penguin, each feeling different in their own way. Through their journey, they learn to embrace their differences and utilize them to assist others. Aimed at early readers aged four to six, this book features engaging full-color illustrations and three interconnected stories. With simple vocabulary and speech bubbles, it serves as an excellent introduction to the Bananas series, allowing children to progress to more advanced reading levels as their skills develop.

Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power—the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors.

Youth Emmaus is a course designed to help those aged 11 to 16 explore the basics of the Christian faith. This is no easy task - but Youth Emmaus offers a winning combination of meaty leaders' notes, cool handouts for group members, great cartoons and graphics and a free CD-ROM stacked with other useful resources. The material is fully road-tested and ideal for youth groups and as a confirmation course for young people. Youth Emmaus tackles: What Christians Believe (5 Units) How Christians Grow (5 Units) Living the Christian Life (3 Units) Youth Emmaus also contains a FREE CD-ROM that includes: Handouts and supplementary handouts for all sessions as PDF files Emmaus Poster Downloadable services to use with young people and a section on using Youth Emmaus in an all-age context Powerpoint presentation on Youth Emmaus Useful links to Emmaus website All icons from handouts available in colour in a downloadable format

In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Catholic Worker Movement, a storied organization with a lasting legacy of truth and justice. Day's newspaper, houses of hospitality, and ministry of paying attention to the inequality of her world would eventually become world famous, just as she--a high-energy activist with a cigarette in one hand and a coffee cup in the other--would become a figure of promise for the poor. The ways in which Day and her fellow workers both found the love of God in and expressed it for their neighbors during a time of great social, political, economic, and spiritual upheaval would become a model of activism for decades to come. In Unruly Saint , activist, writer, and neighbor D. L. Mayfield brings a personal lens to Day's story. In exploring the founding of the Catholic Worker movement and newspaper by revisiting the early years of Day's life, Mayfield turns her attention to what it means to be a good neighbor today. Through a combination of biography, observations on the current American landscape, and theological reflection, this is at once an achingly relevant account and an encouraging blueprint for people of faith in tumultuous times. It will resonate with today's activists, social justice warriors, and those seeking to live in the service of others.

Jellyfish is very wobbly. She's too wobbly to skip, too wobbly to play hide and seek and too wobbly to swim in cold water. But can she be brave when she needs to be?

The story centers on Frank, who cherishes his model ship, a beloved birthday gift, but faces the challenge of losing it. As he grapples with the dilemma of confessing to his family, the book also includes engaging facts about toys and features an interactive Mix and Match game, enhancing the reading experience with educational elements.

This course invites small groups to explore and apply the radical teachings of the Beatitudes, encouraging Christians to reflect on their lifestyles in alignment with these kingdom values. Through five engaging parts, participants will delve into the transformative message of Jesus, fostering a deeper understanding of how to embody these principles in their daily lives.

From childhood, D.L. Mayfield longed to be a missionary, so she was thrilled when the opportunity arose to work with a group of Somali Bantu refugees in her hometown of Portland, OR. As the days, months, and years went by, her hopeful enthusiasm began to wear off, her faith became challenged, and the real work of learning to love and serve her neighbors grew harder, deeper, and more complex. She writes: “The more I failed to communicate the love of God to my refugee friends, the more I experienced it for myself. The more overwhelmed I felt as I became involved in the myriads of problems facing my friends who experience poverty in America, the less pressure I felt to attain success or wealth or prestige. And the more my world started to expand at the edges of my periphery, the more it became clear that life was more beautiful and more terrible than I had been told.” In this collection of stunning and surprising essays, Mayfield invites readers to reconsider their concepts of justice, love, and reimagine being a citizen of this world and the upside-down kingdom of God.

Bereavement affects everyone differently. You may feel angry, sad, nostalgic, confused, or a paralyzing combination all of the above. However bereavement affects you, it will be difficult and you will need help, which is precisely what this book offers: simple, compassionate help. From the shock of learning of the death to the practicalities of life afterward, First Steps through Bereavement guides you through the process of mourning a loved one. With useful sections on funerals, continuing to function, staying healthy, dealing with emotions, remembering your loved one, and more, this useful guide will help you negotiate your way through grief. It also includes practical advice for close friends and relatives who are supporting loved ones, including children, who have been bereaved.

Matt, Becci, Sophie, and Nathan are a bit of a foursome, even though Matt and Sophie are a real couple, and Becci only wishes that Nathan would notice she's not just Matt's little sister. They're all looking forward to the themed fancy dress party they're going to, getting in to the Christmas spirit, laughing, and drinking. They have futures, dreams, and lives ahead of them—nothing can spoil their fun tonight. But icy roads and a moment of lost concentration see their bright futures shake and crumble. For Matt, Becci, Nathan, and Sophie, what happens is devastating, not just for them, but for those close to them, too. This is a powerful, humane, and compelling novel, with a strongly positive message about the strength of the human spirit.