DCC Update - June 2009

The usual winter weather has caused a significant reduction in the beach profile (sand levels) on the Ocean Beach. There is no cause for c...

CHURCH PLANTING BY DESIGN

It is our vision in this church to promote and develop God-given talents and spiritual gifts for ministry. How are we going to do that? Le...

Bridge Canyon

We reached the high water mark of Lake Mead around Gneiss Rapid in Bridge Canyon. But we didn't reach the actual lake until the middle...

National Canyon

More beach details. A small sandy berm, and not too far away, a small eroding scarp. The river rises and falls about once a day in the canyo...

Blacktail Canyon

Blacktail Canyon is on river right at Mile 120. Unlike so many other side canyons, it does not end in a spectacular pool or a waterfall. W...

Walthenberg Rapid

Some of my favorite beaches on the river were small ones adjacent to rapids. I wish I had had more time to explore and observe, but one of...

YOUR SPACE IN GOD'S PLACE

There was a boy who accidentally swallowed a quarter. The mom yells “HELP!!! My son swallowed a quarter!” An older man calmly walks over. He...

Inner Gorge

Grand Canyon is really a canyon within a canyon. The upper portion is cut through the thick stack of relatively flat-lying Paleozoic sedime...

Chuar

We stopped for lunch on a sand bar on river left, just downstream of Chuar Rapid at the mouth of Lava Canyon (not to be confused with Lava F...

Nankoweap

The big alluvial fan (delta?) at Nankoweap Creek forces the main river into a big swift arc along the left bank. The canyon downstream from ...

House Rock Rapid

It is no coincidence that many of the rapids in the Grand Canyon are named after tributary streams. Soap Creek, House Rock, Hermit, Crystal...

Badger

A trip down the Grand Canyon will force me to rethink how I use the term "beach." Here, they refer to sand bars along the river b...

Lee's Ferry

The last time I was on the Colorado River, or anywhere near it, was on the receding shorelines of Lake Mead back in January. Now D & I...

Children Are People

Forty years ago a Philadelphia congregation watched as three 9-year-old boys were baptized and joined the church. Not long after, unable to ...

The Right Way to Worship God

Worship is either the beginning or the end of our walk with the Lord. I pray that it is always a beginning for each of you. A beginning of ...

Nisqually Reach

We took the class back to Tolmie this year. It's a good beach walk - especially on a nice June day. Bluffs, bulkheads, and a nice litt...

Sobering Statistics

Do you have a plan for passing on your faith to your children? God always has had a wonderful plan for passing on faith down through the gen...

Disciple Your Child

A speaker conducted a successful seminar he entitled “Rules for Raising Children.” Then he got some kids of his own, and he changed the titl...

Do You Bear or Are You Bare?

People judge one another by their looks, but Jesus looks at their fruits. The fruits He seeks are not the kind of fruits we pick from trees ...

Kopachuck State Park

Parks are a far more appropriate use of big deep-seated landslides than subdivisions. Kopachuck, west of Gig Harbor, is a great example, an...

Frye Cove

I walked in from the gate, since the park was still a couple of hours from opening. An early morning walk on the beach was partial compensat...