Tag: Southwest Missouri

• Good Times September

  

  Events are subject to change. Contact event directly for more information. Submit an event for consideration at editor@homegrownjournal.com. SeymourSeymour Apple FestivalSept. 8-10, FreeSeymour Squarehttps://seymourapplefestival.com/ The annual Seymour Apple Festival is celebrating 50 years this Sept 8-10. During the festival, you can see 100+ craft and various vendors, free live entertainment, 5K run, parade, Johnny Appleseed…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, From the Editor, September 2022

  5K run, Astronomy, Baker Observatory, Clever, Clever First Baptist Church, Every Woman Conference, Free, Jason Hynson, Johnny Appleseed contest, Marshfield, McCauley Park, Missouri, Missouri State University, Movie in the Park, Neighbors, Nixa, Ozarks, Poverty, Public Observing Night, Sara Forhetz, September Good Times, Seymour, Seymour Apple Festival, Something Rotten, Southwest Missouri, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Springfield, The Landers Theatre, Theatre, Victory Mission + Ministry, Virtual Town Hall, Women in Nature, Wonders of Wildlife

• Calling, Commitment, and Cambodia

  

  LOOKING AT THE FIELDS Working alongside her father in the Kansas wheatfields was a daily chore for my wife, Carmen, during her childhood. When she was 13, riding in the family work truck and gazing at the crops, it seemed like another summer’s day as her mind shifted toward the upcoming months and the necessary…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, Neighbors, September 2022

  Asia, Asian Food, Assemblies of God, At-risk Children, Attention on the next generation of missionaries, Bangkok, Becoming a missionary, Calling, Cambodia, Cambodia Bible Institute, Carmen Lovelace, College, Crops, Discouragement as a missionary, Divine Plan, Encounter, Evangel University, Faith, Geography Class, Harvest, Intercultural Studies program, Jesus, Josh Lovelace, Kansas, Leaning on the Lord through grief, Lord, Lord provides, Miscarriage, Missionaries, Next steps after graduation, Philippines, Phnom Penh, Plans, Reading about the lost, Send someone else, Serve according to the calling, Short-term trip, Siem Reap, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Stories, Students, Taking the Gospel to unreached people groups, Thailand, Unreached People Groups, What does faith in Christ look like, What to talk about on first date, Wheatfields

• Good Times August + Local Food + Drug Disposal

  

  Good Times August RepublicBluegrass & BBQAug. 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m., All agesCommunity CenterAdmission is a donation of unscented baby wipes. Cost for food is extra.More information: 417.732.5993  Enjoy No Reservations food truck; silent auction with items from local businesses; and bluegrass music from award-winning Lonesome Road and Chigger Creek. Benefits Republic Pregnancy Resource Center.  MindenminesGuided Bison…

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  August 4, 2022

  August 2022, From the Editor

  Antique motorcycle, August, Baker Creek, Baker Creek August Festival, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, Bee, Beehive, Beehive Creek, Best Actor, Big Meats, bluegrass, Branson, Buy Local, Chigger Creek, clubs, collins, Collins Pie Festival, concerts, Crane, dancing, disposal sites, dispose, Eat Local, events, Fassnight Creek, Fassnight Creek Farm, Finley Farms, food truck, Forrest Gump, freeze dried, Garden, Gillioz Theatre, gourds, Green County, greenhouse, Guided Bison Saunter, Hillside Herd, Kansas City, Kenny's Funland Carnival, Liverpool Legends, Local Beef, Lonesome Road, Mansfield, Matinee, midweek, Miller, Miller Fall Festival, Missouri, Mountain Grove, Mountain Grove City Square, Mountain Grove Heritage Festival, Mountain Grove Municipal Airport, Opioids, pie, Prairie State PArk, pumpkins, Raw milk, Republic, Republic Community Center, Republic Pregnancy Resource Center, silent action, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Spur Creek Farm, St. Louis, Sycamore, Sycamore Creek, Sycamore Creek Barn Dance, Tom Hanks, unscented baby wipes

• For God So Loved The World

  

  I don’t even recall my life before John 3:16, just like I don’t recall my life before helping with family chores or before my deep infatuation with ice cream. The fact of “For God so loved the world” was as known to me as my hard and fast 7:30 p.m. bedtime.   words + photographs…

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  July 6, 2022

  2022, July 2022, Neighbors

  Arandui in Afghanistan, Benalmádena, Bible, Brenda Lei Casey, Castilla Monumento Colomares, Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón, Church Planters, Dzhek in Azerbaijan, Egotistical, For God So Loved The World, Friday Night Football, Haka in Angola, John 3:16, Joshua Casey, Missouri, People Groups, Route 44 Cherry Limeade, Selfish, Sonic, Southwest Missouri, Spain, Springfield, The Bolo, The Joshua Project, The Kryz, The Narisati

• Mental Health for Each of Us

  

  We appreciate the time taken by Joann Weston, MA, LPC, a licensed professional counselor at Eaglecrest Counseling Center in Springfield, Missouri, to help us begin a conversation about mental health, as well as offer ideas on how we can support, love and encourage those who have been diagnosed with depression. We hear about “mental health”…

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  June 2, 2022

  2022, Culture, June 2022

  Anxiety, Celebrate Recovery, Depression, Eaglecrest Counseling Center, Encourage, Health Problems, Infant Death, Joann Weston, Love, M.E.N.D., MEND, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Definition, Mental Health Wellness, Mental Illness, Missouri, Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death, NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Ozarks, Physical Health, Self-care, Southwest Missouri, Springfield

• #ShopLocal: Bashioum Wood Builds

  “I love serving the community as a police officer,” says Matt Bashioum, founder and craftsman at Bashioum Wood Builds in Marshfield, Missouri. “… Police officers who work in this area are very thankful of the support the community shows us on a daily basis. We are very lucky to have such an amazing community to…

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  November 6, 2021

  2021, Artisans, November 2021

  Bashioum Wood Builds, Craftsman, Farmhouse Furniture, Handmade Furniture, Law Enforcement, Marshfield, Matt Bashioum, Missouri, Police Officer, Rustic Furniture, Southwest Missouri, Wood Products

• Jennifer Harrison Searches for Answers in Grief

  

  Prayer. It seems like the catch-all sometimes, the easy response. “I’ll pray for you.” But what happens when you pray, yet don’t receive the answer you desire? In 2009, I prayed that prayer, that heart-ripping, never-ending, always-on-repeat prayer: “God, please save my baby.” Because I was bleeding when I shouldn’t have been. I was 12…

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  October 3, 2021

  2021, October 2021, Storytellers

  Bible, Dallas, Garden of Hope, Grief, Heather Fann, Irving, Jennifer Harrison, King David, M.E.N.D., Miscarriage, Missouri, Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death, Prayers, Second Baptist Church, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Texas