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Resting in His Steady Presence – Maddi Trussoni

Maddi Trussoni [FLBC junior] is from La Crosse, Wis. Recently, I was given the heartbreaking news that summer teams for 2020 had been canceled due to COVID-19. Why God? Why is this

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Resting in His Steady Presence – Joe Larson

Joe Larson [FLS junior] is from Ortonville, Minn. Despite the world being flipped upside down this spring, it seemed like my daily routine stayed the same. My work was essential.

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Resting in His Steady Presence – Kaetlyn (Kramer) Dávalos

Kaetlyn (Kramer) Dávalos [FLBC senior] is from Sioux Falls, S.D. It is safe to say that none of us saw anything such as COVID-19 coming. Like many others, my world

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On Finding Community

Community—my concept of that word has changed in the past couple of months. Before COVID-19, I understood community as being together with other people. Indeed, one Google definition of community

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Your Firm Foundation

When we can’t even go to church, trust God Change. Some may like it while others don’t. Change seems to be the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic for most people.

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Construction Sees SLC Progress

After the initial excitement of December and January in which a large hole was excavated from the center of “the peanut,” the Student Life Center construction site lay still for

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Favorite Things

Schnitzel with cabbage and Latvian soup, Churning the ice cream and eating a scoop, Easter together in a worldwide quarantine, These are a few of their favorite things! When the

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So Long, Farewell

This is different, you think, as you heft a laundry basket down an empty hallway. Different in many ways. When you moved in last fall, the campus pulsed with excitement

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Sound of Music

Back in March, FLBC alumnus Ryan Jones found himself in Nashville at the end of a study program for media production and recording arts. When COVID-19 spread and a third

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Every Question Answered

How do you say a final goodbye to a loved one who you are not allowed to be with? Facing this question in April was not something I was prepared

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Kinship Magazine – Winter 2020 Edition

Kinship is a magazine of the FLBCS. Stay up to date on the latest news, student stories, classroom highlights, and fun tidbits about life on the FLBC and FLS campus. View

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An Old Testament Picture of Trust

By Pastor Phill Hooper In Colossians 1:16–17, we read a clear and succinct description of Jesus, by whom all things were created, and—more significantly—“in Him all things hold together” (NAS). God is described as sustainer of all things (and His people)