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What To Do First to Make a Profit

The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat  ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're  not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director.  Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year.  God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started i...
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Make a Caesar Salad At Home That Your Family or Guests Will RAVE About!

Never would I have considered this transformational, but to hear the guests who come to dinner at my home talk, it is. So, I'm sharing it with you today. You can name your firstborn after me thank me later. People who "don't cook" are especially going to thank me. Yes, I know you're out there. You're the one who signs up for the church covered dish dinners, telling the lady in charge: "Just to let you know, I don't cook..." hoping to sign up for rolls in a bag or a bakery item. Or soda. ("Pop", for those of you in places like southwest Pennsylvania or Ohio.) You feel like you're the only one. You're not. You've been teased. You've been mocked. You've been misunderstood. Nobody grasps your plight where it concerns the culinary disadvantages that are your reality. I'm here to help you overcome all that. It's a new day, my friend. Your days of taking pop to potlucks are OVER. [Shout now!] ...
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This will make a tadpole slap a whale!!!

This is so yummo! It's the latest thing makin' my mouth happy and my waistline slimmer!  (All of the ingredients aren't low calorie but using what ones you can certainly helps out.) Our staff came over for Easter dinner and everybody brought something to share to go along with the ham we made at our house.  Our children's pastors brought the following dish and I could have had it as my whole meal.  I said, "please, please, please, I beg you to bring that to every gathering we have that includes food..." We are all watching our weight and this is a dish that has low calorie/fat ingredients but I promise it does not skimp on flavor.  Try it, you'll love it!  By the way, they did not bake it as indicated in this recipe, they brought it to the church in a crock pot and cooked it there and then just brought it to our home after church. Crowd Pleasing Vegetable Casserole Ingredients 1 can (26 ounces) Campbells Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup Fat Free...
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This, you CAN do!

This post will be short as I'm wanting to spend time today finalizing some personal goals for 2011, while also getting ready to celebrate New Year's Eve/Day at our home. Last night, Larry and a friend, Todd Stewart, made 60 pierogies in preparation for tonight.  I came home from shopping with Savanna and made a huge roaster full of cabbage rolls.  We make "Pittsburgh foods" in our home for New Year's Eve, as a tradition.   Friends bring other things to go with it, but these are the main things we prepare for this great night. Yesterday I was given this challenge and I give it to blog readers today: "The greatest thing you have is the 24 hours in front of you.  The past is gone.  The future is distant.  Today you can succeed!  Set a goal you can achieve within 24 hours!" This, you CAN do.   Set a small goal - something you can do in the next 24 hours, and do it!   It's the first step to reaching your bigger goals. Goodbye 2010....
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Thankfully, I didn't eat baby Jesus.

My sister Shari is home for a break from her ministry/job with Samaritan's Purse in Haiti.  This past week I received a box in the mail with Christmas gifts from her and one of them was a coconut.  It was a real coconut.  I honestly thought she had sent me this from Haiti to eat.  So I put it in the fruit bowl.  It just sat there along with tangerines and apples and a bunch of other stuff...waiting to eat.  On the phone with her yesterday on Christmas she said, "Did you like the coconut?"  I said, "I haven't eaten it yet."  She was like, "ARE YOU SERIOUS?"  I said, "yes, why?"  She said, "Oh my gosh,  it's not to eat, Deanna!!  Please go get it right now while you're on the phone with me."  I said, "okayyyyyyy..." and proceeded to go get it.  She said, pull out the center thing and start pulling out the leaves and the stuffing.  I said, "okay, but I'll never get it back in, this is really tight." ...
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The best dark chocolate cake EVER!!!

This is what I'm making for tonight.  We're having a dessert night in Fusion tonight, and a Q & A session with Larry and I on the subject of courageous parenting!   This cake is TO LIVE FOR!!!  You will LOVE it.  Now, it needs NO ICING .  Please do not frost it, you would ruin it for sure.  (This is a little drizzle of chocolate syrup that's on it in the photo but really it needs nothing.  I have experimented and sprinkled it with powdered sugar before but even that was totally unnecessary.)  It's absolutely PERFECTO by itself just like it is.  One bite and you'll be hooked.   Really, I promise.  It's the most moist, dark, delicious semi-sweet chocolate cake you have EVER had.  Serve it with a side scoop of vanilla ice cream.  Your guests will moan the whole time they are eating it.   I have served this at countless dinners and special occasions. Dark Chocolate Cake 1 box of devil's food cake mix...
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Some photo highlights from
The Spice Conference

All of these photos from the Spice Conference at Celebration were taken courtesy of Lourdes Manners.   
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Let's go to church and then eat something moan-worthy...

Today is the first Sunday of the new year and I couldn't be more excited!  Four more weeks and CELEBRATION is reality.  After what will be a great service today we're having a choir luncheon and rehearsal.  It's a covered dish luncheon and today I decided to bring Crockpot Macaroni and Cheese .  You'll love this, I promise...it's so easy and I guarantee you'll  moan while you're eating it.  I just love recipes that are moan-worthy.  Stuff that just oozes C-O-M-F-0-R-T .  I probably should not be giving this recipe the two days after everyone has made their new year's resolutions, but oh well we should all have enough of the Holy Ghost in us to handle a little bit of macaroni and cheese without going off the deep end.   CROCKPOT MACARONI AND CHEESE 8oz of cooked macaroni 1 (12oz) can of evaporated milk 2 eggs 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 4 oz sour cream 1 cup milk 4 cups sharp cheddar cheese Mix all ingredients exce...
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Scenes from our New Year's Eve shindig

We had about 50 or so people over for a New Year's Eve party as we normally do.  It varies how many we have over and we would have liked to have had more but you know you have to cut off the guest list at some point.  So this was our limit this year.  I made a roaster full of cabbage rolls and Larry made perogies.  We always have a "taste of Pittsburgh" to bring in the new year.  And, Larry and Savanna and I all wore our Steelers shirts.  Michele is trying to turn over a new leaf with cooking this year and actually learn how to do some things.  She came a few hours early to help Larry do the perogies and learn how.  She did a great job!  Everyone brought a dish to share and we had some amazing stuff here.  Best part of all was the conversation and loads of laughter.  
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