- November 18, 2024
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Two years ago, Jake Schroeder, along with his brother Zack, left Palm Coast to be summer camp counselors in Colorado at a Christian Camp. Zack returned and Jake boarded a bus and traveled the country, performing in about 80 concert-style shows, speaking to students about abstinence before marriage with The Silver Ring Thing. He repeated the scenario this past year.
In July, Jake will be boarding a plane and going on a new venture. He will be leading a mission team of six, from a squad of forty five members. The administrative group is Adventures in Missions and the venture is known as The World Race.
Each team member must live out of a backpack, which will include his or her clothes, tents, sleeping bags and toiletries all of which must fit in their pack. The squad will travel to Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, Swaziland, Botswana and South Africa as they participate in various mission work such as planting churches, building houses, teaching English and doing street ministry.
Jake needed to raise over $16,000 to fund his mission and he was able to do so with the help of family, friends and corporate givers. His goal was reached in four months and said he is very grateful to all who supported him and believe in his mission.
To follow Jake on his journey, subscribe to his blog at jakeschroeder.theworldrace.org.
Former teacher releases second young-adult novel
In her last year of teacher at Flagler Palm Coast High School, Terri Klaes Harper was pulling double duty, also writing her first self-published novel, “Memoirs of an Ordinary Girl: The Middle-ish Ages.” The semi-autobiographical novel is set “in the time when the ‘80s were fading into the ‘90s and the poofiness of hair and shoulder pads was soon to deflate.”
The coming of age story retells the experiences of Drew Hotchner, “an extraordinarily ordinary girl,” through her possibly wiser and more honest adult self.
The book published through amazon.com and was a hit. So in her first year not teacher, focusing on her passion for writing, Harper set to make her young-adult novel into a series. She launched her second book subtitled “Fresh-meat Year” last month.
The second book explores Hotchner’s freshman year. “Old enemies return and new distractions abound, such as a new crush, even while she holds onto the old, the advent of the grunge music movement, helping to plan a wedding, and the creepy neighbor boy down the equally creepy rural road.”
Both novels are available in ebook and print form through amazon at bit.ly/tlklaes.
Garden ministry donates 48 pounds of vegetables
Palm Coast United Methodist Church's Garden Ministry recently had its second garden harvest. This year, the ministry added three new raised beds thanks to the dedicated efforts of Joe Cotie, which brings the garden to 12 planting boxes.
So far this season, the vegetable garden has produced 83 pounds of tomatoes, peppers, squash (yellow and green), cucumbers, green beans and scallions.
All produce grown is donated to the Resource Center in Bunnell.
Humane Society offers deal to celebrate Adopt-A-Shelter Cat Month
Flagler Humane Society is waiving adoption fees for all cats over three-years-old in celebration of Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month. Along with efforts to increase adoptions and make the process easier and more open, FHS is seeking to find more cats homes by reducing adoption fees.
The shelter is currently the home for over 250 cats and 33 percent of them qualify for a waived fee adoption. Adoption fees are a part of the FHS budget; however, the goal of “Over 3 Are Free” is to reduce the length of stay for older cats and increase overall adoptions.
