Category Archives: random thoughts

2012 a year of Milestones

By Joe Ball | Published: January 10, 2012

50, 70, 21, 30, 1 and 50. No, those aren’t the signals Tim Tebow calls at the line of scrimmage or the combination to the gold vault at Fort Knox. Those numbers represent the milestones that our family will celebrate in 2012. 50-We start the year celebrating 50 years of marriage of Joe and Vicki [...]

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Grandma, can I eat at the big table this year?

By Joe Ball | Published: November 24, 2011

One of my memories of Thanksgivings is waiting for the day I would finally get to eat at the adult table.  It was a long time in coming, and took a lot longer than I thought it should.  My cousins and I spent years banished to the children’s tables and patiently, well maybe not so [...]

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The simplicity of being intergenerational

By Joe Ball | Published: November 9, 2011

A couple of weekends ago I had the privilege of going back to Hopkinsville and officiate Alisha Sargent’s wedding. Alisha is one of our former students and she also served as our ministry intern one summer. It is always an honor to be asked to do these and we love going back to Hopkinsville and [...]

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It all started with a pocket knife

By Joe Ball | Published: October 17, 2011

It was a pretty typical Sunday. I got up and got ready for worship.  We went to worship and then had lunch at El Nopal.  On this Sunday I was flying out in the afternoon to San Antonio for a meeting with other State Sunday School Associates. Gina and I ran to Kroger for some [...]

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Retention-Doing something about it

By Joe Ball | Published: July 22, 2011

Most of you know that I have been registered with the Boy Scouts for almost 40 years now.  It started when I joined the Cub Scouts in the third grade, and I have been continuously registered ever since.  The Boy Scouts like most youth organization lose a lot of their participants every year.  We as the church [...]

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9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime…….

By Joe Ball | Published: July 11, 2011

(Something to think about. ) Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come: 1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way [...]

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Lessons learned at the Sr PGA

By Joe Ball | Published: June 8, 2011

I was privileged a couple of weeks ago to be able to attend a couple rounds of the 72nd Senior PGA Championship that was held here in Louisville.  I had won two tickets and was offered tickets for the other days. I only went on Thursday and Friday for the opening two rounds. After a [...]

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Celebrating 30 years of youth ministry

By Joe Ball | Published: June 1, 2011

This picture was posted on facebook a few months back by LaDonna Daugherty Kliewer, and I have been waiting to post it until this month. It is of the adult chaperones from Little Flock Baptist Church at Camp Joy in 1981. It was my first time being an “adult” at youth camp.  [I am the [...]

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the shoe is on the other foot-from a guest blogger

By Joe Ball | Published: May 25, 2011

Wanted to share (and I have his permission), the latest blog post of Bill Houpt.  Bill is one of the best friends I have on the planet and served 19 years as the youth minister at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Hopkinsville, KY.  He currently serves as pastor of Little River Baptist Church in Herndon, KY. [...]

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For Members Only

By Joe Ball | Published: February 11, 2011

This is the door to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. I passed it last month on a whirlwind trip through Washington D.C..  I noticed it first because in is huge and ornately decorated. But upon closer inspection I noticed there is NO outside handle on the door, and that got me wondering how people got [...]

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