Hello everybody! Shawn here. I’m a single guy who lives with guy roommates. I would imagine my quarantine experience is different than most. But whether you see your family every day, live with roommates, or live alone, my bet is you are experiencing some degree of loneliness during this quarantine. I can speak for myself when I say I really, …
8 Tips and Tricks from a Mom who Homeschooled for 18 Years
There is a new reality every parent is currently facing: school at home. It’s different, it’s weird, and, all too often, it is very, very hard. I want to help however I can. So, I went straight to an expert: my mom. In case you did not know, I was homeschooled from Kindergarten all the way through High School, and …
Tips and Tricks for Parents in Quarantine
How are you? Are you adjusting to distance learning/homeschool? How are you holding up trying to work from home at the same time that you are trying to learn how to help your kids through their new “school” day? It’s a lot isn’t it? In my household, some days I feel like we are starting to get a routine down …
Trash Talk: Loving Your Neighbor from a Distance
Social distancing – a difficult term has entered into our everyday vocabulary. We’re being instructed to have no contact and keep physical distance from others; but that goes against our core instinct of how to belong and be loved. We believe at New Vintage Church that groups are better, that life is better connected, there is so much scripture that …
Enneagram Personality Test
Your Guide to the Enneagram and Yourself If you aren’t already familiar with the Enneagram test then today is your lucky day! The Enneagram is a “personality test” that is near and dear to my heart- as cheesy as that sounds. Although the enneagram is similar to a personality test, at its core it really isn’t about personality. Rather, it …
The Beauty of Communion
This week is Holy Week!! In honor of this, we will take time to reflect on the words that Jesus used on the cross. As followers of Jesus we have the incredible, personal and intimate opportunity to take Holy Communion and this Friday evening we are going to do this together, despite our current SIP situation. How? We will send out …
5 Scriptures about Anxiety
If you are anything like me, you are feeling pretty anxious at this point. From the economy, to job changes, to medical concerns, to isolation, to family conflict, to lots of lifestyle change in a short time, we have plenty to be anxious about—and that’s normal. But just because it is normal to be anxious does not mean we want …
How to do Easter alone at home
The Willis household was a Christian household. Every year at Easter time, our family didn’t only celebrate the cross at church, but took Easter seriously at the home as well. As I ponder the upcoming reality of having Easter without physically going to church either on Good Friday or Easter Sunday, I feel fortunate I had a family who celebrated …