all info on DOBSON focus on the family org

[seabeyond]

out of colorado springs. i know i was reading his name a lot during the election. just getting him confused with another gay hater. anyway, niece received an envelope from this orginization at school with a cassette and a book. listened to cassette, odysse......made up stories on columbus and 1776. gonna check out book next. i got mad because my niece was about the only one to receive it and i dont know why she was singled out

[Jesus Saves]

1. What was in the cassette and book?

What kind of made up stories?

[seabeyond]

3. a boy goes back in time

and participates in history. columbus story he became a messenger for queen isabella. started immediately with friars at a monestary wanting to beat him..........wasnt a good story. and was a made up story about columbus, but this is the purpose of these stories i guess, when you have a boy in time travel. the story on 1776 was better. he met up with nathan hale and they met washington. there was the part where washington specifically goes to prayer, and the boy said i didnt know you prayed, and washington said of course, to be a patriot one must be a good christian or something. the only truly obvious creative hand in that story. and it was more children appropriate, a better story

the book she got, looks to be more for adult. havent gotten into it. not story telling, but havent read yet.

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7. This sounds like the "Adventures in Odyssey"

radio plays that Focus On The Family distributes. One of my local radio stations used to (maybe still does) air them.

http://www.whitsend.org/

BTW, dig "today's poll": "Do you go to home school, private school, or public school?" Grouped from fundiest to Satan-est, naturally.

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8. self-delete

posted to wrong message

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9. Are these the stories?

COLUMBUS: THE GRAND VOYAGE

Lawrence takes a trip back in the Imagination Station to the late 1400s, a time of great exploration and discovery. There, he runs into Queen Isabella of Spain. Lawrence tells her that he’s looking for Christopher Columbus. Isabella is amused by the boy. She sends him to fetch Columbus. But when Lawrence finds Columbus, the explorer says he doesn’t want to meet with the queen. He wants to sail to France.

Lawrence convinces Columbus to meet Isabella. After a series of setbacks, he and Columbus finally set sail. The voyage is rough, and the crew almost revolts. At last, just as their food is about to run out, they spot land, the New World! Columbus claims it for Spain and praises God for His goodness.

Just then, the Imagination Station winds down. Lawrence learns that Columbus was not only a great explorer, but a man of God as well. This makes such a strong impression on Lawrence that he decides to go on the adventure all over again!

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THE DAY INDEPENDENCE CAME

Irwin Springer loves history-especially about the American Revolution. So he is excited when Whit leaves a book about Ben Franklin for Irwin in the library. Unfortunately, Irwin's enthusiasm causes him to temporarily lose good sense. Irwin climbs on a rolling chair to reach the book, which is on top of a tall bookcase. The chair slips, Irwin falls, and he's knocked unconscious.

When he awakens, he's in a forest, where a man is telling him to run. Suddenly, a bullet whizzes by Irwin's head and splats into a tree. Irwin runs, and he and the man hide in some bushes. The men chasing them run up, and to Irwin's amazement, they're Redcoats from the British Colonial Army! Irwin has been transported back in time. He and the man narrowly escape the Redcoats by pulling down a wasps' nest onto the men, but then Irwin and his companion are attacked by the wasps. They jump into a nearby pond and swim to the opposite shore. There, the man introduces himself-as Nathan Hale!

Hale takes Irwin back to the Continental Army camp, where he meets George Washington. Irwin can't believe any of this is happening. He's especially awed when General Washington asks him to take a message to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Irwin doesn't know how to ride a horse, but he certainly can't refuse a request from George Washington. So Irwin runs off to Philadelphia.

In Philadelphia, he meets the patriots, who are debating over whether to sign a document called the Declaration of Independence. Irwin delivers his message, the debate rages on, and finally the Declaration is signed. Ben Franklin tells Irwin to spread the news to every village and town-the United States are free! Irwin does, but his horse stumbles and falls, knocking him unconscious again. When he awakens this time, he's back in the library at Whit's End. It was all just a dream . . . or was it?

[seabeyond]

10. yes..................n/t

[ultraist]

2. Who gave it to her and was this a PUBLIC school?

Someone may have crossed the line with that.

[seabeyond]

4. christian school, i pulled kids out of nov

my brother a right winger, i wanted him in it so he could see what was happening. well he did it a couple weeks, gave me his daughter and went out on a job. now i am doing the friggin school again. i got kids out because i couldnt do it anymore. now i am doing it. not well either.

there are really good htings about this school. they were much better when i first enrolled 6 years ago. turned fundamentalist last year........last spring i started seeing some bad behaviors with the movie passion coming out and the heat up of election

[imenja]

5. Dobson

one additional bit of information to add to your collection. The man's name is James Dobson.

[seabeyond]

6. thank you i will correct n/t