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Rain pours. Temperatures plummets. Umbrellas unfold. Downtown Coeur d'Alene fills as visitors line Sherman Avenue and wait for the annual Light...
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November. The week before Thanksgiving: National Collection Week. A ministry of Samaritan's Purse. Operation: Christmas Child. The ability to bl...
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![Abide Culture Coffee Roasters: A Family's Year in Review [2021]](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/8919/1524/articles/YIR2021_455x300@2x.jpg?v=1636575937)
January 1, 2021 — December 31, 2021: The Dash. Christmas 2020, we were given a glass quart canning jar, empty, with a note—attached with brown ...
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Our church put on a craft fair for children, under the age of 18; tables set up to display their created wares—with some getting help from parent...
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North Idaho. Coeur d'Alene. Downtown. Darkness covers while white lights decorate naked trees. Crowds line the street. Conversing. Laughing. Our ...
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Operation: Christmas Child. Last year, a combined 9,113,853 boxes were handed out world wide. Out of those boxes, ours made it to South Africa. T...
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The joy of finding that perfect tree for Christmas. It never fails: wandering around from tree lot to tree lot, looking at prices and needles. Ba...
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![Operation: Christmas Child [2020]](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/8919/1524/articles/OCC202001_455x300@2x.jpg?v=1605810174)
Another year has basically come and gone. Another year to create memories and add to the traditions we hold close to our hearts. Thanksgiving is...
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20°F. The sun drops into the waiting horizon; a purple sky turns black. Cement sidewalks soon greet cold travelers for the Annual Lighting Cerem...
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Christmas traditions. Some of us have more than others. One tradition we practice is the packing of shoe boxes for Operation: Christmas Child, ...
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Tradition. It is defined as the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.We al...
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The CDA Maker's Market. Christmas. Downtown Coeur d'Alene. December.
We joined over 100 vendors at the Coeur d'Alene resort this morning. Decke...
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![Operation: Christmas Child [2022]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/8919/1524/articles/OCC2022001_455x300@2x.jpg?v=1668637988)
![Abide Culture Coffee Roasters: A Family's Year in Review [2021]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/8919/1524/articles/YIR2021_455x300@2x.jpg?v=1636575937)
![Lighting Ceremony [2021]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/8919/1524/articles/L20213055S_455x300@2x.jpg?v=1638307318)
![Operation: Christmas Child [2021]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/8919/1524/articles/OCC20212923S_455x300@2x.jpg?v=1637188368)
![Operation: Christmas Child [2020]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/8919/1524/articles/OCC202001_455x300@2x.jpg?v=1605810174)
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