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Christiaanity is the online home of Christiaan VandenHeuvel, a Children's Pastor in Livermore, CA.
This site collects blog entries, photos, videos, quotes, links, and anything else from Christiaan's life, or culled from stuff he finds online!

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    Jackson is here!!!

    bickermunchkin:

    Today (12/15/2009) Jackson Trey Bicker made his grand entrance! He was born weighing 6lbs 12oz and he is 19.5in long! He and mom are doing great.

    We arrived at the hospital at around 6:30am to find that Dana was 8cm and moving fast! Not to much longer after that at 8:01am an amazingly strong and determined Dana gave birth to our little munch! He is incredible and we thank God that he is a beautiful and healthy little boy.

    We can’t wait for you all to meet him, but I am sure you will understand that we will need a little time to get our feet under us! Thank you so much everyone for your prayers and support over these last 9 months, we look forward to your continued support as Dana and I seek what it means to be parents! We love you all…

    P.s. We may have an little intro video posted soon so keep a close eye out!

    Much love,

    Ryan, Dana, and Jackson :)


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    Don’t dare to miss this amazing Video Clip . . but first read the following.

    This video shows the winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent”, Kseniya Simonova, 24,  drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II.  Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch

    The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $130,000.00

    She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
    It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
    She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
    This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
    In the final scene,a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying
    goodbye.

    The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.


    Kseniya Simonova says:

    “I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils
    or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art,
    especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment.” Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.

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