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A recent Christianity Today article helps the reader process his/her thinking relative to needed aid as well as sustainable business – especially now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.  These quotes hopefully will stimulate you to read the full article. To read it, click here. The coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating economic impact […]

I was intrigued to read the Forbes list of 2020 world Billionaires,1 this year taking special attention to those at the top, noting those who had increased their net worth and those who had lost.  I have never been too curious about these things, but one thing piqued my attention. Ten of the top twenty-five

Last week, we featured the housing development company, Westfield Development, located in Arad, Romania.  In June 2020, their Facebook page reminded the reader of the success of this Kingdom company: “Westfield is the best residential ensemble of houses and villas in Romania! We don’t say it, but Clubul Profesionistilor in Imobiliare honored us with this

The technical definition of the word ‘contrast’ is: “…the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association.”  The meaning of the term could have originated in the Transylvania region of Romania, the most famous region of the country – a land of spooky dark forests, mystical snowy peaks, amazing views,

***Dick Weidner leads Legacy Ventures Network which is the third component of Triventure.com.  Dick has been in the financial sector and a church leader his entire career and has started companies focusing on accounting and on investment.  From time to time we will be reprinting articles by Dick.*** It is reported that Albert Einstein was

It started 45 years ago when Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, living near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, gave 50 newly hatched chicks to their seven-year-old son, Peter.  “See what you can do with them,” they said.  By the time he was 17 years, he was raising 10,000 chicks a week and was on his way to a successful

In the early 1970’s I was living, along with my family, in the Brazilian Amazon port city of Belem where I was the administrator of a school for children of expatriates. The Amazon Valley Academy is a K-12 school following an American curriculum but also in the 1970s and 80s taught a German program for

This is the time of year when we celebrate America and the freedoms which exist here because of the founders of yesteryear.  However, we are reminded by recent events that many in our country and around the world do not feel the freedoms that many of us have experienced. Mats Tunehag’s article from April 23rd,

My wife’s favorite food group is chocolate, and I sometimes think that it is also her “Love Language.”  She can tell the difference between Cadbury’s, Hersheys, Swiss Lindt and Brazilian Garoto with her eyes shut, and her favorite is See’s of California. So my interest was piqued recently when reading how See’s Candy became Warren

When I was a collegiate hockey player, it never dawned on me that I might not need a coach. Not only did the coaches help me with personal skill development like skating, passing, shooting, and checking, but also how to develop my team play so together we could be successful.  Although I had good coaches