Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Children Saved Through AiG VBS Program

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We have had many testimonies from churches/organizations who used AiG’s VBS program, Amazon Expedition. I included this exciting testimony because the church also sent a photograph of those who were involved in the VBS program at this church:
We wanted to send a letter of thanks to Answers in Genesis for the outstanding VBS material that [...]

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Lutheran Friends Visit AiG

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It was good to see longtime AiG friend Dr. Phil Giessler of the Cleveland, Ohio, area here at the museum again on Monday—along with his wife, Inez. As is his habit now, this respected Lutheran theologian and scholar took advantage of his Creation Museum membership and brought some more guests with him on his return [...]

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A Fallen World and Need for Security

Once again we have seen more incidents of violence directed toward Christian organizations.
This past weekend police in State College, Pennsylvania, shot and killed a man who threatened violence against a Christian radio station and rammed police cars as they attempted to stop his entry into the station. They ultimately had to shoot and kill the [...]

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The Answers Book for Kids Hits the Shelves

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At the end of last week, I saw the first copies of two of our Answers Book for Kids series that is being published by creation publisher Master Books. AiG staff member Cindy Malott and I spent many hours working on these two publications (the next two are still being worked on).

Our New Answers [...]

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A Dragon Bookworm?

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I have included two photographs of the new dragon sculpture that will be installed in the Dragon Hall Bookstore in about a couple of months. Congratulations to sculptor Jessie Pie (and other sculptors at AiG) for this remarkable job!

500,000 THIS WEEK
Sometime this week, the half-millionth visitor to the Creation Museum since opening almost [...]

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A Dream Come True

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On Thursday, we had the privilege of welcoming the Waggoner family to the Creation Museum. Several months ago, the Dream Factory (something like the “Make-A-Wish Foundation”) of western New York state informed us that one of Daniel Waggoner’s dreams was to visit the Creation Museum. You can imagine how honored we were to help make [...]

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500 “Gideon Kids” at the Creation Museum

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It was an unusually busy day inside the Creation Museum and AiG headquarters. As well as the usual 1500 or so museum visitors for a Thursday, buses pulled into the Creation Museum yesterday with nearly 500 young people of the families of those involved in a Gideon convention in Louisville (one-and-a-half hours southwest of us) [...]

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Special Visitor at AiG

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I was thrilled on Wednesday to meet a very special visitor at AiG—Gracia Burnham. Gracia is the widow of Martin Burnham and the mother of Jeff, Mindy, and Zach. For 17 years she and Martin served with New Tribes Mission in the Philippines, where Martin was a jungle pilot delivering mail, supplies, and [...]

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Integrity Award Presented to AiG

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Answers in Genesis was recently presented with an award honoring the entire ministry. The award was presented to AiG last Friday evening by the National Association of Christian Financial Consultants, a group of investment professionals committed to investment and financial planning disciplines centered upon biblical principles.
NACFC is one of the largest association of Christian financial [...]

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Weird “Journalism”

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Sometime ago we heard of a book that had been produced called Weird Kentucky by Jeffrey Scott Holland.

Recently a staff member saw the book in a store and purchased it. One can see the sort of book it is just by looking at the contents page:

And yes—you guessed it—the Creation Museum features in this publication. [...]

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