Category: News & Announcements

“Steps for Life Day” – Help Save Lives!

Today (May 8, 2012), all profits from online orders at www.Doorposts.com will be donated to our local Pregnancy Resource Center! Every year, approximately 10,000 unborn babies are killed in abortion clinics in our state. By contrast, the Pregnancy Resource Center of greater Portland serves 8,000 women every year who are facing unplanned pregnancies. By offering medical services, ultrasounds, peer counseling, baby supplies, and more, the volunteers at Portland’s five PRC […]

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Our One Year Anniversary! Time for a Giveaway!

It’s been a year since we launched this blog! It’s been fun getting to “know” some of you a bit, and our prayer is that God will use what you read here to encourage and equip you. I know I’ve grown and have been encouraged as I wrestle through one post after the other, and as I read some of your stories. The blog world certainly helps us connect more […]

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Get Ready for a Wedding!

When our children start to marry, we enter an entirely new season of parenting. It’s a season of great joy and a season of letting go in a new and emotion-packed way. It’s also a season of much preparation and decision-making, as the couple and their families work to prepare a joy-filled wedding celebration. We’ve had four children marry in the last five years. Our daughter, Johanna, was the first […]

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Contest Awards and Giveaway Winners

Selected out of almost 900 photos entered in our “Write Them on the Doorposts” contest, this photo by Amy Jones is the Grand Prize winner. We received so many fantastic entries, but we knew this entry should win the Grand Prize when we found ourselves filing it into the “Best Photograph” category, the”Most Creative” category, the “Most Artistic” category, and the “Best Location and Verse Combination” category. Amy’s entry, in […]

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Write Them on the Doorposts Grand Prize!

And here is the GRAND PRIZE WINNER of Doorposts’ “Write Them on the Doorposts” contest!  Wow! What a job to pick the Grand Prize! So many fantastic entries. We knew this entry should win the Grand Prize when we found ourselves filing it into the “Best Photograph” category, “The Most Creative” category, the “Most Artistic” category, and the “Best Location and Verse Combination” category. Amy Jones’s entry, in its elegant […]

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Results for Best Children’s Rooms (New Category!)

We had so many great entries that used Scripture in children’s rooms that we decided to add a new category to our contest. Here’s come the entries we put into the new “Children’s Rooms” category. Wonderful verse to remind us that our children are God’s loving gift to us. I’ll bet the young man who gets to have this in his room enjoys it! This is a great verse to […]

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Results for Artistic (Coordinated with Decor) Category

Because we had so many great entries that fit into the “Artistic” category, we decided to divide the category into two sub-categories. Here are some samples from the “Most Artistic Coordinated with Decor” category. Nice, whimsical lettering style that fits nicely with the light, airy feel of the room. Another nice example of lettering, wall color, and artwork working well together. Pretty! Nice and warm! All the elements of this […]

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Results for Most Creative Category

So much creativity displayed in these contest entries! Here’s some of what we thought were the most creative! Love this idea! This is a tile floor at the family’s front entry. The words of Joshua 24:15 are etched around the edge, and the names of the children and their parents are etched in the center tiles. Take this idea and run with it! This is a nice, warm, rustic, manly […]

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Results for Best Location & Verse Combination Category

Great verse for a family of boys and a nice way to present it! Here’s a convicting use of Scripture for “when you sit in your house” (Deut. 6:7) How many of us would find something else to do if we read through these questions every time we thought about sitting down in front of the tube? This is a good reminder for young ones who are learning to do […]

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