Every week, The Morning Thing co-hosts share a Fave 5. This week, the co-hosts are sharing their favorite things that happened this week!
The Morning Thing Fave 5 – our favorite things from this week!
Elf, Jr. The Musical
This morning we talked with the cast of Mount Vernon City School’s Elf, Jr. The Musical. The play features students in grades 4 through 12 and will be held in the Mount Vernon High School Theater.
The musical tells the story of a young orphan who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported to the North Pole. The would-be elf is given the name Buddy and raised by elves in the North Pole. Buddy lives happily unaware that he is actually a human until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father and discover his true identity. Faced with the harsh reality that his father is on the naughty list, and his stepbrother doesn’t even believe in Santa, Buddy is determined to win over his new family and help New York remember the true meaning of the holidays.
Listen in to hear a behind the scenes sneak peak of this hilarious Christmas story! You won’t want to miss Buddy the Elf, Walter Hobbs, Emily Hobbs, Michael Hobbs, and Santa Clause as they take the stage this weekend.
For our full conversation with the cast, click HERE!
Tickets are $8.00 and can be reserved by filling out a form on the school website, www.mvcsd.us. They will also be available 30 minutes before show time while supplies last.
MVNU Homecoming and 5K – Learn How you can get Involved
The Morning Thing had a chance to talk with Travis Keller, Director of Alumni Relations at MVNU, about the 2017 Homecoming 5K Race/Walk/Cycling Event. He talks about how the event will benefit Food for the Hungry of Knox County and shares details of how the community can get involved.
To listen to our full conversation click HERE.
For more information about MVNU Homecoming and how to get involved click HERE.
To learn more about Food for the Hungry of Knox County click HERE.
Place 4 Grace – Do you know what it is?
WNZR is proud to support a new Christian ministry in Knox County! Place 4 Grace is a maternity home that teaches un-wed mothers self-sufficiency, in a safe, secure, and stable home; to end poverty and generational un-wed pregnancy cycles.
The Morning Thing had a chance to talk with co-founder, Kandee Popham about her vision for the ministry and their upcoming fundraiser, Flannel Fest 2017. Click HERE to hear the full conversation about how God is moving in the community and what you can do to get involved!
— Flannel Fest 2017—
Join Place 4 Grace on Friday, November 10th for Flannel Fest 2017 at Trinity Worship Center, 1051 Beech Street in Mount Vernon.
Flannel Fest 2017 will have music, fun, prizes, food and more information about this wonderful ministry. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. A special program begins at 7 p.m.
Your General Admission ticket includes:
- 1 Dinner
- 1 trip through each of the Caramel Apple & Hot Cider/Coffee Bars
- Festival Games
There will also be a chance to win prize packs like
- Out of the Man Cave (2 tickets to Ohio State vs Indiana, Nov 18 Game & more)
- Blessed & De-Stressed (4 hours of house cleaning, Salt Spa visit for 2 & more)
- A Very Vernon Night (1 night stay at The Mount Vernon Grand & more)
For more information about Place 4 Grace visit their Facebook page, HERE.
For ticket information for Flannel Fest 2017 click HERE.
It is National Parents as Teachers Day. Here are some values that parents should teach children before the age of 5.
TODAY IS NATIONAL PARENTS AS TEACHERS DAY.
(from www.nationaldaycalendar.com) National Parents as Teachers Day is observed annually on November 8. On this day Parents as Teachers Organization offers educational services to parents across the country. These affiliates give all parents of young children support, and it also provides information so all children learn, grow and develop to realize their full potential.
The concept for Parents as Teachers developed in the 1970s when Missouri educators noted that children were beginning kindergarten with varying levels of school readiness. Research showed that greater parent involvement is a critical link in the child’s development of learning skills, including reading and writing.
We found an insightful article from www.parents.com
They highlight 5 values that parents should teach their children before the age of 5 (before they head to school).
Click HERE to see the full article.
Value #1: Honesty
Help Kids Find a Way To Tell the Truth
The best way to encourage truthfulness in your child is to be a truthful person yourself.
Value #2: Justice
Insist That Children Make Amends
Value #3: Determination
Encourage Them To Take on a Challenge
Value #4: Consideration
Teach Them To Think about Others’ Feelings
Value #5: Love
Be Generous with Your Affection
How to Help Our Kids Overcome Fear
If you saw the news over the weekend, you know that we have another tragic story to add to our country’s history. A Texas church shooting leaves 26 dead, including 8 members of one family. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called the slaughter “the largest mass shooting” in the state’s history and ordered flags to fly at half-staff across the state Monday.
How do we deal with all the emotions that flood our hearts and minds when we see these tragic stories? How do we help our children handle their fears?
We found some wonderful advice from www.faithgateway.com (picture and content from www.faithgateway.com)
The Morning Thing Fave 5 (11/3/17)
Today for The Morning Thing Fave 5, we shared our favorite things that have happened this week!
(and special guest) Joe Rinehart
MVNU Presidential Update – November 2017
Today, The Morning Thing featured a conversation with MVNU’s President, Dr. Henry Spaulding. Our November Presidential Update features a discussion about campus events, a recent building purchase, what the President is thankful for and goals for 2018.
Click HERE to listen to the conversation with WNZR’s Daria Swisher and Dr. Henry Spaulding, MVNU’s President.
MVNU THEATRE PRESENTS “THE MATCHMAKER”
Mount Vernon Nazarene University’s theatre program, MVNU Theatre, presents “The Matchmaker” written by Thornton Wilder and directed by Keely Heyl. Wilder is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning plays “Our Town” and “The Skin of Our Teeth.” In this comedic play that inspired the musical “Hello, Dolly!,” a wealthy merchant hires a matchmaker to help him find a wife. Hilarity ensues as she becomes entangled in mischief with two of the merchant’s clerks, several ladies, and a pair of waiters at the finest restaurant in town.
WNZR’s Rachel Rinehart (who is in the play) talked with several cast members about “The Matchmaker”. Click HERE to hear their conversations.
Director Keely Heyl approaches “The Matchmaker” with innovative staging that couches the original story within a secondary story. About the production, Heyl states, “It’s going to be a delightful adventure from start to finish. If you have seen the play or ‘Hello, Dolly!,’ leave what you know at home. This will not be the same. While we are not the first cast to do a production this way, I think I can say we are the first ones to do THIS play this way. Your cheeks will be sore from smiling. There is a lot of darkness in this world, we aim to turn a few lights on and have a great time.” Heyl, a 2013 graduate of Cedarville University with a B.A. in Theatre, has extensive experience working with various theatres in the central Ohio area.
Performances will be on Friday, November 3; Saturday, November 4; Friday, November 10; and Saturday, November 11. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in Thorne Performance Hall inside the R.R. Hodges Chapel on the campus of MVNU. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for anyone under 18 or those with military ID. The performance on Saturday, November 4 will be super-titled in Spanish. Tickets for all performances may be purchased online at theatre.mvnu.edu, by phone at 740-397-9000 ext. 1620, or at the box office beginning one hour prior to show time. Seating opens approximately 30 minutes prior to show time.
“The Matchmaker” is the first production of MVNU Theatre’s 2017-18 season. Season tickets and flex passes are available now and feature benefits such as 15 percent single-ticket pricing and coupons for complimentary concessions. For more information, visit theatre.mvnu.edu, email theatre@mvnu.edu, or call the MVNU Theatre box office at 740-397-9000 ext. 1620. Follow MVNU Theatre on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with the latest program news and events.
NOTE: This show is Rated PG. It contains mild language and depicts lifestyles not endorsed by MVNU. The intention of this production is to give young actors an opportunity to apply their advanced training to a professional-level production that tackles more challenging subject matter through a highly artistic medium.
It is National Stress Awareness Day – how will you celebrate?
What do we mean “celebrate” National Stress Awareness Day?! If we are honest, all of us deal with stress on some level. Stress Awareness Day was set aside as time to be aware of the stress in our lives and how it affects us.
History of Stress Awareness Day (from www.daysoftheyear.com)
Stress Awareness Day was established by the International Stress Management Association (ISMA) to help provide information on stress, and strategies on how to address it for both companies and individuals. The organization is focused on helping employers and employees help each other by providing comprehensive guides to establishing a program within their organization, and individuals by looking after their health and well-being on a day to day basis.
Stress Awareness Day is your opportunity to start looking after yourself and your life, and break down the individual stressors in your life. Failure to deal with stress in your life effectively can lead to serious health problems, including increased blood pressure, susceptibility to heart disease, and a decline in your immune system. Once you start experiencing these symptoms they can landslide into each other, resulting in growing sickness, and by extension, more stress. It’s truly a self-feeding problem, and a cycle that is necessary to control to enjoy our lives.
How to Celebrate Stress Awareness Day (from www.daysoftheyear.com)
The best way to celebrate Stress Awareness Day is to take the opportunity to remove the stress from your life for the day. Take the time to examine your life and find out where all the stressors lie, and start looking into taking steps to remove them or find ways to mitigate them. Removing stress from your life can start off as a stressful experience, so it can help to get the assistance from organizations like ISMA to look into strategies and support in how to manage those things in your life that cause stress.
Whatever you choose to do, take the time to take a day off and let yourself have a day of freedom. If it’s sickness, do something to help you focus on something other than that sickness. Stress can be a killer, don’t let it take one more day from your life, act now and start living a stress free life!
Today, The Morning Thing shared some ways to relieve stress from Focus on the Family.
Click HERE for the full article.
Here are some tips excerpted from Tools for Time Management by Edward R. Dayton.
- Staying ahead of your work is a good way to relieve the pressure of schedules. By scheduling a completion time 10 percent to 20 percent ahead, you have the peace of knowing there’s time to recover if things go wrong.
- Doing the hard things first, particularly if they have a great deal of emotional content, will relieve the subterranean emotions that tend to plague us in different situations.
- Getting enough sleep is a must. Know how long you can get along with a reduced amount.
- Do the difficult tasks in phases. Often a “first draft” will get you 80 percent of the way along. Time for “topping off” the finished product can be better foreseen, and meeting the deadline seems less of a task.
- Have planned recreation and hobbies. I am a wood carver and a carpenter of sorts. Setting aside time for this activity helps me relax. Other people enjoy different methods of unwinding. One of my close friends has a way of announcing to his secretary when he will be finding some relief. If he says, “I’m going to inspect some real estate at 3 o’clock,” you can be sure that you’ll find him on the first tee at the golf course.
- Admitting and verbalizing the causes for your own irritations (be they lack of sleep, overworking, too much stress or what have you) helps [keep] others from getting emotional with you and triggering unexpected explosions.
- Facing up to the fact you really can’t do all the things you scheduled and that some of them need to be postponed is probably the best relief valve of all. This can be a humbling experience, but the rewards in personal well-being are great.
Rise and Shine 