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Directions:

Fon du Lac Park District Administration Center 201 Veterans Drive, East Peoria, Il 61611

From Peoria / Galesburg (going east on I-74):

Take I-74 to the Washington Street Exit (exit 96). At the bottom of the ramp turn right. At the 1st stoplight take a right onto Veterans Drive. The Administration Center is to your left (across from Super Gyro).

From Bloomington / Normal (going west on I-74):

Take I-74 to the East Washington Street Exit (exit 96). At the bottom of the ramp turn right. At the 1st stoplight take a right onto Veterans Drive. The Administration Center is to your left (across from Super Gyro).

From Morton:

Take Route 150 (Jackson Street in Morton, Meadow Avenue in East Peoria) or same directions from Bloomington/Normal. Route 150 directions – After passing Eastside Centre Marquee Sign – travel approximately 1 mile farther to veterans drive – turn left. Go through stop sign (Bloomington Road) the Administration Center is on your right (across from Super Gyro).

From Washington:

Take Route 8 (Washington Street) through Sunnyland to Washington Street. Turn Left onto to Washington Street. Turn Left at the next Stoplight – Veterans Drive. The Administration Center is to your left (across from Super Gyro).

From Creve Coeur / Pekin:

Take Route 29 through Creve Coeur and into downtown East Peoria. Turn right onto Washington Street. You will travel through 2 stoplights and at the 3rd stoplight – turn right onto Veterans Drive. The Administration Center is to your left (across from Super Gyro).

From Bartonville:

Take I-474 across the bridge. Take the First exit after crossing the bridge (Route 29) and at the bottom of the ramp turn left. Go to above directions

From Metamora:

Take Route 116 into East Peoria. Turn left onto to Camp Street (Walgreen’s on your left). At the 1st stoplight take a right onto Washington Street. At the next Stoplight turn left onto Veterans Drive. The Administration Center is to your left (across from Super Gyro).

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"Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73: 25-26
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"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." ~ Ephesians 4:32
Francis Chan says:
"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."
Tim Keller says:
"God’s love and forgiveness can pardon and restore any and every kind of sin or wrongdoing. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. It doesn’t matter if you’ve deliberately oppressed or even murdered people, or how much you’ve abused yourself… There is no evil that the Father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace." ~ Tim Keller
Oswald Chambers says:
"If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is a refined religious lifestyle, and the Spirit of God cannot witness to it because such preaching is in a realm other than His." ~ Oswald Chambers
Phillip E. Johnson says:
“When pressed in interviews to name my heroes, I have spontaneously responded that they are homeschooling mothers! To me, the heroic mothers who nurture the next generation of faithful Christians are among the leaders of the church.” ~ Phillip E. Johnson
John Stonestreet says:
“C.S. Lewis said that for every new book we read, we ought to read three old ones. But I think for every latest, greatest new homeschooling book you read, go find three old homeschooling moms and ask them what happened and what worked.” ~ John Stonestreet
Carolyn Custis James says:
“The power of our theology comes alive when we take the truth personally. Holding God at arm’s length—no matter how much theology we think we know—will never make us great theologians. We have to learn to write our own names into the plot. God will always be the subject of our theological sentences but our sentences are incomplete until we make ourselves the direct objects of his attributes…..Simply knowing a lot of theological ideas, no matter how orthodox and sound they are, will never turn us into great theologians. Theology isn’t really theology for us until we live it. Not until we learn to make explicit connections between what we know about God and the race we are running will we taste the transforming power of our theology. Fixing our eyes on Jesus means reminding ourselves of all that He is to us now. He brings meaning to our routines and energizes us to tackle the difficult tasks at hand. Fixing our eyes on Jesus gives us hope to offer disheartened husbands and hurting friends, and the wisdom we need to raise children who will fix their eyes on Him, too.” ~ from Carolyn Custis James in When Life and Beliefs Collide
Anne Ortlund says:
“So what do we do to encourage them to grow inwardly, to become resourceful and creative, to think, to meditate, to lay the foundation for growing up well? Don’t push, but affirm them! Give them the sense that all is well, that their rate of progress is acceptable to you, that you like them just the way they are…..Guide them but be delighted in them. Let them know that life is to be reached for and drunk of deeply…..Enthusiastic, that’s how you want them to grow up! The word comes from “en Theo,” or “in God.” Support them with words of faith, hope, and love, and in that framework “in God,” they’ll be ready to tackle everything. Fears and cautions are built in at an early age but so is courage! Tomorrow’s world will be different if your child has been released to experiment, to risk, to lead others, to pursue righteousness, to be an affecter for good in society, to go courageously after God.” ~ Anne Ortlund in Children Are Wet Cement
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Clay Clarkson says:
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Tim Kimmel says:
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"You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately...yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur. "
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Anna Quindlen says:
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