Today is a special day – it’s the 20th anniversary of our first class at Bethel Lutheran Church in Brush Prairie! To mark the occasion I wrote a small article about the ministry, had a nice plaque made and presented them both to Pastor Ron […]
Congratulations to the following students who earned their new ranks – we’re very proud of you! Cody Sibley – 1 Ethan Bowers – 3 Tiffany Miller – 3 Noah Renk – 3 Jonathan Patterson – 3 Max Gossman – 4 Zachariah Weber – 4 Duncan Colson – 5 Johnathan Melhorn – […]
Congratulations to the follow students who earned new ranks last night! We’re very proud of each one!! Manon Dunham – 2 Pete Muller – 5 Jim Lingeman – 6 Kyle Frazier – 6 Jason Kerr – 7 Grant Clark – 7 Kyla Muller – 8 Sydney Muller – 8 Lucas Bollman […]
I was emailing with a friend of mine recently and we were discussing the importance of keeping our families a priority in our lives, and one of my thoughts was that “Way too often the discipline we have as martial artists only keeps us training and at the dojo, […]
Once a year we put on our “tournament hats” and compete in the Mighty River Classic tournament hosted by Sifu Rick Cropper and his school. This year we were blessed to have 5 of our Black Belts asked to serve as designated Center Referees, a position of great responsibility and honor. Sensei’s Andrew Colson, Tim […]
My dad was a musician. In fact as a kid my family spent much of the time traveling around the country as he would play and sing in different places. So naturally my brother and I got the music bug too. Dave is a sax player, a jazz professor at the university level and just […]
Do you remember the excitement of starting something new? We’ve been blessed here at Whole Armor Martial Arts to have some new students join our school the last couple of months, and what a blessing it is to see them get started. Nervous, intimidated, overwhelmed, maybe even a little scared but also totally and super […]
Hard to believe, but 34 years ago today I attended my first class in the martial arts. Who would have thought that first class would have started a journey that resulted in our school Whole Armor Martial Arts, and thousands of students having the experience of training in Christian […]
It’s amazing all the hoops you have to jump through to keep a website going and make it “findable.” There’s Google of course, which somehow became the intergalactic ruler of the world wide web, so everything has to be geared so that it works best with their search […]
When I was a kid my family played a lot of card games. Gin, Rummy, and that kinda thing. It was a lot of fun, and helped us learn strategy and how to follow the rules. Of course every card game has rules, cuz without rules no one knows what […]