Chris Cotton
Help Launch LITE Recovery Cafe
Our founders, Chris and Tammy Cotton, attended the Jail Ministry of Elkhart County Dessert Banquet last night at Nappanee Missionary...
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Michelle Weidenbenner
- Apr 17
- 1 min
MEET the BOARD - Who's Tim Gillum?
Michelle interviewed fellow Board Member, Tim Gillum, recently.
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Chris Cotton
- Apr 14
- 3 min
WARNING: Reading Can Seriously Damage Your Ignorance
Yesterday Tammy and I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dan Spalding and Roger Grossman of www.NewsNowWarsaw.com for Kensington...
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Chris Cotton
- Mar 28
- 2 min
Our Executive Director Rocks!
I need to brag about my wife, Tammy Kinerk-Cotton. In the coming weeks you are going to read and hear about things that LITE in KCJ and...
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Chris Cotton
- Feb 28
- 3 min
Newsworthy?
I recently cut advertising ties with a local media outlet. When my parents started Cotton & Cotton Insurance in 1983 they began...
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Chris Cotton
- Feb 22
- 1 min
This will save lives...and anger some people of course
What is a NaloxBox? A NaloxBox holds free, readily available intranasal (sprayed through the nose) Naloxone. Naloxone is an emergency...
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Chris Cotton
- Feb 18
- 8 min
Rochelle - Before and After
1. Can you share some of your addiction story? I started using drugs at 13 to escape my pain, a pain I had no idea how to explain. My...
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Chris Cotton
- Jan 27
- 2 min
I just want...normal
This morning I was struggling to find the right blog topic. I had lots of ideas, but they mostly centered on attacking why we have some...
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Chris Cotton
- Jan 25
- 3 min
It's what makes us feel human...
https://www.wctv.tv/2023/01/24/my-mom-cant-keep-me-animal-shelter-shares-heartbreaking-note-left-with-abandoned-dog/?fbclid=IwAR1y5fWS161...
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Chris Cotton
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
True Friendship
Like many today, the day after Christmas, I have worked very had at doing absolutely nothing. My autoresponder in my work email account...
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Chris Cotton
- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
It Takes a Genius...
I won't post the link to the local online "news" story because it's about someone our organization will be serving in his preparation for...
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Chris Cotton
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
Free Writers
It sounds like a strange name for a group of inmates who have to scramble to get on a list to attend a weekly one hour class to write....
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Chris Cotton
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Grief Support
We've all experienced grief at some point in our lives. It's almost impossible to live life without walking through loss at some point....
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Chris Cotton
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
What is our "BNB"?
Did you know LITE has a Basic Needs Bank, or BNB, at the Milford Methodist Meeting House? Hope Beezley created it and Tammy Cotton now...
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Chris Cotton
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Rock the House II is Tonight!
Tonight is a special event at the Meeting House. The worship band from our church, The Circuit (Clunette UMC), will be putting on a free...
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Chris Cotton
- Dec 1, 2022
- 2 min
Onward and Upward
The bad thing about being a nonprofit which operates at the pleasure of an elected official is that, well, we operate at the pleasure of...
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Chris Cotton
- Sep 6, 2022
- 5 min
Christ Showed Up
John G. Stackhouse, Jr. 1 day ago 5 min read When Jesus Shows Up at Church One of the most astounding promises in a Book full of...
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Chris Cotton
- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
COVID and Incarceration
I'm guessing by now everyone reading this has experienced some form of covid quarantine or protocol. For most of 2020 and well into 2021...
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Chris Cotton
- Jul 15, 2022
- 2 min
"Those People"
I was guilty of using this term. You probably have been too; maybe still are. As in, (1) "Why don't those people just get their sh**...
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Chris Cotton
- Jul 13, 2022
- 2 min
1 in 14 school age kids have an incarcerated parent
Think about that statistic for a moment. Please don't glide on by. How many kids are in your child's or grandchild's classrooms? IES/NCES...
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