Dale & Peggy Bartles, Skokomish, WA

We’ve completed our first year on this field. Getting to know the flock of God brings immediate satisfaction as well as memories to last a lifetime. We were given a church directory a year ago with a few pictures in it, but today their faces, voices, and mannerisms are firmly etched in my mind. For example, I love to see Faith and John each Sunday. In their 90s and both on hospice, they still faithfully attend church weekly, one in a wheelchair and the other with a walker. They and all the others in this rural church are God’s sheep to feed and love, and I do so with pleasure.

Other Recent Posts

A Valuable Opportunity

Four teens made a request that would delight any pastor.

Sean & Jani Carney, USA District Representatives: High Plains District (2026)

Many VM fields in the High Plains District (US) are very rural, and most have fewer than 1,000 residents. VM believes in the importance of rural churches such as these!