Stories from the Field

We had 25 kids at AWANA this week! About 20 minutes after the kids went downstairs, we lost our power. It was pretty dark in the basement, but our fantastic volunteers pulled out their cell phones lights and the kids had an absolute blast! The exceptional part took place just before we lost power. Pam

I praise God for every opportunity to share “the Hope that is in us” with those without hope.  I recently had the privilege of preforming a funeral for a family who lost their elderly mother.  Though she was not a believer or a resident of our community, she wanted to buried here. I had never

Two years ago I got a picture in the mail. I was to mail money back to the photographer, but I lost the address. One and one half years later, as I was driving, I saw a man taking pics of a train coming around the corner. I realized that it was the man I

Helena had the opportunity to babysit the one-year-old girl of one of the young moms that Helena has connected with in this community. She needed a babysitter for the day, as she was working and her regular babysitter was busy. She really appreciated that we took her daughter for the day. This family has recently

I never thought that as a Village Missionary, I would add “chicken wrangler” to our list of abilities, but we did exactly that on Friday night! The neighbors had a chicken get out that ended up in our yard, and we helped the family corral the chicken to be caught. We are also able to

Our church delivered 100 “pandemic gift bags” to each home in the nearby village of Olena, OH. Olena hasn’t had a church in the village for years, and we wanted to remind them that we’re here to serve them, and open the door for future Gospel ministry. The bags had all kinds of things in

We had a man and woman break down next to our house.  They were running on the spare tire with no extra wheel in case of a flat.  They happened to be driving a vehicle which we could find no replacement tire for within 60 miles of our home.  The local car repair place called

Yesterday we were outside in the parking lot for our worship service.  One woman who was out for a walk stopped and listened for about ten minutes before moving on.  Another driver stopped to listen for about two minutes.  The way we are situated the sound travels down the valley, and I am sure that

We have had a real opportunity to reach young people during this time of isolation.  As they have more of a natural ability with online interaction, they seem to be showing up for our virtual events more than any in our congregation. There are also reports of those helping people with their physical needs abounds

Tom was called to an accident scene just around the corner.  A truck with 5 people overturned in the river.  Tom went to help as a newly graduated EMR. He soon realized that a death had occurred, and his roll changed to Chaplain.  One of the men in the crash hollered his name in a

This story is courtesy of a friend of ours who works as a jail guard about an hour and a half from Maidstone. She was listening to a sermon that I had uploaded to YouTube and unknown to her, the inmates were listening in. As she was listening, one of the inmates asked her for