Beacon Feature
Mark Yoder

While the Lord Tarries

A few weeks ago, I was spending some great quality time with a couple of my grandchildren. (I have twenty-five, and one great grandchild, and I promise that I am bragging, not complaining.) And if you must know, that great quality time was on the

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Rosedale Network
Phil Swartzentruber

Faithful to the Call

In 1955, Martha, recently married to Wesley Stoltzfus and pregnant with their first child, moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Bowlings Creek in Eastern Kentucky to help with the church plant there. Life in those early years was not easy. In her book Hope in

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RBC
Jeff McLain

“Mistakes Were Made…” Part 6

In How We’ve Done Church — Challenges and Encouragement for Small Churches “Integrity is the new competence.” Karl Vaters challenged me with this statement as we conversed about the strange new season we’re in as the church. This is an era in which too many

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RI
Joe

Fully Engaged

The other day, my neighbor showed me an unusual sight. In his front yard, under an ornamental bush, sat a duck. She has been sitting there for a few weeks now, and even though the nearest pond or stream is a quarter-mile away, this mother

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