Beacon Feature
Phil Maust

Plant for the Harvest

A new growing season is fast approaching. Last year’s harvest is completed and the winter has come, and is going. While fields and gardens are now dead and desolate, an opportunity is coming to plant another crop—to prepare the soil and plant the seed.  

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Beacon Feature
Dale Keffer

Let Us Not Be Weary in Well-Doing

Galatians 6:9 says:  “And let us not be weary in well doing.” How is that working for you? I cannot be the only minister who has been challenged, discouraged, tempted, sad, angry, etc. during 2020.  I wasn’t aware of how badly I was being affected

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Beacon Feature
Phil Swartzentruber

False Summits

A few years ago, my wife and I were attempting to climb to the highest point of Colorado – Mt. Elbert.  We had done some research and learned that there were a couple of false summits on the way to the true summit.  Sure enough,

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Beacon Feature
Melissa Yoder

Beginning in Submission

In the fall of 2020, my husband Nikolas and I applied for a ministry position that seemed to be a calling from the Lord and also came at a time when we were both looking for new job opportunities. We waited eagerly for the responses

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