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Steve Swartz

Parting Challenges and Blessings

For many years, my wife Phyllis and I have traveled to your churches. We’ve stayed in your homes, eaten meals in your fellowship halls, listened to you in meetings, and learned to love you. But now my role as conference pastor has ended. And Darren

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Karl Delagange

What’s Growing?

My wife and I and our two little daughters are currently in the process of moving from our home in urban Michigan to the home where I spent my high school years in rural Ohio–a house with lots of land attached and huge opportunities for

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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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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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