As a child, I admired my dad’s ease in striking up conversations with strangers. “How does he do that?” I wondered. For my entire childhood and youth, I watched my pastor move about as he preached. Today, I enjoy striking up conversations with strangers, and

A Collection of Reflections Darren Peachey – Belleville, Pennsylvania “We have chosen to make CMC our community. We have chosen to attend a CMC church and to put down roots within this group of congregations. And we hope that our kids can grow up and

To this I hold, my Shepherd will defend meThrough the deepest valley He will leadOh the night has been won, and I shall overcomeYet not I, but through Christ in me.(CityAlight) Everyone who gathered in McHenry, Maryland, for CMC’s annual conference resembled a big family

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