This Week's Program
After the Storm
When tragedy strikes, it’s our call as people of faith to respond to those in need. This week we hear from Pam who was like most of us – she always felt like she should volunteer to help somewhere but didn’t, that is, until a flood hit a nearby town, forever changing her life and views on serving others.
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Frog Hollow Journal
Sam Heatwole
Our neighbor Ivy Moyers has a very simple religion — no, that’s not quite right — she has a simple and well-exercised faith. For Ivy, God is God, and knows exactly what he’s doing. While he’s working out whatever it is he has in mind for the nations, he still has enough grace and more to pity the sparrows and all the other little people of the world. She knows, because over the long hard years of her life God has loved her, and worked some blessings into her days. When her husband died and she still had two children at home to care for, she scratched a living for them from her patch of land. And God was there to help her.
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Frog Hollow Journal Author Jim Fairfield traces a path from his childhood on the Canadian prairie to his transformative experiences on a small farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Anyone, he proposes, can learn to live “Frog Hollow style,” practicing integrity, neighborliness, and indomitable faith.Related Resources
WEBSITES
Find Service Opportunities with Mennonite Mission Network
Mennonite Service Opportunities for Older People (SOOP)
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Mennonite Service Adventure for Young Adults
BOOKS
Ten Power Principles for Christian Service, Warren W. Wiersbe
The Fine Arts of Christian Service, Roderick L. Evans
Burton's Blog
Service, the Heart of the Gospel
Burton Buller
Next Week
Next week we’ll talk to Dr. Brian Kelley, a researcher and chair of the psychology department at Bridgewater College (Bridgewater, Va.) about his work in the area of how drinking and drugs are especially harmful to the development of adolescent brains. It is the second most important period of time (after the prenatal period) for brain growth. He is also a father and church youth group leader with practical experience with kids.
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