To most summer camp administrators, COVID-19 brought months of worst nightmares as enrollments dropped and summer sessions were canceled. Whereas other camps might throw in their towels, however, Camp Susque turned the lack of campers into an opportunity to help others. “We had to cancel ...
On Oct. 30, I was blessed by celebrating the idea of church reformation in Wittenberg, Germany. There, on Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther distributed the Ninety-Five Theses or truth-claims that required attention if the church was to be better. Can we agree that the church can always be better? I think so. It was the Eve of All Saints Day, and Luther knew a lot of people would be attending All Saints’ Church, also called Castle Church. It is said that he nailed his document to the Castle Church doors, which served as a bulletin board, but what is important is that he wanted people to ...
When Amish gather for worship each week, they regularly sing the solemn, German-dialect hymns that their spiritual forebears composed nearly five centuries ago in a condition akin to that of 17 missionaries recently kidnapped in Haiti — captivity. Those hymns emerged from miserable prison ...
God has blessed us with our senses, and in science class, we were taught about our five main senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. According to R. S. Feldman’s book called Understanding Psychology, there are parameters or absolute thresholds listed for these senses: Vision — ...
Our church started as a burden for Watsontown in the heart of John Phillips of Williamsport. We met in the home of Rev. Alfred Young, where prayer meetings were held asking God’s direction concerning starting a church. A small church was built in Goosetown in 1944-45 by Mr. George ...
sojourner is defined as “a person or group residing, either temporarily or permanently, in a community and place that is not primarily their own and is dependent on the ‘good-will’ of that community for their continued existence.” Since it began, Sojourner Truth Ministry has seen many ...
