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Healing, hope and a place to call home

Despite our differences, and thank goodness for them, there’s also an incredible constant within all of us. We all need healing (of our brokenness), we all need hope (especially in the crazy times in which we live) and we all need a place to call home, a place to pull away from “normalcy,” whatever that is, and draw close to God. And there’s more, another constant we all have is we all tend to try to “fix” life our own way. Give me: “a couple more hours,” “a couple more dollars” or a “couple more whatever” and I’ll be Ok. Umm…sorry, but nope…won’t work. ...

Religion briefs

Editor’s note: To submit a nonprofit announcement to The Sentinel’s Religion section, contact Erin Thompson at (717) 248-6741 or by email at ethompson@lewistownsentinel.com. Items also may be faxed to (717) 248-3481 or sent to The Sentinel, 352 Sixth Street, Lewistown, PA 17044. Items should arrive to The Sentinel by Wednesday afternoon for publication in the Saturday edition. Submissions will be published as space allows. The editor reserves the right to edit all submissions. ¯¯¯ Church to host special speakers REEDSVILLE — Schrader United Methodist Church will host the ...

Putting faith into action a passion for local volunteers

From The Fuller Center A 17-member group led by long-time volunteers Barry and Amy Stuck recently had the opportunity to practice what their church, the Bunkertown Brethren Church, loves to preach — putting faith into action. The Stucks led a group of 40 congregants and community members to assemble the walls for a daylong wall build in August in Juniata County that was taken to the Georgia-Alabama border to be assembled as part of the 2021 Millard Fuller Legacy Build. “When (Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project Executive Director Kim Roberts) contacted us about coming down, I ...

Musings from the mountains

Good morning, dear friends! What a good night of sleep I enjoyed. Another precious memory made in the family. God is good to me. His love is lavish! His faithfulness encourages me and reminds me that all good things come from His hand. I know I did nothing deserving. Last evening, our family gathered for our yearly potato raising. I sort of had an idea that the potatoes hadn’t done well, due to our moving from the farm and our neglect of them. Goodness, over the summer, it was difficult to even see the plants for all the weeds! I sort of knew. What I also knew was that I could not ...

A view from above

It can quickly become confusing. If you and I try to make Revelation 11:14-19 fit into a neat, linear, chronological sequence, it won’t work. Although it occurs in the middle of the book, this text points to events to be explained more fully at the end of the book. Yet these are not separate events but the same, only taken in at different points in the narrative. In Revelation, it’s more like we’re in a helicopter hovering over the action with the freedom to move quickly through space and time rather than in a car driving from one point to another. Hovering over Rev. 11:14, we ...

Sisters’ online memories open window to history, their lives

GREENSBURG (AP) — Sister Francis Louise Honeychuck helped her mother clean a casket factory in Scottdale and watched over the two youngest of her five siblings after her father died in the 1918 flu pandemic, just before she turned 4. “I recall picking up oodles of straight pins off the chairs, floor, anywhere,” she told an interviewer in 2004, remembering her childhood as Emma Marie Honeychuck, before she entered the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill in Greensburg, in 1932. “They had been dropped by the ladies who used the pins to make … silk lining inside the ...