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Thursday, April 3, 2025
The Same God
Saturday, March 29, 2025
As Goes the Home
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time of Renewal
Spring is my favorite season. It is a time of revival, renewal, and promise. I am always amazed how quickly things turn green with a few days of sunshine and rain. Spring is known to throw us a few curves and dump some snow. But if that happens, we know it won't last long.
Monday, February 17, 2025
The Peace Oak
Wherever they settled in the Alsace-Lorraine area, the Mennonites met in one of their homes for Sunday worship services. In the late 1600s, when Jacob Amman was their bishop, they adopted more strict rules and separated from the Mennonites. Their neighbors called them heftler (stapler) because their clothes fastened with hooks instead of buttons. Eventually, the Amman group was called Amish.
The Amish were not allowed to buy land but they rented farms and worked hard. After a few years, the ruined land grew good crops. They had nicer farms and made more money than their neighbors. They were jealous and complained to the king. He forced many of the Amish to move to other places in France. In 1708, a few of these families went to Salm in the Vosges Mountain area where they lived in relative peace and prospered.
Monday, February 10, 2025
Sycamine Tree
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Fire of God
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Remembering Mom
Sarah was the widow of Phares B.
Stauffer who died July 12, 2004. They shared 61 years of marriage. She was a
member of the Fairhaven Mennonite Church in Myerstown since its founding in
1973.
She was a dedicated dairy
farmer’s wife and mother of their ten children. She enjoyed quilting and gave
many quilts to her children and grandchildren. The greatest legacy for her descendants
was her example and consistent faith in God. She was active in the Sewing Circle at the
church and in her later years volunteered at Jubilee Ministries. The story of
her early life was written in the book A Home for Sarah.
She is survived by her children:
Leroy (husband of Romaine), Bernville; Kathryn, West Willow; Edwin, (widower of
Carol), East Earl; Sallie Martin (widow of Luke Martin), Greencastle; Irene,
Myerstown; Jane Martin (wife of Clifford), Ephrata; Rose Boll (wife of Randy), Manheim;
Bonnie Hurst (wife of John), Newmanstown; Nelson (husband of Teresa), Elverson;
and Gloria Hurst (wife of Paul), Myerstown. She is also survived by 26
grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren. In
addition to her husband, she was predeceased by four grandchildren, Beverly, Benjamin
and Steven Stauffer, and Ryan Boll.
A viewing will be held on
Wednesday, January 15, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Fairhaven Mennonite Church,
801 S. Railroad St., Myerstown. The funeral will be at the church on January 16
at 10 a.m. with a viewing one hour before the service. Interment will follow in
the Myerstown Mennonite Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be
made to the Fairhaven Mennonite Church or Richland Christian Home.