Sunday February 10, 2008

A Young Preacher

An Invitation for Lunch

A Snow Flurry

Earlier this week we heard that our friends’ (Gene & Rose Gehman) son, Greg, was preaching his first sermon as an intern at Manheim Brethren in Christ Church. Since they have an early service ( 8:00 a.m.), we could go there, and get back to our church in time for the morning service.

It was fun surprising Greg. We were early, so had time to visit with him a bit.

A preacher he is!

“God can be trusted.” “In Him there is enough.”

“Move in the path of complete trust in God.”

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From there we went to our church – about two miles away – where we were challenged by another good sermon on the extraordinary love of God.

The host couple, Steve and Martha Martin, did not find any visitors who needed a place for lunch, so invited us.

We enjoyed visiting with them, their three sons (left), Tim, Jon, and David, and their other guests. David’s wife, Leah, is on the right. Fourth from the left is Orpha Graybill, and next to her is Martha’s mother, Marian Minnich.

Harold & Lois Keller (2nd and 3rd on the left) were also guests today. Harold is a volunteer chaplain for TFC, at the Harrisburg and Frystown chapels.

Our hostess and host: Martha and Steve

After lunch the men went to see Steve’s shop – he owns a refrigeration business – while the ladies enjoyed some of Martha’s photos and scrapbooks. I found this picture to be incredibly interesting. It must have been taken in the late thirties, because the babies in the photo are a few years older than us.

Lois, Orpha, Martha, and Marian. Marian knew everyone on the photo, and was explaining who they were. She has Macular Degeneration and had to get close to the picture to see who it was.