This is the second in a two-part interview with Karen Wolfe about her long and difficult, yet miraculous, journey to a successful lung transplant and new life. If you haven’t read the first installment, please grab your September Greeter to catch up. Here then is the second installment which picks-up
Continue readingPeter Becker Community, Harleysville will be holding a three-hour Abiders training in September 2018. Abiders provide a reassuring, comforting presence to persons in the last hours of their life who would otherwise die alone. This can take the form of silent or soft prayers, reading a poem or psalm, singing
Continue readingWe have some new books in the library – please check them out! Don’t Write My Obituary Just Yet: Inspiring Faith Stories for Older Adults by Missy Buchanon 30 inspiring stories sharing wisdom and hope with readers The Rescue by Jim Cymbala and Ann Spangler The Rescue tells the powerful,
Continue readingWe’ve been having so many wonderful God moments at Green Tree, I thought it might be interesting to find out more from one of our sisters who experienced one. I sat down with Karen Wolfe recently to discuss her remarkable experience with her lung transplant. These are the results. The
Continue readingThe Green Team is hosting a Talent Show at Green Tree on Saturday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m. to raise money for the Give a Girl a Chance scholarship that was set up in Amanda O’Donnell’s name. We have started putting the concert together, but are still in need of
Continue readingBeing a little kid who got poison ivy so badly I had to go to the hospital for it once, I never gave Camp Swatara a chance. I mean, it wasn’t just the poison ivy, my little league baseball seemed more important and you can’t play your games in Spring
Continue readingI usually use these pastor’s epistles to write something folksy, possibly humorous, certainly positive about our faith walk together. Maybe not as humorous as our Sunday smile stories which my brother tells me are so bad, they’re actually good, but not so today. Today I would like to think with
Continue readingour visit with Jonathan, our son who lives in Alaska, he reported that his son Silas has been cast as Moses in their school play about the Old Testament patriarch. Silas is in third grade and the leading role of Moses requires him learning seventeen separate speaking parts, most of
Continue readingThere are 2.3 billion Christians in the world. We are truly of all different shapes and sizes. We worship in a vast variety of ways. We dress differently in many cases. We worship in different languages. We are widely diverse in interpreting the scriptures and how we come to God.
Continue readingLent is the forty day period prior to Easter. It’s a time in the church year for preparation – preparation to experience the suffering and death of Christ and preparation to celebrate this resurrection on Easter Sunday. We observe Lent in several simple ways. We prepare special readings and litanies
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