Category Archives: Ministry

Locals with hearts for Haiti impacted by work-week in impoverished country

Locals with hearts for Haiti impacted by work-week in impoverished country
A team of 17 local people recently spent a week serving others in an eye-opening trip to Haiti. Their time was filled with working on Haitians’ homes, building relationships, and serving God in whatever ways needed in the Northern Hemisphere’s poorest country. The group headed out on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 9, and drove to...
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Mexico trip: Building houses, one relationship at a time

Mexico trip: Building houses, one relationship at a time
By Jessica Holterhaus I took off on a mission trip to La Misión, Mexico, with a group through Third Reformed Church in Pella on June 13. Fifty-seven people went on this one-week trip with me, including three individuals from the Lynnville-Sully area. These ladies who accompanied me were Monica Lanser, Macy Lanser, and Bonita Jansen. Another...
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Pastor’s Pen: Grace Amazing

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,” Ephesians 1:7. On the night of Mar. 9, 1748, John Newton was jolted awake, on the ship that he was sailing on, by a brutal storm. He and the crew thought for sure it was the end...
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Epic adventures at Sully Community Church VBS

Epic adventures at Sully Community Church VBS
Young trekkers laced up their hiking boots, grabbed their gear, and took a safari up Mount Kilimanjaro for an epic expedition through the book of Proverbs during Sully Community Church’s Vacation Bible School June 15-19. An average of 90 children each day learned that true wisdom comes only from the one true all-wise God, who...
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Ritter leads group in faith-growing trip to India

Ritter leads group in faith-growing trip to India
Orphaned children, black magic practicers, and people living at a home for the dying and destitute – these were just some of the hurting people Lindsey Ritter encountered during a recent trip to India. Serving as a leader with a Christian organization called Youth With A Mission (YWAM), the 2013 Lynnville-Sully grad was part of a...
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Pastor’s Pen 6-4-15

Baseball/softball season is in “full swing!” The bleachers are filled with families and spectators who come to cheer for their team. Emotions are “all over the board,” depending upon the situation. When the umpire makes a questionable call, people verbally disagree. Recently, I read a sign on the back stop of a ball diamond, which...
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Part 2: Walter Sylvester reports on Cambodia – Life on the Growing Edge

Walter Sylvester of Lynnville took an extended mission trip to Southeast Asia, including Cambodia and Thailand, Apr. 27-May 11. He visited a number of missionaries in the area and did a few tourist things also. “I hope to share with you a few experiences and maybe stretch your thought patterns with some of my observations,”...
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