Category Archives: Ministry

Part 2: Ritter sees lives changed during medical missions on islands

Part 2: Ritter sees lives changed during medical missions on islands
Editor’s note: 2013 Lynnville-Sully graduate Lindsey Ritter is on staff with a Christian organization called Youth With A Mission (YWAM). Her travels have taken her to places such as New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, India, and currently the Islands of Vanuatu. During the first half of September, she spent two weeks on a YWAM Marine...
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Pastor’s Pen – 11/17/16

Dear Friends, If there ever was a time to be focused on spiritual matters for the church, this is the time! How can the church of today pass on the baton of faith to the generations that will be the church of tomorrow? To make it more personal, what can you do to ensure that your...
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Pacific Hope: Ritter helps bring needed medical care to islands

Editor’s note: 2013 Lynnville-Sully graduate Lindsey Ritter is on staff with a Christian organization called Youth With A Mission (YWAM). Her travels have taken her to places such as New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, India, and currently the Islands of Vanuatu. During the first half of September, she spent two weeks on a YWAM Marine...
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Pastor’s Pen – 11/3/16

Recently, I found myself in a hospital elevator with two other people. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed very few people will make eye contact in that brief 30 seconds or so. Why? It’s kind of awkward to begin with. Usually no one knows anyone else, and what happens when you do make...
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Pastor’s Pen – Servanthood

By Tom Pool, Lynnville Heart of Worship pastor “Whoever wants to be great must become a servant,” Mark 10:43. When my wife and I moved here almost four years ago, it was a joy to be back in the heartland of Iowa after living away from our family and friends for many years. We discovered very early...
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Terpstra and team bring hope to China through Salt Company

Terpstra and team bring hope to China through Salt Company
Every morning at 10:02 a.m., an alarm goes off on Lyndsay Terpstra’s cell phone. This is to remind her of Luke 10:2: “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few...” Terpstra, a 2014 Lynnville-Sully graduate, journeyed across the world last summer for a nine-week mission trip in China, motivated in part by this verse in...
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Van Manen learns of unconditional love on Albanian mission trip

Van Manen learns of unconditional love on Albanian mission trip
When Iowa State University (ISU) junior Emily Van Manen applied last October for a short-term overseas mission trip, she didn’t exactly know where she’d be going. She only knew it would be one of three places: China, Albania, or Vietnam. In November, Van Manen was interviewed, and in December, she discovered she would be heading...
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