Category: Challenge Central

By: Casey Korstanje   I am a septuagenarian.  That’s right, Psalm 90:10. I have reached my allotted threescore years and ten and am now working on the strength God gives me.  And recently, that has required an extra dose both physically and mentally.  Every Tuesday evening I pack up and head to the church. And […]

By: Pastor Jeremy Heikkinen   What do you think of when you hear the word…TRAIN!!??  For me, it takes me back to summer camp and pranking one of my friends. We were told, that if you put a flashlight in someones eyes while they are sleeping, yell “TRAIN!” and hit them with a pillow that […]

By: Rebecca Feere   Hello September! Does it seem to you that it was June just a few days ago? Like we blinked, and here we are in the last few days of summer?      Summer is a far-too-short and interesting season. We often approach summer with a list of fun, exciting adventures and some […]

By: John Kerr   My Grandfather or Granda, as we called him, used to love to walk. As far as I know, he never learned to drive.     When he was much younger, he also used to cycle but as he got older, and as I really knew him, I know that he loved to […]

By: Pastor Lars   Today is my son Gideon’s 14th birthday. Happy Birthday, Gideon!  This has become a birthday month for us Janssens. Three of us have birthdays in August and so do several of our extended family members — on both my wife’s side and mine. Most years we have two big birthday gatherings, […]