For Max and Richard Brooke, the timing was great. The Mid-Year Volunteer Retreat for UCC Partners in Service Volunteers in New Braunfels, Texas, rolled around at the halfway point of their mega-ambitious, 10-month mission to present a multimedia chronicling of UCC Volunteer Ministries.
For members of the Renault family, commitment to hockey runs deeper than the snows of the past winter. Or, in their case, the waters of Florida’s Gulf Coast. It was a big deal when 11-year-old Levi’s team in St. Pete Beach, Fla., won a state championship in February. But as victories paved the way for…
Debra Jarvis is no slacker. An underachiever she is not. But a less-than-exemplary performance review she received early in her career blesses her to this day.
Seated on a folding chair in front of the altar in what remained of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in New Orleans, Peg Jacobs’ sense of hearing had never been more acute. In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the voice of her still speaking God was clear. Irony permeated the storm-raked sanctuary built in the…
Lee Reiner’s abiding faith was up against it. “I said, ‘Are you kidding? This will never work.’” Now immersed in what-was-I-thinking mode, Lee shakes her head. A self-deprecating laugh and shrug of the shoulders precede her thank-God-I-was-wrong proclamation.