The Batzko Family: Busy for the Lord

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The Batzkos are busy people. Steve is a maintenance facility manager for a company that makes parts for the appliance industry for which he travels frequently.  About five times a year, for the past thirteen years he has maintained machines in the company’s Mexico plant – ...

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Will and Janyne Silvers

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In September of 2004, the Silvers were on a mountain top in their Christian lives, living happily in Will’s home state of Texas. Will had a 50% ownership in his family’s CPA firm, he and Janyne had two daughters, Emily and Abby, with a boy on the way, and they all loved their ...

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Pastor Brian and Sherry Trainer

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After three dates and a six-month separation across continents, Sherry accepted Brian Trainer’s proposal. They had met at a church in South Carolina where Brian was guest speaking and Sherry was ministering in special music. Brian had graduated from Bob Jones University in Biblical Studies ...

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Dave, Hannah, and Justice Muse

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Dave Muse and Hannah Komis looked out the airplane windows, wishing they didn’t have to leave the Chinese high schoolers they had been teaching and the Christian locals who had helped them so much in the past six weeks.  “It was an invaluable experience, that’s for ...

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Looking for a Place to Fight: Mitch and Lori Vogel’s Story

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Armed with a fresh loaf of banana bread, the Vogel family knocked on the door of their new neighbors, the Boutilliers. Whether it was the smiling faces or the enticing banana bread I couldn’t say, but I do know that the first impressions were good. Within minutes, the two families had ...

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Mark Birnschein

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Fifty years ago Mark wrote a college paper he remembers not because of a grade he earned or a subject he enjoyed, but because of a truth he could not ignore. He was writing about the book Death of a Salesman.  “I remember nothing about the book except Willy Loman was a rotten ...

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He Will Direct Your Path

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Life is full of hellos and goodbyes. We say these two words every day, don’t we? We say them in person and on the phone, to our close friends and to strangers, and absentmindedly and with tears in our eyes. Near its beginning, LBC officially said hello to Keith and Dawn Lewis, knowing this ...

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Can't Say Enough

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“I just can’t say enough about our church,” Liz Kenny said. Church has played a significant role in the lives of Chris and Liz Kenny since they were both saved at an early age and later attended Maranatha Baptist Bible College. After college graduation they were married and ...

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Confidence in God Through Prayer: Ann Krestan

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1 John 5:14 – “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, he heareth us.” Ann Krestan was converted into a prayer warrior almost eleven years ago: Pastor Bill strolled in to the Krestan’s grocery store to share with ...

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