Pleasant View Baptist Church, White Bird, Idaho, served its community in early April in an “Idaho kind of way.”
Church member Eloy Pineda, who owns a post and pole company, donated a truckload of timber to be used for firewood.
Knowing many Idaho residents are short on money and firewood this spring, the men’s group at the church gathered for breakfast and then cut, split and delivered 10–12 cords of free firewood to 12 families in the community.
The recently released book, “From the Killing Fields to the Blessing Field,” tells of the daily bombing runs to Cambodia by the U.S. from 1969 to 1973, with 115,000 bombing sites in all.
What does it take to get a book from an idea onto the published page? Ask shy and reserved JoEllen Claypool, who started scribbling her teenaged angst into poetry.
Nathan Harden felt called by the Lord to move out west and start a ministry of construction — construction and repairs on churches and pastors’ homes. He is still working in that field today, and he will until he feels called to change.
Mike Palmer recognized the dearth of pastors and other church leaders at least 15 years ago, not quite halfway into his now 27-year pastorate at Salmon Valley Baptist Church Salmon, Idaho.
