Conestoga Valley townlively.com
JUNE 29, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 27
Celebrating Progress anny Millette, director of donor relations, is clear about what The Potter’s House will celebrate when it holds its annual pork roast this summer. “(We will celebrate) the progress we have made so far and the new horizons that are ahead,” said Millette, who pointed to four wooden stakes tied with bright orange plastic ribbons located at one end of the Still Waters campus. “See the stakes? Those are the dimensions of the building, which will hopefully be two stories plus a basement.” Back in 2018, when The Potter’s House held its annual pig roast at 261 School Lane, Brownstown, located along the Conestoga River, the organization was dedicating the property with plans to build a faith-based rehab facility to combat drug addiction. On March 25, 2020, Still Waters Recovery Center opened on the site. The building Millette referred to will be a second group home for up to eight students. The Potter’s House and The House of Ruth are separate
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Lanny Millette of The Potter’s House (center photo) points out the building site (left photo) where the organization would like to put a group home and the building that has already been constructed at Still Waters (right photo).
In Service To God BY ANN MEAD ASH
BY ANN MEAD ASH
For Wanda Swarr, whose professional educational background includes decades of evaluating homeschoolers, competing with technology to educate youth had become a formidable obstacle. “I could no longer be as entertaining as video games, social media,” recalled Swarr. The solution was to combine learning with hands-on experiences in the great outdoors in a microhybrid educational alternative setting. Swarr started with a steering See Pathways pg 6
Lois Zigrang has written the book “Who, Me?” about her and her husband Walt’s mission experiences.
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In the late 1960s, when Lois Zigrang and her husband, Walt, first learned of a missionary opportunity with Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) in Angola, Lois thought, “Who me?” She pictured primitive living conditions. “I had never even camped,” she recalled. God’s plans for the couple and their young son did include Angola and later Mozambique, where they were forced to leave so their homes could be overtaken. “Who, Me?” is the title of a book by Lois that begins with her childhood in Pit-
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man, N.J., and ends with Walt’s and her retirement to Lancaster. Along the way, Lois details how God changed them both through His faithfulness. Lois met Walt, shortly before he received his degree in citrus at Florida Southern College, where she was studying elementary education. The pair wrote to each other daily during the summer, became engaged in October, and married in December 1958. Lois gave birth to their son the following November, and Walt took his first job as an assistant grove production manager. See Zigrang pg 2
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members of the board. According to Millette, the presentations will center on the ongoing New Horizons capital campaign, which includes the second group home, possibly a second House of Ruth location, and raising funds toward a detox center. Readers who would like more information about the pork roast may visit www.thepottershouselancaster.com. Individuals with specific questions may call 717-826-1154.
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The Potter’s House Schedules Pork Roast arms of a nonprofit, Christ-centered 2020, will hold a pork roast at the Sloppin’ Sauce, assorted side dishes, ministry that offers a holistic Still Waters campus. The name Still beverages, and desserts, will be approach to the physical, emotional, Waters is based on the verse from available from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and spiritual needs of pre-release and Psalm 23 that reads, “He leads me Meals will be served by suggested post-release prisoners and individuals beside the still waters.” A variety of donation, with meals for children desiring to overcome addictions. The activities for both adults and chil- discounted by half. At 3 p.m., a graduation, including tagline “From Captivity to Destiny” dren will be held from 11 a.m. to has long encapsulated the mission of 4 p.m. According to Millette, among testimonies, will be held for stuthe activities will be games such as dents of the ministry who have The Potter’s House. On Saturday, July 23, The Pot- volleyball, ladder ball, and croquet. reached that milestone. Lloyd ter’s House and The House of Ruth, Food, which will include roasted pig Hoover, executive director of The which opened in Leola in June of with Mama Elaine’s Almost Famous Potter’s House, will speak, as will