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JANUARY 17, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 4
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Hats, scarves, and gloves wanted BY ANN MEAD ASH
Cora L., as many as 30 students might attend a Huddle meeting. bout five years ago, a girl “It depends on who can come,” who attended the Fellow- said Cora, who explained that ship of Christian Athletes the Huddle, which consists of (FC A) summer Power Camp students in grades four through enjoyed it so much six, meets prior to that she requested school, from 8:15 a “Huddle,” a group to 8:45 a.m. on Fri“As we hit these of students that days at the school. meets regularly for Toward the end cold winter Bible study with an of 2023, the group months, having FCA staff member decided to hold a these items or volunteer, be Hats, Scarves, and formed at New available is a huge Gloves Drive. “One Holland Elementary of the things I have S c h o o l ( N H E S ) , blessing and makes wanted to do with where she attended. an impact for many them is to star t “Typically, we deal thinking outside local families.” with junior high our typical Huddle (students) and up,” time,” said Burns. said Adam Burns, “I was trying to get FCA area representative. “But (this them to think of ways to help their girl) wanted to get an elementary school or community.” The NHES Huddle started at New Holland, FCA Huddle student leadership and it has been going (ever since).” team, which includes sixth-graders According to NHES FCA Huddle Bruce S. and Jackson B., as well as Organizers of the New Holland Elementary School Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Huddle’s Hats, member and sixth-grade student Cora, has decided to collect new Scarves, and Gloves Drive include (from left) Cora L., FCA area representative Adam Burns, Jackson B.,
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Preaching it out of the park
Bearing fruit
GSHS student leads peers to Christ
Local author releases book on patience
BY ANN MEAD ASH
W hen Abby Moyer was a freshman at Garden Spot High School (GSHS) dur ing the 2021-22 school year, she joined the Youth Alive Bible Club led by teacher Colleen Bowden. While Moyer enjoyed attending, she felt called to do more than just be a member. “I started by leading prayer,” said Moyer, who soon partnered with fellow student Savannah Gray to lead the group. Youth Alive is a ministry of
PennDelYouth, which is associated with the Assemblies of God Churches in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Moyer and Gray worked with Landon Ritchie, youth and connections pastor with Lighthouse Assembly of God, to write a mission statement for the club. “We serve to be a safe place where students can gather together to grow in their faith and talk about God’s Word and share their faith with their classmates,” said Moyer, who now shares the mission at the everyother-week meetings followed
BY ANN MEAD ASH
In her quest to bring lessons from the Fruits of the Spirit, found in Galatians 5:22-23, to both children and adults, local author Shelleen Weaver has produced four books. The most recent is “Grizz Bear and Skippy Cricket,” the tale of a ferocious and impatient bear whose w inter hib er nation is interrupted by an annoying cricket.
As with all Weaver ’s “Fruit Fables,” the books, which employ Weaver’s rhymes alongside Cody Wood’s illustrations, contain nuggets of truth for all family members. “It’s about a control freak who has a situation he can’t control,” explained Weaver. “He tries to control it with smashing (the cricket), but he can’t because (the bug) is out of reach. His next form of control is intimidation, which doesn’t work
Author Shelleen Weaver displays the four “Fruit
See Shelleen Weaver pg 8 Fables” books she has written.
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