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Restart Banquet To Feature Josh McDowell BY ANN MEAD ASH
Commemorating And Raising Awareness Pennsylvania Riding Club To Hold Event
“When this happened to Linda, it really hit home … being parents and realizing the danger our teenagers are in,” said Jennifer King. She and her husband, Wayne, both members of the Pennsylvania Riding Club, are working with American Bikers on a Mission to organize the Linda Stoltzfoos Commemorative and Abduction Awareness Ride. Stoltzfoos was kidnapped and murdered in 2020. Wayne, who was born into the Plain community, is friends with Sam Blank, a spokesman for the Stoltzfoos family. “I wanted to
make sure this was done right,” said Route 322 east to Farmersville Wayne. “A focus of our club is bridg- Road to Shirk Road to Route 23 through New Holland to Route ing the gap between the biker 897. The ride will end at community and the Weaverland Anabap(Plain) community.” tist Faith CommuniWith that goal in The ride will leave ty, 210 Weaverland mind, Wayne and Ephrata Community Valley Road, East other members of Church at noon on Earl. A short cerethe club plan to Sept. 11 and traverse through New Holland mony including hold the ride on along Route 23 before the Pledge of AlleSaturday, Sept. 11. arriving at Anabaptist giance, a prayer, Riders will meet at Faith Community. announcements, and Ephrata Community a safety briefing will be Church (ECC), 70 Clay held at ECC. School Road, Ephrata, At Weaverland, Andrea from 10 to 11:45 a.m. for registration. The ride will leave at noon McHenry, a representative of and follow a route that will take FREE, a Berks County-based
anti-human trafficking organization active in Reading, will speak briefly. McHenry said she plans to share statistics about human trafficking. “We do education on how to take action against human trafficking and how to identify and respond to victims,” explained McHenry. “We do prevention work with children in an effort to keep them safe.” FREE opened The Resting Place, a women’s drop-in center meeting basic needs and providing safe housing for those who request it, in Reading in 2019. The organization is in the process of opening a refuge home in the Reading area. See Awareness pg 4
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Organizing the Linda Stoltzfoos Commemorative and Abduction Awareness Ride are (from left) Jason L’Heureux, Andrea McHenry, Wayne and Jennifer King, Elizabeth and Brent Bair, and Mike Kulkusky.
Jaime Santiago, founder and executive director of Restart Training Center Ministry (RTCM), an organization that strives to help men who have turned to abusing chemicals or developed other kinds of addictions, sees the goals of the RTCM in space mission terms. “Restart is the rocket booster that helps (students) get into the orbit of sobriety and recovery,” said Santiago. Once students are orbiting among the stars, Santiago said, they are sustained by connecting to a local church where they can continue to grow spiritually. “We help them blast off, but they have to utilize the resources in the community,” said Santiago. So, for RTCM’s sixth annual fall banquet, it is only fitting that the organization is featuring Josh McDowell, author of “Evidence That Demands a Verdict,” along with about 150 other books, and a star of the Christian publishing