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SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 46
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Gifting In New Holland And Beyond CrossNet Prepares For Christmas Giveaway BY ANN MEAD ASH
isa Kerstetter, director of marketing and events with CrossNet Ministries, wants donors to the Christmas Gift Program to know that this year there is a new option for gifting to students in the ELANCO School District. “They could do a gift card drive,” explained Kerstetter, who noted that gift card drives will support a new portion of the giving program. “All the years that we have (held this), the teenagers have been hard to match because they are hard to shop for,” explained Kerstetter. “More and more kids were asking for gift cards, so I thought, ‘What if we offer that?’” The new option, for students in the ninth grade and above, will mean young people can ask for a gift card to a specific store and make their own purchases. “Instead of getting a pair of jeans they don’t like, they
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can get something they like,” said Kerstetter, who is hoping to pair the gift cards with kits of personal care items. Organizers of the CrossNet Christmas Gift Program expect to serve more than 500 ELANCO School District children who regularly receive free lunches. To provide the program, CrossNet offers area residents the opportunity to take part in one or more of several giving programs. As in the past, participants may choose to sponsor a local family. Those opting for this route will receive a wish list for each child in the family. The list will include items children need and want, along with a reading suggestion. Individuals and groups that would like to sponsor a family should contact CrossNet at 717-355-2454 by Thursday, Nov. 10, so Kerstetter can match donors with families.
The Holidays Through The Eyes Of A Child
BY ANN MEAD ASH
BY ANN MEAD ASH
See Shop With A Cop pg 7
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Leola Resident Plays Messianic Music
Third Shop With A Cop Planned
When Master Trooper Kelly Osborne, community service/public information officer with Pennsylvania State Police Troop J - Lancaster, organized the first Shop With a Cop, the idea was to foster good relationships between children and local law enforcement officers. Now, as she prepares to hold the third such event, Osborne has witnessed
Donors and volunteers are needed to help with the CrossNet Ministries annual Christmas Gift Program, which brings presents to ELANCO-area children.
A Spiritual Journey
Mark Pearl dressed to play Messianic music
Mark Pearl’s childhood home in the greater northeast region of Philadelphia is not so many miles from Leola, but it is a different world culturally. Pearl’s life now is spiritually distant from his upbringing as well. Pearl’s penchant for playing Messianic music represents his journey from an 11-year-old who did not want to attend Hebrew school and lobbied for a Christmas tree rather than a menorah. By the time Pearl was 17, one of
his mother’s sisters, who had married a Christian, had convinced his parents to attend a Baptist church. Pearl was not any more enamored of church than he had been with Hebrew school. “I’m looking at Big Ben on the wall (because) I can’t wait for 12 o’clock so I can fly out of there,” recalled Pearl. “But God’s Word never goes void,” stated Pearl. “I would say I was born again in 1975.” From 1977 to 1979, Pearl did a stint in the Air Force. By the mid-1980s, Pearl was living with Christian See Mark Pearl pg 8
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