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JULY 20, 2022
VOL LVIII • NO 30
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
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Meetings Work To Better Community be held on Wednesday, Aug. 31, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Since its inception, TIN has ack in 2011, a few stakeholders in the Pequea Valley (PV) developed a mission that allows community, including church- space for a number of entities es, ministries, the Pequea Valley with interests in bettering the School District, and Paradise Town- community. “TIN exists to cultiship representatives, began meeting vate a collaborative neutral space together. “(The Together Initiative to pursue equity in the Pequea Network - now known as TIN) Valley and neighboring communistarted with the community’s grow- ties,” said Rogers. “We’re the viring desire to do something good tual town square of PV, trying to together,” recalled Tim Rogers, one provide a … space for collaboraof the group’s founders. “Several of tive solutions to community us began getting together around needs.” Beginning with that foundation, TIN has shared commondeveloped a good causes like park beautifica- “ W e ’ r e t h e v i r t u a l vision for the tion … poverty t o w n s q u a r e o f P V , future. “TIN seeks reduction, hous- trying to provide a … to reduce generaing needs. Then space for collaborative tional poverty by we just started solutions to community increasing thirdgrade reading inviting more needs.” proficiency from people who were 60% to 90% in like-minded.” Now, TIN meetings are held quar- five years,” Rogers noted, explaining terly, usually at the Together Commu- that this goal is crucial because data nity Center, 3293 Lincoln Highway shows that students are four times East, Paradise. The next meeting will more likely to drop out of school
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When Josh March, owner of emPower Training Systems, 276 Granite Run Drive, Lancaster, first heard about human trafficking in Lancaster County during a presentation at Grace Community Church in Willow Street a few years ago, he was struck by its prevalence. “Most people don’t realize human trafficking is a big issue in our area,” he said. “As a father and husband, it really hits home.” See North Star Initiative pg 5
Rob Weatherholtz, director of discipleship with The Potter’s House, holds a copy of his book, “A Raptured Heart,” which was released in March.
“I have a passion to help people find freedom (from addiction),” said Rob Weatherholtz, director of discipleship for The Potter’s House. “I want to see healed relationships and marriages. We don’t just do recovery; we want to inspire the next generation of game changers in society.” Rob gives presentations about the mission of The Potter’s House, a nonprofit, Christ-centered ministry that offers a holistic approach to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of pre-release and post-
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release prisoners and individuals desiring to overcome addictions, and about his own journey, which he has chronicled in his book, “A Raptured Heart,” which was released in March. “It’s a long, long story,” said Rob, playfully slapping the book where it lay on the counter in his home at Still Waters Recovery Center, a campus that also includes a group home for Potter’s House students. Land for a second group home was recently broken at the site. Rob’s story begins in Elizabethtown, where he was the youngest in a family of seven. He describes his See The Potter’s House pg 2
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