Steve began preaching at Central in 1975 and right away we met Geneva Nordhoff. Geneva had two daughters, a son, and a husband who was a non-practicing Catholic. Her daughters were grown with families of their own, but her son Bud, age 42, still lived at home. As Geneva explained to us, during delivery Bud … [Read more…]
Our friends Rhonda and Tim invited our FriendSpeak team to their home for a Sunday evening going-away party for Tim’s reader, Zhichao Wu, whose American name is Rush. He is a cardiac surgeon who has been a researcher at the University of Cincinnati for a year. Rush was our first reader after we put an … [Read more…]
When I was twelve, our rural Tennessee church had a “gospel meeting”–seven days of church, afternoons and evenings. The preacher that year was Bill Long, probably in his twenties at the time. I was convicted that I wanted to be a Christian and be baptized, and my parents, who’d put me off earlier, agreed. The … [Read more…]
