Dear Connection Member, Truth be told, you’ve already won our hearts by becoming a Connection member. This being Valentine’s Day month and all, we wanted to give you our “heart” . . . our heart-shaped USB drive, that is.  Unfortunately, we only have 25 of them and that’s not enough to give one to each

Anne Brumley has long dreamed of love while ringing the bells at St. Michael’s, but those dreams are beginning to fade. Her sister Alisha and cousin Della encourage the thirty-six year old to move somewhere new for a fresh start. Widower Roy Summerall has happily ministered to the country folks of Church of the Good

Why don’t I fast more often? I wonder. Then I remember the first two days, and how much I miss my foodie friends. I don’t know anything about real hunger. While billions suffer in starvation and poverty, I live behind the plush curtain. Yet hunger is woven into the fabric of our humanness—no matter where

Dear Sister, If you have followed God for more than a moment, you know that His Spirit will show you things you couldn’t possibly know. Last night, I “just knew” that my daughter would want her pillow pet as she huddled on the floor of my bathroom, stricken with flu.  The purple-zebra-pillow-thing is not one

It often starts with just a sliver of a thought or a painful situation, progressing into a full-blown torrent of lies. And then, before you know it, such a tumultuous onslaught begins to rivet your soul that all you want to do is run for cover and retreat from the battle. And that’s exactly what the enemy would love us to do. Run away, retreat into fear, surrender to the lies and lay down in utter defeat.

by Robert J. Morgan Just in time for the holidays, step into the wonder-filled world of Christmas with this endearing collection of original stories. Meet a shy, bookish boy who finds himself center stage in the Christmas pageant, a Pennsylvania family whose car disappears on December 24th, and a mountain man trapped in a blizzard

In order to fulfill our calling, we must be selective in the things we look for in life.  I’ve been around the block more than once! I’m over 40, married, and have two beautiful kids. The more life I experience and circumstances I face, the more I’m convinced that if we as women truly desire

It’s that season again where I am constantly singing as I walk through the house.  I love almost every single thing about the Christmas season.  I’m even happy at the grocery store because they have all of the different holiday special candies, snack mix, and Santa on the Coca-Cola bottles. So, it is not surprising

One year ago, I started my adoption journey. I’d been pondering adoption for years…well, for decades, actually, because Cindy Whelchel (my best friend in high school) and I had made a pact when we were seventeen that we were going to adopt “brown” babies that no one else wanted. We’re both white but love black

Katie Ann Stolzfus lives in the small Amish community of Canaan, Colorado. At forty she is widowed and raising her first child. But baby Jonas will never know his father, and Katie Ann wonders if her Heavenly Father hasn’t forgotten about her as well. Is it really God’s plan for her to be a single