Years ago my parents bought a RV in Washington a couple of hours from the border. They loved their place and owned it for 24 years. About 4 miles away from the Campground was a small town that had several churches. Population was about 700 but it had a Presbyterian, Community, Lutheran, and a Catholic church. None of the churches had a big attendance but they all managed to keep their church doors open and my parents enjoyed worshipping at the different churches.

Then along came an Assemblies of God minister full of vision and big dreams for the small town. Meetings started up in the elementary school and my parents started attending church there. My dad passed away a few years after the church began but my mom kept going there while she was south at her trailer.

The church grew in numbers as well as the Pastor's family. The population of the town stayed about the same. It's still a very small town but with a very big heart.






Every year my mom would arrive in the spring and leave in the fall and was a regular part of the Assembly of God and the Pastor would announce "it must be Spring, Betty's back."






It's now almost 25 years since the Pentecostals came to town. They have the biggest church and the largest church population. They moved into their own facility, remodelled it and did all of the renovations themselves and paid it off!





Pastor Bruce and Charlotte now have 5 children and yesterday celebrated the first wedding in their family. We were invited to join in the celebration so we did. It was a simple, old-fashioned kind of wedding but a real spirit of love and joy in the air.