Category: The Pastor’s Piece

FCFI October 18, 2026 Genesis 8:22 reads: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” This verse was on my mind when I woke up this morning, I think because of the nice weather we’ve had around here lately. It’s been […]

FCFI October 4, 2026 Farm kids called it a hay mow. Our non-farm cousins called it a hayloft. But we never called it that. Hayloft sounded way too soft and easy. A hay mow was where you stacked hay, sweated through your clothes, got covered in cob webs and even had to fight off spiders, […]

September 27, 2026 By the time I transferred to Bible college, my wife and I were already married. Not long after we arrived, we met a couple named Jim and Frieda, and we immediately hit it off. Because we were married, we lived off campus, and we did many of the things married couples do […]

FCFI September 20, 2026 A Greater Investment My dad was a first-generation farmer. It wasn’t that grandpa didn’t want to farm. He simply grew up in a time when wanting to farm and being able to farm were two very different things. The Great Depression of the 1930s was hard on families, and for many […]

FCFI September 13, 2026 Growing up on the farm in the 1960s and ’70s was a remarkable experience. Life was hard work, but there was something special about those days. We didn’t have all the conveniences of today’s modern farming, so much of what needed to be done required a lot of time, muscle, and […]

FCFI September 5, 2026 Times have changed. In an area of approximately one square mile surrounding my house, according to my calculations, there were once about 18 small family farms. Today, there is only one left. The landscape and character of the area have changed dramatically over the past 30 years. And so has our […]

FCFIAugust 30, 2026 We’ve taken on a big project out at Martintown Community Church. We’re adding a large (for us) addition of a new sanctuary/worship center complete with a fellowship hall, offices, bathrooms, classrooms, and nursery. The new building is being attached to the old building, which was built in 1879. It took a little […]

August 22, 2026 In the Bible in Mark 11:22-23 we have these words from Jesus Himself: “Have faith in God … Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be […]