Four underway members of the Servant Branch made the covenant of the People of Praise at the community meeting on September 9. Matt Brickweg and Mary Reinhardt grew up in the community, and Mark Olson and Beth Fondell first learned about the People of Praise from the persons they eventually married.
All 63 men, women and children in the New Orleans branch appear to have come through Hurricane Isaac in fine shape, says Lloyd Mehaffey, the branch’s principal branch coordinator.
Two retirees are cancer-free after members of the Sisterhood prayed over them at the Sisterhood’s home in Elkhart, Indiana.
Nearly 400 campers and counselors from eight branches of the People of Praise came together near Cannon Falls, Minnesota, in early August for Servant Camp.
The Vancouver/Portland branch joined with 25 churches and organizations on Saturday, August 4, in an ecumenical effort to provide free medical care to North Portland-area residents. Organizers estimate that more than 300 guests and 300 volunteers came to Roosevelt High School for the Compassion North Portland event.
About 100 neighbors and Action volunteers gathered to celebrate 10 years of People of Praise life in Shreveport’s Allendale neighborhood on August 2. A banner hanging above the empty lot where they met for prayer and food offered a theme taken from the Scriptures—We are all one in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3:28).
