Julius, a 6’3’’ man with broad shoulders, wearing sweatpants and a hoodie, was pacing back and forth in his Evansville, IN, living room on a recent afternoon. He kept turning over a Scripture verse in his mind, hoping to understand it--John 3:5: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
Eighty-five men and boys enjoyed a weekend of brotherhood and outdoor fun at the Muncie branch’s 33rd annual campout in mid-October.
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.
