This is the second of a planned four article series on what it means to live “life as it ought to be.” In the previous article, I described my experience of spiritual renewal in 2017. Since that time I have been seeking to understand how to live...
It’s 7 am and the lights were just turned on in the kitchen at Victory Valley Camp as sleepy-eyed youth volunteers scramble into the kitchen. I was selected from 200 cups the night before to be placed on the dining room table to serve the day camp...
For most of my growing up, my dad constantly quoted one verse that was meaningful to him: And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also (2 Tim. 2:2). My dad...
Summer is upon us ... and that means less quiet time inside and more things to do outside! The changing of the seasons is a constant reminder that God’s promises are true (Gen. 8:20-22). It also reminds us that the summer camping season is right around the...
I was reminiscing with my six-year-old grandson about my parents – his great-grandparents – telling him stories of their lives as missionaries in Africa and in the West Indies. He never knew my dad, but he thinks he might remember my mom "just a little bit." I...
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Board of Missions felt a burden to help. Supporters donated $137,487.99 to help with Ukraine relief. Nelson Randolph, bargain hunter extraordinaire for the Board of Missions, took two trips to Ukraine in both June and August of 2022 to...
Although a proud Philadelphian, I must admit to having spent most of my youth in South Jersey, in the blue collar city of Millville. In that community, family vacation was a week for dads to attend to delayed items from the honey-do jar. The sole exception was...
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new Bible Fellowship Church in town! Welsh Road Church in Horsham, PA, opened on April 2nd and is the result of a well-coordinated revitalization effort over the past couple years by many BFC hands. A brief history: In 1906, Salem...
"Eyes have we, but we see not; understandings we have, but those understandings are perverted... we judge, but we judge unrighteously; by nature we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter; we put darkness for light, and light for darkness; and this is inbred in...
Note: This appreciation was originally published in 2012, volume 2, issue 2 of OneVoice Magazine.
Those who knew Jim Herrold knew him as a man of integrity who deeply loved and served the Lord, his family, others, and the ministry of...