Happy Valentine's Day!

A Girls' Night Out Coming Up!

Be ready for some fun!

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Cute and sweet, but tough as nails!

Look at us! We have QR code and everything for this one (thanks, Lexi!)! 

We are so looking forward to this event, and we are praying for many ladies to tag along and invite friends. Be physically and spiritually prepared!

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Be My Valentine!!!!

Valentine Week  is upon us and who doesn't love to hear a love story?! Well, on this post you get 2 for the price of 1! Grab your popcorn, and a tissue box. Hallmark movies have nothing on us! 😃

 “Long distance relationships never workout.” So they say… 

  Olivia and Adam have a different story to tell!

In the summer of 2014, I decided to volunteer at Camp CoBeAc in Houghton Lake, MI. At the time, I wasn’t seeking out a relationship with anyone. Okay, it is a cliché for a single gal to say right before entering into the sea of eligible (Christian) bachelors, but I promise, I wasn’t seeking out Mr. Degree through this volunteer experience. I worked in the retail department, so I spent most of my time in the coffee shop (Ugly Mug) and the snack shop (Mine Shaft). Adam worked on program staff, so he worked all over camp. One evening, while on trash duty, I was walking across main campus to the glorious dumpster bins, when I spotted him. The boy in the pink polo shirt. I won’t lie, I had some preconceived ideas about him. Whenever I saw him (which was very rare) he hardly said a word. This made me think he was some “weird homeschooler” (not that all homeschoolers are weird but I’m telling you guys, I am a people watcher, and this guy was quiet). However, when I saw him in that pink polo I thought, okay, he is a homeschooler with a fashion sense. I was intrigued and I wanted to find out who he was. What can I say? I’m a curious person! I didn’t get to meet him that night but eventually I began crushing on him and of course, he found out. One day he asked me if I wanted to ride into town with him and a friend to do laundry and that’s how he got my number. Very smooth, Mr. Matson, very smooth. That summer we ended up doing a lot together. We did laundry, attended the same church, enjoyed countless lunches and dinners together, and he ended up with a lot of free snacks from the Mine Shaft. Finally, summer came to an end. Being that my hometown (Lansing) was on his way home, I worked up the courage to invite him to lunch at my parents´. We had lunch, went for a walk in the less-than- scenic Moores River Park and then he had to leave. Saddest. Day. Ever. I cried when he left. I really didn’t see how this long-distance thing was going to work and we weren’t even “official”- way to leave a girl hanging! We did end up meeting in Indianapolis, and  I got to meet his family, but we seemed to have lost connection after that. However long we were apart and hardly communicating, I still knew there was no one else in this world for me. I knew he was the one. So, in the summer of 2015, when he asked if he could come visit me in MI- I said no. 

Kidding, I was SO excited! We had a great time together. I took him to see Spartan Stadium, toured campus, watched a football game with my brothers, and we walked to the rose garden by my house …. That’s when he asked me to be his girlfriend. I suppose you know the rest. Our long-distance relationship did work out and I don’t regret a single thing.

By Olivia Matson

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Lifetime Best friends

Love does not fade. It grows stronger, brighter, and beautiful as it stands the test of time. Look at these two lovebirds! We all want to be like them when we grow up!

"Many waters cannot quench love, nor can floods drown it." Song of Solomon 8:7

When I was 14 my parents moved from Tacoma, Washington, my birthplace, to Johnson City, New York for my Dad to attend Bible School. Guess who was born and lived in Johnson City?! We became members of First Baptist Church where Norm had just become a member. 

That fall I was a sophomore in Johnson City High where Norm was a junior. Our church had a very active youth group which held services regularly in a nursing home. My Dad, the youth pastor, had a Bible Club out in the country. He asked Norm to lead the singing and me to play the piano. Norm was a freshman at Bible college, and I a senior in High School. We became good friends. I entered Bible college where Norm was. We became more than good friends! Norm asked me to marry him and as soon as we finished college that happened! Norm tells me he prayed for a good wife but he never dreamed a "Pioneer" would come clear across the country! We are still BEST FRIENDS and have ministered together for 64+ years. An interesting side note: Mom was 3 months pregnant when we arrived in Johnson City. When I was 15 my little brother was born in the same hospital where Norm had been born 16 years before!

By Yvonne Hoag

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