building a community to reach a community

I love summer because it gives our family a break from our usual routine of life…getting up early, packing lunches, school, homework, bedtime routine, and then starting all over. ECHO does this for our family as well, but in a very unique way. It helps our family to focus on what’s most important...

This week is quiet around Grace Fellowship Church, unlike last week. If you were here on Sunday, you heard that Tom had to remove his hearing aids to get work accomplished. Last week, there were 32 college students lining the driveway, waving, dancing and shouting at the top of their lungs, welcoming all 150+ campers for Base Camp!

Stephanie Hayes is a Mountain View mom, an employee at Earth Fare, a GFCer, and she is working on her Masters at ETSU. She volunteered to plan and organize the feeding of nearly 200 kids and counselors for 5 days last week at our Base Camp. She is an absolute delight and her smile and laughter filled the place.

If you would have told me just two years ago that I would be gearing up to go on a year-long mission trip to East Asia, I would have laughed at you. I always thought that mission work was not for me; I was too shy, too inexperienced, and too afraid to step out of my comfortable lifestyle and take the gospel to the nations. That all changed two winter breaks ago...