Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 08/09/23
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Inside Out – How to Find a Congregation – 08/09/23
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Inside Out: The Search for a Church that Feels Like Home
We’re called to be part of a church, but looking for one is difficult. Writer and speaker Michelle Morin talks about why it’s hard, what to keep in mind, and why it matters that we’re part of one.
Searching for a congregation is difficult for many people. “I think it’s hard because it takes us out of our comfort zone,” says writer and speaker Michele Morin. “Something has happened to jostle us and make us take the risk of moving somewhere else where we don’t know the routine, we don’t know how things are done. We want to get our needs met, we want fulfilling worship, we want all these things, and we need to look to God for those things rather than expecting a quote-unquote perfect church to swoop in and make us happy,” she says. 
She feels she has learned from her own church search decades ago. “One thing that I wished we had done is just dialed back the perfect-ometer a little bit. We were looking for the perfect church,” she says.
For those on that search, she suggests making a short list of non-negotiables before you start visiting. “And then make peace with the fact that you’re going into an imperfect situation,” she says. “The truth is that all we have available to attend worship and sit in pews is imperfect, sinful people. And we’re part of that problem ourselves.” But it’s that sandpaper of our imperfection that helps reshape us. And those already at home in a congregation have the chance to make the experience better for those who visit. “I don’t think we have to be at our own dining room table to exercise hospitality. There’s a pew hospitality that we need to be aware of as believers and to just be the welcome. “Church is like practice for someday when we’re with the Lord and all of our longings are fulfilled. Well, that’s certainly not going to happen on this planet, and so we experience a tiny little taste of that in our home church, and I want to be that welcoming person,” Morin says.
No church is perfect. But we’re called to it, and being part of one gives us a chance to love others the way God loves us.
Learn more about Michele Morin here and here.
Hometown Heroes – Glenn Tanner – 08/08/23
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Many Christians have less of a “handle” on Old Testament scripture as they do from the Gospels and New Testament letters. A church leader in Lancaster, New York, is preparing to address some of that lack of familiarity with the Hebrew portions of the Christian Bible.
Glenn Tanner will lead a four-month series of video-based Bible studies called the Genesis Academy. He tells us about the need to have the Creation story in minds and hearts, as a foundation for deepened understanding of the full message of the Bible. The Genesis Academy series will be offered starting after Labor Day (2023) at Lancaster Presbyterian Church.
Family Life Noon Report – 08/07/2023
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Staycation – Buhl Park – America’s Only Free Golf Course – 08/04/23
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Family Life’s “Staycation Destinations”
A western Pennsylvania golf course has been open for 110 years, but in all that time, it hasn’t brought in a dime in green fees. The founder of Buhl Park in the Sharon/Hermitage area thought that the sport of golf taught so many life lessons, he wanted a place where the entire community could learn, play, and become better citizens. This is the only free nine-hole golf course in the nation.
The park’s executive director Tom Roskos gives us a tour through the genesis of Frank Buhl’s dream, how many golfers arrive to shoot a round, and the other recreational and nature opportunities at Buhl Park.
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“Staycation Destinations” is our weekly summer series, broadcast each Friday at noon on the radio and online, then posted to our News Podcasts page. Each offers a radio tour of a unique site in Pennsylvania or New York, close to home, relatively inexpensive, and good for a potential day trip or longer visit.
Each weekend, we also give you a “Sidetrip Suggestion” another place in our two states which stands out in a unique, quirky, or enlivening way.
“The largest living sign” in the world is in New York State’s Southern Tier. That is what Robert Ripley (of “Believe It or Not!” fame) called the arrangement of 260 Scotch Pine trees on a hillside behind the Canisteo-Greenwood School at Canisteo, NY. The name of the community first was spelled out in this way by students and their teachers as a school project in 1933.
Hometown Heroes – NY Child Evangelism Fellowship – 08/01/23
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Child Evangelism Fellowship brings the Bible — and Biblical hope — to 19 million children around the world. There are new and expanding New York outreaches of CEF to Genesee, Wyoming, Monroe and Orleans counties.
Mary Hooker and Beth Russell tells us about the Good News Club and the Five Day Clubs which reach out into local communities. They talk about the spiritual battle for the souls of young people. These leaders say that too many of today’s children (even in this nation) do not have faith backgrounds, knowledge of Bible truths, or experience with church people. Child Evangelism Fellowship needs volunteers to help with shaping the hearts of the next generation.
Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 07/31/23
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Feature – The PRIME Act – 07/31/23
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Agricultural interests across the nation are looking for ways to maintain product safety while streamlining the regulation processes involved throughout the industry. Some proponents say legislation now being debated in D.C. — the “PRIME” Act — would make it easier for smaller operations and family farms to sell pork, beef and other products, without overbearing and sometimes-arbitrary USDA inspections.
Family Life’s Abigail Hofland compiles some of the testimony and commentary about the PRIME Act — “Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption” Act. New York Representative Claudia Tenney was among those speaking at the recent congressional hearing. Others in agri-business also offered their experiences and recommendations. The proposed legislation has 33 Republican and 6 Democratic co-sponsors in the House, including Pennsylvania’s Scott Perry and Lloyd Smucker.
Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 07/28/23
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Family Life Noon Report – 07/28/23
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