While this is our prayer wall, I wonder if the folks on this app be willing to put their name and their location on here just to kind of see who is in this community on this app. I'll give a little bit more of an intro to myself than a simple name and town.
My name is Sam Stringer, you've probably caught that. I live in the Allegheny mountains (part of the Appalachians) of Pennsylvania, in Altoona. The Appalachian trail is maybe an hour from where I live. It's a really pretty area with lots of streams and tons of forests and not overly tall mountains but it sure is more diverse than the Midwest. Lol. I moved here in January of 2023. I grew up in Peoria, Illinois and spent time pretty much between Illinois and Iowa. My parents live a mile up the mountain from me and my wife's family lives in Omaha / Des Moines. My wife works for Pure Freedom ministries, under the author Dannah Gresh as the Direction Coordinator. We have four homeschooled kids ages 11 through 17. I like writing, traditionally I've been a pastor but that might just be changing, I like playing guitar a lot and I play electric for our church worship team, and I take my 5 lb dog for walks most days around the area. Also, I love to smoke barbecue, it's my thing. I got saved at the young age of five, but if I'm honest with you I really didn't understand much so my journey in faith seems to have evolved a lot, and has been full of highs and lows. A lot of what I write from comes from many years of pain in ministry but I hope to use it to help people find comfort and paradigm shifts that sometimes come from going through hard things. I guess in general that my goal is often to just be an asset to others, especially the church, using whatever I can to help other people connect with God. I met Seth at Faith Baptist Bible College years ago, and we connected over guitar and just friendship. He was even the musician for our wedding and we've been friends for nearly 20 years. We send dumb videos to each other a lot but that's in part how we kept communication over the years and how things like my part in this app came to be. I'm not mistaken, I re-found him through Facebook probably 10 years ago after some quiet years. We still send dumb videos; my wife does not understand my humor still after 20 years but at least she knows when I'm joking....Sam Stringer: Bible, blues (guitar) and BBQ. ;) Thanks and have a good day.
Ann, Hastings, MN
Logan, Bondurant IA!
Seth, in St. Paul, MN. I enjoy Sam's dumb videos that he sends me.