June 30, 1999, was my husband Ray's last day as a full-time minister. On July 1, 1999, he began working full-time in what we then called The Notgrass Company (TNC). We were a three-person partnership including Ray, our son John, and me. From the beginning, our daughters, Bethany and Mary Evelyn, ... View Post
Safe Kids
Ray and I had a sweet day off yesterday. We spent the whole day with our younger daughter and her five children and the evening with her husband, too. One activity was playing at a splash pad in a town nearby. The littlest one crawled everywhere in the water beneath the water spouts, while the ... View Post
HER-E-Up!
One day when our children were young, I was standing in our tiny kitchen in Illinois talking on the phone, while our little Mary Evelyn waited eagerly for me to hang up. With her mommy tethered to a landline with a cord, our resourceful little girl got pen and scrap paper. Not knowing how to write ... View Post
Darlene Who Does Much Good in the World
I learn a lot from our friend Darlene. She is now retired after working in the laundry at the nursing home for decades. In retirement she has a part-time job cleaning the local funeral home. Darlene loved the people she served at the nursing home. She learned a great deal through her experiences ... View Post
Sharing Good News
Ray and I went out of town briefly over the weekend. We got to enjoy hearing two of our grandchildren sing in a concert. Before we left on Friday morning, we ran by Notgrass History headquarters. Right after we got there, our team member Josh told us the good news that had just been announced in ... View Post
Training Children Who Will Not Be Moved
Before Sunday School last Sunday, we sang Fanny J. Crosby's beautiful hymn "He Hideth My Soul," which is listed as "A Wonderful Savior" in our hymn book. A line in the second verse says, "He holdeth me up and I shall not be moved." That line touched me particularly last Sunday. I love that the hymn ... View Post
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