Tales about transformational moments in members’ lives and examples of how BPC members are serving Christ beyond these walls.
A boy named Anthony started seventh grade late last month, and for the first time in four years, he won’t be meeting with Nancy Morrison on Monday afternoons. He won’t munch on a snack of microwave popcorn before wiggling in a plastic seat in the BPC basement, sharing a few stories about the latest professional […]
No one knows for sure how Lost Nation, Iowa, got its name. Did it have something to do with the French settlers, or the Indian tribe that inhabited the region for generations before? What Norm Wulf can say is that his hometown, which even today has a population of fewer than 500, was remote and […]
When Garrett Niles was in the third grade, his mother brought home a second brother. Heber was a student at the middle school where she taught. He was an immigrant from Guatemala; his story had stains of neglect and trauma. When Garrett’s mom, Karyn, met him, Heber’s father had died and he was facing homelessness. […]
Elmer Klumpp was born at home in a wood-frame farmhouse in central Michigan, two days before Thanksgiving. He shares a birth year with the Great Depression, but he didn’t know he’d grown up poor until he went to college. His mother’s garden was always full of vegetables. The peach, cherry, and apple trees were heavy […]
People’s stories have always spoken to Christina Eppink. Her teenaged bedroom wasn’t plastered with posters of distant celebrities. Instead she clipped images of ordinary people and news events from her dad’s Newsweek magazines, and taped those to her walls. “I just cut out pictures I thought were interesting,” she said. “I wanted people to come […]
