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Proclaiming the Good News BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Over the past decade, Lee DeRemer has watched great things happen with Lifecycles. The nonprofit Christ-centered mentoring program aims to build young people of character through bicycling. “This program appeals to a wide range of young people with
different gifts and skills, but it seems to really attract teen boys and girls who haven’t found their way in a team sport or another program in school,” he said. “For many kids, this is the first thing that clicks, and that’s very rewarding.” Lee and his wife, Marcie, started Lifecycles with a mission of supporting youths in the See Bicycling pg 5
Lifecycles riders enjoy a scenic route in Lancaster County.
Getting back in the game for a cause BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
Collin Gingrich (left) and Troy De Bruin
preaching the Word of God,” De Bruin said. “Our worship is both with reverence and with joy. … We intentionally rehearse the Gos p el in our worship service, and we partake of the Lord’s Supper every week. Being a smaller church, that helps us
to be more of a family, with a welcoming feeling. There is a true welcoming spirit and love for one another.” Added Gingrich, “It’s in our name: Proclamation. Our weekly proclamation is the Gospel. We remember the Good News that
At any age, amputees and individuals born with limb loss or limb difference face many challenges. But children in America often face additional obstacles when seeking prosthetics and therapy due to a decreased likelihood that their family’s insurance will cover the cost. Nonprofit organization Iron Leg Corp. seeks to provide support for children in Lancaster County who are in need of assistance with obtaining prosthetics. Iron Leg is one of the few
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organizations of its kind, and it will hold an equally unique fundraising event on Saturday, Aug. 3, at Biemesderfer Stadium, 45 Pucillo Drive, Millersville. The event will begin at 7 p.m., and it will entail full-contact football games for individuals above the age of 34 and amputees who are 18 or older. Registration is available online for residents in any part of Lancaster County, and the football teams will be helmed by both former and current coaches from several local school districts, including See Iron Leg pg 2
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he members of Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Mount Joy like to use a phrase to sum up their ministry: “All are welcome, all are needy and all are needed.” “Christ gives His invitation to everyone, so are all welcomed in that sense,” said pastor Troy De Bruin. “We are all sinners in need of a Savior, so we are needy, and God has given gifts to every person, youngest to oldest, to be used in service, so we are needed.” As the church marks its 10th anniversary, De Bruin and associate pastor Collin Gingrich are looking forward to continued growth while looking back on their journey so far. “We are a daughter church of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lancaster,” De Bruin shared, noting that Westminster has a history of planting churches. De Bruin, who joined Westminster as a youth pastor in 2000, worked with Westminster staff to look for a new church home in the Mount Joy/Elizabethtown area in the fall of 2013. By February of 2014, Proclamation Presbyterian Church was welcoming worshippers to services at Mount Joy Church of God. The church met on Sunday evenings, but after a few years, the congregation changed locations to be able to offer Sunday morning services. Proclamation met at Florin Church of the Brethren from April 2016 to March 2020 before moving to its current home at Kraybill Mennonite School, 598 Kraybill Church Road, Mount Joy. Both De Bruin and Gingrich note that Proclamation offers the strength of the Presbyterian denomination combined with a small-town, community spirit. “As a denomination, there’s a high focus and priority on
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