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JUNE 5, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXV • NO 19
Festival of the Red Rose will honor church history BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Bible2School teaches children through school-year and at-home programs.
Bible2School offers at-home resources BY CATHY MOLITORIS
include a mix of materials created in house as well as links to partner organizations that share a similar mission. “ We want to provide free resources that can make learning about the Bible easy at home,” Risser said, noting that resources include crafts, skits and science experiments. “We provide all of the instructions for the activity, and most include a guided conversation. We want to give parents exactly what they need to connect the dots for their kids.” Most of the at-home resources are geared toward elementary school-age children, since Bible2School provides school-year programming to students in second, third and fourth grades. However, Risser noted, much of it could be tweaked to serve middle school students as well.
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Rose Festival committee chairperson. The deed in part reads, “for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings yielding and paying unto Henry William Stiegel, his heirs or assigns at the said town of Manheim in the month of June, yearly forever hereafter the rent of One Red Rose if the same shall be lawfully See Red Rose pg 7
Dehydration collaboration Local nonprofits pool their resources to feed the world BY JEFF FALK
World hunger isn’t a food shortage problem. World hunger is a logistical difficulty, a supply problem. Working together, a pair of local nonprofit organizations have come up with a solution that is making a real difference in addressing the global problem. The key to their successful solution is an innovative approach to the process of food dehydration. “The problem isn’t that the world doesn’t have enough food;
it’s the distribution,” said Jeremy Frith, the CEO of Barnabas Aid, an international nonprofit headquartered in Lancaster. “We’re trying to address that problem. It’s a distribution issue, but it’s also an educational issue. We need a change of mindset. We have so much food and people don’t think about it, and when it goes into landfills, it creates problems. That food could be feeding somebody.” Near the end of 2022, Barnabas Aid, which is located at 80 Abbeyville Road, Lancaster,
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ible2School has a mission to introduce elementary school students to Jesus through programs held off-site during the school day. When summer rolls around, the program continues to support families looking for Christian-focused curricula and resources. The organization offers a podcast, a blog and a variety of at-home resources. “We are going on three years of doing a weekly podcast,” said Megan Risser, director of marketing and advancement officer for Bible2School. “It’s released on Tuesdays, and each week we chat with a different guest regarding a variety of topics, but they are all ways of sharing God’s Word with kids.” Topics on the “You CAN Tell the Children” podcast have
ranged from praying for your child’s future spouse to establishing family devotion time. “Each episode is under a half hour, and we don’t do ads,” Risser explained. “In the middle of each episode, we take a short break, and we answer a question from a Bible2School kid.” These prerecorded questions could include inquiries such as “How do I get to heaven?” or “If God created everything, who created God?” she said. Once a month, Bible2School updates its blog with topics similar to the ones covered in the podcast. “Some people prefer to read, some prefer to listen, so we’re looking at different types of ways to get our resources out to people,” Risser said. “We want to offer practical, useful topics.” Bible2School at-home resources
One red rose holds a lot of history for Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. The church, located at 2 S. Hazel St., Manheim, has been paying “rent” of one flower every year since 1892. The 132nd celebration of the Festival of the Red Rose will be held on Sunday, June 9. The festivities will include a worship service and payment of the rent, beginning at 10:30 a.m., with pastor Kathryn Warn presiding. Prior to the service, refreshments, sponsored by the Manheim Historical Society, will be served in the church’s rose parlor. According to church archives, on Dec. 4, 1772, Henry William Stiegel and his wife, Elizabeth Holz Stiegel, conveyed to their fellow Lutherans a plot of ground on the corner of Wolf and East High streets to build a church, said Linda Keiffer,
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