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MARCH 1, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LIX • NO 10
Rockin’ on in PV BY ANN MEAD ASH
e have clubs on Wednesdays,” said Jim Ackerman, director at Pequea Valley Intermediate School (PVIS), explaining how the rock band called Into the Mayhem, which is made up of Pequea Valley High School (PVHS) and PVIS students, got its start. “I called (the club) ‘Rock Band,’ and in the description I told (students), ‘It’s not the Rock Band video game.’” When eight students showed up to take part in September 2021, Ackerman discovered members of the group could sing, some could play instruments, and those who could not play were willing to learn. At first, the group practiced once a week, but then the students wanted to play more often, so a lunchtime practice was added. By May of 2022, Into the Mayhem planned and held a concert with a group of PVHS students who had also formed a rock band.
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Members of Into the Mayhem are (from left) Landon Greenawalt, Nathan Bird, Cam Frank, Kyle Flaim, Kendra Blank, and (not pictured) RJ Forsythe.
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Lloyd Hoover (left) Jaime Santiago (center), and Frank Gaston at the site of the first Lanco Recovery Benefit Auction
Lanny Millette, donor director with The Potter’s House, remembers that pastor Jaime Santiago of Restart Training Center Ministries (RTCM) contacted him a few years ago about holidng a fundraiser together as a show of unity among recovery ministries in Lancaster County. “It’s bigger than one ministry,” said Millette, who noted that Slow Down Ministries, which helps provide vehicles for graduates of Christ-centered programs like Potter’s House and RTCM, has joined in the effort as well.
Veronica Jimenez, lay counselor, volunteer prison chaplain, and author of the Sound Mind Awareness curriculum, is known for the classes she teaches at churches and recovery houses and for her counseling ministry. Jimenez’s journey to this place, however, has been hard-won and filled with twist and turns. Originally from the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, Jimenez suffered abuse from an early age. “I learned shame and rage very early,” Jimenez recalled, noting her situation created the “perfect storm for mental illness.”
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“I wasn’t a healthy kid,” she said. “My heart, soul, mind, and spirit were all affected.” When Jimenez was a teenager, her anger became such an issue, she was sent to live in a girls’ home for a year. “That’s where I developed a heart for the incarcerated,” she said. Around age 11, Jimenez remembers attending a Metro World Child Sunday school run by pastor Bill Wilson. “That’s where I first heard that God has a son named Jesus who loves children,” said Jimenez, who noted that at that time the grace of God first touched her life. “I still lived in a bad environment, but I learned to pray,” she said. See Veronica Jimenez pg 6
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