Pastor Breck Boyd, pastor at The Resting Place, Sisters, OR

Pastor Breck Boyd, pastor at The Resting Place, Sisters, OR

Discouraged in the work of life,Disheartened by its load,Shamed by its failures or its fears,I sink beside the road;—But let me only think of Thee,And then new heart springs up in me. S. LONGFELLOW
I think I find most help in trying to look on all interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one’s work. Then one can feel that perhaps one’s true work— one’s work for God —consists in doing…
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944) Sister Aimee was a passionate woman devoted to the work of the Lord. Full of boundless creativity, she used every bit of her abundant energy to exemplified God’s miraculous mercy. Among being a missionary, a leader of revival and reform, she established The Foursquare Church,…
Corrie Ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place and concentration camp survivor
A Life Lived with God’s Purpose Sojourner Truth Born a slave, Isabella Bomfree was born in 1797 in New York state. In 1826, she and her baby daughter escaped, but her other children either did not survive or were sold into slavery. She went on be the first black woman to sue for the return…
Though waves and storms go o’er my head, Though strength and health and friends be gone, Though joys be withered all, and dead, Though every comfort be withdrawn, On this my steadfast soul relies,— Father! Thy mercy never dies. JOHANN A. ROTHE