The Church on Maple Street
Every Sunday morning at 7:45, Luis Medina pulls his Ford pickup into the gravel lot of Grace Community Church in Dalton, Georgia. He arrives early...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 122.
Every Sunday morning at 7:45, Luis Medina pulls his Ford pickup into the gravel lot of Grace Community Church in Dalton, Georgia. He arrives early — not because he has to, but because he wants to. He unlocks the front doors, starts the coffee, and switches on the sanctuary lights. By 8:15, he is sitting in the third pew, waiting.…
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