The Farmer Who Planted Through the Drought
In 2012, Marcus and Denise Holloway ran a small produce farm outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. When a brutal drought scorched the region, most neighboring farms held...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Malachi 3:10.
In 2012, Marcus and Denise Holloway ran a small produce farm outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. When a brutal drought scorched the region, most neighboring farms held back their seed, waiting for better conditions. Marcus understood the instinct. Every bag of seed corn represented grocery money, mortgage payments, their daughter's braces. But Marcus kept planting. Every Saturday morning, he and Denise loaded their tithe check into an envelope and dropped it at Cornerstone Community Church before heading to the fields.…
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