Articles for tag: Servant’s Heart

November 21, 2010

By Brad Dupray Mountain Mission School was founded in 1921 by Sam and Jane Hurley. After welcoming to their home nine children in addition to their own seven children, Sam felt convicted to fund a home where children could be cared for. He was a successful entrepreneur in Appalachian Virginia who became wealthy but used his wealth to reach out to children who reminded him of his own impoverished childhood. Now, nearly 90 years later, Sam”s great-granddaughter, Cynthia Rodda, serves as president of Mountain Mission School in Grundy, Virginia, where the objective remains the same, to care for “the least

February 3, 2008

Christian Standard

Biographies Restoration Movement History

E.L. Russell”“A Pacesetter Without Prominence

By Brett Andrews I suspect one day in Heaven we will be treated to a long parade of the greatest leaders in history. And we won”t recognize most of their names. One of those uncelebrated but great leaders I wish you could have known was Eldreth L. Russell, minister of my home church in Meadville, Pennsylvania, for most of the 1960s and “70s. Under his ministry, the Meadville church grew, sent out ministers and missionaries, and became a middle-sized church with a megachurch influence. Setting the Pace with Joy Ministry taxes the strongest. Paul wrote of carrying the daily pressure