by Sharon Mager | Feb 12, 2025 | disability ministry, Featured
By Amber Stewart We pulled up to our family’s church, and my mom and daddy helped me out of the van. This was a very special evening. Satan tried his best to keep me home, but I made it. I officially entered the 2025 “Night to Shine” at Pleasant View Baptist Church. ...
by Sharon Mager | Oct 22, 2024 | disability ministry, Featured
By Amber Stewart Born in 1991, I was the third child but the second living. My sister, Lindsay, passed away at six months old from a debilitating neuromuscular disease known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy type one, aka Werdnig Hoffman disease. This was a death sentence...
by Sharon Mager | Aug 1, 2024 | disability ministry, Featured, Youth
By Carla Hairston and Sharon Mager MIDDLETOWN, Md. — BCM/D’s Everyone Belongs Camp kicked off on July 26, and 30-year-old Brandan Ehrmantraut couldn‘t wait to get there. He first attended the camp last year where he made friends, gained confidence, and said he...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 20, 2024 | Associations, Children's Ministries, disability ministry, Featured, Grants, Special Needs
By Sharon Mager BERLIN, Md. — For years, Berlin First Baptist Church (BFBC) Children’s Director Shannon Diehl prayerfully pondered the idea of the church having a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for children affected by disabilities. After all, she had a background of...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured, sexual abuse prevention, Stollen Moments
By Tom Stolle In my role as executive director, I have the honor of working with some of the finest leaders that I’ve ever known. Allow me to invite you on a journey with me as I lift up one of those leaders: my friend, Kris Buckman. In 2020, after June Holland, a...