by Amanda West | Dec 13, 2024 | Cover
The parking lot of Gateway Church on Madison Street is abuzz with activity as homeschooling parents unbuckle their toddlers and strap them into their strollers while their other children grab their book bags and lunch sacks. Young mothers slide their infants into...
by Amanda West | Dec 13, 2024 | Stories
After fastening the gold buttons of his dress blues in October 2020, Col. Mike Corrado plunged his fingers into the snow-white gloves that he and other United States Marines reserved for formal occasions. After nearly three decades of active military service — which...
by Amanda West | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature
During his first mission trip with Appalachian Outreach in 2000, Steven Flippo surveyed the condition of the property assigned to his team, and his heart ached. “We were tasked with doing repairs for an elderly gentleman. He did not have a functioning bathroom. The...
by Amanda West | Dec 13, 2024 | Stories
Henry Ford, who started the Ford Motor Company in 1903, was a firm believer that history should be absorbed — not through textbooks but by seeing and experiencing it firsthand. Ford believed that we create better futures when we learn from our past. So, in 1929, he...
by Amanda West | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature
The measure of a man’s life is not in the riches he accumulates, but in the friends he gathers along the way. Manuel Rodriguez scratched out a living alongside his parents in Dolores Hidalgo in Guanajuato, Mexico. The second eldest son of nine children, Manuel carried...
