During a pastoral life in five different churches that spanned almost half a century, there were a number of things that helped me communicate the love of God and His influence on my life. One of my favorite ways was to tell stories in the Church’s weekly bulletin which was known in each of the locations as “the Pastor’s Pen.”
Because my family and former congregants were consistent in their opinion of which stories were to be selected for this book, we determined to use stories that reflected my childhood, which greatly affected my later life.
Many of the stories are not completely true, but reflect a time and value that were very important to me. I hoped to instill a sense of family, values and spiritual guidance that might be a positive influence on my readers.
The location of the stories is in the mountains of Southern Ontario, Canada. The people of that region and era may be considered naive and simple; but that might have been true of country people anywhere, including the hills of Palestine in the first century.
