Spring 1965. Jocie Brooke here, reporting from Hollyhill. As usual nothing much is happening around here. I don’t know how my dad finds enough stuff to put in the newspaper every week. He says that’s because I don’t know what people in small towns like to read in their paper. He says people like good news and nobody wants to …
A Blind Man Healed with Mud
May 17, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky, the town where not much ever happens. Sigh. Dad says I should be glad not much happens in our hometown. Wes says I need to pay attention and see that things are happening all around me. And Zella says I need to quit making so much happen and stay out …
The Widow’s Oil – A Miracle of Faith
June 17, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I love summer, don’t you? No school. Time to read. No school. Wading in the creek. No school. Picking raspberries. No school! We did just have Bible school, but that’s a fun school time. I love Bible school. Dad followed up the idea of learning about the Bible Sunday in …
From Under the Lilac Bush
April 28, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill. Actually, I’m reporting from under the lilac bush in our front yard. Can you smell them? Ahhh. They’re wonderful. The butterflies like them too, but I couldn’t get the butterflies to pose for my camera. They kept flitting away and film isn’t cheap as Dad is continually telling me. But Dad …
Bible Stories, Crafts and Cookies at VBS
“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove… but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” (Forest E. Witcraft) Did you go to Vacation Bible School when you were a kid? Have …