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Allegheny Gospel Trails
By Mark Roth on June 9, 2008 at 12:31 pm
“You know,” Rhine said thoughtfully, “I don’t believe we knew what we were getting into when we accepted this assignment.”
He was right. Rhine and Anna were used to the creature comforts of Scottdale, Pennsylvania. Were they ready for the rigors and challenges of ministering to scattered churches in mountainous West Virginia?
When the Benner family stepped off the ancient train that June afternoon in 1915 and looked uncertainly about, the mission board members watching from their surrey also wondered. “I doubt they’ll last through the first winter,” one of them said in a low voice, noting the new arrivals’ fair skin and slender builds.
There certainly were challenges. A weekend circuit of preaching assignments could easily be twenty-five miles on foot, in all kinds of weather. Most of the roads were impassable by car, and at first the mission board couldn’t afford a horse.
307 pages. Paperback. Christian Light Publications. Virginia Crider.
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