Hello, this is pastor gary from first baptist church of laplata. Here is a story from last month that bridges local interest, the Bible, and my family history. Back in 1983 a woman got off a Metro train inadvertently leaving her white Bible behind. A man who boarded the same train at the same station found her Bible as the train was pulling away. The man looked for a name inside the Bible and found one, but he could not read most of it; all he could read was “Linda” and “Uniontown.” So the man decided to keep the Bible which he read every day for two years. After 38 years, the man took a look at the name in the Bible again, and, somehow, he could read it! After some online sleuthing and help from the local newspaper editor in Uniontown, PA, he was able to track down the original owner of the Bible and return it to her. The Metro is the local interest part, the Bible is obvious, but what does this have to do with my family? My mother was born and raised in Uniontown, PA, which is also from where I graduated High School—incidentally in 1983; something else of interest, the man in the story graduated from seminary then worked in computer science; I graduated in computer science then went to seminary! I just thought it was fun how a Bible not only connected two strangers but also connected my mother’s hometown with where she now lives, which isn’t all that far from the Metro. As Christians in general and members of First Baptist in particular, it is God’s Word, The Bible, that physically connects us both to God and to each other. Thank God for His precious, holy, inspired, inerrant Word!
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