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The Community as Green Pasture - Anabaptist (Psalm 23)

Source: Community testimony76 words

A Mennonite farmer faced foreclosure during the farm crisis of the 1980s. His community gathered—not just to pray but to pay. Families contributed what they could; the farm was saved. One neighbor sai...

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Psalm 23

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