Without a doubt, Christmas at the Cove was a special highlight of the holiday season.  The Grens hosted an annual Christmas party for the Gordon-Conwell seminary wives and their husbands as well as local family and friends.  My sister Karen and I had the blessing of helping at many of these parties.   We all gathered in the…

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We hope you enjoy this loving tribute from Valerie Elliot Shepard for her parents, Jim & Elisabeth Elliot… Today, Oct. 8, 1953, is the anniversary of my parents’ wedding when they joyfully were married in a civil court in Quito, Ecuador.  They had waited faithfully and hopefully since June of 1948 when my father confessed…

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