Foreword / Anne Stuckey -- Vision for This Book / Mary Swartley -- Theologians -- Reaching for a Blessing / Lydia Neufeld Harder -- From a Distance / Gayle Gerber Koontz -- Nudged by God / Lois Barrett -- Standing in the Gap / Reta Halteman Finger -- Pastors -- Pioneer Pastor / Emma Sommers Richards -- By the Grace of God / Grace Brunner -- Rooted, So I Could Sway in the Wind / Dorothy Nickel Friesen -- God's Smile / Brenda Isaacs -- Ode to Joy / Charlotte Holsopple Glick -- Proceed with Much Prayer / Ruth Bundy Naylor -- God's Mysterious Doors / Pauline Graybill Kennel -- I Never Intended to Be a Pastor / Joyce Shutt -- By God's Providence / Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus -- Educators -- The Holy Ghost over the Bent World Broods / Mary K. Oyer -- Go and Teach Christian Education / Bertha Fast Harder -- Way Leads on to Way / Marlene Kropf -- Two Stories on a Continuing Journey / Shirley Hershey Showalter -- It Just So Happened / June Alliman Yoder -- Administrators -- For Such a Time as This / Miriam F. Book -- Birthing a New Denomination / Donella M. Clemens -- I Can't Make That Much Potato Salad / Marian Claassen Franz -- How Will I Learn to Dance? / Shirley Buckwalter Yoder -- Six Decades in God's Global Family / Alice M. Roth -- Blazing the Leadership Trail / Carol J. Suter -- Red Poppies / Lee Snyder -- The Alabaster Jar / Marilyn Miller -- Little Girl in Pigtails / Rhoda Keener -- The Editors / Mary Swartley, Rhoda Keener