The Pinleys Recall Time Here as They Say Farewell

On January 2, 2019, my wife Mary and I had driven from Texas to Stromsburg to begin a co-pastorate at Stromsburg Covenant Church, after I had served as solo pastor of a church in Ohio. The two of us and our daughter Ellie slept in the parsonage basement on aerobeds and couches as our stuff was being delayed, glad for soup delivered to us and tired on a Thursday night as my 55th birthday ended afte…