Pastor Chris grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia and has served alongside his family in ministry since 2011. He graduated from Northwest Nazarene University in 2021 with Bachelor of Art degrees in Multicultural Leadership and Christian Ministry. He joined the staff of COTN shortly after graduation. Currently, he is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary. Pastor Chris joins Hope Talks today to share his testimony with us.

Rebeca joins us on Hope Talks today to share her testimony. Rebeca was born and raised in the Shenandoah valley. She recently started her freshman year of college at JMU and is studying elementary education.

Today we are joined on Hope Talks by Dustin Kline, the Executive Director of SON shine Ministries, to share with us about the things that their ministry offers, how they serve our community and about how the partner with WBTX radio to keep local Christian music and programing on the air. For more information you can visit their website http://sonshineministriesva.org/

Today we are joined on Hope Talks by Rachel Hinz. Rachel grow in a farm family in eastern Pennsylvania. She came to the valley to study at Eastern Mennonite College at the time. Rachel met her husband; who is originally from Germany; in the valley on a group hike and have lived in the valley ever since. Rachel has three grown children and joins us today to share her testimony with us.

Today we are joined on Hope Talks by Pastor Jim Harrison as he reflects back over the years of serving in Pastoral ministry including the last 24 years serving as a shepherding pastor at Church of the Nazarene in Harrisonburg as well sharing about how he plans to continue to serve even after retiring from full-time ministry.