Dorothy Nickel Friesen is a member of Bethel College Mennonite Church in North Newton, Kansas, and a former conference minister and pastor. This article originally
FREEMAN, S.D. — The clanging and clinking of plates, cutlery, pots and pans. The metallic hum of the sausage grinder. The sizzle of New Year’s cookies in the fryer. The wafting strains of music. The persistent babble of conversation. These are the sounds of Freeman Academy’s annual Schmeckfest. These are the sounds of money.
Heather Lehman thought of producing her own publication for as long as she can remember. Growing up in Singers Glen, Va., she put together one-page newsletters decorated with markers, later expanding to family news bulletins on a typewriter. When she was 15, she produced the first issue of Life in the Light, a girls’ newsletter she mailed to her friends at church.
