By MaryAnn Peteya

Ron Amstutz, Mary Cruise, and Mike Molter check out the equipment at the photo booth sponsored by the Wooster, Ohio, Grace Brethren Church, during the Wayne County (Ohio) Fair.

For the past four years, the church has hosted a booth where individuals may have their photo taken at no charge in front of a green screen. It is then superimposed on a digital background, making it appear that it is a magazine cover. Backgrounds have ranged from NASCAR Illustrated to an Ohio State Buckeyes fan magazine and the teaser quotes on the fake cover include times for the worship service and an invitation to visit.

Once the photo is taken, the image is available to be downloaded from the church’s website the following afternoon.

Cindy Vandiver and Janelle Friesen

It was 2007. He had resigned as pastor of the Grace Brethren Church in Brooksville, Fla., a place where he had ministered nearly 11 years. They were making plans to move north, to be near their children and the precious grandchildren. Before they could move, the couple received disappointing news. He was diagnosed with cancer.

The congregation prayed. It was not long before they were praising God for a healing. After surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, the original cancer appeared to be gone, and Lee was being treated only for a malignancy in a lymph node in the neck.

But this story is not about Lee and how he is recovering from cancer. It’s an account of how a small congregation pulled together to support their former pastor and his wife, putting them all at center stage to witness God’s miracle.