"Faith to Change Our World"
Maryann Miller Novak
When Reverend George Cummings was a little boy, his mother said that thunder was God's footsteps, and lightning was God flashing his anger. These were powerful images, but he would come to understand a merciful God and would eventually be called into theological studies.

The Mayor of MacArthur Blvd.
Meredith Florian
Who is Jerry Scheberie? An altruistic community advocate? Or an irascible modern-day cowboy who races '60s classic cars? If you make a deal with this honest, old-fashioned used-car salesman and honor the terms, you'll have a friend for life. Should y.

A "Rosie the Welder" of Maxwell Park
Pat Patterson
Conversation with Mary Weinhandl, my 93-year-old next-door neighbor, is always a learning experience, an ongoing supply of life lessons, all for the price of decades of friendship. The stories flow of good old days in Oakland, of happy times, of raising her family, of tough war times.

Onions & Orchids
Peter Bond
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Evangelism in the Laurel:
Victory Outreach
Madeline Smith Moore
The simple façade and furnishings of the old movie-theater building at 3814 MacArthur Blvd.belies the energy and warmth one finds within. Just inside the foyer, a large portrait of PastorLarry Vigil and his wife Sylvia greets visitors. Animated .