True Life Christian Church in Williamsburg has found a second home in Adams County, where three lay mentors are building steady, faith-centered relationships with youth at Wilson Children’s Home in West Union. The work is simple by design. They bring a meal, sit together, listen well, and talk about things that matter. What makes it effective, they say, is not a program or a script but consistency. Volunteers who visit regularly are Pam Czarnecki, Dave Fisher and Alicia Ireton, and they typically make the trip about once a month.

Fisher came to True Life nearly two years ago after visiting many congregations and found a church culture that encouraged outreach. Ireton, who teaches and previously worked in pediatric health care, felt the same pull when she saw the outreach table during a vi

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