The small-town environment helps keep people committed to the Lord and to each other. The things people are living for are temporary. We don't have time to run out for the latest video. Indeed, attendees are not watching the clock. Worship, preaching, and prayer each takes at least an hour at services.
Testimonies tell of transformed lives.
Terese and Mark Richards of Aberdeen, South Dakota, explained how they had trekked to Smithton in November in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. Kudakwashe Mushaninga wants to take some of the fire back to Zimbabwe after she graduates from the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Every weekend she drives 110 miles to attend services. Nola Lampe moved to the area from Centralia 85 miles away just to be near the church. She had suffered with fibromyalgia for seven years until a healing during the praise time a year ago.