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Unlike most women her age, Linda Shrock has no plans to get married - ever. When her sister Ruth has baby number five in six years, Linda goes to stay with them. The infant can’t keep her food down and cries constantly, and Ruth’s husband’s furniture-making business is struggling - not the makings for a merry Christmas. And the Weavers’ hired hand, Luke Troyer, seems determined to disrupt Linda’s carefully made plans to live her life out as a spinster. She tries to fight the intense attraction that pulls her and Luke together.

Blanche Weaver’s life falls apart when her husband Andy is killed in a tragic accident. Now widowed with four children, she has no idea how she’ll survive. With winter upon them and Christmas approaching quickly, she manages to get hired at the factory where Andy worked. Blanche’s eldest daughter, at only 10 years old, is tasked with watching her younger siblings. Just when Blanche is about to despair, Jonas Eicher, the local toymaker, intervenes. Blanche doesn’t know what to make of this kind, quiet man who seems to instinctively know what she and her children need.

As a business leader, you spend much of your time dedicated to guiding the growth of your company. This step-by-step guide gives you tools to apply the same focus to improving the lives around you, by igniting your company’s purpose into action. This audiobook helps chart your course to leaving a legacy of impact and using your company’s powers for good.

Irene never imagined her life would turn out the way it has. Is she destined to always be tossed from one sibling to another, caring for their children and households? Is there no room for her dream of a family of her own? When a teaching opportunity comes about in another Amish community, Irene sees it as her way out. But once she secures the job, she comes up against a spinster teacher set like concrete in her ways, a group of parents who hardly give her a chance, and a handsome man whose disapproval vexes her at every turn.

When a tornado roars through Boulder Creek, Ohio, it not only wreaks havoc on Dawn Beachey’s community, it also creates a storm of emotional turmoil within her. Her beloved Aenti Livinia is seriously injured, and her sweetheart Andy Eicher reveals a different and troubling side of himself. When volunteer Jonas Kemp and his sister Dorothy come to stay with the Beacheys, Dawn’s world is turned upside down again.

Nettie Bontrager has spent the last 10 years helping her mammi tend to people in need. She feels valued by the Amish community and has gained the respect of an Englisch doctor who praises her skill and knowledge of herbal remedies. But Nettie’s younger sister often complains about the time Nettie spends working with her herbs while ignoring many household chores. Still, Nettie has much to be grateful for. She especially looks forward to going for drives with her beau, a handsome Amish man she hopes one day to marry.

Business is changing. More than ever, businesses must have a strong sense of purpose to connect more deeply to customers, spark their employees, and serve the needs of society. Each week, join Maggie Z. Miller and Hannah Nokes, founders of social impact consulting firm Magnify Impact, as they have conversations with purpose-driven business leaders who are building beyond the bottom line and creating fiercely loyal champions for their brands. Your company can have financial success and benefit society. If you want to put your company’s purpose into action and create a legacy of impact in the ...

Outspokenly conservative and unashamedly Christian, politics and culture through the lens of Scripture.

Sadie King is left to raise three children alone after her husband’s death two years ago. Although she struggles to hold onto their family farm, she has good neighbors - the Troyers - who are more than willing to lend a hand. Unfortunately, she loses them when dear Millie Troyer passes away, and her devastated husband moves to his son’s farm out of state. A local farmer steps into the breach, and Sadie finds herself developing unexpected feelings for the younger man.

Justine Byler struggles to take care of her six brothers and sisters and tend to all the household chores by herself, after her mamm leaves the family in shame and goes to stay with kin far away from Rock Point, Ohio. Justine’s daed has become angry and distrustful, and Justine is often the target of his enraged tirades. Not having time to do everything, she visits the local bakery to buy bread instead of baking it herself. There, she finds herself drawn to the new baker in town - an Englisch man.

Eli Schrock’s life is pleasant enough. He likes his work as a farrier in his father’s smithy. He likes the girl he’s courting, Rebecca Hochstettler. Yet, there is no passion for what he does or where he lives, and part of him yearns to see more of the world and get more of an education than the standard Amish eighth grade.

Colin Fischer is in love with Collette Bontrager, but she’s in love with her long-time beau Ivan Yordy. Ivan hasn’t asked Collette to marry him yet, but Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and she has high hopes that the romantic holiday will be the day of his proposal. When rumors start circulating about Ivan and another woman, Collette is shocked and hurt. She remains loyal to Ivan, however, refusing to believe he would do that to her.

Lately, nothing seems to go right for Ariel Winston. Her parents are divorced, her father is marrying a woman who seems to hate everything about her, and her mother is moving away to attend university. Even Ariel’s boyfriend Ron is no longer part of her life. When Ariel’s car breaks down outside of Baker’s Corner, Indiana, a chance encounter with the enigmatic Ike Gerhart opens a door to a world Ariel didn’t even know existed.

Eleanor Chupp has spent the last six years caring for her cancer-stricken mother. Now her mother is gone, and Eleanor is left to live alone with her father, a mean-spirited man with a heart of granite. On a bitterly cold January day, Eleanor’s father loses his temper and strikes her. Eleanor, scared for her life, runs away on her bicycle amidst a winter storm. She rides until she’s exhausted and almost frozen. At last, she finds shelter in a barn.

Nineteen-year-old Amish schoolteacher Eliza Frey is in love with longtime family friend Andy Clymer - but Andy has no clue. He makes that perfectly clear when he asks Eliza for advice about dating two different women, so he can decide which one to marry, and he’d like to be wed by Christmas.

Bridget Beck has always harbored feelings for Amos Gerhart. The problem: He’s her cousin’s beau. Yet her cousin isn’t happy in her relationship. She confesses to Bridget that she thinks Amos is too steadfast, too dedicated, and not nearly exciting enough. But when Amos inherits property in Ohio, Dawn decides to marry him anyway. Bridget is certain Dawn is only marrying him for the chance to leave town and start a new life, not because she loves him.

Melanie Zook’s newlywed sister has moved to Pennsylvania but is desperately unhappy. Melanie yearns to be with her at Christmas time to help her settle into her new life. But money is short, and bus tickets don’t come cheap. Melanie decides to host Christmas parties for the Englisch in their family’s big barn. It would offer the perfect location for a unique party.

Anna Miller has her whole life ahead of her and everything to look forward to this Christmas. She’s always dreamed of being a wife and mother on an Amish farm, and her dreams are about to come true. She’s certain that this Christmas, after three long years, Jed Graber is finally going to propose. When Jed asks her out on a special Christmas date, Anna knows the moment has come. But instead of proposing, Jed tells her he’s moving hundreds of miles away, and Anna’s world comes crashing down. Later, Jed’s brother, Dale, tries to comfort her, but she draws away from everyone.

Thanksgiving should be a joyful season - but not for Mary Shrock. She’d always planned to marry David - never even considered doing anything else with her life. Two weeks before their wedding, David runs off to marry another woman. That was a year ago, and Mary is still feeling the shock and humiliation. Micah Miller lost his wife last year, leaving him with five young kinner to raise on his own, plus a business to run. He is exhausted.

Thomas Bontrager moves to Planter’s Point with his orphaned nephew, Bobby, following the death of the Bobby’s parents in a buggy accident that leaves the seven-year-old boy crippled. Bobby now walks with a leg brace, but Thomas fears his nephew’s wounds run much deeper than the one that can be seen. Bobby has grown silent and withdrawn, and Thomas doesn’t know how to reach him. Then, a visit to the town’s bakery brings someone new into their lives, a young woman who might have the ability to help heal Bobby’s heart.