“ The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.” Job 1:8 NASBS
I love seeing Christians advocate for the unborn. A certain passion and earnestness generally come through when we talk about the value of life–especially life that is so fragile and precious as a baby in the womb. Since I became a foster mother to our sweet baby girl, in some ways it has become more real to me. The reality is that if children are allowed to be born, they are born into all kinds of circumstances – some good and some bad – and none of those circumstances determine their worth. Human beings are intrinsically valuable and should be treated as such, both in the womb and through all the stages of their lives.
The deeper I have gone into this journey of loving someone else’s child, the more I realize how much I idolize my own expectations. It’s now been a year since we took in a tiny baby girl, and it has taken that long for all of the things that God has been patiently teaching me to begin to sink in just a little bit. I don’t believe there will be any feasible way for my family (me especially) to walk through the things that have happened so far and whatever is coming next without being changed in deeply spiritual ways.
The City Council approved a first reading of amendments that bring the city fire code in line with the international fire code but most of these changes would not affect current business owners unless they modify the interior, disturb the structure or change the occupancy type of their buildings, said Olney Police Detective Dustin Hudson, who also handles code enforcement.
Terri Wipperman, retired City billing clerk and former City Councilmember is running again for one of the at-large Council jobs in the May 6 municipal election. Mrs. Wipperman sat on the City Council from 2017 until she voluntarily left the Council in 2022. She was born and raised in Olney, and has deep experience at City Hall, first as a parttime municipal court clerk and as a billing clerk for the Public Works Department for 15 years. Her mother, Mary Thompson, ran M&M Beauty Shop in Olney for 50 years, and her husband Mark Wipperman served as Mayor and Municipal Judge. She is running for one of the seats held by incumbents Brad Simmons, Harrison Wellman, and Chuck Stennett, whose terms expire in May. The Enterprise interviewed Mrs. Wipperman about her candidacy and positions on the issues. Stay tuned for more candidate interviews in the lead-up to the election.
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