Sewing with Compassion Writer  /  Joyce Long Photographer  /  Ron Stiemert Tubes, pumps and plastic bassinets fill the room. Monitors serenade tiny ones fighting for life. When new life is...

Writer / Joyce Long . Photographer / Chris Williams Dan and Patti Planker If Matt Damon’s film family can buy a zoo in a movie, then it’s believable Dan and...

Writer / Joyce Long . Photographer / Forrest Mellott A Hot Wheel car and a piece of candy multiplied by 10,000 changed Frank Williams’ life. During his first mission trip...

Writer  /  Joyce Long Photographers  /  Joyce Long & Jody Veldkamp When Kim Tabor and Stefanie Jeffers asked hundreds of Facebook friends to like their new page, Stripped Free, a...

Writer / Joyce Long . Photographer / Chris Williams Humidity radiated from the cornfields and hills — a typical summer afternoon in Sioux City, Iowa. To beat the heat, Greg...

Valentine’s Day. A day to celebrate romantic love with cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts. A day of expressing “young love.” Finding just the right gift, to send just the...

Valentine’s Day. A day to celebrate romantic love with cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts. A day of expressing “young love.” Finding just the right gift, to send just the...

Writer / Joyce Long Photographer / Forrest Mellott Most people don’t walk into their office at 6 a.m. to start their workday. Yet, Greenwood Middle School (GMS) Principal Chris Sutton...

Writer  /  Joyce Long  .  Photos  /  Submitted When stopped at one of the many traffic lights on State Road 135, I often think, “This should be simpler.” When my...

Writer  /  Joyce Long When Squire Parker bought his Needham farm in 1950, he could not imagine what his two granddaughters, Janet and Pam, would someday create. The family farm...