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1980‘s 1985 1988
Enrollment in Released Time dropped below 200 A ministry under the leadership of Gloria Cox began to volunteer
Reba Miller asked Bible Club Movement to send a Reba Miller, in SWPA, was as a teacher for Released Time
replacement to SWPA placed under the umbrella of and later became an Associate
Missionary with CBM
CBM was contacted concerning a replacement CBM.
1987 Mark Redka moved to Greene County, SWPA
and began working with Released Time
Mark Redka with a New Freeport Class in 1990 Reba Miller and Mark Redka
he children, too, were eager to memorize Bible verses to n 1993 Judy Virgili, a diligent church bus worker and Re-
earn a free week of summer camp. So in 1971 Camp Sun- leased Time teacher, was asked to be the local director. Un-
T rise Mountain in Markleysburg, PA, was rented for a week. I der her leadership, Released Time classes expanded into
The local work used this camp until the year 2001. Fayette County and also to all of the secondary schools of Greene
Enrollment at that time had dropped to about 150 students, but in County. Enrollment climbed to over 850 students each week with
just a few years it bounced back to more than 400. Mark also took nearly 100 volunteers. CBM missionaries also helped get Re-
over the camping program each summer. Reba moved back to leased Time started in Butler County in 2006.
central PA in 1991 and continued in ministry there as a vol-
unteer.
Carlyn Grimes Paul & Audrey Sheller
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