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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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