better place to store them this spring than in the ground?” They’d like to grow their land base, but the high cost of land makes that difficult for a young farm family. While his dad is pushing responsibility and ownership his way, Evan said, “From a completely selfish standpoint, I want my dad to farm as long as humanly possible because I love working with him. He is wise. Ivory’s dad is the same way. I covet the wisdom they have.” He told Ivory it’s her job to keep him in line, too. “I need you to check me when I do dumb things. That's one of the things I love about you. I forget who said it, but they said, ‘If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough.’ I like to think I'm not real dumb. But, if I have enough toughness, then I can be a little dumb once in a while.” LET US TELL YOU ABOUT JESUS Off the farm, Evan and Ivory are very involved in the Menno area Fellowship of Christian Athletes. “I like working with high school kids. It's such a formative age to influence them. School is great, but those extracurriculars are so influential in crafting and molding boys and girls into young men and women.” Ivory agreed. “Kids aren’t talking about their English or math classes. They’re talking about sports or music.” Evan and Ivory with a sonogram photo of the newest Wintersteen who will arrive in December.
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Whether kids are in sports, music, other extracurriculars or not, all teens are invited to attend the FCA Huddles. “Just come in at night so we can tell you about Jesus and love on you a little bit – because there's a lot of kids who don't get that at all,” Evan said. “High school kids these days get a bad reputation. People say they’re aloof or always on their phones, but I think they just have a very quick filter. I think you have to tell them the truth and be real with them. If you’re not shooting straight, they are moving on to the next thing; they’ll be looking to find truth somewhere else.” He doesn’t envy kids today. “I don't know if there's ever been a harder time to be a young adult just because of the saturation of everything around them. You can combat that by telling them the truth in love. You can't just put the fear of God in them and beat them with the Bible. That’s not how it works. It would be easier if that’s how it did work. There's too much media out there for them to accept anything that's not the truth.” Ivory and Evan attend the United Methodist Church in Olivet. She grew up in the Reformed Church and didn’t know she was marrying something of a theologian who reads a lot of religious texts. He said his reading included this inspirational and faith-affirming message. “The Reformed Church says there are no maverick molecules, there's nothing that takes place on this sphere, in this universe, that is outside of God's purview. Because if there was, that would mean that something is more powerful than God in that aspect. And if something is more powerful than God, then we're worshipping the wrong thing. Right?”
