2019 ISSUE 1
Alive
McFarlin missionaries brave the cold to build a House From The Ground Up. (l-r) Matt Jankowski, Ed Cook, Rick Hall & Jon Voeller
It’s a cloudy April morning and the breeze still has bite. In a golf cart near
the entrance of McFarlin’s south parking lot drinking coffee from a silver tumbler is Jim Frailey. This is where you can find him most Sunday mornings, serving as a member of the Safety Team. It’s one of the many ways that Jim gives back to the community that he and his wife Cherry joined nearly a decade ago. This level of service has become an important part of Jim’s story. In 2015, Jim went with the House From The Ground Up mission team to the Rio Grande Valley to construct a home for a single mother whose house had been destroyed by an arsonist. That was the first year McFarlin sent such a team after learning about the ministry of a Methodist
