"A Fictional Place" - part 4

I want to continue with the background history of Kye Valley.  For the next few weeks or so I want to go over the history of Morning Star Fellowship.  This is the church that is mainly seen in the "Dawn Comes Softly" stories.

3 Friends
In the 1940s three young men shared the same dorm room at a Christian college in the eastern half of the United States.  They were studying to be pastors.  Ed Hart, the peacemaker, was from Oklahoma.  Jack Kealy, the quiet reserved one, was from New York.  Marty Stephens, the easy-going one, was from Kye Valley, Oregon.

Ed always noticed whenever someone seemed to be upset with someone else or whenever someone suddenly wasn't talking to anyone.  He would say, "Gentlemen, we need to have a talk."

Jack had a tendency to not talk whenever he was deep in thought or troubled about something.  Marty would ask, "Hey, Jack, stewing in your thoughts?"

The three roommates tried to find time to do one or two things together each week.  They worked around each others' schedules of classes, studying, and homework.  It was Ed's idea that they do this.

The one thing that they tried to do about once a week was to have a Bible study together.  One of them would read a Bible passage.  Then the three of them would discuss their thoughts on the meaning of that passage.

One of those times Marty read Romans 8:38-39.  In this passage the Apostle Paul wrote that nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love.

Jack questioned, "What can separate us from God?"

Ed immediately replied, "Sin can.  But all we have to do is tell God we're sorry, ask Him to forgive us, and He will."

Marty nodded.  "I John 1:9 says that He is faithful to forgive us."