Galen Harrill

Galen Harrill's passion for the church developed as he saw God working powerfully in his native Northeast through the individual and collective activities of churches throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. His participation in these works greatly matured his love of service in a cause greater than himself and challenged him to seek how he might further God's Kingdom wherever God placed him. In college, he gained experience in ministry and missions as he served internships in Illinois, California and Kenya. After earning degrees at Abilene Christian University, he worked with a small church in Philadelphia while preparing to go abroad. In 1995 he moved to Prague, Czech Republic to serve with a church planting team among a predominately atheistic population. It was there he faced his greatest challenges as he grew to understand the limitless power of faith working in the lives of God's people. He met and married his wife while serving in Prague and two of their three children were born there. They returned to the States in 2005 and moved to Pennsylvania, where Galen has worked as a special education teacher and itinerant preacher. Officially, he has served with churches in East Lansdowne, Pottstown and North Wales, PA. He currently preaches at the North Penn Church of Christ in North Wales. While serving as preacher for this congregation over the past three years, Galen has helped to nurture this loving congregation to greater depths and heights of love and service for Christ. Galen holds two bachelor's degrees in Biblical Studies and Human Communication and two master's degrees in Missions and Educational Leadership. He lives in Lancaster County with his wife and three children.

Of Broken Hips and God’s Grace

By / February 28, 2022
Maybe a bit on the ironic side – I can’t walk and I’m launching a site called Daily Faith Walk.  It had something to do with ice, friction, gravity, angles, comparative densities, and force.  It wasn’t pretty!  I’ve got a non-displaced crack in the socket of my hip.  Rest is the order of the day, or rather the order of a few weeks, and I’m not supposed to put any weight on my leg.  No walking.  So, I’m out of commission.  Sort of…. In Genesis 31, Jacob decides to do what he wanted to do for years.  He had been managing his father-in-law’s family business so to speak and it was time for a change.  His father-in-law’s family was becoming jealous and Jacob was not feeling the love.  It wasn’t going to be easy – Jacob had his hands full.  Besides running a very successful goat-breeding operation, Jacob had other responsibilities – two warring wives; a household staff with complicated work/personal relationships and the resulting kids; a diversified portfolio of livestock.  No matter, he was going home and the long-standing, unresolved personal issue of a brother who wanted to kill him would just have to sort itself out. Where was God in the mix?  Well, not far away, even if Jacob wasn’t giving it much thought.  He knew God promised to bless him.  He knew God told him he would go home.  That doesn’t mean he was completely ready.  God wanted Jacob to see what happened now was all God’s doing, not his own – and it was all for his own good. Skipping over all the panic livestock installments Jacob sends to his bristly brother, we finally get to the part where God won’t be ignored.  “Hey!  You want the blessing?  You want to know where I’ve been this whole time you were exiled?  You want to know where all this good stuff you’ve got came from?  Not you!  It’s been me this whole time and if you didn’t have to put a little umph into it you wouldn’t appreciate it.  You’ve already been blessed!  Wrestle with that!  And just so you won’t forget, I’m going to give you something to help you remember every time the weather changes – how about a trick hip?” So, I’ve had this dream of launching something new.  I’ve taken some probing steps in that direction for years.  But God is now saying, “Jump!” and I won’t worry about the hip.  This is God’s blessing and He’s just making sure I know it….
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Palm Sunday

By / February 17, 2022

From Luke 19:28-44, thoughts on Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem.