# Featured Board Member—Joe & Liz Tindall Language: en Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, Fall 2019, Number 3 Source pages: 34 Read article: Original PDF: Fall\-2019\-Remnant\.pdf [The Heartbeat of The Remnant, Fall 2019]() Joe and Liz Tindall, along with three of their daughters, have been a part of Faith Christian Fellowship for the last eight years\. Brother Joe has been a faithful brother in the church and has served as a member of the board for The Berean Voice since its beginning in 2015\. Being 81 years of age, he is one of those with a hoary head whom God says in Leviticus 19:32 and Proverbs 16:31 we should look up to with respect\. His wisdom, and his carefulness of thought and word, bring a stability to our church and to our board for which the other brothers are quite grateful\. Joe grew up in Havertown, PA, near Philadelphia; his wife Liz grew up in Ocean City, NJ\. They both grew up in a non\-church setting, and on very rare occasions each of them would attend church or Sunday school with some of their friends\. Both of their homes went through the experience of divorce and remarriage, which brought with it the normal struggles for children growing up in that environment\. Joe was born in 1938 and was an only child\. Liz was two years younger and one of two children\. In 1940, when Joe was only two years old, his father left home to join the armed forces of the United States during the second World War\. Five long years later in 1945, once the war was over, his father returned\. However, the joy of reunited loved ones soon turned to heartache when Joe’s father asked his mother for a divorce\. He had found another woman in France who he would rather love\. This was quite hard on Joe, since to his young mind the separation and rejection was not only directed at his mom but at himself as well\. Time went on… Joe and Liz met and decided to get married\. It has now been nearly 60 years since Joe and his wife, Liz \(Elizabeth\) entered a Lutheran church to be joined in marriage\. This was the first time in years that either one had gone to an actual church service\. It was also the last time for many more years after the wedding day\. Interestingly enough, even though they never went back to that church, about twenty years later the church sent them a letter, warning them that if they did not commune or contribute financially, they would be removed from the active member roll\. About 16 years into their marriage, Joe and Liz were living among neighbors who were part of a conservative Anabaptist community\. Some were Beachy Amish, and some were Conservative Fellowship\. Today, Joe’s testimony is that these neighbors were not pushy nor overbearing in their evangelizing efforts\. Rather, he and Liz were drawn to their simple way of life and how they lived what they believed\. What really grabbed Joe’s attention was how the families functioned together in peaceful, loving ways\. In particular, Joe recognized that the man of the home provided loving leadership to his family\. Somehow, deep in his heart Joe knew that this was key, but he was not willing to take the necessary steps to personally change in order to have the same homelife as their neighbors\. To him, the personal cost of change was too great even though he was drawn to the outcome\. Along the way, several of the men took personal interest in Joe\. They asked him questions and in loving ways shared with him about their Lord\. Finally, the day came that one of these men invited Joe and Liz to attend their upcoming revival meetings\. Uncertain what all was involved, Joe and Liz decided to attend and see for themselves\. The message preached that first night was on the Christian home\. To Joe’s surprise, the minister was reading from the Bible and teaching the necessary ways for a godly home to function\. His surprise was first, that the Bible actually said those things, and second, that what was being taught were the very things that he and Liz had been observing in the homes of their neighbors\. Thus, the Lord continued his drawing on Joe’s heart\. It wasn’t long before Joe and Liz both responded to God’s personal call in each of their hearts and gave their hearts and lives to him\. So it was that Joe was 38 years of age and Liz was 36 when they were converted by God’s Spirit on the same night\. Joe was committed to serving the Lord for the rest of his life\. The church he was a part of saw this, and, as a result, he was ordained to the ministry three years later\. He served as a minister in several different churches in the United States for 26 years\. Then they felt called to go to the mission field, and in the year 2000 they moved to the country of Bolivia where they served as missionaries for six years before returning to the United States\. They lived in southern Ohio for a while before they moved to Holmes County, Ohio near the town of Millersburg\. This is where they have lived now for the last eight years\. Over their lifetime as a married couple, God has blessed them with children—two biological and nine adopted\. Three of the adopted daughters are still living at home and are a great help to their elderly parents\. Today Joe and Liz still lead active lives in their home, church, and community\. ![Joe and Liz Tindall standing outdoors with three of their daughters]()