Lindale's Song was written by one of Lindale's members, James O. Lehman and illustrated by sketches from Jonathan Gehman and photographs taken by various people.  Lindale's Song is about Lindale's 100+ year history, beginning with the earliest Mennonite settlers that came to this area. Copies may be ordered for $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping.  Additional copies are available for $8.00 plus shipping, if ordered at the same time as the first copy.  If you'd like to order one or more copies, please contact the Lindale church office at (540) 833-5171 or email .

Foreword from Lindale's Song

    1998 marks the year of Lindale's Centennial!  One hundred years of living witness for Jesus Christ in this corner of the Shenandoah Valley.  When measured against the course of human history, it's but a brief moment.  When considered from the vantage point of our own memories, much of it fades into a vast and remote past.  It merits barely a glance.
    Of course, that's not true for everyone.  There are some here at Lindale whose own childhoods, friendships, growth, and spiritual development are stamped with rich impressions from the Lindale of years gone by.  Lindale's 100 years are not insignificant for others as well.  There are those who have moved on to other places, who we barely know or remember, who first heard Jesus' call and were challenged and nurtured at Lindale.  These have gone forth to be a part of God's Kingdom elsewhere.
    For the rest of us, whether the most recent baby or the newest member, we too have now become a part of Lindale's 100 years of history.  We've been grafted in, so to speak.  We have inherited 100 years.  This inheritance includes the work, decisions, yearnings, dreams, and lives of hundreds of God's people.  Each little ripple of life became a part of a larger wave.  The waves became a swell and have now washed up on our shore.
    We here in the present have now become stewards of God's trust that stretches back like a vast ocean before and of our memories.  This trust also stretches like a sea before us into the future.  One hundred years hence we will be individually remembered no better than we remember those individuals who have gone before us.  But the ripples of our lives, whether for good or ill, will surely splash on those shores as well.
    Here at Lindale we have had the opportunity to benefit from the spiritual heritage left to us by other people.  As God gives us time and grace, the same will be said of us in the years to come.  Each decision, each relationship, our gifts and dreams, and God's work among us now, all will become a part of the tide that breaks upon the coast of a distant future.  What a privilege it is!

-- Loren Horst, Former Pastor
May 1998