Hank Barkholz

• Name: Hank Barkholz

• Age: 71

• Family: A sister, nieces and nephew

• City of residence: Yuba City

• Occupation: Retired elementary school teacher

• Hobbies, interests: Hiking the Buttes, biking, reading and travel

• What brought you to the Yuba-Sutter area? After retirement in New Jersey, I wanted to be near family

• Place of worship you attend: First United Methodist Church in Yuba City

• How long have you attended? Five years

• What is the importance of faith in your life? My faith is what empowers me to be a better Christian today than yesterday.

• How do you live out your faith? One way I strive to live my faith is short term and long term teaching in the foreign missions field; so far seven countries — Ukraine, The Philippines, The Marshall Islands, Kazakhstan, The Czech Republic, Hungary and Paraguay — in the last 15 years. I am preparing to teach in Vietnam this summer.