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Welcome to

The Hometown Reformer!

I’m the editor, Shauna Gappmayer.

I know your hometown has issues. Mine does, too. God has the answers to every issue. The Hometown Reformer magazine exists to help you find and implement God’s will for you and your neighbors. What God wants for you will always be right. As you seek to know and implement God’s principles, He will bless you and help you . That is His promise to you, not mine.

About the Program

THE HOMETOWN REFORMER is more than an online magazine. It is a whole program designed to help you change the world in all the right ways. If you want to make things right in your community this is the place for you. Here’s the plan:

1. Check out our Raise the Issue donation page at Givebutter, and consider donating to the issues that are important to you. Issues will be brought to discussion meetings in the order in which they are fully funded.

2. Attend a Raise the Issue community action meeting in Gainesville where we introduce a community development issue and walk you through the unity building process. 

3. Can’t make it to Gainesville? Read the article about the meeting in THE HOMETOWN REFORMER magazine. Pray with us and share your inspired thoughts in the comments. Apply what you learn to issues in your community.

4. Go and do the things God inspires you to do. As you seek to know and follow His direction, and with His divine help, you will find that you have built a little bit of heaven right in your own hometown. That’s the kind of change you want to make in the world.

5. Repeat. This is the pattern for a happy life for you and your neighbors. You are going to want to do it again and again.

About My Mission

The mission of THE HOMETOWN REFORMER is to facilitate the sharing of complex and conflicting ideas in a way that leads to unity on the issues and brings forth inspired solutions.

About Me

My Background:

  • High School Geography and Foreign Language Teacher
  • Community Committee Leader
  • Community Committee Member
  • Long-term Caregiver
  • Mother and Grandmother
  • Talented writer
  • Experienced speaker

What people say about me:

  • “Intense!”
  • “Openly challenges the world.”
  • “Broadly focused and tactically cognizant.”
  • “A problem solver driven to perfection.”

My Favorite Scripture:

“I will not cease to call upon God. I have other things to inquire of him.” (Moses 1:18)

My Hometown: Gainesville, FL