Earl Pyles of Myerstown was at the very first worship service held at the Lebanon Area Fair in 1998.
“There may have been 25 to 30 people at that service,” said Pyles, who said he accepted the Lord as his Savior that year and has been a volunteer ever since at OnFire Youth Ministries, the organization that today runs the annual worship service.
The fair runs the last week of July annually and is celebrating seven decades of offering fun, good food, and a close-up look at the agricultural industry in the Lebanon Valley…