Dr. Rich Bimler is being honored with the title of Editor Emeritus of Hope-Full Living.
News release from Hope-Full Living:
Dr. Rich Bimler named Editor Emeritus of Hope-Full Living
Fort Wayne, Indiana (June 10, 2025) — For five years with Worship Anew and for nine years prior with Creative Communications, Dr. Rich Bimler has served as the Honorary Editor and Editor-at-Large of Hope-Full Living. Today, as he steps away from his work as the Editor-at-Large, Bimler is being honored with the title of Editor Emeritus of Hope-Full Living.
“Dr. Rich Bimler has brought his personal style to this beautiful devotional publication. His humor and joy for the Lord resonate in his own writings and are infused into the devotions authored by our much-loved authors,” said Matthew Leighty, executive director of Worship Anew. “As Dr. Bimler moves into his new role as Editor Emeritus, we are so grateful to know that his legacy will carry on through Hope-Full Living as it will continue to share the hope we have in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Bimler has spent years as a champion of older adults and says it is important to find the joy in aging and to celebrate the gifts that God has given them.
“Aging is a gift,” said Bimler, who is currently 84. “Joyfully aging is true because of the Lord.”
As faithful readers of Hope-Full Living over the years would recall, he signed each letter at the start of the devotional with “Dr. Rich Bimler, Editor at Large, Ambassador of Health, Hope, and Aging (AH-HA).”
“I go around saying it to people, and they look at me kind of weird, but it’s a good way to say we’re here to celebrate the Lord’s presence,” Bimler said. “That’s the joy that we have had to bring joyfulness rather than, oh golly, another year older and this hurts and that hurts. But, it’s to say that the Lord is still there in the midst of it.”
As he transitions out of his role with Hope-Full Living, he’s blessed to see how the authors are continuing the work to provide devotionals that are shaped for aging adults and by doing it in a way that keeps the “AH-HA.”
“I think the writers get as much of a blessing with their writing as the people who read the devotions because that’s therapy for them, as well—to share their life, what’s happened in their life, what’s lifted them up, what’s made them go on, and what’s helped them to age joyfully,” Hazel shared.
“There’s a lot of devotional booklets out there, but the authors that you have put together are so real. They are living it,” Bimler added. “They are not just church professionals, but they’re doing it because they’ve got a gift for writing, and more than that, they’ve got a relationship with our Lord, and that’s just marvelous.”
Since 1980, Worship Anew, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Ind., has been broadcasting weekly worship services for aging adults who seek to help them live an abundant life in Christ. Today, Worship Anew reaches thousands of people each week across the nation and around the world on television and streamed online. To learn more about Worship Anew and other ministries, including the care ministry and Hope-Full Living daily devotions, please visit WorshipAnew.org.