Orpah: The One Who Turned Back. Orpah’s story is brief yet haunting. Standing at the crossroads between comfort and covenant, she chose the familiar over the unknown. Her farewell to Naomi is one of Scripture’s most sobering reminders—that some turn back when faith calls them forward.

Elimelech, Mahlon, and Kilion: The Family Who Left Bethlehem. Before the story of Ruth and Naomi’s redemption could unfold, there was a family who walked away from the “House of Bread” in search of sustenance—and lost everything in the process. Elimelech, Mahlon, and Kilion remind us that life’s greatest famine is not the hunger of the body but the absence of faith.