Tuesday, December 13, 2022
A very special memory that I have of Howard goes back to the Fall of 1977 after the direction of Marge and my life was drastically changed, and we had just resigned from the mission that we had been planning to go overseas with for some time previously. We were at a loss to know what to do next, or what our future held, when Howard invited me to join him at Strawberry Lake for the last three weeks of the Institute of Ministry School in September/October of 1977. We stayed together in the school bus which served as a motor home.
During those days, God did indeed speak to my heart, and to Marge and I together during the last week when Jay Bunker was the speaker. He had a word over us that God would open up new doors for us, and indeed that happened. Within less than a week of our returning to Niverville, we got a call from Betty Thiessen of "It's a New Day" to ask if Marge and I would serve on their counselling line during the telecast. Then, over the course of the next year, we had a part in the founding of both the Maranatha Church in Niverville and also of the Christian Enrichment Family Camp at Rock Lake, Manitoba.
God has been good, and I am so grateful to Howard and to Mary for standing with Marge and I during that critical time in our lives. Together, we took the road lest travelled, and that has made all of the difference!
