Time line Tuesday!

New information for you!

So just how did we end up getting called to Lethbridge, Alberta?

    How did we end up getting to Nigeria, West Africa 29 years ago?

        How did we meet?

              How did we end up living in 17 different houses through the 33 years of our marriage?


These and other "timely" questions will be answered and revealed to inquiring minds - On Tuesdays!

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  Spring of 2013 - it's time to acquire a new group of calves for the farm - they are so cute when you first get them - but to keep a calf alive when it has been separated from it's mother and bottle feed them grow them to grass-fed beef status is quite a job.  Last spring we lost 5 of the 9 we purchased. It was a hard time for Howard.  You expend a lot of time and effort and yes, love, into raising them.  After a rough couple of months, Howard started wondering if the part-time farmer might not be where God wanted him.

  March of 2013 - Sandy puts in her resignation to the law firm she worked at - she and Howard had been working opposite schedules and missed spending time with each other - we really do like to spend time together and there had not been enough days off at the same time to go for motorcycle rides. In addition - and Uncle Sam had taken too much of their money that year.  We did not need to have 2 incomes at this time in our lives.  Sandy had also started wondering what else to do  -  a nagging sensation that there was more to life than sewing, reading, enjoying the grandkids (which we do very much), and working in our local church.



  June 2013 - Howard starts exploring other Counseling jobs available with different mission organizations and finds that there are many places in many parts of the world that need 50+ year old people with our skills.  We feel that God is giving us a restlessness about staying in Tennessee at this time. We had always kept in our future plans the possibility of returning to mission work after we returned to the states 26 years ago from a term of service in Nigeria and see this as a good time to explore that opportunity.

  We started praying and put the farm up for sale!  



The next Time Line Tuesday post will give you more information -                                                             Stay tuned!