Saturday, 09 August 2008
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The Shack
By William P. Young
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Last week found us traveling through North west Ohio on Wed and Thurs to visit the Sauder Village in Archbold -
- great craftsmen and a nice hotel hide away -- too bad for us that it is so far, we'd be more regular if we could just slip away there without the drive. We enjoyed the day and met Peg and Paul Behnfeldt for dinner at the village restaurant. Life marches on for each of us and renewing friendship was good for us all. We wondered through local antique malls and wound our way on Thursday to Flint Michigan for the Reunion of the Servants of Sierra Leone.
We stopped at Cabella's on the way. Dan can now check that experience off his "Bucket List". An interesting stop for us and a must see for the campers and outdoorsmen. The reunion gave us time to catch up with the happenings of Sierra Leone now -- some progress, but much confusion as well -- many smaller projects and little coordination it seems. Good news for the expansion of the Kissy General Hospital and a change in surgeons at the Eye Clinic. A wonderful evangelism thrust in Kono country.Friday evening brought the introductions of the 85+ in attendance in order of arriving in Sierra Leone. The earliest being in 1943. Great stories, a few tears and much laughter.Lunch with Dr. Gess and Doc and Marge
Sleight, dinner and evenings with the Malcolms and meeting Aaron's new wife (happy 1 year anniversary), and more stories. The days were full and all too soon we headed back to Ohio. Doc and Marge live in Lansing. He volunteered a year in the Bo Eye Clinic. What fun we all had together during that time. Each of us agreed that the year we spent changed us more than any other time we have spent. They are 85 and 84 now and Margie has been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzimers but she could still laugh and love and remember the 70's even though the events of the week end 
will be fuzzy before she gets home.All us that have served in Bo (our town) at some time during the
re terms in SLWhat would the remembering be without food! Gound nut stew, Joleuf rice, cassava leaf stew and plantain.
Some spoke of their three families -- their relatives, their mission family and their Sierra Leone family. Each one an important part of their lives over the years.
We missed Helen Trebes and yet rejoiced in all she and Stan had shared together with us --- teaching us hospitality, marriage that works, hope in the face of disappointments, endurance.Sunday/Monday found us debriefing at Maumee Bay State Park east of Toledo on the way home. What a beautiful spot on Lake Erie! Sun, beach, marsh boardwalk, nature center, and down time. Morrisons met us for lunch and following on Monday. Laughter, card games, The Shack, tears, more sharing and laughing -- Home around 11. Tired but renewed for the full week that lay ahead.
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