GOD AT WORK! Going further east
For quite a number of years, brethren from the St. John’s assembly had been going out to Trinity Bay on Sunday afternoon to have Open Air meetings. From Whitbourne right down to Heart’s Content they had preached but found the best interest at that time in Green’s Harbour. I had gone along on a few occasions with them and an interest gradually developed. Wallace Buckle and I had meetings in 1964 in a school bus in Whiteway. We had gone there because a man lived there who had connections with the believers in the Parsons Pond area. Not much was done as it was late in the fall and the bus got pretty cold. We slept and ate in the bus and tried to heat it with a Coleman stove. Also, we lost the engine in the bus on the way back to Carbonear so ended our fall campaign with a bit of shortage in cash. A real special thing happened then. I had my first real date with Linda. I asked her to ride back to St. John’s in my van and we had our first real heart to heart conversation. Within three months we were married.
10 years later the brethren were still going there with open air meetings and wondered if we would consider going there with a Gospel tent. Mr. Joyce, Mr. Funston and Mr. Payne were going to take the one tent to Fredricton near Gander Bay, so after prayer and consideration together, Mr. Campbell and I decided to get land at Green’s Harbour for the tent. However, I went there talking to people and trying to rent land for several days and couldn’t get a spot. We settled on a piece on the highway at the Hopeall Branch.
We went to Hopeall, Trinity Bay because the open-air preaching along that shore was best in Green’s Harbour. We put the tent on the highway only about a mile west of Green’s Harbour near the Hopeall branch. The crew we had included George Campbell, Jim Klein, Tim Strandrud, Tim Redekopp, Andy Billingham, Peter Etelamaki, Jon Procopio, Tom Hoy, Otto Hooft, Ron Tracey and Gaius Goff. We had two pickup campers, one tent camper and a cookhouse trailer for accommodations. The area we visited and picked up people from was Islington to the east and Dildo to the west. It was not uncommon to have around 300 in the tent. We had made up benches with three metal frames holding 2x6 slats for the seat and back. Linda and the children had Mona and her children stay with her and our girls for the summer. They came out from St. John’s every evening. They provided the much-needed food and washing for the crew. The interest started right from the beginning and continued right through the summer. Morely Harnum, Lewis George, Violet Garland, Beulah Jackson, Laura George, Gladys George, Gilbert Cranford and quite a few more were saved in the first part of the work. After the summer tent season was over (it froze in August that year), we moved the portable hall from Gander Bay, after building one there first. (see notes on Gander Bay). Jon Procopio and Tom Hoy stayed on to help in the work that winter. Jon went home to Boston for a short time and came back with a van and Wes Vitale brought a motor home up for them to stay in. We put together a campsite with campers, cookhouse and a central shelter between them for a big wood stove to sit in. Meetings were held in the portable hall almost continuously during the fall. Lael came home from school one day wanting to be saved. Linda spent quite some time with her going over the scripture with her. What a great joy it was to us when she told us she had been saved. Father and Mother came that winter and he helped a lot in the work there. I went with Bryan Funston to Gander Bay for a series of meetings in the new portable there. Robert Harbin, Hubert Squires and some others in Gander Bay professed to be saved at that time.
During the winter of 1974 - 1975, George and I had a series in Hopeall. Jon and Tom kept the work going and I came back and forth at least once a week and generally was there for the Lord’s Day Gospel meeting. Carl and others built up a covered in sawmill in Gander Bay for the use of the work of the Lord. A lot of lumber was cut there before it burned down a few years later. We went to Iowa in the spring and got Talmage and Doris Southard to come for the summer to help us. He did a lot of mechanic work on the buses and kept everything going. At the beginning of the summer of 1975 after the Corner Brook conference, land was cleared to build a new hall in Gander Bay. Bert Joyce, Carl Payne, Bryan Funston, John Joyce, Phil Atkinson, Roy Morton, Lloyd Barbour, Jim Klein and others from time to time had a tent in Blaketown, not too far from the Trans-Canada Highway. They brought people from as far west as Markland and down the shore as far as New Harbour. Evelyn Antle, Ern and Evelyn George, and a few others professed to be saved in those meetings. We put the other tent in Bay Roberts where the Wescal Mall is now. The open-air meetings there were huge with cars filling the lot. We put the tent well back on the lot so we would have plenty of safe room for children’s work. Jon and Tom had built a new bunkhouse and it gave good accommodation for the crew. The crew was George Campbell, Tim McCalley, Dennis Gentz, Scott Hayes, Peter Etalamki, Tim Mackay, Tim Redekopp, Talmage Southard, Ernie Dellandrea, Eric Gill, Jon Procopio, Tom Hoy and Gaius Goff. We brought people from as far as South River on the one end and Tilton on the other. Kember texts were distributed as usual and children’s meetings were held every morning. Lots of children attended although a good many were as wild as hares. One never knows how much may result from the time spent with the young. Night meetings were quite well attended but not as many nor as attentive as they were in Trinity Bay. Fred Snow and a few others professed to be saved, but no lasting work developed at that time.
During that summer we had the first baptism in Broad Cove that opened the way for an assembly work in New Harbour/Dildo. Wallace Buckle had a crew of men with him on the Quebec coast that year. David Chubbs was a good testimony in the Gospel in his town in Quebec and that opened the way for further work along that shore. At the end of the summer the portable hall was moved from Hopeall to Blaketown for the winter where several series of meetings were held. George Campbell and I held a series of Gospel meetings in St. John’s in the newly enlarged hall. A nice number professed to be saved at that time; especially young people from Christian families. After the summer work was over, we began working on the Gander Bay Gospel Hall. Carl sawed lumber and others of us built the building. Alex Dryburgh and I had a Gospel series in L’Anse au Loup, LB this fall. He and his family moved from Scotland to Labrador that summer to join in the work.
The demographics of Newfoundland and Labrador were changing a lot by the mid-1970s. One of the benefits to the larger centers, was that young people began leaving the fishing industry and taking service jobs and other kinds of work in the cities that demanded higher education. Quite a number of young Christians from outport assemblies moved into Corner Brook and St. John’s for employment, significantly increasing the numbers in the local assemblies. For the same reason, there was quite an exodus of young people to other areas of “up-a-long” Canada.
That movement had a limiting effect on the small outport assemblies, which was further affected by the moratorium on cod fishing seven or eight years later. The small assemblies in the province will not likely recover from that government edict. A lot of small settlements have only about half the people living there compared to forty or fifty years ago. Denominational churches as well as assemblies are decreasing in numbers of those who attend and some are closing. That is a fatal blow to the future of the small community assemblies as well as the outport communities themselves. Many villages have very few children living there, because the younger parents have moved away for work.
1976 We had the first use of the Gander Bay hall to bury Mr. Wallace Blake. The hall was finished there and we had a series of Gospel meetings. Bryan Funston and Bert Joyce along with Carl Payne and others went to the Eastport Peninsula. A tent was put up near Sandringham and later the work developed into a good solid assembly. Our desire has always been to reach into new places but no particular place opened with a lead. So, we decided the biblical principle of “going to the next town that we may preach there also;” applied to this summer. We then went and found land as close to Norman’s Cove as we could to put the tent on. The bunkhouse was towed in and also a cookhouse that Jon had built. These were a real asset. We got a piece of land on the Long Harbour road about 100 yards off the Trans Canada highway. Our crew wasn’t as large this year. George Campbell and his son David, Jon Procopio, Tim McCalley, Dennis Gentz, Gary Southard, Ernie Dellandrea, Ralph Goff and Gaius Goff were the crew. We visited right along to Bellevue Beach and the other way down through Long Harbour. We didn’t get very far there although some came out every night. The Penecostals had come and wanted to start a work there and were really in opposition. We were there four weeks and then moved the tent to Harbour Grace near the Mary Brown’s chicken restaurant. There we mainly concentrated on Harbour Grace although the location was good and we got quite a few from Carbonear, Bryant’s Cove and even a few Mr. Dellandrea was able to get from Bishop’s Cove. A young married woman who professed to be saved then and went on quite well was mysteriously missing a few months later. They found her and her husband in a car in an abandoned drive-in theater parking lot. It has been judged to be a murder-suicide. Linda and I and the girls went west that summer in our pickup with the camper on it. Father went along with us but Mother flew home from Boston. We went to Washington, DC; across Virginia and West Virginia and headed west through Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and west to Oregon. After being home for a few days, we settled in a house Dick and Louise had bought with a farm when they moved back from Iowa earlier in the year. That was in Turner, south of Salem in the Cloverdale district. Lael went to the Cloverdale school where Dick’s girls went and Alison started Kindergarten in Turner. Her friend was the original kindergarten drop-out. The little girl actually quit school. Alison loved it. It was good for our children to be there and know their cousins. We had Gospel meetings with Jim Webb in Salem in the late summer and early fall. At that time, we made a drive-in trailer out of Dick’s 40- foot flatbed. We started drive-in meetings in Salem, then Corvallis, Albany, Scio, Crabtree, Newburg, Brooks, Lebanon and Woodburn before the weather got too bad. In the spring of the next year we had three months in the eastern part of the state in visitation and drive-in meetings.
1977 Bert Joyce and I had a series of Gospel meetings I Stout, Iowa early in the year. The numbers and interest wasn’t the same as in 1974 but some professed to be saved and seemed to be genuine believers. Near the end of March, Dad and I went to eastern Oregon with Dick’s pick-up and drive-in trailer. I drove that and Dad drove Uncle Frank’s motor home for us to stay in. We went to Sisters, Madras, Redmond, Mitchell, Spray, Condon, Antelope, Ione, Fossil, Heppner, Arlington, Umatilla, Hermiston covering most of the towns in the Tri-counties area each week. We visited and had drive- in meetings in each place as an introduction. Then we returned and stayed for several days and visited again and had drive-in meetings each night. Gaylord Lowery came with his motor home. Dick came for a few days. John Fitzpatrick and Phil Howard came for a few days. John Abernethy came for a week. We evangelized in every way we knew how but not too much came from it. A few people told us they had been saved so we will know in heaven how it really worked out. After school was out in June, Linda the girls and I left for Newfoundland and Rick Goff came with us. We went by way of the Grand Canyon, New Mexico and places of interest along the way to Iowa. Then on to Newfoundland. Rick returned home right away. Linda, the children and I got ready to go to the west coast as the tent was going to be put up in McIvers on the north shore of Bay of Islands. We moved the bunkhouse and cookhouse to a piece of land on the top of a hill just before you get to McIvers and just after you leave Gilliams. We pitched the tent there and the work started around the second week of July. George Campbell, Marvin Derksen, Jon Procopio (for a while), Peter Etelamki, Lorne Swaan, Jim Decker, Wilson Caines, David Campbell and Gaius Goff were the crew. We carried people from Irishtown on the one end and down as far as Cox’s Cove on the other. We gave out text all along the shore and were getting a fairly good hearing when a howling gale rose up one night just after the meeting. We tied the tent down as best we could to the buses and vehicles and sat and watched it. The wind went over the top of it like an airplane wing and it finally broke at the old seams and pieces went right straight up in the air like upside down streamers. That ended the tent season. So we went back to St. John’s and finished a portable hall that we were building behind our house. This was the third one and it had blown down after it had been partly built. When we got it finished, we towed it to Gilliams where Marvin and George began meetings. A nice work developed rather slowly on that shore and an assembly was formed there. Jon and Violet were married this year.
1978 We did some more work on our house this winter. It has taken us a long time but gradually it is being completed. This year we finished up the basement. Looking for new areas to evangelize has always been a priority, so that led us to go down to the Burin Peninsula where we had never done any Gospel work. When we got to Grand Bank, knowing that it was a major center and knowing Marjorie Ross had relative there, we decided to get a piece of land there. A very good location was found between Grand Bank and Fortune. But we had no tent. George and I decided to get a new one from Boston. Also, we needed some different buses. So, we arranged to take a trip to get buses and the tent plus some helpers for the summer. We dropped Jon off in Boston and he arranged for the tent. We dropped Marvin off in Ontario and buses were found there. George and I went on to Iowa for the Garnavillo conference and got Dave Wirkler and Don Wardell to come to help us for the summer. Don drove back his own van and Dave drove one of the buses from Toronto. Marvin drove the other. George and I went down to Boston to get the tent and Jon. We got back to Corner Brook just in time for the conference there. After the conference we moved the trailers to Grand Bank and put up the new tent. It is a beautiful yellow and white tent and looks especially nice when the lights are on inside. The crew we had that year was George Campbell, Sandy Feltham, Ernie Dellandrea, Bruce Reilly, Gordon Struve, Matt Hann, Steve Barbour, David Wirkler, Tim Gull, Don Wardell, Jon Procopio, Mark Andersen and Gaius C. Goff. We picked up people in Fortune and Grand Bank. Jon had built a drive-in trailer and it was used extensively that summer. George Campbell, Don Wardell and Mark Andersen spent some of the summer on the Bay Verte peninsula. After they left, Jon Procopio preached in George’s place. We saw a number of good souls saved in Grand Bank and Fortune. Jon moved there with his family for a year or so and had meetings in the portable hall we brought down from New Harbour/Dildo. The new hall was in use there then. John Barnes and his wife were saved then. Also, Patsy Greene, Gordon Williams father, the Pardy’s and some others but it never seemed to go beyond the first stages of a work. The opposition was from all sides. George and I went to New Harbour and had meetings in the hall in the early fall.
1979 During the winter, I had a series of Gospel meetings with Bryan Funston in Eastport. The work in that area was going good and there was an extending work from Eastport into Gander. A problem began to develop though, that would lead to serious consequences. I believe it was in March of this year, that I had the wonderful joy of hearing Alison confess to having been saved by God’s grace. Our family circle was complete. Relief, joy, gratitude all kinds of emotions and thoughts are mine whenever I think of the goodness of God to me. My wife is completely committed to the work of the Lord. Our children may not understand our life and commitment but they don’t rebel against it. Jon got a nice red and white tent, so in the summer of, he put it up in Grand Bank where he was living. Bryan Funston helped him, Steve Richards, Tom Hoy and others as well. They found it kind of tough after the first few weeks so they went from town to town on the Burin Peninsula having drive-in meetings. They had good singers and with the good singing and preaching they had a good summer. They even made it on to TV on the Here and Now program. George Campbell, Rob Kirpatrick, Kevin Sawatsky, Eric Gill, Gaius C. Goff and a number of others were the crew of the tent on the Horse Cove Line in Paradise, just west of St. John’s on the Conception Bay highway. We went from Paradise far as Kelligrews with texts and invitations. There was a good number out at night and also in the children’s work but no real move. Most of the interest was from people the Christians brought who go to the hall in St. John’s. Late in August, Hurricane David struck Dominica where Ken and Doris Taylor were laboring with Peter and Marlene Simms. It only seemed right because of the family connection, to try and be a help. So we immediately got some financial help for them and Linda and I went to Halifax to order and ship food and building material and then got a plane down to St. Lucia. That was as close as we could get at the time. We met Brian and Carolyn Owen and through them got food and other things ready to take to Dominica. Linda took Marlene Simms children back to Toronto and I went on the boat with supplies to Dominica. I stayed on until November with Ken and Peter working on rebuilding and building homes and halls. Scott and Jon and Jon’s brother Kevin came. Quite a lot of others came too. Some from Ontario, some from Saskatchewan, some from the states. It was nearly December when I got home. Marvin and Barbara were married on December 7th.
1980 Kevin Sawatsky and I had a Gospel series in the New Harbour/Dildo Gospel Hall. Also, I had a Gospel series on the west coast of Newfoundland and in Gander Bay. This summer Bryan Funston and I took the tent to Glovertown for an outreach in the general vicinity of the Eastport work. Bryan’s brother-in-law, Randy Marsett, Kevin Sawatsky, Gordon Williams, Tom Hoy and some others joined us there in the work. Gordon was just beginning full-time Gospel work. We worked mainly Glovertown, and Traytown although some came from farther down the peninsula. There was some interest that was nurtured and has been useful in the Sandringham work. Open-air meetings were held late each night after the Gospel meeting near the clinic in Glovertown. Also, open-air meetings were held right down the peninsula each day. We spent most of the summer there. Late in the summer Linda and the girls and I went to hare Bay to help Gordon in open-air work in Hare Bay, Dover, Gambo and Dark Cove. The work in Wareham was moving ahead a bit and it seemed to warrant an assembly being started there. George and others were over on the north shore of Bay of Islands in outreach in a tent there. There were a few years there where we may have spread ourselves too thin and the work was getting large enough that the believers felt we were neglecting the established work.
George particularly felt this and at the same time wanted to press forward as he had a pioneer’s heart. The work in Seal Cove too began to flourish more under Gordon’s care and interest. His exercise was to help the new and small assemblies. Jon was getting an interest in his heart toward New Hampshire in the states. Marvin was working mostly on the north shore of Bay of Islands. Wallace Buckle was working on the Labrador out of Goose Bay. Carl Payne and Don Wardell were involved in literature work with the Book and Bible Bus. They were going from town to town and covered the whole west coast and central Newfoundland. George and I had a Gospel series in L’anse au Loup, LB after the conference. There was quite a lot of difference of opinion regarding the remarriage of divorced people and the work was getting divided behind preachers on account of this problem. We had several serious discussions as workers over this and it seemed to be getting worse rather than better. David Jones, a missionary in Chile, came to help us as a moderator and I think helped to get some brethren thinking biblically about this and realizing we had a problem that was bigger than we thought. It seemed that I was the one they thought led the pro side so I could see we may need to think about a move lest the work divide over this issue. We began to think seriously about a move away from Newfoundland around this time. With Bert Joyce, George Campbell, Peter Mathews, Wallace Buckle, Carl Payne, Bryan Funston, Marvin Derksen, Jon Procopio, Alex Dryburgh, Gordon Williams, Jim Jarvis and Gaius C. Goff; all in full-time Gospel work, it was time to start increasing our vision.
1981 We met periodically to try and come to some was of accommodating to differences of opinion. It seemed like we could find no way to work together, just because of this minor issue that had been made into a major one. The last meeting we had unfortunately included some brethren from the St. John’s assembly who had come to the Gander Bay conference. They felt that ultimately everyone would be coming into St. John’s one time or another and they wanted a position that they could take. As that meeting continued, George wrote me a note and pushed it along the table to me. He said, “They are out to get you and me.” I guess that was true. Anyway, he started taking his family west more often and told me that it was maybe time for him to move on. He had been 13 years on the Labrador and 13 years in Corner Brook. To him it seemed like a major change should come. I had been asked earlier to have meetings in the Marysville, WA area. This year seemed like the appropriate time to do this. So after school was out, Linda, Lael, Alsion and I went west and started Gospel meetings in a tent in Marysville. There was quite a number who professed to be saved in those meetings and our interest in the on-going of that work was deepened. I remember when Uncle Hector built a portable hall to be used there years before. They had since built a hall on Fred Steen’s property. I stayed in a trailer near the tent although we were given the use of Priscilla Hoy’s and Jackie Longfellow’s house. It was nice to have a time as a family together as well as getting to know the people from Arlington. Tom Hoy headed up a children’s work there each day. We also had a Bible study each day with David Jones leading it. Just before we had come west, there was a major break in the work in Forest Grove. Almost all of the younger families and some of the older ones left the assembly at the Gospel Hall and went to the Westside Bible Chapel in Hillsboro. The brethren of my home assembly asked it we would consider moving back to Forest Grove to try and help the work in the west and particularly at Forest Grove. It was too late to help Forest Grove, but it did get us thinking about what we should be doing next. I can’t recall where the tents in Newfoundland were used this summer. I think one was put up near Three Mile Rock and Carl Payne and Bryan Funston preached there. It seemed like there was a sort of fatalism coming over brethren in regards to outreach. We returned home to St. John’s in time for the girls to go back to school. Scott and I got interested in having meetings in Mt. Pearl and got started thinking and talking about it. George Campbell spent the fall, winter and spring in the west with his family. Some of his children professed to be saved there and he had a real impact of the young people of that area.
1982 I went to all the conferences in the fall and then we started visiting house to house in Mt. Pearl early in the year. It seemed like there was some interest in this on the part of the assembly at Smith Ave. I had a series of meetings in the court- room in Gander in the early spring. In the preceding years, there were a number of people living in Gander who had been saved in Eastport and were in the assembly out there. A number of us workers decided we should get together and make a push into Gander to try and reach more of the town. The court- room above Milley’s store had been in use for some Gospel series and also regular meetings were held there but the folks went to Eastport for the Lord’s Day. A piece of land was secured on McCurdy Drive and we began a series in the tent in July. George Campbell, Bryan Funston, Marvin Derksen, Jon Procopio and Gaius C. Goff all worked together in this outreach. We were called “The Gang of Five,” after the Communist junta in China. Alfred Corduan, Fred Schmeldter, Ray Hanna, Kevin Sawatsky, Phil Turner, Tim Morton and perhaps a few others helped in that work. Jon Procopio headed up the open-air work and traveled around the Loop, to Glenwood and over to Fogo Island with some of the men helping him. Bryan Funston headed up a booth in the malls. We were first in one and then moved to the other. Marvin Derksen headed up the youth work. George and I preached at night in the tent. We had a bus hired to bring people in from Gander Bay each night. A nice number were saved during those meetings. At the end of the tent season around the first of September, we had a baptism in Gander Lake and began to break bread in the court room. Marvin Derksen moved his double wide home from the north shore of Bay of Islands and made it into a permanent house. He stayed with that work for several years. In the fall we rented space in Mt. Pearl to fix up for meetings.
1983 We spent quite a bit of time working in Mt. Pearl on the rented space so we could get a Gospel series going there. We had children’s meetings and then had a Gospel series with George Campbell and I preaching in the upstairs of a strip-mall. A good number came out and a nice number professed to be saved. I spent the winter and spring there in meetings for new believers and in visiting the people. A baptism or two was held in the St. John’s hall and quite a few of the Mt. Pearl came into fellowship in the Smith Ave. assembly. We also had a mall display in the Village Mall on three different occasions. We got a lot of contacts there. Bryan Funston came to help us in the one near Easter. The mall work was quite fruitful as some professed to be saved there as well as in the meetings they were invited to. In the summer George and his family were out west again.
The divorce difficulties were making outreach a source of contention with some of the workers. I believe the work is more important than the workers. So to alleviate tension we went to New Hampshire where Jon and Marvin were working for the summer. We were there for a week or two and then went on west to Oregon and had meetings there. We went up to Vancouver and other places around. It seemed the Lord was leading us to move from Newfoundland but when and to where was a bit of a problem. George and I had a Gospel series in Deep Cove where there hadn’t been much of a move for a long time. The Lord was pleased to save quite a number of souls there from which we both took some guidance. George was thinking about moving to the Vancouver area and we were thinking about moving to Oregon. Back in Newfoundland we had meetings in Mt. Pearl and were really pleased to see a nice number of souls profess to be saved. We were thinking in terms of a new assembly in the St. John’s area and made no bones about it. To my amazement there was very serious opposition to any work that would “take people away” from meeting at the Smith Ave Gospel Hall. I had hoped to see a work started there that winter and spring but many of the brethren were openly and verbally opposed. So that further confirmed us moving away from Newfoundland. Scott and Elizabeth began to speak about it too.
1984 We decided to sell our house and put it on the market. The sale of the house wasn’t a confirming issue as to whether we would move or not. That had been decided on the basis of what is best for the work of the Lord and where did the Lord want us. We decided the move was to be in Oregon and a house was offered to us to live in for a year in Salem. George Campbell came back to Newfoundland for David’s graduation from university. He wasn’t feeling good although he went to Labrador, Eastport and other places before he returned home just after the Gander Bay conference. In June as soon as our children were out of school, Scott, Elizabeth and their family; and Linda, Alison and I started west. Lael had already gone west to get residency long enough to get into a training school in Salem in the fall. We convoyed across the country without major incident. Scott drove a van towing a big trailer. I towed a trailer behind the pickup and Linda drove the Ford van. George Campbell was diagnosed with cancer and he waited for surgery until Linda and I were able to be with them. We stayed in Vancouver for a few days after he was pronounced terminal until they could get kind of settled away for the next few months of trial. We moved into Bob and Anna Menzel’s house in Salem and Scott and Elizabeth moved into Lorenz’s house in Gaston. We got booth space in some county fairs right away and had opportunity to reach out the first summer. We laid plans for fair work in the summers to come and started getting materials and equipment together for that work. Much of our work was in Forest Grove. We had a series of meetings there that fall and some blessing resulted. A number of the new converts found their way into the assembly and it started to grow again. Bryan and Elizabeth Funston came west that fall and were in the missionary home next to George and Mona until the Campbell’s were able to rent a house in Richmond across the street from Bill Funston’s. Bryan and I were asked to have meetings in Deep Cove. Linda and I, and Mona and George took Uncle Frank’s motor home on a final trip together to California. We saw his mother; Bill MacDonald and Jean Gibson; went on to Long Beach and saw his brother who had cancer too. It was a good trip but we all knew this was our final work together.
We got a trailer and Scott made it into a real good open- air trailer. We traveled all over having open- air meeting. A number of the people who were saved in the fall in Forest Grove had an interest in the Gospel and the assembly grew to near 60 in fellowship again. We rented a house in Forest Grove and moved up before Alison started school again. I spent most of the fall going back and forth to Vancouver to be with George.