I met Roy at a Christian
leadership retreat in Rhode Island
with Campus Crusade for Christ. We both were assigned dishes duty. No, it was
not love at first sight, not even close, despite the fact that he did dishes!
We became friends several months later. That friendship grew into courtship, which
grew into an engagement and 3 years after we met we were married. Everybody saw this coming but me.
Our family arrived in Boston
Saturday night and went to church at Park
Street Church
in Boston . We then headed out to Medford to have lunch with our dear friends
the Laymans. Helen was my leader for CCC
and she invested her life in me. She
taught me what it meant to live my life for Christ, and I will be forever
thankful for her. After I graduated
college, the Laymans invited me to live in their home. I helped take care of
their 2 boys for a reduced rate rent.
Since I was a very poor post college grad, it was a wonderful
arrangement. I loved their boys dearly
and had already been babysitting them since they were babies.
Helen and Jim also helped Roy and I walk through our courtship and
engagement. When it came time for Roy
and I to get married, we wanted someone who knew both of us to marry us. Jim seemed like a great choice. He knew us, and he had invested into us, and
he loved us, and us him. However, Jim
wasn’t a pastor, and had no authority to marry us. We were excited when he said
yes, and then went through the process to become ordained.
I met Helen when she was pregnant with Jono, and now here he is 19 years later with my baby.
Steven and Jim playing catch.
Helen and Jackie.
I think Caleb is getting tired of all the group pictures...
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