Friends Along the Way

One of the nice things about traveling around on home assignment is coming close to old friends. Well, not really "old" friends (although we're all a little older than we used to be), but long-established friends.

We have been friends with Dave and Linda Creighton since we lived in Minot, North Dakota back in 1984 or 85. Dave and I were accountability partners for a couple of years. After we moved to Chester, Montana, they stopped several times in traveling back and forth to Kalispell, Montana, Dave's home area. Later they moved to Kalispell, and we have visited them there a few times. Kalispell is only a few hours from Spokane, and they drove over while we were there, and we spent a really good day together.

Roseann Rohrer has been our friend ever since she sold us her house! It's an unusual way for form a lasting friendship, but Roseann is an unusual woman. The house meant a lot to her. She had gone through a lot while there, including the loss of her husband, who went through his final illness in the house. She wanted to entrust the house to the right people, and concluded that we were those people. The day that we looked at the house we sat down together over cups of coffee, and Roseann declared that she was convinced that we were the ones that were supposed to have her house, and she helped us work it out. We had wonderful years in that house, mostly raising our kids there.

When we first visited Marysville Church of the Nazarene in 1993, one of the first people to greet us was Lonnie Waddle. Over the next several years he and I became good friends. We were accountability partners for several years. I also worked with his wife Louise in the music program at Marysville church. Lonnie helped immeasurably in getting our house ready for sale as we were getting ready to come to PNG. Shortly before we left to come here, Lonnie and Louise moved to Spokane. We were able to stay with them one night while we were in Spokane.

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