52 Godly Men : Men of Today Teaching the Men of Tomorrow

Everybody knows that Haiti recently was devastated by an earthquake. However, for the most part, they weren’t there when it struck. The man I met with today, Lloyd Frazier, was. This is the story of what happened; but first, let me give you some background. Mr. Frazier was born in 1935, as the fourth child of twelve. He was extremely shy as a child, so shy that he failed English as a freshman in high … Read entire article »

I really don’t like working in our garden. I just don’t. So if you told me that I would be planting a garden all day, the normal thought would be that I wouldn’t like it. But despite all that, I immensely enjoyed my day of planting a garden at the house of John P. Thompson, a.k.a. Granddaddy. When dad and I arrived, the temperature was around 55˚Fahrenheit, so Granddaddy tried to wait until it climbed … Read entire article »

What do you get when you cross an OT with an M-16? No, the answer is not a bunch of gobbledy-goop letters, it’s my day with David Cobb. In case you don’t know, O.T. stands for Occupational Therapist, a person who travels to elderly people’s houses making sure their house is safe and that they are able to live by themselves instead of in a nursing home. If you don’t mind visiting other houses on … Read entire article »

Back in the mid-twentieth century, almost nobody owned a PhD. It just wasn’t cool. People especially didn’t earn a degree like that and then go out on the mission field. However, that is exactly what Doctor James Beaty did, and he was the person with which I happened to be meeting with today. I was deposited at Dr. Beaty’s house around nine, and then he began to tell me his life story: a tale of trusting … Read entire article »

I love books. I have loved them my entire life. For me, they are a magic portal into times long ago, and galaxies far, far away. However, I didn’t know anything about managing a bookstore, which had always been a high on my list of future careers. Thankfully, today I received the privilege of meeting with Gene Browning, manager of White Wing bookstore and businessman extraordinaire. Dad introduced me to Gene, and then Gene related to … Read entire article »