"What were you doing when you turned 17?"
Krysta asked me this on the morning of her 17th birthday.
My memories had to back up -------------------------------
Krysta was amazed when I told her I was at Maranatha
Bible School. Yes, they let 16 year olds go to Maranatha way back
in the long ago days. Now students are asked to stay home an extra
year and grow up a bit more before attending for the first time.
Just a teensy tiny history lesson here --
The grade school in Lansing MN was leased in the summer/fall of 1977.
There were a lot of renovations made and plans went forward to start
Maranatha Bible School.
There were two three week terms in the winter of 1978.
I still remember visiting Deanne at Maranatha one evening in 2008
for an end of the term dorm party. I did some math in my head.
I was wildly startled to figure out she was in Bible School
thirty years after I was there.
So many things change -- so many things stay the same.
Same dorm parties
Same skits with a few new ones added
Same laughter
Mothers and daughters stretching and growing and learning together.
2 comments:
Imagine the feelings I had when my daughter informed me that she was sleeping under the same bunk I did!! How did she know...I put my name on the board!! I sure didn't remember doing that!! :-)
Those plywood boards are an invitation to autograph! =)
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