when on a winter year's end two people pledged their vows.

A kiss, two rings, some songs and prayer,

Two lives entwined a legacy from which generations would flow.

Support raised in just six weeks?

Unheard of, and today would be impossible.

Good byes and then on a ship, to Northern Rhodesia

Where spiritual darkness and fetish worship meet.

Four children in just four years was quite a task

Learning a language, nursing and supervising schools,

Time flew by as the first five year term ended.

Off to the USA to visit churches and family at last.

Following the Master's leading for over 58 years

Zambia, Mauritius, Togo, Kenya, Zambia and back to Kenya.

Church planting, leadership training, Bible Institute, always praying

Serving, teaching, preaching and exhorting with tears.

Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren continue to grow.

Retire and rust?, no, serve our Lord we must

Until He comes to take us or end our days.

May God be praised from whom all blessings flow.