The Beginning - Sort of...

My husband and I have been in ministry since before we graduated from college. Our first full-time job was in Connecticut. Beautiful, beautiful Connecticut. New England. A very long ways from our mom and dad and everything we familar. It was one of the best things we ever did. It was hard - really hard. There were extreme days of loneliness. But it was wonderful at the same time...to live someplace completely out of your comfort zone, to rely on your spouse to be your friend and traveling companion, to totally depend upon your own faith to see you thru tough times, to grow...grow...grow your belief in the Almighty God, to do all sorts of things in a church that you have never done before. That experience in so many ways made us into the ministry couple we are today. I don't want to go back right now but I wouldn't trade the experience we had there for anything.

Here is Mark sitting in the gazebo in our town square. Every New England city has a green. Our small town of New Milford, CT had the longest green of any town in New England.