I love the Church
Grandpa attended meetings and dinners and always took me . I was baptized on Sunday June 10 1945 I attended catechism for years and was eventually Confirmed on March 10 1958.I became a Church mouse. I also attended Catechism every Saturday and Junior Choir practice on Friday evenings. I went to Sunday school and then attended regular Church services afterwards.By the time I was 15 I could recite all the books of the Bible and the Ten commandments...and their meanings according to Luther...When I was 7 or 8, I used to read the bible to my grandpa from a little podium in his garage kinda preaching to him. I think that he used to get a kick out of it.
In the church basement I watched slides and movies of Missionaries who visited the church . I was inspired! I always had visions of being a missionary someday. While visiting the church Missionaries often stayed at our house in Oakland Heights they spoke to me of their adventures. I never thought it would happen but I became a missionary when I was 55 years old. My service lasted 8 years in the poorest parts of Mexico.
My mom was born in 1924 and was then adopted by Martha and Henry Dawson . I was born Oct 17 1944 twenty years later,and baptized on Sunday June 10 1945 at home in my grandparents house at 790 Merkle Ave . I think it was done at home because my mom was sick with kidney disease.I attended catechism for years and was eventually Confirmed on March 10 1958.
My mother was very sick with kidney disease and died only five years after I was born. Then my grandparents then adopted me, just like they did my mother 25 years earlier.I always called them Grandma and Grandpa, never mom and dad.
Later when they got sick I was sent to Wernle Children's Home in Richmond Ind. Sponsored by the Lutheran Church.
Grandpa attended meetings and dinners and always took me . I was baptized on Sunday June 10 1945 I attended catechism for years and was eventually Confirmed on March 10 1958.I became a Church mouse. I also attended Catechism every Saturday and Junior Choir practice on Friday evenings. I went to Sunday school and then attended regular Church services afterwards.By the time I was 15 I could recite all the books of the Bible and the Ten commandments...and their meanings according to Luther...When I was 7 or 8, I used to read the bible to my grandpa from a little podium in his garage kinda preaching to him. I think that he used to get a kick out of it.
In the church basement I watched slides and movies of Missionaries who visited the church . I was inspired! I always had visions of being a missionary someday. While visiting the church Missionaries often stayed at our house in Oakland Heights they spoke to me of their adventures. I never thought it would happen but I became a missionary when I was 55 years old. My service lasted 8 years in the poorest parts of Mexico.
My mom was born in 1924 and was then adopted by Martha and Henry Dawson . I was born Oct 17 1944 twenty years later,and baptized on Sunday June 10 1945 at home in my grandparents house at 790 Merkle Ave . I think it was done at home because my mom was sick with kidney disease.I attended catechism for years and was eventually Confirmed on March 10 1958.
My mother was very sick with kidney disease and died only five years after I was born. Then my grandparents then adopted me, just like they did my mother 25 years earlier.I always called them Grandma and Grandpa, never mom and dad.
Later when they got sick I was sent to Wernle Children's Home in Richmond Ind. Sponsored by the Lutheran Church.
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