Florissant Valley Christian Church celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sunday, April 13. The lovely window here is a feature of the "new" sanctuary that was completed in 1985, shortly after Norm's ordination that June. We were members of Florissant Valley from 1974 to 1985 and still have many friends and connections there. Norm is the only minister from that church who has been ordained by that congregation.
A worship and celebration service was held in the afternoon, and we barely made it back from Joplin and the student newspaper conference in time. Norm read scripture from I Corinthians in the service.
Among the "old" friends we were happy to see were Amos and LInda Chenoweth, now of West Salem, Ill. where they have built a retirement home. Amos and Linda recruited us to help them sponsor the high school youth some 33 years ago, when their girls were 4 and 2. Now both girls are married and each has two girls, 4 and 2. We look forward to visiting their place in the country soon, maybe when Amos finishes his observatory!
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