World War II was raging over in Europe and now Asia. Men and women were leaving to serve their country every day.
Glen was 31 when he went before the draft board. He was told that in these traumatic times ministers were needed at home because morale was low. His classification statis was changed. He was needed at home!
Glen continued to work on his ordination and did complete the preliminary course of study, so he could join the Iowa conference of the Free Methodist Church on probation.
Corina wasn't feeling well and soon discovered she was pregnant again. Their fourth baby was expected in October. The responsibilities of being a mother to three young children, with another one on the way, and a pastor's wife was not easy, but as a faithful wife and mother, she kept going...
Pastors in the Free Methodist denomination are appointed to circuits and Glen was told they might be moved to another small church in a different town! Another man would take over Fairview Free Methodist Church.
This news added to the stress Corina was already feeling. Together they made the decision to request that they be allowed to remain at Fairview as assistant pastor under Pastor Walls.
Then news arrived that Pastor Walls had been elected as conference superintendent! What would this mean for them? A new pastor would be appointed to First Church and he would probably want a different assistant pastor...
Neighbors and church folks were good to help out when Corina wasn't feeling well. But, when she was about six months along in her pregnancy, serious problems developed.
Glen came home from work one day to find her having convulsions. He called for an ambulance. Lorraine remembers him kneeling beside the bed, praying for God to touch Corina.
Neighbors had taken Anita home to care for her but Lorraine remembers the ambulance taking Mother away. To this day, whenever she hears an ambulance siren her mind goes back, all those years ago, to when the ambulance drove away with Mother.
A memory of Richard's is the ambulance backing up over the curb, through the front yard, smashing his scooter, and stopping at the front door of the house! He watched as the men put Mother onto the stretcher while she was in the midst of another convulsion, and into the ambulance. This was a very scary time in the family and the church.
Neighbors kept the children over night. Corina's mother came the next day to stay with the family.
Corina was diagnosed with Uremic Poisoning and was very near death. The baby, not yet born, wasn't expected to live either...
To be continued...
Glen was 31 when he went before the draft board. He was told that in these traumatic times ministers were needed at home because morale was low. His classification statis was changed. He was needed at home!
Glen continued to work on his ordination and did complete the preliminary course of study, so he could join the Iowa conference of the Free Methodist Church on probation.
Corina wasn't feeling well and soon discovered she was pregnant again. Their fourth baby was expected in October. The responsibilities of being a mother to three young children, with another one on the way, and a pastor's wife was not easy, but as a faithful wife and mother, she kept going...
Pastors in the Free Methodist denomination are appointed to circuits and Glen was told they might be moved to another small church in a different town! Another man would take over Fairview Free Methodist Church.
This news added to the stress Corina was already feeling. Together they made the decision to request that they be allowed to remain at Fairview as assistant pastor under Pastor Walls.
Then news arrived that Pastor Walls had been elected as conference superintendent! What would this mean for them? A new pastor would be appointed to First Church and he would probably want a different assistant pastor...
Neighbors and church folks were good to help out when Corina wasn't feeling well. But, when she was about six months along in her pregnancy, serious problems developed.
Glen came home from work one day to find her having convulsions. He called for an ambulance. Lorraine remembers him kneeling beside the bed, praying for God to touch Corina.
Neighbors had taken Anita home to care for her but Lorraine remembers the ambulance taking Mother away. To this day, whenever she hears an ambulance siren her mind goes back, all those years ago, to when the ambulance drove away with Mother.
A memory of Richard's is the ambulance backing up over the curb, through the front yard, smashing his scooter, and stopping at the front door of the house! He watched as the men put Mother onto the stretcher while she was in the midst of another convulsion, and into the ambulance. This was a very scary time in the family and the church.
Neighbors kept the children over night. Corina's mother came the next day to stay with the family.
Corina was diagnosed with Uremic Poisoning and was very near death. The baby, not yet born, wasn't expected to live either...
To be continued...
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