Time to move on

We spent seven years in Roanoke. We were sponsored by the Board of Missions. Our assignment was to start two new churches, one at either end of Roanoke. We knocked on doors, met in a Grocery store, in a school house and slowly two new Methodist churches were born. By the second year one of the churches (Windsor Hills)was self-supporting and this became our ministry.

Our two children were born here,first our son, Neel, and two years later our daughter, Sally. By this time two large sanctuaries had been built and Windsor Hills had a Sunday School addition and even a parsonage in the neighborhood, but as was the Methodist tradition,it was time for us to move on.

Our next assignment was Charlottesville in the mid­-60s.-a volitive time –schools fighting intergration, restaurants closing, kneel-ins and protests. What were we getting in to?