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Upon graduating, I moved to Colombus, OH and shared an apt with a family friend while working for the summer.
In Sept, I went to Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, IN. ( Corie Bell and I went together!)
In college, I worked various jobs on campus for room and board. I worked in the maintenance dept, in the yearbook office, and in the switchboard. I also held off-campus jobs to help pay tuition, which my parents and good friends at Gospel Baptist Church (in Torch) paid most of. I worked several years in a telemarketing position, which I gotta tell ya is about the WORST job on the planet!! Let's just say one either learns to find extreme self-worth somehow, or one learns the name of a good therapist!! LOL
During college I met and married Corey, who is now my pastor as well as my husband. He was from Indiana, but had grown up in Napa, California. (It's really nice to be married to someone with close ties to California! I go out there at least once a year--it's GORGEOUS). He graduated in '91 and waited for me to graduate in '94 (as you can see, I crammed 4 years into 5!)I graduated with a bachelor's in Education. We left Indiana and started a Baptist church from "scratch" here in Longmont, CO in September of 1994. Incidentally, it is gorgeous here, too :)
These days I have much to keep me busy. Having 5 sons is a full-time job, but I also teach morning Kindergarten. Our church has its own small Christian school, so my class usually has a combin-ation of K4, K5 and sometimes 1st graders. It's kinda like the old one-room schoolhouse! This is my seventh year teaching, and I dearly love it! I have taught each one of my own children to read, write, and do basic math. That's really special these days, I think.
Being the wife of a Baptist pastor is a job in itself. There is always someone to help, or counsel, or a conference to prepare for, banquets to decorate, trip to pack for, fundraiser to sell, etc. 20 years ago, I think the LAST place I would have imagined myself was in church, married to the pastor! But after nearly 15 years of pastoring, and almost 17 years of marriage, I can't see it any other way.
Well, I hardly ever get back to OH these days. Ironically, three out of four of my sisters, my dad, and my mother all live in the Coolville or Colombus area. My stepmom(with whom I lived during my years there at FHHS) died of cancer in 1996. I do keep in pretty close touch with Corie Bell (Parker), and see her every year in Indiana, but have pretty much lost touch with everyone else.
Thanks to whomever is getting this site up and running, and good luck everyone!
