I thought about responding to this but I'm running late for class set-up and I'm on the refreshment crew.. I need to wash the lipstick stains off those disposable styrofoam cups so we can get another 12 sessions out of them.
Columbus, OH - took class there & stuck around a couple months
Rochester, NY - couldn't find a job in Columbus, OH and went back to hometown.
Del Mar, CA - failed at beginning of WOW year and went Del Mar where parents had moved to
San Diego, CA - moved out & got an apt.
San Pedro, CA - Fellow Laborers
Visalia, CA - field assigment in Fellow Laborers
New Bedford, MA - WOW
Emporia, KS - Corps in residence
Redlands, CA - WOW interim Corps assignment
Emporia, KS - back in residence
HQ, New Knoxville - part of in that in residence year
Greenville, MS - Corps assignment
Jackson, MS - Corps assignment
Del Mar, CA - kicked out of ROA and went home (long story)
San Diego, CA - own apt. and then a Way Home, then to an apt. with new husband. Stayed in same apt complex for 16 years. Left TWI shortly after moving there.
Chula Vista, CA - hubby & I bought a house here 11 years ago.
And that's just the cities. It doesn't include the moves within the different cities. Not to mention that when we were in residence at Emporia they would make us move from dorm to dorm at least four or five times in a year.
How the he11 do you explain that? Especially what was I doing in Mississippi.
I've been in the San Diego area for over 30 years. Have no desire to move, in fact, I HATE moving!
(BTW when I was in MS and moved from Greenville to Jackson I could fit all my worldly possessions into a VW).
I'm one of the more fortunate ones. Of the several times I've moved, only four were to directly accommodate "the ministry". They were all within my first ten years and all within my home state, where I currently reside.
Something funny along the lines of this topic. Once after a move I was circulating my resume to get work. I ended up doing part time work for a company and got to know the hiring manager. One day we were sitting around discussing things. My resume came up. The hiring manager told me her first impression of me from that resume with all the different states I lived in and jobs I had was that I might be a fugitive wanted by the law, so she paid extra to do an extensive background check on me.
witnessed to at ECU, Greenville; took class in Morganton during summer; involved in twig at ASU, Boone; lived in Hickory during 1979; left TWI in Jan. 1980, all in NC. Big waste of time.
Not much for me. Got in the word in MI. Went wow to Rolla, MO. Following year in men's way home in Columbia, MO, next 6 years in St. Louis (4 different addresses), moved back to Grand Rapids, MI where I stayed until leaving twi. For some reason twi never pressured me into moving a lot, but I was never way corps.
The spinoff fellowship I now attend doesn't do invasive things to people like that.
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I thought about responding to this but I'm running late for class set-up and I'm on the refreshment crew.. I need to wash the lipstick stains off those disposable styrofoam cups so we can get another 12 sessions out of them.
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VA,LA,OH,CO.
Of those four states I had 18 different addresses.
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Hmmmm let's take a walk down Memory Lane:
Yellow Springs, OH - got witnesssed to
Columbus, OH - took class there & stuck around a couple months
Rochester, NY - couldn't find a job in Columbus, OH and went back to hometown.
Del Mar, CA - failed at beginning of WOW year and went Del Mar where parents had moved to
San Diego, CA - moved out & got an apt.
San Pedro, CA - Fellow Laborers
Visalia, CA - field assigment in Fellow Laborers
New Bedford, MA - WOW
Emporia, KS - Corps in residence
Redlands, CA - WOW interim Corps assignment
Emporia, KS - back in residence
HQ, New Knoxville - part of in that in residence year
Greenville, MS - Corps assignment
Jackson, MS - Corps assignment
Del Mar, CA - kicked out of ROA and went home (long story)
San Diego, CA - own apt. and then a Way Home, then to an apt. with new husband. Stayed in same apt complex for 16 years. Left TWI shortly after moving there.
Chula Vista, CA - hubby & I bought a house here 11 years ago.
And that's just the cities. It doesn't include the moves within the different cities. Not to mention that when we were in residence at Emporia they would make us move from dorm to dorm at least four or five times in a year.
How the he11 do you explain that? Especially what was I doing in Mississippi.
I've been in the San Diego area for over 30 years. Have no desire to move, in fact, I HATE moving!
(BTW when I was in MS and moved from Greenville to Jackson I could fit all my worldly possessions into a VW).
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I'm one of the more fortunate ones. Of the several times I've moved, only four were to directly accommodate "the ministry". They were all within my first ten years and all within my home state, where I currently reside.
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Something funny along the lines of this topic. Once after a move I was circulating my resume to get work. I ended up doing part time work for a company and got to know the hiring manager. One day we were sitting around discussing things. My resume came up. The hiring manager told me her first impression of me from that resume with all the different states I lived in and jobs I had was that I might be a fugitive wanted by the law, so she paid extra to do an extensive background check on me.
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witnessed to at ECU, Greenville; took class in Morganton during summer; involved in twig at ASU, Boone; lived in Hickory during 1979; left TWI in Jan. 1980, all in NC. Big waste of time.
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Not much for me. Got in the word in MI. Went wow to Rolla, MO. Following year in men's way home in Columbia, MO, next 6 years in St. Louis (4 different addresses), moved back to Grand Rapids, MI where I stayed until leaving twi. For some reason twi never pressured me into moving a lot, but I was never way corps.
The spinoff fellowship I now attend doesn't do invasive things to people like that.
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