Chapter 48 - Through Mists and Rainbows
Our return tickets are to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we hug Nick joyfully. His blond hair is trimmed, his white shirt starched. “You’ve grown...
Chapter 47 - Monkeys on the Porch
I wake up the first night at the Youth with a Mission Penang base to the sound of frogs croaking in the lily padded sea marsh beyond our...
Chapter 46 - Home on the Range
Adjustment to life back in the States proves difficult. It’s like moving from nitty-gritty life to Storybook Land. There are manicured...
Chapter 45 - Joy in the Journey
When the rest of the team arrives in Penang from Singapore, a church nearby gives them barrack housing until Chiew Gim, a lively young...
Chapter 44 - Pioneering in Penang
Twenty-five of us board the plane for outreach to Malaysia—the eighteen students, four school staff, our sons, and the Eastep’s baby....
Chapter 43 - Crossroads in Kona
Our three-month training with Youth with a Mission is an adventure in adaptation. These twelve weeks in Kona, Hawaii are focused on...
Chapter 42 - The Anderson Ethos
The house Larry builds is set among scattered cedar trees in a sprawling subdivision between the towns of Elk River, Big Lake, and...
Chapter 41 - New Little Tribesman
Soon after settling into the lower level of the old Victorian home on Pillsbury Ave., we have special news for Nick. “We’re going to have...
Chapter 40 - Home to my Tribe
My new life is joyful and fulfilling, but the longing to do mission work is always present. When will we live overseas? Where is my...
Chapter 39 - Beams of Cedar and Rafters of Fir
Life slows down for me after the honeymoon. Larry and I decide I won’t work in nursing…I will stay at home with Nick and we’ll live on...
