First Meeting

While working at a Christian Bible Ranch the summer after I graduated, I solidified what God had been speaking to my heart all of my life.  I needed to go to Bible College and wanted to go help kids.  But it was a heartrending decision.  I had to leave all of my sisters and that about killed me.

My Mom finally called a college and asked if they would still take me two weeks before classes started.  Then they sent the list of requirements.......  I about died!  No jeans to class.  Dresses and skirts and slacks and shoes.  Shoes?  Curfew. ETC. ETC.

So off we went to the scariest place on earth...the mall.  Mom took me to the store telling the lady what was needed and I was promptly attacked and held captive in the dressing room.  


Several hours later and very much poorer and I had a new wardrobe.

Packing my belongings in my old 66 Chevy that belonged to my school teacher and with sisters at my side and my parents trailing behind off we went.  I'll never forget little sisters holding my arm as we drove to ND saying how they didn't want me to leave.  A VERY long drive!

Pulling in to the old Victorian dorm and dragging my things to the top floor and to the smallest room they had- I began to feel an increasing suffocation.  Girls and drama everywhere!  One shower.  One small room.  And a curfew.  


I was scared to death and ready to turn back around and head back to SD.

Watching my family drive away was so hard and I held on to the verse that God had given me, "Unless a man leave mother, father, sisters and brothers and land..." 

Then...All Hell Broke Loose.  The Dorm Mom would stand at the door and seriously locked the door every night.  I explained that I needed time outside. She stood arms on hips and that was that.  

The T.V. room was right outside my door with crying girls at all hours of the day.  My relief was the little attic called the "upper room" prayer room.  I figured out that I could crawl out of the window at night and sit on the porch roof until everyone else had gone to bed.  I watched the stars while longing for wide open places. 

One of my first assignments was to walk through the library noting the various resources.  The AV guy came out and offered to show me around.  He was the strangest guy with black wavy long hair and tennis shoes with colored shoelaces.  

He very kindly took me on a long tour of the library.  

What a beginning!!!!!