A New Life
When I left
Korea in April, 1951, I told the Lord that when I get home I would tell
the Pastor of my new church home, (Fred Judson at Trinity Baptist in
Santa Monica, CA) that I knew there was something that needed to be
done there and that I would see that it got done. While I was continuing
my education for a career as a commercial artist, I went to see Pastor
Judson and told him what I had told the Lord. He was pleased and said
what he needed more than anything was a SS senior high school TEACHER!
I was shocked! I thought I might be mowing lawns or cleaning toilets
on Saturdays. He said, "Did you mean what you told the Lord?"
I said, "Yes sir," - and took the class.
After teaching
that class for 3 years, I completely lost my interest in becoming a
commercial artist and, instead, burned with a desire to become a TEACHER!
My wife agreed and together we worked to complete my 4 year education
as a teacher.
I had assumed
I would teach secondary grades but as I drew closer to the classroom
I realized that my calling was not to "subject matter" but
to teach foundational principles and character values. The upper elementary
grades included the fastest accelerated rate of normal learning in a
human's life, the 10th year, 5th grade. I taught school for over 30
years and in the early years wrote a civics workbook (Gr. 5-8) based
on God's answer, "Man Defined: Earth's Choicemaker," to His
own question, "What is man...?" and Jefferson's D of I, "endowed
with Liberty." It won a number of awards and was placed in the
Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, KS, by "Ike" himself.
When I retired
in 1986, I began a series of lay missionary short-term trips to Central
America (4), Russia (2), and one each to South Korea and Israel. Today,
my major effort is posting my main message on websites all over the
world - especially throughout the Middle East countries - where man-made
religions and humanist philosophies prevail. Such ideas measure human
value and non-value by the collective group, not the Individual.
Recently,
a messianic publisher produced a booklet of my writings - an additional
tool to reach the minds and hearts of my fellow human beings. It primarily
delivers God's answer to His own question and helps us further understand
why America and Western Civilization are so unique in human history
as founded on specific principles of Biblical Scripture (Image of God,
nature's Choice-maker, Individual value, human Rights, Constitutional
representative government, civil law, private property, etc.).
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