40 years ago for me

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I woke up today thinking that it was 40 years ago this month that I moved to the Hammond area to find a job & get my family established at FBCH before I began HAC in the fall.

We joined a SS class for couples that was taught by CW Fisk (one of the assistant pastors) & got to know some of the normal families that attended the church. I remember a class summer picnic in a local park that was fun, casual, good food & relaxed.

When did you arrive? How did the transition work out for you? Did you ever feel like a normal church family or get to know anyone besides HAC people?

 
53 Years ago in June.  I also found a relaxed atmosphere, plenty to eat, I found the staff was pleasant and nurturing and I found the preaching easy to sleep to.









I arrived in the nursery.
 
fishinnut said:
I woke up today thinking that it was 40 years ago this month that I moved to the Hammond area to find a job & get my family established at FBCH before I began HAC in the fall.

We joined a SS class for couples that was taught by CW Fisk (one of the assistant pastors) & got to know some of the normal families that attended the church. I remember a class summer picnic in a local park that was fun, casual, good food & relaxed.

When did you arrive? How did the transition work out for you? Did you ever feel like a normal church family or get to know anyone besides HAC people?
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I was single when I got there in 90 and married when I graduated in the spring of 93.
Never felt like a 'normal' church to me.
I kind of felt like I did when I was in military technical school.
Not quite like the useless maggot I was called in Basic, but not quite the accepted permanent party of your first duty station.
It was a life in limbo and definitely not relaxed.
I transitioned well b/c I had just gotten out of the military and was used to rules and mumbo jumbo.
Also, I never really got to know people outside of HAC staff and students.
 
I came in 1975 and loved every minute of it...
 
Sherryh said:
I came in 1975 and loved every minute of it...
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Because there were 5 guys for every girl?
 
I did date Brad Lake who was a great gentlemen...until I met my husband and we've been married 40 years !!Holy Cow!!
 
As a dorm student I did get to know Alma Scales and the Bill Clark family. His son at the time a teen, was Joe.  His wife and daughter, I believe were Barbara and Janet - having a hard time remembering. Sat with them much of the last half of my time there. The Sunday after we back from our honeymoon, we were on time for Sunday School till a train stopped us. We were late and sat in the back. Boy did they give us a hard time!
 
Baptist City Holdout said:
As a dorm student I did get to know Alma Scales and the Bill Clark family. His son at the time a teen, was Joe.  His wife and daughter, I believe were Barbara and Janet - having a hard time remembering. Sat with them much of the last half of my time there. The Sunday after we back from our honeymoon, we were on time for Sunday School till a train stopped us. We were late and sat in the back. Boy did they give us a hard time!
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What a treasure of a lady Alma Scales was.  She loved, cared, rocked and diapered every baby that went through the nurseries at FBC in the 60's and 70's!  I haven't thought about her in a long time-----BCH, I'm glad that you mentioned her by name.
 
I arrived in September of 1979.  I was the first person from my home church to attend HAC.  I knew no one at HAC/FBCH.  It was definitely a different world than my home church pastored by a BJU grad.  I was swept up by the bus ministry and ended up on a route captioned by a guy who thought it was a sin to be back at HAC before 10:30 on Saturday night or an even greater sin not to ride the night bus.  The initial transition was a bit rough.
 
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