A Good Heritage - Hern, Allen
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Just an ordinary couple - a farmer and a teacher - whose lives spanned a century of the greatest changes this world has ever known. They suffered through the Spanish Flu of 1918 (an earlier pandemic), two world wars, and the great depression - like so many others. They looked at life through two different religious perspectives which caused much heartache and misunderstanding - like so many others. They raised a family of three boys after suffering the loss of a nine-pound baby girl at birth - joys and sorrows - like so many others. Through it all, they lived with honesty, integrity and…mehr

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Just an ordinary couple - a farmer and a teacher - whose lives spanned a century of the greatest changes this world has ever known. They suffered through the Spanish Flu of 1918 (an earlier pandemic), two world wars, and the great depression - like so many others. They looked at life through two different religious perspectives which caused much heartache and misunderstanding - like so many others. They raised a family of three boys after suffering the loss of a nine-pound baby girl at birth - joys and sorrows - like so many others. Through it all, they lived with honesty, integrity and perseverance - like so many others. They were mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, just an ordinary couple like so many others, but they left a good heritage and this is their story.
Autorenporträt
Allen Hern grew up on a dairy farm in northern Ontario, near the small town of Thessalon, and fifty miles east of Sault Ste. Marie. At 19 years old, a near death experience from a ruptured appendix brought him to the awareness of his mortality. "Nineteen-year olds don't die. Old people die. Right?" It also brought him to an awareness of spiritual need. "If I ever were near death, I would have time for an eleventh-hour conversion, wouldn't I?" This led to a five-and-a-half-year teaching career which included a radical change of thinking and a new direction for life. It also included marriage to Sheila, his delightful and faithful wife of 56 years. Pastoral ministry included two churches in Ontario, (Port Perry and Lively) and four in British Columbia, (Kamloops, Port Moody, Kelowna and Lake Cowichan). From there he and his wife semi-retired to Kamloops in 2008, where he served another ten years as associate pastor of First Baptist Church. In 2018, he retired again after 50 years in ministry. Allen and Sheila have three children, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. "Some of our greatest blessings call us Nana and Papa." A note of great sadness and yet of great joy is the reality that God has called two of their grandchildren, Emily and Joshua, into the fullness of His glory and the everlasting joy of His presence. Yet He has also given them the most delightful grand-daughter-in-law. In retirement he and Sheila continue to live in Kamloops where he has written two biographies. The first is this tribute to his parents. The second as yet unpublished memoir is entitled "Challenge and Change - the Travails and Joys of a Complex Woman". Follow his much older cousin through ordination as the second woman ordained into the ministry of the United Church of Canada in 1937. Her 13-year ministry ended in burnout and five years in a Catholic Convent. During her subsequent 16 years as a teacher of Religious Knowledge and English in the Government High School in Nassau, the Bahamas, she began travelling the world which continued into her retirement in Tsawwassen, B.C. It is a fascinating story. Ask for notification of its publication. You may reach Allen and Sheila at # 13, 1285 14th Street, Kamloops, B.C., V2C 8K9 hern@telus.net For those who are interested, the author has written a small appendix to this book called "Handsful of Honey", which he would gladly send to any requesting it.