Carl E. Hansen

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Pilgrims Searching for a Home (eBook, ePUB)

The Odyssey of a Family

Beschreibung

In this biographical sketch, the author traces the extraordinary life pilgrimage of his grandparents. In the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution, Jacob and Justina Friesen started their family in Ischalka, Samara, Russia, enduring the turmoil and terror of the disastrous civil war and the famine that followed. This ordinary Christian family, leaving behind home, loved ones, culture, and all that was familiar, and, as pilgrims, fled from their motherland in search of a better home in western Canada. Adjusting as pioneers to their new life on the prairies was not easy either. Learning a new language and culture while moving from place to place, it took a few years to get settled. Then, just as they were settling, the Great Depression with its "dust bowl" years set in. Struggling and losing their farm twice while the family expanded to fourteen children was a test of faith like no other. This is a story of faith and hope amid disappointment and despair. They realized that in this life, we are but pilgrims passing through, seeking the permanent "city" that has everlasting foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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Autor

The second oldest grandchild of Jacob and Justina Friesen, Carl Edward Hansen was born and raised in rural Alberta and Ontario, Canada; holds a BA degree (1965) from Eastern Mennonite College in Virginia and graduate degrees from Goshen Biblical Seminary (M.Div., 1971) in Indiana, and Fuller Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1985) in California.

He was united in marriage to Vera Dorothy King. Together they served as missionaries in eastern Africa for more than thirty-two years. Carl served as high school teacher and then as director of a rural development project in Ethiopia from 1967 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1984, Carl served as pastor in Alberta, Canada. They moved back to Africa in 1985, giving direction to a rural community development project in western Kenya, then teaching at the Daystar University in Nairobi until 1995. In January 1996, they returned to Ethiopia to assist the Meserete Kristos Church in establishing its Meserete Kristos College, now Seminary. They retired to Harrisonburg, VA in 2011.

Carl and Vera raised four daughters and are grandparents to five grandsons, four granddaughters, and great grandparents to six great grandchildren.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: WestBow Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781664271999
• Artikelnr.: 69326533