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Called By God
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She just came up with the idea that she would like to hold an effort,
and so she prayed about it and worked and worked, and then it just
worked out beautifully.
That was her first effort, there in Drums?
Yes. She brought 80 people in.
She was well organized, an extremely strong leader, so that when she
spoke, people listened. She was convincing, and she commanded your
attention and respect.
She was a stately type.
You didn’t think there was anything strange about your aunt’s being
a minister?
I thought that was as normal as anything.
People accepted—
Oh, my, yes! I mean, people almost reverenced her.
I used to chauffeur for my aunt. I’d hang the charts up, or I’d run the
stereoptican or the other type of slide machine when we would go to
the home or the hall.
This was different places in Pennsylvania? What were some of
the places?
There were Tunkhannock, Hazleton, and Burwick. She worked with
the building up of the Beaumont Church and the Montrose Church,
went over to Wilkes-Barre, and helped with Scranton.
Look there [in Mrs. Curtis’ Bible]—this is in her writing.
“September-October, 1964. Tent effort costs $5,000. Lot costs
$2,000.” Oh, that’s Kingston!
You came into the church under Mrs. Curtis?
Yes. I was 12 years old when my parents and I became Adventists. The
other minister started us with Bible studies, and then she finished up.
She would come to our home, and she was very clear. It was very easy to
understand what she was explaining.
Where were those meetings?
In Montrose.
She raised up that church.
Where was her home?
Nine miles northwest of Wilkes-Barre, a little town called Lehman.
So if she moved around in the work, she kept her basic home?
Yes.
It was always within driving range from her home. She traveled long
miles, but she could always go home at night.
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