Personal Childhood Web

My Personal Childhood Web



My father was a hard working, caring, supportive, loving, Christian man.  He showed me how to love others no matter what.  As my father lay in the hospital, dying, he was concerned about the man in the room next to him.  He was concerned about his faith.  He sent a footprints plaque to his room as a reminder of how God would never leave him.  My favorite times with my father were when we would go riding on the motorcycle together.  I am so glad that God blessed me with such a wonderful father and that I got to call him my Dad!

 

My mother was a supportive, loving, caring, respectful, fun, and a Christian woman.  She wanted to stay home with my brother and I when we were young, so she kept a couple of other children so that she could do just that.  She always made sure that my brother and I were involved in our church and some sort of sports activities - for me it was gymnastics and soccer.  She was the girl scout cookie mom for my troop and the mom that all the kids wanted to come and visit because she would bake cookies with us.  I love that about my mom and I have always wanted to be like her in that way.

 

Hank Pulliam

Hank was a member of the church where I started attending at the age of 5.  He drove our church van and would pick up people that wanted to come to church that may not have been able to get there for whatever reason.  He loved his church and he loved his church family.  Even though my family would go to church, I loved for him to come by and get me on the church van.  He also had a wood working shop at his house and I would visit him and his wife often and he would let me make things with him.  The impression he left on me was that of love, because he was always showing love to others.

 

Alex Dunn

Sunday School Teacher

Alex was a great Sunday School teacher and a great friend.  He wanted to make sure that we knew about God's love but also about how we should show our love to others.  He was very instrumental in leading me to Christ and I thank him for that.  One of his favorite quotes that he would share with us as we would leave his class was, "Tell me who you run with and I'll tell you what you are!"  He stressed to us the importance of how we should walk so that others could see Christ in us.  Another quote he would share was, "It rains on the just the same as the unjust, and sometimes it just rains."  Things would not be easy along the way but God would always love us.

 

Mrs. Brock

Kindergarten teacher

Mrs. Brock was a great teacher and I loved that she took an interest in me.  I would go to class for half of a day and during that time she allowed me to be her helper.  I would help her with the kids who were less fortunate than I was and now realize that it was probably because they did not have the same support system that I had at home.  She was a nurturing teacher and had every child's education at heart.  The word that my principal described me as in my evaluation last year was just that - Nurturing.