My Windermere Experience
Last year, Windermere celebrated 50 years of ministry. We are collecting and sharing memories of your experiences here. Whether you visited or worked at Windermere, we would like to hear from you. Please email your thoughts to windermere50@windermereusa.org. Thanks for joining us in this time of reflection and celebration.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
My Windermere Experience
Willa Toon
Windermere Volunteer Coordinator
Having been a Missouri Baptist all my life, I have known about Windermere for years. My boys came to RA camp when they were young boys. When we moved here and they came to see us for the first time, both boys (boys to mom but now men) began to remember the time they came as a RA youth. They had a lot of fun pointing out the things they remembered.
Many years later my husband and I were working with single adults in our church, and at that time Windermere had a conference named Yesteryears. John and I brought our single adults to that conference year after year and then we brought young married couples and families. Upon our retirement, we inquired if Windermere could use volunteers. Foolish question. Could Windermere use volunteers? I say they can, as many as they can get. Frank Shock suggested we move here, and we did. It has been nine years and still loving it.
Talk about life changing. I had always lived in Independence, MO, carrying the mail for a living. I was moving to the woods, a whole new lifestyle. Let me tell you, it has been wonderful. It is good to see all the young people coming to conferences and seeing them sitting around studying the scripture and then seeing the baptisms in the lake. It really makes the change in my life worthwhile.
(To learn how you can become a Windermere volunteer, contact Willa at 573-346-5200, ext. 2677)
Windermere Volunteer Coordinator
Having been a Missouri Baptist all my life, I have known about Windermere for years. My boys came to RA camp when they were young boys. When we moved here and they came to see us for the first time, both boys (boys to mom but now men) began to remember the time they came as a RA youth. They had a lot of fun pointing out the things they remembered.
Many years later my husband and I were working with single adults in our church, and at that time Windermere had a conference named Yesteryears. John and I brought our single adults to that conference year after year and then we brought young married couples and families. Upon our retirement, we inquired if Windermere could use volunteers. Foolish question. Could Windermere use volunteers? I say they can, as many as they can get. Frank Shock suggested we move here, and we did. It has been nine years and still loving it.
Talk about life changing. I had always lived in Independence, MO, carrying the mail for a living. I was moving to the woods, a whole new lifestyle. Let me tell you, it has been wonderful. It is good to see all the young people coming to conferences and seeing them sitting around studying the scripture and then seeing the baptisms in the lake. It really makes the change in my life worthwhile.
(To learn how you can become a Windermere volunteer, contact Willa at 573-346-5200, ext. 2677)
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