lines, elegant but not ostentatious and something that facilitated prayer just by everything about it. It was just unbelievable. It was a whole place. They had a huge dedication for it. The District Superintendent came. We had to do it out in the lobby down there, full house. There were two hundred people down there. I mean that is how things worked, that is how things were done. So over time it was a gift. I once told Ruth it was like a dream come true to be the chaplain here. I know there was a lot of pressure, it was quite demanding, it really kind of wore me down after about three to five years, and I had to kind of slow down. I really did. It was draining, but I learned to pace myself a little better, like anybody does. But the camaraderie with the doctors, absolute love for the staff from president to housekeeping and the privilege to be with people at work, hiring or dying or getting fixed up is a wonderful thing. Now, I will say one more thing they did though from a personal point of view to show you how things were. They paid for my continuing education and allowed me to enroll in a Doctorate of Ministry program at Asbury Seminary for which you take the classes a week at a time in January and July. A couple weeks in January or July, you do your reading before and your papers after. You only got a week per class. The allowed me over a five year period to complete a Doctorate of Ministry. The continuing education paid for the tuition, the books. They allowed me to take the continuing education time and travel. What that did was motivate you to come back, and bring that back, to be inspired yourself a little bit, lifted up and I was very grateful for that. I got a Doctorate of Ministry degree out of that relatively easily simply for myself without too much damage to the hospital. While that was all going on, they let me do my project here. I held spiritual formation groups here with six groups of our own people, a six-week program of spiritual formation. We met
lines, elegant but not ostentatious and something that facilitated prayer just by everything about it. It was just unbelievable. It was a whole place. They had a huge dedication for it. The District Superintendent came. We had to do it out in the lobby down there, full house. There were two hundred people down there. I mean that is how things worked, that is how things were done. So over time it was a gift. I once told Ruth it was like a dream come true to be the chaplain here. I know there was a lot of pressure, it was quite demanding, it really kind of wore me down after about three to five years, and I had to kind of slow down. I really did. It was draining, but I learned to pace myself a little better, like anybody does. But the camaraderie with the doctors, absolute love for the staff from president to housekeeping and the privilege to be with people at work, hiring or dying or getting fixed up is a wonderful thing. Now, I will say one more thing they did though from a personal point of view to show you how things were. They paid for my continuing education and allowed me to enroll in a Doctorate of Ministry program at Asbury Seminary for which you take the classes a week at a time in January and July. A couple weeks in January or July, you do your reading before and your papers after. You only got a week per class. The allowed me over a five year period to complete a Doctorate of Ministry. The continuing education paid for the tuition, the books. They allowed me to take the continuing education time and travel. What that did was motivate you to come back, and bring that back, to be inspired yourself a little bit, lifted up and I was very grateful for that. I got a Doctorate of Ministry degree out of that relatively easily simply for myself without too much damage to the hospital. While that was all going on, they let me do my project here. I held spiritual formation groups here with six groups of our own people, a six-week program of spiritual formation. We met