Lustre News
Lustre received 4/10” of rain on Tuesday, July 14, which was welcome for the crops. Lightening storms have been rather bright at night!
The EMB Harvest Festival is different this year, on Aug. 30-31. The speakers are Dan and Melody Nickel (Sharon Skillman’s sister), who have been in the states a couple months and will be returning to Ireland shortly after they come here.
We extend condolences to the families in Lustre (Keith Ungers, Dennis Browns, Dwaine Wall’s and their families) whose uncle and great-uncle, the Rev. Louis Hoffman, widower of Helen Wall, died on July 15, in Gresham, Ore., at the age of 99. Married in the EMB Church June 25, 1947 he became a pastor in churches in the Portland area with American Missionary Fellowship for many years.
AMF focused on providing pastors to communities that could not afford to support one, and they either raised missionary support or worked alongside pastoring. Louis was a machinist by trade and worked thus to support his family. As one great-niece said, “He lived an inspirational life! Louis and Helen trained at Grace Bible Institute in Omaha, Neb., graduating from the three year Theology-Bible program in 1949. He was in the same class as Dr. Harold Burkholder, Mrs. Rose Krahn, Laverna (Schroeder) Ediger, Julie (Teske) Britsch (of Hinsdale) who did remarkable things with their lives.
He was in the student body with students as Paul Dahlenberg, Thomas Heidner, Don and Velma Heidner, Loyd and Esther Schroeder and Walter & Susie (Ortmann) Busenitz, all with connections to Lustre. (This is not his obituary, but an acknowledgement of a fine man we knew as family).
Bales dot the countryside in Lustre as farmers bring in the hay. With temps of 9096 degrees it has given good drying weather. Remember when chickens quit laying eggs because of the B52s doing test runs from Glasgow Airbase, scaring them half to death? Well chickens had similar responses with the long night of thunder and lightning one night last week.
The smoke from forest fires have filtered into our skies replacing the big blue skies with hazy light grey. Canada’s boreal forest is one of the largest intact forests on earth covering 526 hectares, roughly the size of the entire U.S. Much of this forest has no roads or towns. Let’s be praying for firefighters wherever they work.
