By Lynn Redeburg – Weyburn, Sask.
This is about the importance of churches in our lives. My two sisters and I all met our husbands through the church.
My oldest sister met her husband because he was a student minister during the summer, in the Griffin church. My other sister met her husband during WWII. She was going to university taking a nursing degree. Sam was stationed in Saskatoon in the Air Force.
One Sunday he went to the United Church and saw a beautiful young redhead sitting by herself. He went, sat next to her and they began to talk. He treated her to a sundae after church. He only had 25¢, I think, so he wasn’t hungry and only had a small Coke I think.
Remember when you could get a sundae for 15¢ and a banana split for 25¢, or was it 10¢ and 15¢? One afternoon at the Griffin church we had a farewell luncheon for our minister. My future husband talked to me. He needed a haircut and wanted to go to Mr. Loucks at Creelman for that. That was our first date. We never stopped for any sundae or Coke! We were happily married for 39 years until his passing.
Four years later I was playing the organ at Griffin United Church and my now husband happened to be revisiting Griffin where he had lived years before. I didn’t know him then. We’ve been married 20 years. Our lives would have been so different without the church. Now, instead of three churches in Griffin, there aren’t any.
I remember our son who was about three was too noisy at church, so I told him after we got home you have to be quiet in church. Obviously he wasn’t grown up enough yet, so we needed to not go to church until he was grown up enough.
After about two or three days he came and told me he was grown up and could go to church. He was so good at church after that. It worked!
