I hang my head and say, "Yeah, that's what I meant to say. What Alex just said!" Actually what he said, kind of backs up my point though. Not a lot of books were written, because you were either 'born' into the faith. Or you just went to meetings with some one. That's how my grandfather John E. Sarno became a Christian. He went to a Billy Sunday meeting back in the early 1900's. Started going to the First Italian Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Boy, talk about an oxymoron of a name. You just don't put Italian and Baptist together like that! But that's another story, for a rainy day... kind of like today is... so.... Nope, I won't bother you with the details. Long story short, I started going to the Christian Church in Ronkonkoma, NY when it was first started by Elmer Kile. The church moved to Nesconset a year later. He was riding around our neighborhood towing a little chapel behind his car. That summer he started with a VBS program, and the very next year, with just a hand full ov people he bought land and stated to build a church building. There's your evangelism back in the suburbs in the 50's and 60's. I guess VBS was still going string into the 70's even.
John
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I remember the chapel being towed, but not by a VW :) Mr Miller parked it in front of our house on Staten Island for a sidewalk VBS for a few days waaay long ago.
Well I am a bit older than you are. Elmer Kile was one fo the first I knew that had a VW. He had a bug and then he also had a micro-bus. That was long before either became popular.
jst
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