God’s plan for my life had taken me far beyond anything I could have imagined as a girl. I was 34 years old when my husband, Dick, and I accepted an opportunity to teach music at Faith Academy, the leading school for missionary families in the Philippines. Dick and I led a top-notch youth choir in addition to teaching band. With five children at home, there was precious little time for my own instrument, a trumpet that sat untouched in it’s case.
We’d been in the Philippines for nearly four years in 1965, and I couldn’t imagine how life could get
