Anne and Leon Amstutz
Some classmates have already embraced retirement and
others are starting to make plans for this next phase of life. Below, Leon
Amstutz shares what he and Anne (Wiederker) are planning to do. If you would
like to share information about your life with classmates, send an email
to:
southadamsclassof1970@gmail.com.
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4/2016
Hello,
We are sorry we missed the 45th reunion (I was in Africa), but hopefully we will be around for the next event. Anne and I both took “early retirement” from our jobs last summer. I left Taylor University, where I taught Computer Science and Engineering Physics for 15 years (first half on the Fort Wayne campus which closed, and last half in Upland). Anne left her job teaching kindergarten at “The Kings Academy” in Jonesboro.
The
reason for this is we applied and were accepted as missionaries with SonSet
Solutions, a technical missions support agency located in Elkhart, Indiana at
the site of the former HCJB Global
radio Engineering Center, from which it evolved as an independent ministry. We
are now “missionary appointees” in the process of raising our support so we can
move to the Elkhart area to serve full-time. We are scheduling speaking
engagements in various churches during weekends.
In the meantime, we still need some income to live on, so I accepted a contract with Ambassador Enterprises “Innovative Education International” non-profit ministry focused on providing computer labs and educational software to rural schools in Liberia, West Africa. We put our home in Upland up for sale and rented temporary housing in Fort Wayne. I flew to Liberia the first of September and spent a month there installing computer labs as part of a team. We returned home, prepared more computers, and flew back again on January 3, 2016. Now I’m busy preparing for the next trip to Africa in May.
While I
am gone, Anne is working part time in the “Child Watch” program of Parkview YMCA. We are hoping to raise our full support and
complete our deputation by summer of 2017 and then move to the Elkhart-Mishawaka area (where our children and
grand-children are living, so we will be closer to them!).
Since we are “in transition,” our home mailing address will likely change, but my new email address with SonSet Solutions should remain valid at least until time of next SAHS class of 1970 event.
Leon
lamstutz@SonSetSolutions.org
P.S. Here are a couple of websites that contain more information about the work I’m doing. Check them out if you’re interested in this unique ministry that is able to reach behind walls into “closed countries” via radio.
lamstutz@SonSetSolutions.org
P.S. Here are a couple of websites that contain more information about the work I’m doing. Check them out if you’re interested in this unique ministry that is able to reach behind walls into “closed countries” via radio.
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