
From the Editor ...
The young mom kissed her five-year-old daughter and husband goodbye at the airport. It was the
first time she flew alone — the first
time this dyed-in-the-wool New
Yorker had been west of Buffalo!
And then it happened…Surprise!
Culture shock!
The exotic locale? Ames, Iowa, in
1985. The very first LWML convention I attended was inadvertently
my first cross-cultural trip,
too — replete with new terrain
diverse accents, and a distinct
LWML culture with its own way of
doing things.
I got hooked on the LWML that
year. I got hooked on mission trips,
too. I marvel how the experiences in
Ames prepared me for the mission
work I now do in Latin America.
See you in Sioux Falls. Let’s be
surprised together!
Nancy Graf Peters
Editor-in-Chief
editor@lwml.org |