Canadian writer will be first speaker for 60+

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN
Helen Grace Lescheid will be the featured speaker at the Feb. 8 Learning in Retirement spring kickoff in the Wohlgemuth Music Education Center on the campus of Tabor College at 10:10 a.m.


Born in the Ukraine, Lescheid immigrated to Canada when she was 13 years old. After a term of missionary service in Kenya, she moved with her family to Abbotsford, B.C., where she currently lives.


Lescheid is an author of numerous magazine articles published internationally including: Guideposts, Moody Magazine, Discipleship Journal, Today’s Christian Woman, Campus Life, Reader’s Digest, Catholic Digest, Decision and War Cry as well as Lydia, Christian Woman and Today which are published in Germany, Australia, and South Africa, respectively.


She is a contributing editor of With magazine and has appeared twice as a guest on “100 Huntley Street,” a national television program in Canada. She has also co-written two books, Footprints of Compassion and Lead, Kindly Light.


Just recently, Lescheid received honorable mention in a Canadian national competition for her book Lead, Kindly Light. The book describes the life ofher mother, Neta, which began in the Ukraine during the Russian Revolution.


She experienced the terror of bandits plundering their home, the ravages of typhus and famine, and Stalin’s oppressive regime closing their churches, confiscating their belongings, and banishing her loved ones and friends to Siberia.


During World War II, she lost Isaac, her beloved husband, and became separated from all her people. She fled across Europe with her four small children and eventually immigrated to Canada. Through severe hardships and privations, she traces a “kindly light” which protected her and showed her the way to survive and triumph.


Connie Isaac, director of Tabor’s 60+ programs, extends an invitation to all who wish to participate in this and other interesting programs arranged for this spring.


The group meets Thursdays in the Wohlgemuth Music Education building at 10:10 a.m.


For more information, contact Isaac at 316-947-5964.

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