EP259: Father Receives Daughter's Text during Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre, My Grandpa the Storyteller and

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He is to recount that store, pray for us. I will call you later.

That was a text message that we received from her 16-year-old daughter 10:16 AM on Saturday morning, October 27, 2018 is my wife and I drove toward Pittsburgh strip District in downtown Pittsburgh.

My wife called my daughter immediately. Are you okay you in an accident in a hushed voice.

My daughter explained that she our second daughter and three friends along with an adult friend of ours named Susie hiding in their van across the street from the tree of life synagogue in Pittsburgh squirrel Hill section they were there for Saturday morning retreat at a house across the street. They'd arrived at 9:55 AM. It initially stopped the van directly across from the synagogue on Shady Avenue which would've been straight in the wind of fire between the police and the shooter.

I they're planning to hop out of walk to the house. Mercifully, the driver, Susie decided almost on a whim gut feel. She later conceded to find a parking spot so she could walk the girls inside just as she moved to a spot a little further away. Police cars began flying there now live as a girl struggle to assess the chaos. The police parked sideways in order to use their vehicles as shields for the shootout. The street was instantly closed off. Susie told the girls not to get out. They all sat on the floor of the van dog and listened and prayed and worry, we receive that text message about 20 minutes later. Shortly after we talked to her daughter Susie and the girls made a careful decision to drive a little further away.

Susie did a U-turn and went down the street just enough to pull into a driveway that allow them to put a few houses and buildings of separation between them. The synagogue and the gunfire after nearly an hour of chaos and confusion. The girls decided to abandon the van and make a run for your mind – across backyards and over fences to meet a relative of Susie who lived down the street, they can hear gunfire in the background. They met Susie's relative in his getaway car.

They escaped they got free was a scary day. It was also evil and active evil against our beloved Jewish brothers and sisters of the peaceful Saturday worship service while my loved ones were okay. The same cannot be said of everyone and that synagogue, 11 of which were murdered since return to that spot. About 1/2 a dozen times since last October 27. In fact, I'll be there again this Saturday with the girls. It's never the same.

Each time I go I pause look at the synagogue and say a prayer. I've since talked to other parents who had dropped off their girls at the retreat center that Saturday morning. One of them at dad marvels of the conversation that he and his wife had had that fateful morning, his wife typically dropped off his daughter and then sat in the car of the drop-off lane at the tree of life. Synagogue where she waited and worked on her laptop for a couple of hours on this morning, though the dad again. Another strange gut feel all the decided that he wanted to drive his daughter to the retreat center. He wasn't sure why they just try to convince his wife to stay at home he prevailed and talked her into it. She stated home for some strange reason they made that decision had they not his wife might've been one of the first one shot that morning suspect in the shooting is in custody.

We have multiple casualties inside the synagogue with three officers who had been shot at this and we have no more information because we are still clearing the building, trying to figure out if the situation is safe. If there any more threats inside the building. That's all we have. They were very lucky.

So were we. My wife and I of course are so grateful that our love ones didn't get caught in the crossfire. My kids had only one scraped one of the girls from hopping over a fence and yet I imagine that many of the families of the 11 dad asked why God hadn't spared their love. I agree that's one of those timeless questions we all ask this question. The believers of all stripes and the Jewish people in particular have asked since literally the time of Joe.

It's a mystery why some leave this world of violent way seemingly prematurely, while others seem to stay longer in this valley of tears and if and when certain people are protected and others are. I have no answer there, though I know that God is the author of life in God wasn't the one pulling the trigger and that synagogue the evil that transpired there was not an act of benevolence by a loving God. I also feel confident in saying this, the true tree of life is not an earthly one, but an eternal one this world.

Unlike the heavenly paradise we seek is full of sin in Ron's the trees in this world they decay and they die eternal life in perfect bliss are not reachable in this world. They come in the next bed that might be small consolation. I understand to the grieving and hurting loved ones of the tree of life.

Synagogue. But honestly, I think it's truly the best that we can say, and we been listening to Paul Kilgore, who teaches nearby Grove city College. By the way, that's world Robbie Davis went to college and what a story he told.

Indeed apply to some leave this world prematurely at the hands of a madman in the mass murder like this, while others don't. And I don't think Paul could've put it better and I will is a better way to put it into Mr. and in the end, well we can put ourselves in God's and God's mind, and it's a mystery walking horse story is family story of a tragedy in Pennsylvania that still lives with him today and will live on with him forever.

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Dennis is an author and historian who specializes in southern history. Today Dennis shares with us a story about his grandfather entitled Paul Summers story.

They get away. Dennis part of the southern Appalachian heritage is the skill of storytelling and whenever that topic arises in the conversation, my mind automatically returns to memories of Frederick Newman summers. Paul, as we grandchildren holding to me. He was the quintessential storyteller unnatural who probably never realized his own skill during all of my lifetime, and until his death in December 1972. Paul lived in the rocky hill country of the rural community of high school, Tennessee between Knoxville and Clinton but he moved around considerably during his 82 year lifetime.

He had also held a variety of jobs before my time, he had been well driller and a housemate even sold mention she is on the side and I'm sure that he enjoyed every minute even if he never made Paul was the proverbial Jack of all trades master of none, unless you count storytelling. He was an average student politics politicking as a precinct worker for innumerable elections. His yard always seem to have one or more campaign signs and Paul also had some funny, at least locally. As a musician. In fact, he and my grandmother met and fell in love at a rollicking barn dance at which he was playing and singing Carl being a distant relative, and the frequent performer at the now world-famous Museum of Appalachia and Norris, Tennessee remembered recording because singing the name song which mentions about every name imaginable. I faintly remember, Paul is playing his guitar and singing that song and a lot of other humorous balance, but I more clearly recall his singing old-fashioned hands for years. He lives singing and little Mount Harmony Baptist Church in Haskell. There at his funeral.

The mourner saying his favorite hymn when I've gone the last mile of the way. Before we laid him to rest in the family plot in the cemetery behind the white clapboard church. Perhaps it was his breadth of experience is length and variety of life that providing grist story mill. Many of his stories involved himself. Others were about people he had known or had worked with her for some of his stories were renditions of stories he had heard others tell, but always with his own interpretations and embellishments thrown in to give them a homey personal flavor as a kid I used to sit with him on his blue painted wooden porch on many warm afternoons, staring out across raccoon Valley Road toward the southern railroad tracks and listen to him tell stories to whoever would listen.

He said in a homemade rocking chair that was held together by innumerable layers of paint and stared off into the distance rather than looking at me. Whoever else might be happening by for a visit. As he spun his tales. He was perpetually moving incessantly tapping his foot on the porch planks.

Occasionally he patted the wide arm of the rocker with his hand for emphasis. Sometimes his feet as though moved by an uncontrollable urge burst forth with energy tapping out a brief but lively but dance routine when the urge for motion had apparently been satisfied.

His feet got still for a while and occasional car often passed and Paula threw up his hand in a friendly way. Who was that Paul I would ask all that was so and so he responded he knew more people and more people knew him than I've even met saying the person who had just passed reminded him of the story and off he went with another tale infrequently someone whom he didn't know passed to my query about who it was. Paul usually responded. I don't know him.

He must be from off somewhere else, dropped out of school in fourth grade we were working on short division. He explained to me one day and the teacher said that tomorrow we would start on long division. I took one look at those problems and never went back. In spite of his limited formal education. Paul was an intelligent man. He read a lot and had a vocabulary that surprised me as a college student on the end table beside his chair, which set behind the front door of his house was always a magazine or two. The Knoxville Journal, perhaps a copy of the watchdog grocer politician Kuhn Hunter cares Walkers political scandal sheet and a big warned Bible. Although Paul probably never read Mark Twain's instructions on how to tell a good story effectively.

He was an expert at doing exactly what point advised Mark Twain, made a big deal out of insignificant minor details in his stories. For example, during a story he would worry over what day of the week.

The event about which he was telling actually happened. What the weather had been that day. What year it was, or whether the event had happened, and Clinton or in Kingsport or on Chestnut Ridge or beside Bull Run Creek, Pequot, often diverged innumerable times during the story, burying stories within stories, but finally finding his way back to complete the original story just when listeners were beginning to think he had lost his way entirely. Yet he somehow always lift his listeners wanting to hear more or he would use the just finished story as a springboard into the next story.

Invariably, a train would come through during one of pause stories.

He stopped his story in midsentence and rocks, silently amid the rumble of the diesel locomotives and the click lack of iron wheels on Shawnee rails counting the freight cars as they went by when the caboose had passed from view down the track. He picked up right where he had left off.

Without missing so much as a word sometimes nanny was sitting with us, she too sometimes entered into pause storytelling usually to argue with him over one of the many insignificant details of the story, sometimes discerning the story that Paul was about to tell Justus he began it declared Lord Fred you know better than to tell that because he knew so many people. Paul had a lot of visitors, especially on Sunday afternoons. I suspect that many of those visitors came not so much to talk to Paul as to listen to him tell stories. I think that he was totally unaware of his own storytelling prowess.

He was just being himself. Perhaps that is what the very quality that makes Appalachian storytellers unique plot Paul. They just do what comes natural. Storytelling is an important way in which my generation, and countless ones before it learned of its heritage and it is a part of our heritage that must be preserved and foster a skill that must be passed on to our children enter their children for generations to come in a great job in the production by Monty Montgomery and a special thanks to Dennis Peterson. Check out Dennis's website Dennis L. Peterson.com Frederick Newman Summers a.k.a. half well driller, house painter, shoe salesman, thing, or of songs and teller of stories.

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Elizabeth Elliot has been described as one of the most influential Christian women of the 20th century. Let's get right into the story. Here's breaking through gates of splendor is a 1957 best-selling book written by Elizabeth Elliot upon release. The book was so popular that it competed with John F. Kennedy's profiles encourage in terms of sales through gates of splendor, tells the story of operation Alka an attempt by five American missionaries, Jim Elliott, the authors husband, Pete Fleming, Ed McCauley pilot Nate St. and Roger you Darian, a participant at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II to reach the Alka tribe of eastern Ecuador. All five men were killed by the tribe in 1967 documentary film also titled through gates of splendor was narrated by Elizabeth Elliott herself. Thanks to the folks at vision video. We are about to hear the story, here's Elizabeth Elliott, the Republic of Ecuador 3000 air miles due south of New York City is one of my friendly South American neighbor down the capital city 9000 and this is where the story began one time or another, all of us jungle missionaries stayed with Nate and mind St. and their rustic and thoroughly functional house. Marge managed to find time to take care of her three children and supplied jungle missionaries with everything from fresh beef and prudes to screens and nails. Whenever Nate took office supplies. It was my body start way and even help Nate load into the plane. She kept his ground log near his position in the air and stood by at all times with shortwave radio is worth. You need to clean even beg for rides. Even some of the well-known tribe of drinkers called ghettos had heard the words of the Lord Jesus arrived in others, and some had come to believe that it is sort of on the wings which would release a parachute supplies Jim and I were just married the opening eustachian five months. Nate got surprised with my parish finally passed needs testing excited gave us hopes of opening more stations getting around to even by neighboring tribes. One day when no decided to make another search. Everyone knew they were there somewhere. Jungle Houck's had killed a teacher. Indian near end station only a few months before I talked and prayed a lot very remote possibility.

Until that day in September 19 just about to turn around when they saw the house. People in this Nate had advised the ground exchange even got the telephone so we can talk back and forth with the plane.

The plane circled slowly near the vortex of experts are still trying this voice decided to use contact years before Michelle plane had dropped gifts on my power to give them a regular cop and gave three steamers attached the Indians could find. The boys began to make backdrops build a platform so they could get near the plane. You can imagine the excitement when one day be sent back roasted monkey in the bucket got Heather's column life gifts and returned offerings of their own men searched constantly for some clearing where the plane might land and carry out their mission. Meeting face-to-face men prayed strip contributed something to their meager store of knowledge and habits attitude of these primitive people believed God's time had come for them to go and explore the court I River and discovered a patch of beach in which he could call it, back in Xiamen or Marge had regular contact with taking down the messages code buys because he wanted the operation until the first successful contact also filing out because they believed they were in the area probably want to marry stuck in the ground and identify the those who had dropped gifts from the air. Jim had prefabricated treehouse's electric signs worked all day getting a defensible position in case assignment Jim and the fellows were on.

I was at home in Shandy listening every chance I got the radio message is. Marge was indispensable whenever Nate was away every hour to you how much gas you have on board men outside look at the sky. They know just what kind of weather you can expect landing without radio flying program Friday, January 6, 1956, after three days waiting on the beach. Three outcomes appear was called the young man, George course, neither party understood the other. Except for a few words. Jim had learned from time George seemed completely insect repellent signs for writing your younger girl probably nicknamed Delilah was fascinated with the texture of the plane, rubbing her body against the fabric and imitating their hands plane and late afternoon men waited for them to return on Sunday.

Radio looks like to be here for the afternoon service prayed for us this day will contact you at 434 30. There was only silence. And when we come back we continue with this remarkable story here listening to Elizabeth Elliott herself. We love that we can find material pulled from archives and hear directly from voices that are from the past Elizabeth Elliott story continues here on our American stories.

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There was only silence.

That is until January 30, 1956 issue of life magazine hit the newsstands magazine cost $0.20 life magazine circulated to eat and 1/2 million American homes every week, but on page 10 of this issue. There is a stark black-and-white photo of five young women sitting around the kitchen table takes up almost the entire width of the oversized two-page spread. There are half eaten sandwiches and the plates in front of them and toddlers are wiggling in their laps and on the shoulders there listening to a man with his back to the camera. The man is telling them about the search party that found the dead bodies of their five husbands.

The Alka had speared them all of them to death. The man is just told them that they are now widows. The headline reads, go ye and preach the gospel five do and die within days. The story of their sacrifice and circulate around the world. People were amazed. In an era of peace and prosperity that Christians were still willing to pursue something bigger than money or the American dream. The story of sacrifice and surrender for the sake of reaching a remote tribe with the gospel is compelling even to those who questioned or mock the faith of the missionaries and they weren't done, most notably Elizabeth Elliott and Nate seen sister, Rachel, St. here again is Elizabeth Elliott I went back to Shandy and when Jim and I had lived and continued to work with a key choice.

People all over the world began to pray for the alkyds I prayed to, but it seemed a faithless prayer. At times I ask God to open a door somehow but I had no idea what to suggest. I asked him to send somebody in there somebody could tell them five men had wanted to tell them that the God who made them actually cared about them and that he was worth trusting. I told the Lord. I was willing to go if he wanted me to, but that seemed absurd to five men had been killed. Who would ever succeed. I knew that God could do if he wanted to and that was the reason for prayer. Prayer is not a vein thing in November 1958 to alkyl women came out of their tribe right into McEachron Village. I met them and they came back to Skandia to live with me and I am a girl who had given Jim some help on the language had been with Rachel St. Nate sister for several years now, and Rachel had some valuable language date in which he shared with me. I use this as a basis and began to study cleantech on man, the two who were with me one day when the three got together and I am a Taca man, they said were going home. So they went and Rachel and I waited for them when they returned they invited the three of us, including my little girl Valerie to go and live there. We had prayed for this. Others were praying for it to. We knew that this was God's doing three days by foot over jungle trails and streams by canoe down the court that I rivers and then by foot again to the here came to face alkyds first when we saw was humans younger sister. One would think the five men on the beach two days before they die.

I had to keep reminding myself that the these very people for the ones who had killed the man they recalled one of the most savage tribes in the world. Savage human beings played they showed no hostility to us and yet I learned they had their own strict ideas about right and wrong, even if they were different from ours. They believed it was wrong to kill people except under certain conditions.

Some of them said they thought the five-member cited. Of course they were coming thing to do noble and right thing to do was to kill now Taca man, Hyundai Yuma had succeeded in convincing them that there were outsiders who were quite all right.

But these foreigners would come and live in and tell them stories about a man named Jesus he was a good patient listen to the stories and learn to talk to Jesus to pray. So just as man, had promised me for the people said yes, we won't need to kill any and so we decided that the best we could do was simply to live as much like could share with me and the things they were kind to Valerie and me, and gave Rachel a place to sleep in one of their shelters turned over whole house they called it a house to Valerie and me began to leak. None of the houses was any more than there were no walls no floors no doors no privacy problem of communication is a constant one.

I can put together more than a sentence or two of those were very short ones. Rachel and I never ceased trying to analyze and classify the language trying to reproduce it verbally. Proper intonation stations and all the things which make a foreign language, especially in unwritten language. Just try pronouncing it doubly tongue in front of your mouth. They do it in a word like in both the valves or nasal lies besides the trouble she did better with the three-year-old memory and mimicking ability than I did with all my language files tape recorder and systems in the money she showed in picture books and taught them how to hold a crown and draw this study will attempt to understand, to be understood as really counted about three explained that one day seven was God's day day she was going to talk about him.

Everyone was told to come and sit down.

Client told them simple stories from the Old Testament stories of Jesus from the new. I am told them that Jesus says we must not kill right away some of the men stop making spheres. There were occasions when I need despair while paying careful explanation to us about what for their own relatives. They were the same one killed Jim and me. They had their God had his allowing it to happen in five men had asked him to guide trusted him protection Sunday for the morning. Him in mind, we rest on. She and I go not forth alone against the flow of strong safe night keeping tender. We rest on succeeded in converting not even speaking of the name of Jesus never unions could not imagine the real reason I simply took them as a threat to their own succeeded and set out to do God taken literally the way (abide great job touching the snow that's great for catching that piece and you're listening to Elizabeth Elliott and what a faith story. Indeed, in the end.

So much of a faith walk. If you've had one taking one or thinking about taking one past due merely with obedience and doing what God commands you to do and sometimes those are hard things.

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