Usually when we visit the Highlands for a break, we visit the Bena people around Interface only, we have not gone back to the Interface campus at all. This time the Bena people were telling us that they have been fixing it up because they are getting it ready to sell to the Lutheran mission so they can turn it into a teacher's college. They told us that we should go see it. So we decided to do it... we hadn't been there in 5 years!
This visit to the old interface campus where we used to work was quite hard.
This duplex used to be our home. We lived in the left side. The Interface office was in the right side. It looked like the grass was very tall and they had just burnt it down to start cleaning up the place, so it was rough to walk through, no longer a nice lawn.
The old workshop. The base of operations where we used to keep everything spic and span.
When we left in July 2012, Beth was pregnant with Jonathan. We were really looking forward to watching him grow up here.
We had no idea it would be closed down so quickly.
There were many memories for us here. It was hard to go back and see it all run down. This view is from the workshop looking out towards the Interface kitchen.
So many of our memories of this place are good. So it is great to think of all God has done in the past and remember the good times and all the lives that God changed here!
And even though this is not the way we wanted things to turn out, it was what God wanted to happen so it was the best thing, even though we don't understand it all.
So, even in all the mess that life appears to be, God still gives us small things like flowers to remind us that He works everything together for good, even when we can't see it from where we are standing.
Looking down at the Interface kitchen on the way out of the campus.
