Conference Minister Rev. Gordon Rankin 9.2.26 Twenty-four years ago, I spent a week of my summer serving as a chaplain at Silver Lake Conference Center. Usually, I preferred to serve as a dean. However, that particular summer, my wife and I were at the point in our adoption process that I needed the flexibility in schedule that being a chaplain allowed. During my week as a chaplain, I became particularly well acquainted with a young girl named Jess. Jess was in one of our..
