Tag: Life in the 80s

  • Life in the 80s

    Life in the 80s

    From southern Manitoba to B.C., and from Idaho to India, Bill Block had a long and varied career as a pastor.  Along the way, he and his wife Dolores, who died in 2019, raised four children. Block, who is a founding member of Hope Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, spoke with Canadian Mennonite four days after his 90th…

  • Life in the 80s

    Life in the 80s

    Model As, bucket lists and dwelling in God Fran Schiller, 87, grew up on a farm near Goshen, Indiana, the ninth of 10 children. She attended Goshen College, where she found her faith strengthened and her eyes opened to a new world beyond life on the farm.     After teaching for a few years, she…