Our Life Together Vol. 3 Nr. 40, October 14, 1975 Part 2

Ken begins to describe the irony as on one hand he receives the Humanitarian of the Year award -- given by the City Council -- the same City Council that would later present him with a "city nuisance" award -- for the same actions! What a crazy world!
I think that most of us resonated with Ken's thoughts that "we must be doing something right." There are many instances in the New Testament and the words of Jesus that we would face persecution in this world. Having some understanding of this was a lot of comfort to us. Many of us were used to being looked up to. Now we were getting used to being looked down on. Our principle enemies were non-religious who were frightened of us (hippy communes in our city), cult watchers who equated us with such groups as "The Children of God" and "normal" churches, even those of our own denomination. We were actually picketed by one of our churches in this area. Nasty times. I worked with Bud Miller as guest master (the person(s) who placed new people in the community) and another irony is the number of times that pastors who disapproved of us, called us when they had a person that they couldn't handle. Interesting.

This is an actual report of the banquet honoring Ken and Mona. I assume that it was written by Larry Clark. I think that the involvement by both Ken and Mona in civic life is eye opening. We were so maligned as being some kind of counter cultural group! Certainly we were, but we weren't disengaged with the cultural norms either.

I have mentioned before that the Church of The Redeemer in Houston TX was like a mentor church to us. Here Ken is going to speak to them. Then he and Dale Hunter go to Bogota, Columbia to minister. Once again, the world-wide ministry that Ken had.
I really don't know anything about where this little piece came from.
Larry's last paragraph says it all: "We have passed the point where we can be either too elated by man's recognition, nor too cast down by man's disapproval."