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"Spiritual Parents"

	1. Johs.Laursen. After my mother died my father was quite helpless being alone with a seven year old boy and our congregation overseer (presiding overser) , Johs. Laursen, opened up his home to me. He has a daughter almost of my age, and his wife willingly spent time looking after two kids instead of one every afternoon. In the right side of the picture you see him dressed up for service. For many years he was in the circuit work and I enjoyed working with him whenever he came to visit our congregation. He is still pioneering and not many calls are able to stop him from preaching, and this is probably why he used to run the pioneer-school. I was his assistent at the Kingdom Ministry School one time.
	2. Kama Stege. Although my father married a second time I found support from others all through my childhood and youth. Fulltime servants, like sister Tove Thusgaard (50 years in the fulltime-service), saw a future pioneer in me already when I was 15 and started an English study with me at that time. However sister Stege in this picture also took good care of me - especially when I first started out as a pioneer. I had played with her three sons all of my childhood and seeing an eighteen-year old boy start out all alone in the fulltime service appealed to her considerance for appointments. Now she herself has served as a pioneer for many years. Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm).
	3. Axel and Ole Brix-Hansen. Back in 1960 both of my stepbrothers were in the fulltime service. One of them was a specialpioneer in Iceland when I was young, and their example also gave me appriciation of the truth. Ole is serving as an elder in the Fuglebjerg Congregation, and my wife and I enjoy going on vacations with them, like this one to Paris because Ole also like oysters like I do. Axel who had many years in the fulltime service died recently, and he was a faithful servant of Jehovah until the day he died. Axels son, Jacob Brix-Hansen, has served at Bethel in Brooklyn ,and my sister-in-law Eppi is serving as a pioneer in Georgia.
	4. Harry Johnson Back in the early sixtees when I worked at the Danish branch as a painter brother Harry Johnson gave encouraging instructions with his mild and humorous way of speaking. He was sent to Denmark as a missionary with his wife and worked in the machineshop because we still printed the magazines back then. I had the opportunity to visit him in 2000 and he still serves faithfully with his wife, Karin, in Brooklyn Bethel, NY.