Seeing Lynn Raburn

Seeing my childhood friend Lynn Raburn in Winfield Saturday was so much fun. We had much to talk about.

Lynn told me what has happened to him since high school. After college at Walker College and Montevallo he ends being called into the ministry. He spends 12 years as a missionary in Africa. Now he lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, training missionaries for his Missionary Baptist denomination.

It sounds like he's had quite a life. He has been in 60 foreign countries. He speaks fluent Swahili. He married a girl named Brenda from Winfield whom I do not know. They have a son who is an army chaplain and a girl who lives in Baltimore.

We remembered, we swapped stories, we told each other things that the other did not know. Two and a half hours went by in what seemed like 2 and a half minutes.

There we were at Jack's in Winfield. Lynn's mother is in the nursing home in Guin. She is 91. Maybe I'll see Lynn again one day.