We went to the Baldwin Cabin Library last week. It is very different from going to a library in other parts of the country. But while we were there I found a section of books on Pie Town, (a town 20 minutes west where we go to church). They were very fascinating!
At one point Pie Town was a booming town with over three hundred families. Now it has only a little over 50 people. The town was once a place filled with farmers coming from the "Dust Bowl" in Oklahoma and Texas. These farmers tried to grow pinto beans. They worked hard on their little farms from about the 1930s to the late 1950s when the strain of eking out a living was becoming impossible especially with the drout that was spreading over this part of the country turning many beautiful meadows and fields into desert plains.
But the story of Pie Town that seems to have come to a sad end is not at an end. Right now every Sabbath morning the town more than doubles in size with all the people that have come to attend the Pie Town Seventh-Day Adventist Church. They gather to hear the beautiful music performed by the young people, enjoy the fellowship of fellow believers and neighbors, and to hear the Word of God presented to any that will listen.
As we have gotten to know the people in our community we see them watching us and our little church. Our family left the work that God had given us to do in Ludington Michigan and went to do the new work that He was calling us to in Datil and the surrounding areas of New Mexico. May He continue to bless the great work that He is enabling us all to do everywhere ~
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