Amon

by Clay Mellsen

Overview

Amon is an Urdu word from Pakistan that means 'Peace'. Dan and Laura had served twenty five years in the wild part of Pakistan known as the North West Frontier Province in a hospital run by various mission organizations. Peace was not a common occurrence in the area. The hospital staff tended to as many gunshot and bomb wounds as it did snake bite and malaria cases. The arrival of the Taliban had only intensified the already normally intense working and living situation in Tank, the backwards town where the hospital was located. Dan and Laura had survived and been stretched in their faith beyond what they thought was possible, but now they felt the Lord was calling them back to their home country. They were worn out and needed a place to settle where they could enjoy their grown children and young grandchildren. They chose a small town called Bashaw in central Alberta close to where they had both grown up, and through a miracle found the perfect place to settle down. Unfortunately there was a storm brewing in the peacefully looking town. A storm that would threaten not only the peace they so longed for, but even their very lives, and the lives of many that were dear to them.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045591928
Publisher:	Clay Mellsen
Publication date:	01/07/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	434 KB

About the Author

I was raised on a farm in a small town called Standard, in central Alberta, the oldest of four children. I graduated from high school in Standard and after driving truck for a couple of years started apprenticing as a heavy duty mechanic in Drumheller Alberta. I had gone to church all my life, and knew the Lord, but being of service to Him was not on my radar screen. While working in Drumheller, I went to visit my sister who was going to bible school in Camrose Alberta. I found out she had had the entire bible school praying for me that I would seek the Lord and what He had in mind for me. I didn't have a problem with that, but my interests were in fast cars and motorcycles, not in what God might have in mind for me. That was for preachers and missionaries, not mechanics. There was no way I was going to stand on a street corner and preach from the bible. I could remember sitting in church one Sunday when I was about eighteen, listening to the sermon and decided that the two worst jobs there could ever be would be a preacher or a missionary. I learned later on, the hard way to never, ever tell the Lord, you can't do something. I met my sister Susan's best friend Brenda that day and as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one I wanted to go out with. It was not long before I found out she was planning on being a missionary and if I was to have any interest in her, I better be thinking along the same lines. She was going to get her nursing degree and go overseas. It's a long story, but the short of it is in February 1983, we took our three children, hopped on a plane and headed off to Pakistan. We came and went from Pakistan several times, spending about fifteen years total working in that country. We all loved it. The last few years were very dangerous at times because the Taliban had become strong and we worked in a hospital in the middle of their territory, I as operations manager and Brenda as the nursing superintendent. The first part of 'Amon' takes place in that hospital where we worked. None of what is in the book happened, but we experienced many things that tested our faith and abilities to the limit. We came home the last time in 2012 for family reasons and have been working in Red Deer, Three Hills, and Lacombe ever since, Brenda doing nursing duties and myself working as a mechanic. We miss Pakistan and the people there a great deal.