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Checked back into Camp Don Peet |
Back to The Lodge Pastor Don "Topsy Turvy" Peet
Doug Coupe and I were the first two campers from Rochester (Raachesteh), Most everyone else was from Bal’more and Gilman. My first year I was in tent 6. I remember; a year on the Susquehanna when some poor kid was swinging out over the river as powerboat came around the bend. The kid didn’t know what to do and just held onto the rope; Winston Wood playing Charles Lindbergh in the theater; Walking to or from Doubleday Field for the Hall of Fame game; A treasure hunt where we found a big snake, and were too afraid of the snake that we “knocked it out” (bashed its head) and took it back to camp so we could win the hunt. My last year, 1959, I was a Jr. Counselor, Tent 3. Since Camp;
God intervened in my life and called me to Pastoral Ministry, and at 42 entered seminary. MDiv, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1988; ordained by the Reformed Church in America, 1988. Served as Pastor in churches in NY/NJ. I was installed as Pastor at New Utrecht Reformed Church, Brooklyn, NY; West Nyack Reformed Church, West Nyack, New York and Cobblestone Church, Schenectady, NY. After a painful divorce from the West Nyack Church, I served three churches, United Reformed, Clifton, NJ, Middlesex (NJ) Presbyterian and the Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns (NY), as an Specialized Intentional Interim Minister. DMin, Drew University, 1997. Professional Project: Passion and Spiritual Gifts, Keys to Revisioning the Life and Ministry at Middlesex Presbyterian Church During the Interim. (University Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan). Retired at he end of 2008. Publish my first book, Grace Robbers, in 2011, and am currently working on a study guide for Grace Robbers and a second book, A Pastor Looks at Prophecy. |