Spring Hill Avenue

Mom has written on the back of this picture, "Beautiful Spring Hill Ave. Methodist Church, Mobile." This is the third picture in the booklet of ten.

In the 1990's, I met a young man in youth ministry who had grown up in the Spring Hill Avenue United Methodist Church. I mentioned that he was too young to know my dad but that my dad had served that church. He asked Dad's name, repeated it a few times, and then lit up his eyes. "Yes! My dad was there when your father was at the church. He talks about your father a lot. To this day, he still says that your father was the most caring minister, the most pastoral minister, that our church ever had." He went on for a bit about how his dad often talked about my father.

And I was much impressed that some forty years after the fact, a family still remembered Dad's time there in such glowing terms.