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Although Betsy was
not born in Oregon, she came to Sauvie Island as a baby and was raised
their, so, in reality She and David are true Oregonians. David was born
and raised in Eugene Oregon. He was raised in the Disciple of Christ
church. His father was a preacher and professor. When Powell’s came to
forest grove, they visited several churches in the area but found some
quite unbiblical. They researched our church about a year ago and have
enjoyed attending here.
They live in a quiet
neighborhood in a beautiful restored home west of our church a few
blocks.
Betsy and David met
through a university of Oregon exchange program in Germany. David did
his graduate work at Berkeley. They have been married for 21 years but
waited eight years to have children. Their son Mackencie (Mack) is
twelve, their son Jeremy is ten, and their daughter Jessica is five
years old.
Betsy teaches our
part time at the Emmaus Christian School, the fourth through eighth
grades and a kindergarten class. At this time her main focus is raising
the children although she hopes to take an art class in the fall.
Reading mystery stories is her escape, clean up after two cats, a dog, a
rabbit, a hamster, and 2 fish her daily chores
David works for
Intel as a business manager for sales and marketing. His main job is to
be sure things run smoothly in the department. He also travels
internationally for Intel, recently to China and he has also been to
Russia.
Now, with his
children and work there is little time before hobbies, but when time
permits he is a fanatical fly fisherman and took lessons in fly tying
from Tom Anderberg.
Mark and Jeremy will
soon start in a little league and Jesse swims and plays the piano with
Pastor Carrow’s granddaughter, Ashton.
In August the family
will take a three week vacation to Germany and Denmark for a family
reunion.
This is a busy,
energetic family whose faith is very serious and very important to them.
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