COVER • CONTENTS • ORDER Personal UPDATE | JANUARY 2022
COVER ARTICLE Ron Matsen President of Koinonia House
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ESCAPE FROM PARADISE
ecember 2009 brought the fulfillment of a dream held by both Chuck and Nancy Missler. They had just purchased The River Lodge in Reporoa, New Zealand. It was the conclusion of a ten-year journey to find their new home in paradise. Nancy called it their “L’Abri of the South Pacific.” The term L’Abri, which means “take shelter” in French, was the name of a community founded in Switzerland in 1955 by Francis and Edith Schaeffer.1 The Misslers hoped to create a “shelter” for their ministry away from the gathering storm clouds rising over America during the late 1990s through 2000s.
1 https://labri.org
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