personal updates

Tammy (Costa) Koonce

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I'm loving life and happy to be living in Houston.  After college and half of law school I attended Bible School.  I met my husband there and received training for the mission field. After graduation I prepared for a ministry in Russia and the night before I boarded the plane, Charlie asked me to marry him.  So I went for 3 months and then returned, we married and went back to Russia together.  We spent the next 3 1/2 years training pastors in a school we pioneered.  I loved every minute.  We returned to the states for Charlie to take an associate position at our home church in Plano Texas.  After 5 1/2 years we moved to Ontario Canada (just above Lake Huron) and started a church.   We have now turned it over to a Canadian Pastor and live in Houston.

Charlie and I both teach in the public schools.  He teaches 8th grade math and I, World Geography for 9th graders.  I can't believe I get paid to have fun all day long.  My school is in Houston so we have a really rough group, but I get to preach Jesus as much as I like (the administration loves me!). 

While in Plano we were blessed with a wonderful child, Natalie.  She was born 13 weeks early and weighed only 1 pound 6 ounces.  She is a million dollar baby, praise God for insurance, and she is perfectly normal today; even gets very good grades in school.

I can't wait to see what the next 30 years will bring.