Allan Forrer:  

Hi, After graduating KGSS I went on to UBC for a year and a half, eventually lost focus and dropped out (too much chess, too little study)! I got a job at a local sawmill and did grunt work for over 3 years, then quit that to go back to school, BCIT this time - graduated Instrumentation and Systems Technology 1978. That lead to an interesting career in Process Control engineering which I've been in ever since. Big changes came in 1983. It was the year I began studying the Bible and soon became convicted that there is a God and the Book is His message for us. Jesus has become my loving friend and constant companion through the joys and trials of life. I've learned that though the world is filled with injustice and suffering, it will not always be so. He is going to return someday for His friends and He will also settle accounts for all the evil done here. In the meantime His invitation is going out for all to come to Him and enter into a relationship with a loving and personal God. So I was baptized and became a born again Christian. The second big change around the same time was meeting Melu-Jean, a wonderful young woman, at a dance class of all places. We were married in May 1983 and...Expand for more