Christopherkit Ghrist:  

Life My wife June and I have been married to each other twice and now have been together a total of 18 1/2 years, 17 yrs. the first time in April 15th, 1977, and 1 1/2 yrs since the second time in April 15th, 2006. God has blessed us with another chance and another beautiful marriage to each other. The photo shows our three girls Elisabeth, Ruth-Ellen, and Grace. June's 11 yr. old son Paul isn't shown. I retired from the U.S.Navy as an enlisted Hospital Corpsman Medic in July 2003 after 21 years Active Duty and 11 years Active Reserve Duty making 32 years. During that time I got a B.A. in Sociology from Cal State Los Angeles and a B.S. in Business Manage-ment from Okinawa Far East Extension of Univ. of Maryland, and three semesters post grad work. I went back to RVA the summer of 2004 and attended the RVA alumni reunion. It was great, it had been about 34 years since I graduated and left RVA in July 1970. It was informational and healing and happy to be there again. I saw a few people whom I had known and I met a lot of new people. I stayed with my two brothers: Tim and his wife Toni Ghrist in Mombasa at the Lighthouse for Christ Mission and with my brother Doug and his wife Kathy Ghrist in his Nairobi house near other AIM missionaries. I stayed for the month of July and saw a lot of friends and game parks and animals and missions, and missionaries. I had a great time. While I was in Kenya, Africa I had already arranged for me and my family to attend the Christian Family camp called Forest Home in the San Bernardino mountains east of Los Angeles, CA. So since my mom paid for most of my African trip I went to Kenya, but since my former/present wife was mourning her loss of her second marria...Expand for more