Ken Krahn:  

Well, it has been quite a journey since quitting R H S the last week of my senior year. It took me many years before I began to make better life choices. I went to San Francisco, joined a band and had a son named Kilo. There I started selling drugs and for the next 20 years I sold and smuggled drugs. For a while I owned a small farm outside San Agustin, a little town in Colombia. I refer to those years as my time of field research for my career as a chemical dependency and family counselor. I worked most of the next 20 years for Allina Health at United, Unity and Mercy Hospitals. I left there in January 2003. My wife, who I married in 1978 and has 3 daughters.and I attended a multi cultural inter city church in Minneapolis. It was there that we experienced an unexpected call to missions. and I began studies for ordination. We went to southern Africa where we lived in Cape Town from 2003 thru 2008. We served at a center for children and families infected and affected with HIV and AIDS. I also taught in YWAM schools in Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Upon returning to the States I served for a year and a half as an associate pastor at Park Avenue United Methodist Church. I tried my hand at retirement and it wasn't a success. We live in ...Expand for more