Tom Marchbank:
CLASS OF 1964
Oak Lawn Community High SchoolClass of 1964
Oak lawn, IL
Tom's Story
After HS i became a hippy for about three years. I got saved at 22 and becoming a missionary for the rest of my life. I have lived a simple life of faith in Italy, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Japan, Taiwan, Guatemala, Mexico, and now back here in the States. My wife and I have nine children all home schooled. The three youngest are all in University, the oldest already graduated. I did go to University and graduated with a BS in secondary education with a degree to teacher HS math, science, and chemistry. Funny, I failed chemistry at Oaklawn HS.
I was 21 and found myself standing in the playground of Simons school. I had no idea why I walked there but I had one of those life changing experiences when I got there. I remembered with crystal clarity childhood friends, smells, memories, daydreams and hopes. Now at 21 it was obvious that i was going nowhere with me life.
Then the last thing I would ever have believed possible, God spoke to me and called me to be a missionary. I had...Expand for more
no idea what that meant but I knew I didn't want to do it and even more difficult for me was to believe that God was actually talking to me one of the biggest nobodies on the planet and most unqualified to do anything "religious".
I ran the other way. But like Jonah there was no where to hide. Three years later I had quite a few thousand verses memorized has out of the states living a life of faith and getting those verses that were in my head down to my heart by learning to stand of them.
I have been back to Oaklawn a few times over the years but family and friends seem to have only gotten older but otherwise have remained basically the same.
I have a terminal illness that doctors said I wouldn't have lasted this long from, but I'm still here. If I die tomorrow there are not enough words to express how thankful I am that the Lord actually spoke to me and called me out and gave me a life so rich, blessed, and fulfilling and yet I still feel like and happy to be a that little nobody..
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