About Lyn...

I was born in 1944 in the north eastern Victorian town of Mansfield. A pretty picturesque town, that nestles on a Plateau with hills and mountains all around it. I am the eldest of three girls each of us being five years apart, my parents were middle class modest hard working people, there was always plenty of food on the table and a dry, clean place to sleep and my mum bless her heart always had us beautifully dressed as she made most of our clothes.

Whatever Dad was doing I would help him out on the farms that we had, we mainly had sheep on a bush property that we had in the early 50’s. I’d follow the sheep back along the tracks which would eventually lead to the sheep yards, of course at that time we always had horses which were an important part of life at that time and a most important part of my life. Later on dad sold the bush property and bought a farm that was all flat, what a difference! Going from a brand new house to an old dump, that took a lot of grace on my mum’s part. No power, no gas, only kero lights and no hot water, but we managed. At this time I was 12 years old and very involved with pony clubs going on trail rides and riding in horse shows, and then I started to get interested boys at the age of 15.

I was friendly with a girl who’s parents owned a green grocers shop and she rang me one night and said that there were some young blokes she knew from Melbourne. She asked if I wanted to meet them and go to the pictures with one of them. This is where I met my future husband and after 2 years of engagement we were married, we had four children by the time I was 24 and had moved to Terang in the western districts. My husband Lee was a herd tester which means he tested the butter content of each cows milk sample, he would take the samples to the butter factory and put hypochlorite in the samples and then they would be placed into little bottles with long necks for further testing after being put into a centrifuge for a certain period of time, the butter fat content for each cow told the farmer if to keep the cow or sell it.

We were on that job for a while and then took an opportunity to go onto a dairy farm; eventually we contracted a disease called Brucellosis, which is a lot like chronic fatigue. We were advised to move away to Melbourne away from the cows, a totally new life-style which was hard on the children and us as well, although we both had gotten jobs lee working at General Motors and I was working at International. Eventually we got itchy feet to move again and acquired a 30-foot bus, which we did up and lived in for 4 years, we moved to Mildura, and worked there for 2 years and decided then to move to Queensland.

What a day that was! The skies seemed bluer and everything seemed to grow bigger like cockroaches and stick insects. That was July of 1978. We had 2 boys and 2 girls and the girls met a lady in the caravan park we lived who used to take craft for the kids up at a church in Birkdale, it wasn’t long before Sharon and Marlene gave their hearts to Jesus as young Teenagers. Sharon kept inviting me to go to church with her and I decided to go one day just to shut her up and I also received Jesus into my life.

Thanks to sound teaching I am a stable Christian today, unfortunately our marriage finished in 1996 and it was a hard time, but my ex husband and I are still friends and I still pray for his salvation. I am now the grandmother of three boys and 3 girls. Three out of four of my children are walking with the Lord today and after 40 years away I have returned to my hometown of Mansfield. I have found many good friends both new and old but this time I am the kings’ kid which is so much better. There has been many hard times as well as joyous times, but the Christian walk is the only way I want to live, being a servant to others and showing the Love of God by example

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