Dave and I live at Teen Challenge where Dave works as a drug and alcohol counselor. The center is located at an old military facility in Western PA. Teen Challenge has been located here for over 30 years.
This place is in the middle of nowhere. The driveway is almost a mile long up a long and winding dirt road hill. You have to know it's here to even find it. It's not just a random place you would drive past on a drive through the country.
The entire time the facility has been here, occasionally in the middle of the night, someone will drive up here, honk their horn, speed around the parking lot to turn around and leave. Recently this has been going on and the director has taken action to block the top of the hill so no one can get up here. Graduates of the program can remember it happening at certain points during their stay here.
Recently, one of the counselors of the program was talking to a woman from the community. When the counselor described the program to her and the location, she recognized it as the old military facility. Then she told the counselor, "that's the place where you drive to the top of the hill, honk your horn three times, and then you can see a ghost..."
Mystery solved, or is it?
How annoying, but also how funny! I guess that's why it's good to get the history of a place you're working/ministering in. You should take advantage of it, though, and maybe post a sign with a salvation message on it or something for all the crazies that don't know it's not a military facility anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'll make that suggestion to Pastor T. :-)
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