Salary $350

1965: Dad needed to raise support to move our family to Red Mesa, AZ. That means travel and that’s a lot easier if you aren’t hauling 4 kids around with you, so he first moved our family to live in an apartment at Intermountain Bible College in Grand Junction, CO.

By this time Dad had recruited the Dalton Carr family and the Vernon Hollett family as fellow missionaries. So at least on one of the road trips this photo was taken with these men and Jimmie Clark.

As you can see they were actually recruiting a team with a variety of workers who could bring a reservation wide sphere of influence.

The part of their display that is less legible says this: Moving Expenses $900; Housing $100 (monthly); Salary $350 (monthly); Travel 8 cents a mile.

1965: Jimmie is on the other side of my dad, David Scates, patting out the Navajo Fry Bread for a congregation of 100 people at a church in Belmont, Illinois where Wesley Paddock was the minister. Within a year, Wes was teaching at IBC and also became the photographer for Dad on his many visits to the Reservation
1965 The Team: Vernon Hollett (he served on this mission field until his death a few years back), Dalton Carr (not sure why but he was only on this team about a year, he’s holding his son), Jimmie Clark (holding David’s nephew Todd Scates, as David’s brother Harry is taking this picture), and David Scates.

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