Stickle Family

Dave and I met on a blind date. Dave was a youth pastor at the local Church of God. I was a Nazarene missionary kid going to college at Mount Vernon Nazarene College. In a year and a half, we got married and the Stickle family began.

While expecting our second child, we bought a mini-farm in the country out of Mount Vernon. We kept having children, and the farm yielded goats, chickens, garden produce, herbs, flowers, and lots of weeds. The house had a hard time keeping up with the growth of our family. It did eventually triple in size and then reduce back down to two thirds.

These experiences led to more experiences as we home-birthed, home-schooled, grew our own food, made our own clothes, and tried all kinds of creative skills. The kids joined this endeavor by building their own town with scrap lumber from the main house remodeling projects. They built their three-story Mayor’s House, the Ice Cream Shop, the parsonage, the General Store, Ben’s Workshop and Log Cabin, and they remodeled a small grain bin into their Church.

Now there are only three kids left at home. Four of our children have married. We have been blessed with six grandchildren. God has been our leader and our strength all the way through. The children have followed God’s way also. Why don’t you join the Stickle family and live for God too?