I forgot to mention that the chapter on the Dominican Republic was attributed to Rachel Peterson's authorship so for some reason they get to write their own missionary history. The Petersons throw us into that island mix even though we never really met them and don't know very much about that. Have they forgotten that Central America wrote the book about how things ought to be done? We actually never thought very much of the Petersons or cared what they thought about us.
Their geeky twerp son Vern Peterson (MK-DR) lives or more precisely lived somewhere near here in South Florida. We heard that he married a Baptist Fundamentalist which made their relationship somewhat rocky but that is what happens when you married some girl you picked up at a laundromat. They live on their own little island of Patmos but not really Greece. Patmos is Vern's publishing company which does Spanish language books that my mother's publishing company, Editorial Vida, helps to distribute throughout Latin America.
All of this does not explain how Vern's mother got to write her own warped version of the island history which inexplicably tries to incorporate us into Caribbean history and also explains how the Turnbulls lived in Haiti for some time, how the Petersons served 20 years in Cuba and then 20 years in the Dominican Republic, and the Petersons' involvement with the Assemblies of God Bible Institute and ICI operations there.
How is it that the clueless Petersons would presume and/or attempt to write about us when they are so clearly not well informed and unable to put things in their proper perspective? Perhaps it was just Vern's overwhelming desire to be snarky, a way to pass for Baptist Fundamentalist nerd while pretending that you are not really a Pentecostal turncoat, a category in which, come to think of it, the Houston relatives also fit nicely.
So just because you are playing the Baptist game for now, that does not mean that you are on the right side of history. Time will tell.
