herb brokering

1990 Shaliach members top to bottom:

Mrs. Jan Marxhausen (Missouri)

Kenyon Hathaway (Minnesota)

Ase Lill Frigstad (Norway)

Eddie Aliaga (California)

Reiko Shimizu (Osaka, Japan)

Tim Illick (Maryland)

Nino Patino (Bolivia, South America)

Mr. Karl Marxhausen (Nebraska)

Nine month tour map, below.

My wife Jan and I met with Herb Brokering (ABOVE) in Minneapolis, when our music team sang there in 1990.

He was a friend of my father, Reinhold Marxhausen. Both men were into the NEW and the FRESH of God when it came to Lutheran worship. He was on the faculty at Holden Village .(http://www.hymnary.org/person/Brokering_HF?tab=tunes) and has several poetry recordings in their audio collection (http://audio.holdenvillage.org/node/679).



I found this 10 minute video on Youtube of him reading poetry.

This week I began reading his collection of poems, from a book my father once owned. It is amazing how something penned 46 years ago can speak to me right now, in Carrollton, Missouri. Here is that poem from "Lord, If --" book, 1977, Concordia Publishing House. After which, our my own impressions.

Lord,
if
by Moses You put Your hand on waters
to part them,
and if You lower Your voice into the deep of oceans,
raise and call those drowned,
then
You can get through to me
with Your hand and voice
and power.                         
(herb brokering)

In the privacy of my mind,
this same Voice, that moved Moses to lead others,
intrudes with fresh phrases of His arrival 
from this handful of young believers.
Overwhelming my senses,
clenched eye muscles squeeze hot tears,
seismic interruption,
here and
here,
yes, you are at work. Yes,
ripping into my awareness.
breathless.
(karl marxhausen)

holden village memories

Since I was part of the Super 8 Film generation, this 20 minute film by James Nagel captures my earliest memories of Holden Village, ABOVE (courtesy James Nagel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjvZxtdvesI&feature=share&list=FL8SgbA1VxwAKIskpu5LWBEwm, accessed Nov 23, 2013)

I think my brother Paul, Dorris and Reinhold, and I visited Holden twice when I was under their roof. Dad was probably did a presentation while we were there. All I remember was the dusty trails, hiking the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, the two hour boat ride up on Lake Chelan, volleyball after supper, the rock museum, hot hot saunas, and cooling off in a cement tub of frigid mountain water, how hot the earpieces of my glasses were, the evening Jacuzzi pools, the sing-a-long at the family style meals, new words to Edelweiss and other show tunes.

Started in 1962, the US government sold the Howe Sound Company mining estate to Wes Prieb and the Lutheran church for one dollar, so the story goes.(http://www.ask.com/wiki/Holden_Village,_Washington?o=2800&qsrc=999&ad=doubleDown&an=apn&ap=ask.com, accessed Nov 22, 2013)

In the summer of 1976, a sophomore at the University of Nebraska, I rode a bus from Seward, Nebraska to Chelan, Washington by myself. I worked two months as a volunteer cook, doing food preparation, given room and board. I met Scott Burlington. We both liked piano blues. Also met Verlon Brown, a poet then, an actor now. http://verlonbrown.com/VerlonBrown/Bio.html, accessed Nov 23, 2013.

On my 21th birthday, I stepped off the boat in Chelan, penniless, old enough to be at a bar, but looked too young to be legal. Stayed at a motel, lived off a bag of carrots, and got on a return bus ride the next morning.

More on the Village here, http://www.holdenvillage.org/
More contemporary video by Will Chiles, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt0ubZM7N7U, accessed 23, 2013) BELOW



Another video here http://youtu.be/Q5iRc8jWilE by Captain Clark with more details.
We never visited in the winter time, EVER, but Esme did, http://youtu.be/pMIpFuEERC8.
That is just too much snow.