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“Rule number one for a missionary is to be flexible; rule number two is to be flexible; and rule number three is to be flexible.” Preston Monterrey, pastor of the Beckley and Valley View churches in West Virginia, shared these words during the pretrip meeting to La Ceiba, Honduras, that served as a guiding principle during the mission trip.

“I’m sure it was the Lord’s idea,” Kester Erskine says with conviction when asked how the idea of running a thrift store came to him. “We thought about having something like the Samaritan Center down in Tennessee, and it just grew along. Marie, my wife, was right beside me every bit of the way. I was just going to start it and turn it over to somebody else.”