Allan Martling

The language for this book emerges from seventy plus years of involvement with the local church in metropolitan suburbs, inner cities, small and medium sized communities, mostly in the Midwest. The author served two years active duty in the Navy, taught middle school in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., and has traveled through all 50 states in the Union, eight bordering Canadian Provinces, eight European countries, Mexico and Nicaragua. Allan Martling, who lives in Lansing, MI, is married to his life companion of over forty-five years, with two remarkable married daughters who each have two children.