Interview: Captain Evelyn Clark
Original Publication - JAC #53, February 2008 – March 2008
JAC: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
EC: Eating chocolate cake and drinking peppermint tea while
surrounded by my family.
JAC: What is your greatest fear?
EC: That Tim will die (or leave me!) and I will have to raise
the kids alone. I was raised by a single mother, so I know how
hard that is.
JAC: What living person do you most admire?
EC: Tim (that's why I married him!).
JAC: With which historical figure do you most identify?
EC: Mother Teresa (I'm trying to keep plugging away whether I
hear from God or not, too).
JAC: What is the trait you deplore most in others?
EC: Dishonesty, in all its forms.
JAC: What is your greatest extravagance?
EC: Spending time on the computer. Spending money on food.
JAC: What is your favourite journey?
EC: Home to Estonia.
JAC: What do you consider the most over-rated virtue?
EC: Having a clean house.
JAC: What talent would you most like to have?
EC: Playing the piano.
JAC: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would
it be?
EC: Less proud, more humble -- in the way I treat others, not
in the way I think of myself.
JAC: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
EC: Being totally, utterly, completely alone -- without God or
another human being to love and be loved by.
JAC: What is your most treasured possession?
EC: The "fuzzy blanket" that my mother gave me 25 years ago.
JAC: What is your most marked characteristic?
EC: Know-it-all, thinking I'm never wrong (and usually being
proved right!).
JAC: Who are your favourite writers?
EC: I'll stick to the area of parenting books: William &
Martha Sears, Kevin Leman, Ross Campbell, Dave & Claudia Arp.
JAC: Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
EC: Mrs. Weasley.
JAC: Who are your heroes in real life?
EC: The Ryans and others who have served cross-culturally in
the incarnational way of speaking the local language, etc.
JAC: What is your motto?
EC: "to be anything or nothing, go anywhere or stay anywhere,
for Jesus"
(Helps to Holiness, Brengle)
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