| 11/2010 I will be sharing the journal, so here is my story: I left Kodai after my sophomore year and lived one year with Mom in Amherst, MA. Dad was back in India. My parents were with the same mission board as Sara Ann and Merrick, only in Maharashtra. Dad was a minister who also held degrees in agriculture and mechanical engineering. I was always extremely proud of Mom because she had a future view of missions. She did not want the women to whom she taught Bible to become dependent, but rather to be able to walk forward in faith and skills. When Mom returned to India, I finished high school at Northfield. Mom, Jean and Alice had gone there also. I chose to do this because Northfield was a familiar boarding school experience, and I did not want to return to the US alone later. One of my close friends introduced me to Chet Guiles. We married the next year. Our first 10 years were in Guilford, CT. After that we moved several times following job changes for Chet: South Carolina, PA, SC, DE and finally 3 different locations in CA. Steve was born in CT in ’72, Dave in SC in ’73. They are both married and we have 4 grands on which we dote. Although I taught before the boys were born, I took time out when they were preschool. I got back to it in PA when Dave was in Grade 1. I picked up teaching again in CA and have taught 19 years in all, mostly in special ed. One of my passions has been prayer. I have worked with a prayer movement in CA and at one point organized prayer for our county…got 176 of 178 hours a week covered with someone praying. I even wrote a prayer manual for us all to pray with some unity of mind and heart. As far as education goes I got a BS in Early Childhood, a MS in Special Ed and a MS in Theology. I opened our home for a small house church for a few years, but feel my real call is to help the Lord’s work in India, among a group of untouchables in Maharashtra that my folks worked with. We have a school for blind children and about 9 house churches. I have been back to do training, and encouragement and ministry about 2 times since that began. Hope to be able to return again. But I am retired, as is Chet. He was a mid-level exec in a manufacturing company that made high tech materials for the circuit board industry, the military, the phone industry, and even for household items such as slow cookers. He is an expert in materials and processes in his industry, and continues to keep his hand in one morning a week. His hobbies include photography and various strategy games that he plays internationally with different partners. In retirement Chet has become very active in his church, as deacon, as Bible teacher, and as Sunday school teacher. I am also teaching a Bible study to ladies in my church. I have a big dream for the work in India, but God will have to bring me to the means. In His time I believe He will. early 2000s Nancy Towle Guiles recently wrote updating her activities since 1961. Married and with two sons, Nancy has two master degrees: an MA in Special Ed and a MTh in theology. She was ordained into the ministry in 1996. Before the ministry, Nancy taught 19 years, mostly Special Ed. Nancy presently is working on 3 major business efforts and 1 additional business effort to raise funds for projects in India. Like most of us, she does a great deal of traveling.
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