Albert and his wife Pearl (who went to be with the Lord in August 2007) spent many years serving as missionaries in north India with the Evangelical Alliance Mission.  He is now retired and living in Oklahoma.

Albert and Pearl’s daughter, Rebecca and her husband, Victor Westrum, live next door to him in Oklahoma.  Their daughter, Elisabeth, is in Africa for six months teaching at an orphanage.  Her brothers, Stephan and Benjamin, are home with their parents.  They were busy were this past sumer and now are pondering what the Lord has in store for them in the coming days.

Karen, Albert’s eldest daughter, is living in Finland, but thinking about returning to India to teach in Woodstock School.  With her in Helsinki, are three of her daughters, Jessica, Katarina, and Elisa.  They are all working there.  Karen’s eldest girl, Elena, is in London working in a home, and Juda, the only son, is finishing a college course in London.

Albert and Pearl also had a Tibetan orphan girl, Tsering, become a part of their family when she was in seventh or eighth grade.  After finishing school and nurses training, she married an Indian Christian man, Tony Malik, and has two daughters.  Tanya is finishing her studies at Judson College in Elgin, Illinois.  Tina is in high school at Woodstock in Mussoorie in North India and lives with her parents.  Tony is in mission administration, and Tsering is on the staff of Woodstock school.

Kalsang, also a Tibetan orphan, came to live with Albert and Pearl at the same time as Tsering.  She also, after finishing school and nurses training, married an Indian Christian man, but tragedy came after a few years.  He was in military service and on a training exercise when a gun shell exploded and he and a fellow soldier were instantly killed.  Kalsang is working with a welfare agency and lives in Mussoorie.  She has one son, Sonam, who is studying at a university.

Albert is in reasonably good health and lives in his Oklahoma house alone. He spends quite a bit of time in Bible reading and praying and singing hymns to himself.  He also spends some time every day in email.  He enjoys the fellowship of a small, but very friendly, church he attends.