Tuesday, October 02, 2007
A STRANGE EXPERIENCE
Today, after meeting my hostess for lunch on the Campus of Wake Forest University where she teaches, I drove out to the location of a Bible College I have heard about for years but never had visited (since I've never been in this area before). It was started in 1945 by a Caucasian man and an Afro-American man to train male and female blacks and Caucasians for ministry to the urban areas of our country.
When I found the location I noticed that there was a "FOR SALE" sign out front. On the College's sign were the words, "RELOCATING" but no indication as to when or where the relocation would occur or to where the College was relocating. I was very surprised because there was nothing about this on their web site--only that they had changed their name to Carolina Christian College. There were no parked cars except two vehicles in back of what looked like the main Administration Building--a pick up truck and a Van with the college's old name printed on the side. Behind the Administration building were two other buildings that looked like housing units for students. They seemed to be deserted.
After driving around I parked in front and went up to the front door. I was shocked when it was unlocked. I was able to go in and look around all three floors of the building--except for the third floor. When I entered the third floor sign said that was the men's dorm and all doors to that floor were locked.
But all the doors on the second and first floor were not only unlocked but most of them were wide open! I looked in each room. It was an erie feeling. I felt like the Rapture had occurred because everything was left as though people had been working. On a couple of large conference tables there were open books, notepads and open pens where someone had been studying and had just suddenly left everything. Brief cases were left open by professors' desks and everything was left spread out on what looked like an Administrative Assistant's desk in a Common Area outside the professors' offices and some of the classrooms. You could tell that people had been using the College Library because books and study materials were spread out on the library tables.
I'll never know what happened but it was an erie, unsettling experience. I picked up some literature about the College and left.
I'll always wonder about that experience.
Jim
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