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Category: Hume Alumni

  • Hume Alumni Spotlight: Kirk and Annette Allen

    Hume Alumni Spotlight: Kirk and Annette Allen

    Annette writes: Our story starts with the Cornford family. Tom and Kim Cornford were friends from our church in Bakersfield. After they came to Hume as full-time staff, we stayed connected when possible. Tom called Kirk one day and asked if he could put together a few volunteers from our church to come up and…

  • Hume Alumni Spotlight: Mitch Rivas

    Hume Alumni Spotlight: Mitch Rivas

    Mitch writes:My Hume experience started and almost stopped during my very first year on staff. In the summer of 1984, I was hired at the last minute (Trust me, a total God thing) to come up and work on the night accomo crew. We had an awesome team led by “Griff” (Harland Griffin), and I…

  • Hume Alumni Spotlight: Ryan White

    Ryan writes:Since I left Hume in 2015 working full time, I was first an associate middle school pastor in Westlake Village, California, before making the big move out of California to Texas in 2016, where I was the video producer at First Baptist Church Arlington up until 2021. However, because of my employment at First…

  • Hume Alumni Spotlight:

    Hume Alumni Spotlight:

    Amanda Carpenter Amanda writes: “Just over 22 years ago & at the age of 19, my mom dropped me off to attend Joshua Wilderness Institute. Upon entering Spruce, the precursor to the present JWI Lodge, I was full of nerves. Mostly, I was wondering if wearing makeup was an acceptable practice. This was my 1st…