Amon

Amon is an Urdu word from Pakistan that means 'Peace'. Dan and Laura had served twenty five years in the wild part of Pakistan known as the North West Frontier Province in a hospital run by various mission organizations. Peace was not a common occurrence in the area. The hospital staff tended to as many gunshot and bomb wounds as it did snake bite and malaria cases. The arrival of the Taliban had only intensified the already normally intense working and living situation in Tank, the backwards town where the hospital was located. Dan and Laura had survived and been stretched in their faith beyond what they thought was possible, but now they felt the Lord was calling them back to their home country. They were worn out and needed a place to settle where they could enjoy their grown children and young grandchildren. They chose a small town called Bashaw in central Alberta close to where they had both grown up, and through a miracle found the perfect place to settle down. Unfortunately there was a storm brewing in the peacefully looking town. A storm that would threaten not only the peace they so longed for, but even their very lives, and the lives of many that were dear to them.