I4 Life Maps<br > First Presentation:<br > Jim Fowler*<br > Life/Faith Patterns:<br > Structures of Trust & Loyalty<br >As an introduction to this perspective I would like to sha~<br >with you three vignettes， without any particular comraen<br >upon them at this time. These stories should both give y0I<br >some clue as to part of my background and also share some<br >thing of why and how I became interested in studying faith<br >development.<br > Vignette number one: My father is a Methodist minister.<br >We lived in various towns and communities in western North<br >Carolina as I was growing up. Just after the war， when I w~<br >about five， we moved into the mountains in the far westen<br >part of that state， to a little community called Spruce Pin<br >where feldspar and mica were mined. During the war thet<br >community had been quite prosperous because of the big]<br >demand for those products in wartime production. My fathet~<br >worked not only in Spruce Pine， but also with missi0n~<br >churches way out in the mountains in places called Bandanna]~<br >and Kona. t<br > As a boy of five or six I loved to go with my father on hill<br >pastoral calls. Whether talking to merchants and lawyers in~<br >Spruce Pine， or to "Uncle Pink" Turbeyfield in the cabin back !<br >in the cove， Dad had a way of relating that seemed genuine，<br >*All na~ ar~ ~h~ auth~r g u.l~ a~he~，i~p indirated<br >