Charismatic Renewal at Duquesne
I remember first hearing about the Duquesne Weekend at Community College on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I just got back from serving in the US Navy in Vietnam. The Fall semester was about to begin and I was looking for a college to attend. I stopped into the Carriage House to see the Campus Ministry room and talked to some other potential students there.

I decided to attend Point Park College because they would accept most of my credits that I got while attending St. Andrew's Seminary 1961-63. After college I rented an apartment in the old Jones' House of the J&L Steel family that also owned the Carriage house on the campus of CCAC.

The landlady knew much about the old neighborhood often referred to it as millionaire row, because of all the Mansions on Ridge Avenue, and lower Brighten Road. She loved the area, and had a dance studio nearby. When the Highway Department wanted Route 279 to travel through there she got over ten thousand signatures to stop the project and the media began to refer the stalled project by the term "The Bridge to Nowhere!"

In 1970 I got a job in Harrisburg working for Accounting Control in the Health and Welfare Departments and would spend most of my breaks in the building's library. I would always read Psychology Today and Behavior magazine. Many of the articles of the Human Potential movement got my attention and I began planning for my return back to Pittsburgh to get a Masters Degree in Education.

I moved back home to Pittsburgh in 1973 and began studying Psychology, and Computer Programming. I also attended the St Francis Prayer meetings and there met the group that taught Life in the Spirit. We used to sing from the Songs of Praise book and one of my favorite hymns was "He Is Everything to Me."

Hear the song and read the lyrics at:
http://my.homewithgod.com/heavenlymidis/songbook/everything.html See also the Christian Midi Music link in the right column.