In the spring of 1975, Floyd and Sally, with Misha and newborn-son Matthew, moved out into the Dutch countryside to establish the Heidebeek Training Centre in a former leprasorium. Collectively called The Ark, these boats would serve as an outreach center among hippies, drug addicts and seekers for over twenty years. Youth With A Mission, with whom the McClungs had earlier worked, had offered for them to take over the two houseboats moored behind Amsterdam’s Central Station which my wife-to-be Romkje had bought that year to accommodate summer outreach participants. Now they wanted to come to the start of the trail to reach out to young travellers before they would head eastwards. They had spent several years among world travellers on the drug trail in Afghanistan, opening friendship evangelism centres called Dilaram Houses also in India and Nepal. Author, speaker and urban missions pioneer Floyd McClung Jr passed away in Cape Town early Saturday morning, May 29th, after battling an illness that had left him incapacitated and unable to speak for over five years.įloyd and his wife Sally arrived in Amsterdam late in 1973 with their baby daughter Misha after a long overland trip in an old hippy bus.
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