Three Passages:

Three Passages:

Which Prompted My Father

Rev. Edgar Shirley Welty, Sr.

to Found

The Panamerican Institute

In

T. J. Baja California Mexico

By

Rev. Edgar Shirley Welty, Jr

            The prayer we used at meals in the Welty family was:

We give thanks for the plenty that is ours

And pray for those less fortunate than ourselves

            When Dad encounter Mexican children at our church in Alpine California, he saw those “Less fortunate than: our family.

          Dad also like the saying:

It is better to teach a man to fish

Than to give him a fish.

            Dad was committed to giving education rather than aid.

            Faced with long odds, Dad would say:

It is better to light one candle

Than to curse the darkness a thousand times

            Twenty-five graduates each year from PAI’s “Small School” have been lights in the darkness.