Carol Mersch

The Incredible Reverend Stout Carol Mersch

He was ordained. He was legendary. The trail of accomplishments he left behind would make grist for an epic movie. Take a former Texas Aggie football player and WW2 officer who was a ballistic missile experimenter who became a Presbyterian missionary and college professor, put him in the wilds of Brazil, liberally add earth satellites and horseback treks among uncivilized Indians, then flavor the whole thing with two American presidents and a Bible that landed on the moon onboard an Apollo spacecraft, and you have the makings of a story any fiction writer would love to get his or her hands on. But this story isn't fiction. It's true. And by his side-every step of the way-was the heart and soul of everything he lived for. Her name was Helen. Reverend John Maxwell Stout is a name to remember.