Bill Aho

Yankee Circuit Rider

Chaplain

Trade: Stumpin'  (preaching from any available place to every open ear)

Advancement Level: Wilderness

Outpost/Church: #404   Plain Community Church.

Year Joined: 1989

Significance of Name: The handle "Hanky Yankee" was stuck on me at call-out at Koinoneia in 89.  While sitting on a log in my class B  before the council fire, I noticed pitch on the log.  To protect my uniform, I pulled out my hanky and laid it in protective position between my rump and the pitch.  I was one step too  late.  Pitch on my uni stuck  the hanky to my back pocket. When I proudly walked forward,  my "hanky flag" waved  proudly to the crowd and my sponsor  Mike Stockton.

The title "Hanky" is a corruption of the name Yangtze, an alternate name for that major Chinese river.  The Chinese name  for the Yangtze River is Chang Jiang, the name  I adopted while serving in China from 1991 to 2006.   Thus:  Hanky Yankee.

Yankee Circuit Rider is a humble attempt to mule my ministry to that noble train of dedicated  backwoods preachers who helped evangelize and civilize the frontier of the trapper era.