Mathews Baptist Church at Hudgins, often called Old Baptist because of its great age, did something entirely new. On January 17 Arnie Gustafson conducted a Valentine cooking workshop following the regular MBC Men’s Saturday morning breakfast which occurs once a month. Husbands who stayed learned how to prepare a Valentine meal for their wives. Arnie is an experienced chef having learned and cooked with his grandmother and mother. He attended a culinary school in his earlier years and said, “I do all the cooking at home except my wife does the baking.” Thirty-one years ago, Arnie and his wife Nancy discovered Mathews. They had been visiting churches on the East Coast before leaving for Belize in Central America on a mission assignment. They discovered where their retirement home would be. Then, six years ago, the Gustafsons moved into their new home in the Cobbs Creek area. When not in the kitchen, Arnie can be found in his shop, Into Wood, where he creates wooden bowls and many other u...