Tuesday April 1, 2008

 

 

The Weekend

Saturday

 

Nobody is going to believe this!

 

We helped organize a large TFC banquet on Saturday night – 532 people – and I forgot my camera.

Despite the forgotten camera, we had a fabulous evening.  The highlight was hearing the testimony of a driver whose life was changed because there was a TFC chapel and chaplain at a truck stop when he was searching for truth.

This year, instead of a concert, we invited Ryan and Friends, who brought an evening of laughter to the audience.  Ryan is a skilled, local, ventriloquist who tells Bible stories and clean jokes with his “dummy” friends.

 

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Sunday

 

Happy 9th Birthday to our granddaughter, Jana.

You’re our favorite Jana in the whole world.

 

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I prepared lunch for our Advisory/Prayer Council.  Following the meal, we spent a few hours sharing TFC goals and prayer concerns.

 

 

Shorty Clymer opened our meeting with a challenging devotional time.  He began by reading Bible verses that reminded him of Transport For Christ and our purpose of leading truck drivers as well as the trucking community to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith.

 

 

We are blessed to have these couples as part of our support team.  A few were missing this time due to illness or a schedule conflict.

 

 

We invited Bunny O’Hare, TFC Director of Chaplains, to share what is happening out on the field, future goals, and answer questions.

 

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Following that meeting, we went to friends for supper.

 

Eva and Ray (foreground – left and right) hosted this meal so we could spend an evening with Merle and Rita Nisly (to the right of Ray), who were in the area for the Living Hope Ministries banquet we attended on Friday evening. 

 

 

Cerwin and I, Gary and Orpha, and Ray and Eva became friends with Merle and Rita when we took teams of young people to Pikigikum (an outpost of Red Lake) to teach summer Bible School in the mid and late ’80s.  Merle served as our coordinator and pilot the first few years we spent a week on the reserve.

 

 

I couldn’t leave Ray and Eva’s house without taking a picture of the pretty roses on the dining room table.