Truck Rally
Afternoon Activities
A popular place on a hot, humid afternoon.
Our daughter-in-law Kristen and our son Jeff prepare for the beginning of the benefit auction. Theme baskets were a hit this year.
Dave White auctions a road atlas. I somehow missed getting a picture of our lead auctioneer – Joel Heisey.
The Farmer & The Farmer’s Wife
2:00 p.m. – Time for Trist’n Shout’s balloon story. What fun for the children – especially those who volunteered to help.
The Wise Man
A Chicken
Trist’n and more animals – chicken, cow, pig, goat.
The farmer’s wife decided to cook noodles, which created a huge problem – a house full of noodles.
Each time there was a problem, the Farmer visited the Wise Man. It looks like all the animals are in the house this time – creating another problem.
Our granddaughter Gloria was the cow.
Thanks Trist’nShout and mom rosederv for doing a great job of entertaining and blessing our Truck Rally children. I know you will be placed in the lineup of activites for this timeslot for future years. We have many local things we want to try: reptiles, music, comedy, etc.
Some of our children are older than others!
To close the program she kept the children’s attention by sculpting an ice cream sundae. This is the dish.
She nicely timed her part to end at 2:30 p.m. – just in time for the Children’s Auction to begin. As you can see, this was a popular item (I think Gloria is holding up a Webkinz Elephant). Auctioneer Donald Groff adapted this sale to the children, and asked them to keep their hands or bidding number in the air until they were finished bidding.
Donald has been our main auctioneer for many years, and recently retired, so asked to become an assistant at the Rally.
Our granddaughter, Jana, bidding – while her dad watches.
The train – engineered by Nevin Ebersole was busy all afternoon.
Nelson and Wendi Sauder gave out trophies for The Garden Tractor Roadeo (competition course) at 4:00 p.m. They had a busy day.
The Winners
The Wet Sponge throw is always one of the most popular games.
Mini Golf on the left and Chicken Throw on the right.
It looks like that bean bag will hit its target.
The most popular spot in West Hall was the race car simulator.
It looks like Josiah Sauder visited the Balloon and Candy Table.
Suppertime!
Pork Barbecue Meal
Chicken Barbecue Meal
Remember those four empty rows of tables from my entry a few days ago. They aren’t empty anymore!
Granddaughter Jenna with her chicken barbecue meal.
Those still waiting to get their meal, however, if this was a video, you would see that everyone was walking at a fairly good pace. Eleven hundred people are served in fifteen to eighteen minutes.
It was so much fun to meet Amy christiangirl20, although when she wanted a picture, I thought, “Oh, no. I just spent two hours in the sun (taking pictures of trucks) and got rained on for about ten minutes – this should look good.”
Then it was 6:30 p.m. – time for Good News to bring us good news in song. I was blessed!
Following their songs, awards and trophies were given. Since the Garden Tractor and Pedal Pull awards are given on site, we just take pictures and recognize these winners during the evening program.
I am not going to attempt names to any of the trophy winners.
Most of these were competition trophies.
This is the one the drivers wait for – the truck trophies!
Following the awards, TFC President Scott Weidner shared about some exciting things that are happening in the ministry.
ATA Road Team Representative Chris Serviss told us how Transport For Christ has blessed his life. He is a driver for Wal-Mart.
Karen Peck and New River presented a wonderful program of Southern Gospel Music.
The light show brought the day to a beautiful close.
It was difficult to capture the beauty of walking through the center of the thirty trucks that formed a lighted horseshoe.
God truly blessed the day.
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