Thursday December 13, 2012

 

The Weekend

 

Saturday Visitors

 

Chaplain David and Mary Ann Roberts stopped in to bring photos for their December newsletter. They also wanted a new photo of themselves.

 

 

David is a skilled artist and always puts one of his paintings in the masthead of the newsletter. Notice the “hand” holding the chapel as it crosses a treacherous mountain road.

 

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Going Visiting After Worship on Sunday

 

Since we had an hour-and-a-half drive to our destination, we left immediately after church and stopped at a restaurant for lunch. Do you recognize Chili’s logo on the menu holder?

 

 

 

 

Cerwin’s sirloin steak meal.

 

 

My shrimp tacos and black beans and rice.

 

 

It was a rainy day, and after getting into the countryside of southern Lancaster County, we came upon a lot of Amish buggies – which probably means they had church today.

 

 

Most Amish districts in our area have worship services every other Sunday.

 

 

Open buggies usually mean there are young people in the carriage.

 

 

Walking in a farm lane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three open buggies in a row.

 

 

We had a delightful visit with Betty and Wendell who live in Maryland.

Wendell had a tough year from taking chemo for cancer – which was first discovered in one of his tonsils. If I remember correctly, that was five years ago. The cancer returned and the treatment this year was especially difficult on him.

 

 

We learned to know them in the late ’60s.

He was the trucker who first introduced our area to Transport For Christ by bringing issues of the Highway News (Highway Evangelist in those days) to our area of the country.

TFC began in Canada and had not yet spread to the eastern USA. Wendell was delivering mushrooms from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, to Ontario, Canada, when he noticed the TFC Office, stopped in, and began putting the magazines in truck stops in our area.

Keep him in your prayers. His cancer has returned, and he was having a consultation with the doctor the day after our visit to learn what kind of treatment he would be taking this time. (He knows he does not want the same chemo he had in June.)