This Is How Our Day Started
Make-A-Wish Convoy – Sunday, May 13
7:15 a.m.
The view in front of me as I sit in the cab of TFC’s International Chapel #2 waiting to leave for the Make-A-Wish Convoy at Burle Industries near Lancaster.
7:28 a.m.
For the locals, we were at the base of Chickies Hill on RT 441 (heading south) when the “check engine” light flickered on – then off.
A few seconds later the lights and buzzers were in full speed and the engine began to slow down.
Cerwin said, “I need to get off the road.” We slowly made it to the parking area on the side of the road when the computer shut the truck off.
Cerwin lifted the hood, and noticed that a water hose had broken. It was on the bottom of the hose – about the center of the photo – beyond where the camera could capture it.
We were grateful that Good Transport (about a half a mile away – on top of the hill) has twenty-four-hour road service. Cerwin has their number in his cell phone, because they work on the chapel tractors now and then.
The repairman lived a distance away, then had to get the supplies we needed, so we had about an hour wait. During that time I walked toward the path that leads to Chickies Rock – a favorite hiking spot in our area.
We called our friend Marv Sauder – who was already at Burle Industries – and asked him to alert the truck parkers that the chapel will be late. We also called Chaplain Jake Wise, because he was supposed to be having the first devotional service at 10:00 a.m.
8:33 a.m.
We were glad to see the repairman.
If things had gone as planned, we would have been parked and set up by this time. 
We are glad to believe in a God who has everything under control.
You cannot imagine how grateful we were to God for allowing us to get to this pull off area.
Having to stop on Chickies Hill would not have been so comfortable, plus we would have been a big hinderance to southbound traffic.
His truck was well-equipped to take care of the truck’s needs.
9:00 a.m. (one-and-a-half hours later)
We are on our way again, going down the other side of the hill, looking toward the Susquehanna River.
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More tomorrow night
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