On A Wheel And A Prayer

We Are For Sure in Eden Prairie

We arrived home at our house in Eden Prairie on Tuesday PM at about 4:00. 

It was a different feeling as we unpacked our home of five weeks and moved back into the house at 9696 Crestwood.

A piece of camp information that is worth sharing.  The camp was active the last week-end we were there with 180+ teenage girls there for a retreat.  It was stated that more than ten(10) of these girls committed their lives to Christ that week-end.  This why we do what we do.  All the glory to God.

Our experience has been something neither of us will soon forget.  We hope to do more in the future.

Don and Jenny

Trip Home

TRIP HOME

We left the Camp on Monday morning.  Stayed along the pan-handle coast line.  Stayed at a RV camp near Carrabelle, FL.

 

Tuesday/Wednesday

We drove out to St George Island over a two (2)+ mile bridge and out to the state park.  It is stunningly beautiful. We had a really nice walk on the beach.  Mobile, Alabama was our stop point on Tuesday night where we stayed in a sort-of non-descript park.  Wednesday we started the push for home and drove through parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, back into Mississippi, Tennessee and into Arkansas

where we had our very first stay at the famed “Cracker Barrel RV Back Parking Lot” in Little Rock.  The manager there was very friendly and accommodating and even helped us put on some fresh water.

Thursday

We were in a tornado “Watch” area when we got up on Thursday in Little Rock.  Pulled in the slides and headed to, we thought, Forest City, Iowa. We had made an appointment with the folks at Winnebago to take care of some minor things that had cropped up in the past four weeks as we learned more about our house on wheels.  We drove west and out of the tornado threat with a strong direct cross wind from the South until we got to Fort Smith.  Turned North and the wind switched to directly from the West and got stronger.  We drove until we felt it was unsafe and thank God we found this park about 50 miles south ofDes Moines that has full hook-ups.

Saturday

We are still here in Osceola,  IA (Saturday AM) and not looking to move from here until tomorrow.   (The white is not sand) The wind has been rocking the coach so that, depending upon when you look at the coffee pot, you may have 4 cups of coffee or maybe 8 cups.

We are safe, warm and doing just fine.  We still plan to stop at the Winnebago and hope to be home by Tuesday.  More later. God bless. 

Friday Morning

We are doing great this morning after a real scary night.  We happened to be in the very center of where the tornado was tracking last night.  Torrential rains until 4:00 AM.

Beautiful morning 70+ and sun.  Went for a walk on the beach and got really warm. 

View out of our front window.  We give thanks to God for His protection.

Off to deliver Lucy to New Smyrna.

Don&Jenny

Thursday Night

Got up this morning and Jenny and I thought we saw snow on the ground.  It was white sand.                    

We drove to Flagler beach which is just south of St Augustine, where we had reservations at a beach front camp ground.  Absolutely beautiful at 72 degrees when we pulled in  - - bright sun shining.

It is now 10:00PM,raining like crazy sinse about 4:00 with a tornado warning for the county where we are staying.   Picture of Jenny and Lucy(Jenny's mom) in shot on the beach before the rain started. 

Same two ladies with a view from the beach toward the motor home.  Tomorrow we drive forty miles further south and drop Lucy off with Delores, her sister-in-law.  After lunch with them we are headed to the youth camp called Florida Baptist Encampment to work with 9 other SOWER couples 40 miles NW of Orlando.  Lightening, thudering and really raining hard.God bless,

Update 013107

It is Wednesday night and we are settled in at a camp, Suwannee River Camp, where we are able to connect to the internet. We are about forty miles south of the Georgia border. I will recap a bit for you . . . . Monday Woke up at 2:30 AM on Monday pretty excited about the trip. 4:45AM pulled out of the drive, hooked on the Saturn Vue and hit the road with light snow falling and a temp of 13 degrees. We drove fairly hard, hitting occasional light snow until we got through Wisconsin. Ended up at a camp in Mount Vernon, IL at 5:00PM. The motor home and the Vue where totally white with salt. You would have had no idea that the color of red was anywhere on the car. Tuesday It got down to 18 degrees that night so we had to take special measures to keep the water we took on from freezing. We did not have frozen water but we forgot to turn on the block heater so the diesel would not start. We finally got it heated up and started about 10:45 AM. We on the road by 11:00. more later

Getting Ready

"On A Wheel And A Prayer" is our mission name.

Jenny and I have been preparing for this trip for over a year. 

We began the adventure with discussions with friends and fellow believers, one being Tom Correll, our Missions Pastor at WooddaleChurch. We had intended to research what was involved in going to Guatemala on a short term missions trip.  After our discussions with Tom, we started to look into various mobile missions groups. 

We selected "SOWERS" (Servants On Wheels Ever Ready) as the group to which we would apply.  After an application process of about three (3) months, we were accepted.  We then chose a project that fit our schedule and sounded like it might work for our first project.  We were accepted and we are leaving on January 29 to work at a youth camp (Pastor's Retreat when not used as a youth camp) about 40 miles north-west of Orlando. The work description states that the services needed are Men: Repair Facilities, painting, mechanical, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, woodworking, construction on multipurpose building if money is available. Ladies: Sewing, office, artistic, painting, cleaning. We will keep you posted on the trip.