by Chris Steele

August 12, 2007

My corner today is just some personal thoughts about our trip. I thought that you would be interested in some of these details, because many of you know the folks that will cross our path in the next two weeks.

Early tomorrow, Carrie and I will be leaving for Michigan. We will be stopping off at my father’s near Ocala to pick up my brother who will be traveling with us. Our plan is make a small detour through Petersburg, Kentucky, where we will visit the Creation Museum. I wrote an article about this unique place in our bulletin some weeks ago. We hope to share some of our experiences when we return. Dorothy Mitchell and her sister, Pat Brown, plan to meet us there. We are hoping that Wayne and Diane George (former members here) will be able to join us there also.

Our initial reason for going to Michigan this summer was to attend Carrie’s nephew’s wedding. The family had asked if I would perform the ceremony. When some friends of ours at a small congregation in Davison heard that we would be in the area, they asked if I would conduct a gospel meeting for them. We will have a busy couple of weeks.

The church in Davison is the one with which Murl and Norma Wheeler have been working since they left us for the cold country. Many of the other members there are old friends of ours. Carrie and I have known some of them since we were kids. It will be good to get together and reminisce about old times.

We also plan to visit with Bill and Sarah Hainline (also former members at River Road). They live in that area, but work with another congregation in Grand Blanc. Although Sarah is still doing fairly well, Bill is in a nursing home. Christene Dengle and Sue Jay are going to meet us for lunch one day as well. I have heard rumors that some of our winter folks are going to try to make it to Davison to see us while we are there.

It is such a wonderful family that we have in the Lord. We establish so many life-long friendships that time and distance do not erase — not even eternity.