May 8, 2011
Journal
Today was a wonderful day of activities, but only 32 miles of bike riding. We had a wonderful evening of dinner and conversation with Pastors Jack and Linda McHenry. In the morning we woke up, had a casual calm breakfast together and then we went to church by 9 AM. Wow, is that different than my life on Sunday mornings at HSLC. I found out that I had been saying the name wrong for the church. It is not Christ Lutheran Church, rather Christ’s Lutheran Church. Very cool! They prepared a wonderful spread of breakfast snacks; feed them and they will come. And come they did. We had about 25 people attend our presentation at the adult Sunday School class. After the class Martina and I went to worship and we were allowed to give a temple talk prior to worship starting. The people of Christ’s Lutheran Church were very appreciative of what we are doing for the Village of Hope. VOH has a special place in their heart because their pastor, after retiring, became the director at the Village of Hope for four years. The people of Christ’s Lutheran Church support many of the VOH children and have visited on a mission trip. Something that really impressed me that they do at CLC is the pastors memorize the Gospel reading for that Sunday and present it without any notes. Very effective and meaningful.
After worship ended Martina and I greeted people from the congregation and then we went back to the McHenry home to change and start riding again. I only had time to ride for three hours today, riding in the direction of Wilkesboro, NC where we will be tomorrow evening.
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