We are now at the Lancaster Baptist Church for its
Missions Conference. Peter and Teresa
graduated from the college in recent years (see blog posts of May 2012 and May
2010). We set up the display and went to
an opening meeting with the other 21 missionaries about how things were to go
in through Tuesday. We were given a
paper bag filled with recent books by Pastor Chappell and info about the
Conference. Then we were served dinner.
At 7:00 pm the service started. This night Pastor interviewed each missionary
family for about three-five minutes each.
We were the last one at 22. While
we waited to go out front (behind the platform) we could watch the monitors. Service was over about 9:00 pm and many folks
then came by the missionary tables set up around the auditorium. Several people introduced themselves and said
they knew Teresa, she was such a blessing, she was a roommate or dorm mate,
what is she doing? And such like comments.
It was good to hear she has a good testimony and that she is missed here. There were also several students we knew as
children. The first two were brother and
sister and said they were missionaries in Japan in the 1990s. I did not recognize them, so asked for a
clue. Then a second one, then a third
and still could not place them. They are
the Burcham siblings and were babies when they were here. He is now about 6’ tall and she about his
shoulder height. Of course, I didn’t
recognize them! It was good to see them,
though.
We are staying with a couple that are avid collectors of
Roy Rogers memorabilia and purchased some items at an estate auction after Dale
Evans died about 11 years ago. The house
is practically a museum in itself.
Rather interesting and talk about videos and DVDs! All things Roy and westerns and the old TV
programs are in their collection: Columbo, Roy’s TV show, Cheyenne, Bonanza,
Ronald Reagan speeches and movies. They
have a huge Boxer dog, about 110 pounds and named Fred. He has such sad eyes and is always trying to
be a lap dog, but just the gentlest thing.
