Perry Methodist
Lent… 2005
Those on north side said they couldn’t see me. …I didn’t ask them why they didn’t move. …thought I’d just speak to you this evening.
Brought a friend to provide a little music….
Nice Intro… Roger Ebert
Wed morning prayer group… a young farmer always begins each Wed morning with, “Well boys, where have you seen Christ this week?” I thought I’d answer that question for you tonight….only expand it a bit.. Where have I seen Christ around the world?
Mom talked me into travel. Began ‘79 Inspiration: Dr. Charles Frank A sophomore girl, detasseled, etc..Susan Hatfield… had to see Europe. Since then, hundreds… Morgan, Cass, Pike, Sangamon Her Dad, “We don’t have the money to go with her, so you fly and we’ll pray.” When we landed in London, she just at in her seat with tears running down her cheeks. “I’m here.”
I’ve take groups overseas approximately every two years…and we have never take a trip where we didn’t encounter Christ.
Robert Benchley: IN AMERICA THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF TRAVEL: FIRST CLASS AND WITH CHILDREN.
See through fresh eyes....Went to London alone because I was tired of traveling with kids… Just wasn’t the same.
Mark Twain: I HAVE FOUND THAT THERE AIN’T NO SURER WAY TO FIND OUT WHETHER YOU LIKE PEOPLE OR HATE THEM THAN TO TRAVEL WITH THEM.
---Beardstown Ladies...King’s Cross...Sydney Australia
---MUST BE SENSITIVE TO PARENTS....Tahiti, Jeremy, Paul Gogan Maroa
(I don’t tell these stories until the group returns)
John Steinbeck: A JOURNEY IS LIKE MARRIAGE. THE CERTAIN WAY TO BE WRONG IS TO THINK YOU CONTROL IT.
A lady from our church…never did trust me. Not sure she does today. Practially had to pry her hands off her daughter at the St. Louis airport. ---Beth K & Eric M...Bullfight
...Air Italia...cockpit window. “Mr. Bradbury, do you think we should pray?” Yea…it’d be a great idea. …Who prays the fastest?
Ireland … Continental… Cleveland.. delayed in Newark, overnight… “Taxi driver.” We never travel without Christ.
TRULY UNFORGETABLE MOMENTS: ..Ladies in rags waiting for hours to take communion in Soviet Union. ...Seeing St. Basil’s cathedral in Red Square for the first time. ...Highest point in Kremlin: A cross. …Alaskan Catamaran tour… $150. $50..whale, $50 eagle. Pilot.. “Welcome, Folks. God is good.” (Splash) “But today, He’s better than usual! Look up ahead!”
..Ireland...Preacher Frank from West Virginia clearing out a bar for church .. Assissi… Two olive-skinned ladies on tour --The Alps.....Thomas Gray in 1739 on viewing the Alps: THERE ARE CERTAIN SCENES THAT WOULD AWE AN ATHEIST INTO BELIEF, WITHOUT THE HELP OF ANY OTHER ARGUMENT> --Craig, Lucerne, Richard, communion English Music Hall Show (2 girls on the way out)
Psalm 139 Psalm 139 1 O LORD , you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD . 5 You hem me in-behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, [ HYPERLINK "http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/" \l "fen-NIV-16248a" \o "See footnote a" a] you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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