Well, Harold and I have left Wills Point AG church. I wanted to tell you the end of the story. This is John and Ruby Moore, he is the electrician who was working at the church with Harold.

Harold and Albert have built the desk area (in the balcony) for the electricial "stuff" and John has put the electricial "stuff" in place.

If you remember I told you earlier that John got some bad news from the doctor (suspecting cancer) in John's lungs. We gather around him, annointed him with oil and prayed for him. A few days before we left, he saw the doctor and he reported that John had an infection in there and not cancer. Praise God! Now John can keep on working for God and M.A.P.S. building churches.

We left Saturday and arrived in Corpus Kristi Sunday afternoon. It was a very good trip with no flat tires. Harold is busy at work with four other M.A.P.S'ers remodeling gutted rooms and installing air here at the Teen Challenge.

The Jammers Auction

The "Jammers" had a "Spaghetti Dinner" and an auction. There were crafty things, home made pies, cakes, brownies and more, and tickets to various events and places.

They played for an hour (top picture), we had prayer (one of the best I have heard) and then we ate before the auction.

Here you see in the lower picture, the ladies getting the food ready. It was very good with many other tasty items beside the spaghetti, garlic bread and salad.
The auction began and it was so much fun. We saw a "Mississippi Mud" cake go for $35.00 and a "Apple Cake with Pecans" go for #30.00. A pie or bread brought in only $25.00 each.

It was a fun filled evening with very loving people who just wanted to help out a fellow musician with his medical bills. He had a heart attack and while at the hospital found out he has prostate cancer. They collected $650.00 for him. By the way he was there ......played his guitar & sang.

I wish they would start places like this one in every county in the U.S. It would sure combate depression in the elderly. They care for each other and they go to different churches.

We even had an apple pie given to us and the lady who had bought it herself had just celebrated her 55 wedding anniversity 3 weeks ago. She just simply said to us......"Welcome to Texas" She had come to our table last week and talked with us for a while and found out we were from Ohio. We will miss this place and these people.

New Drapes

We had worked last spring with another couple in Kerrville. They were staying at a local RV camp ground about 15 miles from Wills Point and happen to drive into town to get a few things and saw our truck at the church. They stopped by and decided to come here and help when they were finished camping with their grand children. Al and Harold work well together. It is so much fun to be able to once again renew friendships and get to know each other better.

Pat and I both scrapbook and we caught up on each others work. They spent the summer at Glacier National Park working for a AG camp ground and she got some beautiful pictures.

Among other things, we have had fun this week sewing drapes for their RV. The blinds are not darkening blinds and the Texas sun can be brutally hot at times. It has been in the mid 80's all week. We went to Wal Mart, found some reasonable material and just finished them up in time to go shopping last Friday!

Friday Night Fish Fry

Friday night a couple of families from the church got together and decided to have a fish fry for the M.A.P.S.'ers that have been working at the church for the past two weeks.

The food was great with lots of fish of different kinds, slaw, F.F.s, hush puppies, pickles and you must have lots of raw onions with the fish, so I'm told. Not my choice! Cakes for dessert. YUM!

We had good conversations and sharing of stories along with the food. This is a wonderful bunch of people and we will miss them when we move to the next place.

John, the man sitting across the table from Harold (in blue), has a health problem and has gone for testing. He received a phone call last week to come in on Tuesday for the results. We all gathered around him at work (the new church), annointed him with oil and prayed that he would receive a good report when he goes. He is the electrician on this job. Harold and Al (center in white) are helping him get the booth (in balcony) completed for all the electricial work for the sanctuary at the church. He wants to have a good report so he can keep working on churches for the Lord for a few more years, he says. He is now almost 80 years young.

The Jammers

Here is picture of a few of the "Jammers" at the session last evening. The man on the far right is Sandy and his wife "in blue" Bobbie have been married for 64 years. They are still have fun.

One of the youngsters of the group.....I'm sorry.... has the hand held mike covering her face.....has a voice that anyone recording in Nashville would envy. Maybe better pics next week.

They are sing Peace in the Valley....one of my favorites.

Jewel in a small Town

There is a jewel of a place in the small town of Fruitville, Tx. They simply call themselves "The Jammers".....and sure know how to have fun on what some people may call the slow day of the week....Monday. They meet in the Fire Station, bringing their instruments and enough food to feed a small army. Their voices may be a little rusty in some areas but their song are from their hearts and they sure can make music.

They have a break at half time, pray for each others needs, sing "Happy Birthday" and then have a meal together and enjoy each others company. They resume their music and songs for a little longer and then its over for another week.

You might ask why is this such a big deal......it goes on at other places. Well.......are the people who are doing this in....... "other places".......the age of these people, I think not. To say they are retired .....is to put it mildly....they have have been retired for many, many years.....YES, they are older...in some peoples eyes.....but not in their hearts. They may walk slower, sing softer, and not see as far as they used to but they are contributing in a way that should take place all over the world. Yes, this is a jewel in itself that I wish I could take with me when I have to leave this area and travel on.

Harold has been hard at work with two other M.A.P.S.'ers - John and Vestil building a sound booth platform wall in the balcony area, while I helped Chris one day, who is the refinisher of the pews, until he started doing more complicated stuff.

Yesterday another M.A.P.S. couple, Pat & Al Reynolds, came to help. We had previously worked with them at Kerrville, TX last spring and they are full timers, having been at Glacier National Park all summer working at a church camp ground. And to answer your question......yes we are still having fun. God is so good to us in every way.

Yesterday I took on the job of making drapes for the Reynolds camper. The Texas sun can get very hot and heats up a camper quickly. Anyway we can be used to bless others....that is our motto. We miss you all. More later. I love your comments.

On the Road Again Oct 6,2007

We are on the road again.....traveling to Wills Point, TX. The Lord told Harold to check the camper out before we left the rest area and we had a flat tire. He changed it and we took off. The next day we were just outside of McAllister, OK and heard a loud pop, pulling off the road and had ....yes!! you guessed it another flat tire. We were able to get that one and the flat from the previous day fixed at a Wal Mart garage. Thank you Lord......sorry it was Sunday. We spent the night and started on our final leg of the journey and would you believe.....we were only six miles from our destination when........yes!!!! again another flat tire. Harold was having a hard time getting this one off and I prayed for a nice, young man who would want to help him fix it to come and around the corner of the camped walked a nice, young man and he helped Harold get the old tire off and the new one on. We are now working on the new church at Wills Point, TX

Convention Time#1

So Many RV's !!! It is hard to believe we are a force of over 400 M.A.P.S. RV'er and we are having fun working for the Lord.

We had Donna Spence as a speaker one night and she played her horns for us. If you ever get the chance to see her preach and play.... take the time to do so. She is very funny and had many miracles in her life to tell about.