Sunday in Payson
This morning as usual I woke up at 430 and looked forward to
going to Starbucks at 5 to get a skinny wet latte to charge me up read my devotions
and to use the Internet to finish my blog for yesterday. It was a relaxing time. I was able to upload a number of pictures
very quickly which was great. By the
time I got back to camp after 6 am lots of people were up waiting for
breakfast.
Barb had wanted to ride up to Strawberry to look at the road
that we might ride on for Monday to determine the difficulty and safety. We
grabbed a few items from the breakfast table and headed up the mountain. We
went up with Jane, Carol Rienstra and Christeena Nienhuis. It was a beautiful ride up the mountain with
grades mostly 4-5 with a few 6-7 %, there was hardly any shoulder, it was
pretty curvy with a number of cars. The local bike shop had spoken out against
us doing this and our ride up verified his recommendation. While we were up In
Strawberry we did visit the oldest school house In Arizona. It was a lovely log building with an old
potbelly stove inside with all the old desks.
It also had an old outhouse but it was out of order.
For church the
group split up into three groups. We
went to the local Presbyterian, the Shepherd of the Pines Lutheran church and a
local Baptist church. I went to the Lutheran church were we were well received
and were provided a lunch. Many people
spoke to the cyclists and they put out a donation basket where people could put
in money. They will send a check to the
Sea to Sea office. The group that went
to the Presbyterian Church was also very well received and were provided a
lunch. Again we were blessed as well as
being a blessing to people.
Once we were
back at camp as we were relaxing we noticed dark storm clouds in the distance,
they appeared to be moving north of us and the storm would miss us. We were very surprised when suddenly the wind
was very strong and tents started blowing over.
Several of us try to keep tents from blowing over. Unfortunately poles in Barb’s tent were
damaged.
Henry Devries
and Phil Quist also reported that they had a great service in Phoenix and were
well received. Henry had the opportunity
to preach the message and Phil had an opportunity to share what Sea to Sea was
all about. People were very receptive and encouraging. Phil and Henry both received a number of
envelops with donations to Sea to Sea.
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