Boffo in Birmingham!

We are back home from Trussville. We had an excellent time. This of course is after we "trained" Sunday School workers and we had a group picture taken. At the left end is Michael and the right end is Phillip. There job was to escort two old ladies to dinner and a show. On Sunday morning they were waiting for us in the lobby so that we all could sit together in church. They took such good care of us and the fact they genuinely seemed to want to hang out with us was very refreshing. They are college students at Auburn University and both plan to be engineers. This summer they were interns in the Children's Ministry along with Michelle. She is between Gerti and me. I love the story that Michael told us how Blake, he is the Children's Minister in the blue shirt as a student at Samford University had discipled he and Phillip. He did a Bible study with a bunch of 6th grade boys and through the years had kept up with them. Now he is pouring into their lives even more by giving them the opportunity to intern this summer. What an impact Blake has made in their lives and continues to do so with the children and preteens (that is what they call them in Alabama still.) Not pictured is Crystal who we met at dinner on Saturday night with these fine gentlemen. It was Blake's and Crystal's third date... After dinner at Costas Italian and Mediterranean we were treated to Suessical the Musical put on by the community theatre group. No one older than 23 was in the production. It is directed by Paige Turner, the Children's Assistant at FBC Trussville. It was better than some professional productions I have seen. We were wowed by the singing and the acting. When we first arrived in Trussville and after eating at Xandy's Real Chicken... we made our way to Dog Daze. It was so HOT!!!! But there were Hawaiian Shaved Ice to keep you cool and FBC Trussville had a booth with bandannas soaking in ice water. Peggy and I bought t shirts and looked around. It was a really neat deal. They had rides for the kids, more than just bounce houses, all kinds of booths with things to buy, food, and a stage where dance or music acts performed. In the midst of all this were the dogs that people brought...cause it is Dog Daze. It was a ton of fun. Peggy and I went to the Southern grocery store chain, Winn Dixie to buy all our props for our performance on Sunday. More to be posted on M&G Blog soon.

This kindness of FBC Trussville needs it's own paragraph. They recorded our performance and did close ups etc and are right now editing and making a DVD for us. Now we will have something to show churches when they aren't too sure of what we do and to put snippets of it on our M&G blog. I cannot thank the leadership at FBC Trussville enough for this tremendous gift. This blew us away.

More to come later, but I wanted to at least get this much posted and let you know how well our trip went. For those of you who prayed for us, thank you. We felt and experienced God's presence.

It is always good to return home. Although we were only gone two days, I feel like I have been gone for a week.