New Jersey and Long Island

I am writing this post from the Hume 'n' Beans coffee shop at Hume Lake Christian camp in California. Joyce and I got here by flying from Newark to Fresno on Sunday night and then our son Matt picked us up and drove us up to the camp in the mountains. It has been a while since my last post so here is what has happened since then....

We (Joyce, Happiness and I) flew on the red eye from Sacramento to Newark last Monday night. We then went to the home of Jim and Rebecca Fox and shared at Evangel Baptist. Jim then drove us up to Schooleys Mountain on Thursday for our LMUSA missionary conference. It was great to see (almost) everyone again. We had a great time hanging around with the PIBC'ers there and also with the missionaries from the various LM-US fields, Ireland, Ecuador, Spain and Africa. Mission Day on Saturday was great! We were able to share about PIBC with many mission friends and enjoyed the good German food. We were sorry we had to leave in the middle of the meetings (we also left Happiness in NJ to work for a month at the Liebenzell retreat center) to go home, but we had to get to our family reunion.

We rushed out of the mission day to board the New Jersey train to Penn Station in New York and then on to the Long Island Railroad to Rockville Center to speak at Windsor Avenue Baptist Church in Oceanside. The train was an enjoyable first time experience for us. Tom and Susan Smith picked us up at the train station and we had a good time with them at the Pizzaiola Restaurant. Great Italian food! Sunday morning we enjoyed a fellowship breakfast at the church and then I showed our ministry video and gave the Sunday morning message. We then rushed to the Newark airport and flew back across the country to Fresno. We are already enjoying our time at camp (we are cold). More on that later this week.