Adrian, MI
I just got back from Adrian, MI where I was with Pastor Greg Burdine at Faith Baptist Church. I arrived at the airport around 7:15pm and waited until about 7:45pm for one of his business men in his church to arrive on another flight.
After meeting up with Mike (my ride from the airport and one of Greg's faithful men) we caught what is called a "Sky Cab" (like the one pictured above) which drove us to Adrian. A sky cab is a fancy word for a nice car ... not as nice as a limo but still Cadillac in quality. The drive was about an hour so we had a great time of fellowship as we drove. This man has a great heart for his pastor and it showed.
Upon arriving at Greg's home I was let in, read the note that Greg left me (since he took his family to Detroit to see a Pro Baseball game - it a good thing I am not a baseball fan or I would have been upset) :-) then took the car that was left for me out to find something to eat. It had been close to 10 hours since I last tasted food so at this point, just about anything would do. Greg and family arrived home around 11:30pm where we made our greetings and then said "good night" and headed to our different bedrooms for a good nights sleep.
I think one of the greatest things about this trip was the Men's Fellowship that I got to speak at on Saturday night. Prior to the speaking part, we got to enjoy several different types of food: Ostrach, bison, deer, chicken, and someone claimed to have put out possum but I was not about to try it and find out.
Anyway ... after the good food, we gathered in another room where I got to speak to they men and their sons about "Fatherhood" since the next day was Father's day. There were about 36 men and their sons present. They were a great group of men and I really had a good time.
On Sunday morning at about 9:45am I got a phone call ... what made this interesting is the fact that I was preaching at the time. I had forgotten to take my phone off my belt and turn it to "Vibrate" so I made a little bit of a scene. As I looked at my phone to see who was calling ... I did this out of habit as do just about everyone else that I know who has a cell phone ... I saw that it was my son Jeremy calling. Jeremy and Jessica are due to be new parents within the next six-weeks so realistically, this could have been "THE CALL" letting us know that Jess is on her way to the hospital ... but alas, (and not meaning to play down the reason for the call at all) it was just a 'Happy Father's Day" call - something I found out later when he called back in the afternoon.
After Jeremy's call, I turned my phone on vibrate and told the crowd, "You don't know how close I came to taking that call." then I proceeded to explain why. I then placed my phone on the pulpit (on vibrate) and went back to preaching. About 3-minutes later, I hear my phone vibrating again - "What this time." This time it was my wife calling, (I could see this without having to pick up my phone). Since I didn't take the call from Jeremy I logically thought, "Maybe Jeremy called mom and told her the good news and she is now trying to get ahold of me?"
Well ... needless to say ... I was having difficulty keeping my concentration for the rest of the Sunday School hour wondering what all the phone calls were about. As soon as I ended in prayer I picked up my phone and check my messages - there was 1 new one - it was from my wife. It said, "I just wanted to wish you a 'Happy Father's Day' and let you know that I love you."
WHAT? Didn't she know that I would be busy at this time? But she forgot about the time change, as did Jeremy, so I got two calls and both were expecting them to be an hour earlier than they actually were.
Anyway, that's about it for Adrian, MI. Oh yea! It was race weekend in MI - the Nascar boys were out on the track in the nearby town of Cambrige Junction at the Michigan International Speedway, just about 22 miles north of Adrian. Nascar is something that is really big in that part of the country.
After meeting up with Mike (my ride from the airport and one of Greg's faithful men) we caught what is called a "Sky Cab" (like the one pictured above) which drove us to Adrian. A sky cab is a fancy word for a nice car ... not as nice as a limo but still Cadillac in quality. The drive was about an hour so we had a great time of fellowship as we drove. This man has a great heart for his pastor and it showed.
Upon arriving at Greg's home I was let in, read the note that Greg left me (since he took his family to Detroit to see a Pro Baseball game - it a good thing I am not a baseball fan or I would have been upset) :-) then took the car that was left for me out to find something to eat. It had been close to 10 hours since I last tasted food so at this point, just about anything would do. Greg and family arrived home around 11:30pm where we made our greetings and then said "good night" and headed to our different bedrooms for a good nights sleep.
I think one of the greatest things about this trip was the Men's Fellowship that I got to speak at on Saturday night. Prior to the speaking part, we got to enjoy several different types of food: Ostrach, bison, deer, chicken, and someone claimed to have put out possum but I was not about to try it and find out.
Anyway ... after the good food, we gathered in another room where I got to speak to they men and their sons about "Fatherhood" since the next day was Father's day. There were about 36 men and their sons present. They were a great group of men and I really had a good time.
On Sunday morning at about 9:45am I got a phone call ... what made this interesting is the fact that I was preaching at the time. I had forgotten to take my phone off my belt and turn it to "Vibrate" so I made a little bit of a scene. As I looked at my phone to see who was calling ... I did this out of habit as do just about everyone else that I know who has a cell phone ... I saw that it was my son Jeremy calling. Jeremy and Jessica are due to be new parents within the next six-weeks so realistically, this could have been "THE CALL" letting us know that Jess is on her way to the hospital ... but alas, (and not meaning to play down the reason for the call at all) it was just a 'Happy Father's Day" call - something I found out later when he called back in the afternoon.
After Jeremy's call, I turned my phone on vibrate and told the crowd, "You don't know how close I came to taking that call." then I proceeded to explain why. I then placed my phone on the pulpit (on vibrate) and went back to preaching. About 3-minutes later, I hear my phone vibrating again - "What this time." This time it was my wife calling, (I could see this without having to pick up my phone). Since I didn't take the call from Jeremy I logically thought, "Maybe Jeremy called mom and told her the good news and she is now trying to get ahold of me?"
Well ... needless to say ... I was having difficulty keeping my concentration for the rest of the Sunday School hour wondering what all the phone calls were about. As soon as I ended in prayer I picked up my phone and check my messages - there was 1 new one - it was from my wife. It said, "I just wanted to wish you a 'Happy Father's Day' and let you know that I love you."
WHAT? Didn't she know that I would be busy at this time? But she forgot about the time change, as did Jeremy, so I got two calls and both were expecting them to be an hour earlier than they actually were.
Anyway, that's about it for Adrian, MI. Oh yea! It was race weekend in MI - the Nascar boys were out on the track in the nearby town of Cambrige Junction at the Michigan International Speedway, just about 22 miles north of Adrian. Nascar is something that is really big in that part of the country.
posted by Brad at 12:29 AM
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I'm learning. :-)
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