South

We had a visitor in our services today who is a truck driver. He had a layover here in Hillsboro and so he walked over to our church to visit. He came back for the evening services and we had a good long visit with him. He is from South Carolina. We will be heading South to visit with our oldest daughter and her family in Moss Hill, Texas. It is a 4 hour drive and we hope to be there by noon. I am going to hike with my son-in-law and grandson Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. We will camp out at a primitive camp ground which means there will be no running water. The trail is called the Turkey Creek hiking trail. It is about 15 miles long but we will only hike about 8 miles of it. I expect to get in about 8 miles Monday afternoon and then another 8 miles Tuesday morning. We will camp at a picnic area where we will park the car that way we will not have to carry all our camping gear on the trail. When my grandson is older I will take him on a real overnight hike where he will have to ruff it but for now I do not want to discourage him from the sport of hiking.

We had business meeting tonight at the church and all went well. The picture is of the property that the church we sponsored South of us in Hewitt, Texas has purchased for their building. We voted to cast our vote for them to receive the Texas Mission Development funds for the next quarter. I hope they get the funds for that will help them to get started on their building. Our church is going to take up a special offering for the France Mission to help pay off the debt Jason will owe for his schooling. We voted to receive this offering on Easter Sunday. We usually have the largest crowd of the year on that Sunday. Well I had better get packing. God bless you.