Thursday, September 15, 2005

Catching Up

Last Saturday I went up to Cottonwood and Jerome for the day. Jerome is an old mining town that now attracts artists and bikers. As always, I had a great time.





We met up with Greg and Debbie and hung out with them for most of the afternoon. Things are going good for them. Greg is running four group homes now and they are considering opening more. The state sends him boys and girls who have been in trouble with the law or their parents are unable or unwilling to care for them. He's allowed to talk about God with them and even had the priviledge of baptising some of them. Malo wanted to show his latest artwork to a lady we met in Jerome last time. She runs a gift shop but it's more like an art ministry outreach. We walk into her shop and her sister tells us that she's up at the Bug Fest not too far from there. It took me a minute to realize that the Bug Fest was a get-together for owners and fans of VW cars and buses and had nothing to do with insects. No wonder we passed so many VW's on the highway coming up! Anyway, we all decide to go check it out. It was a quite a scene. There were the most psychedelic and eclectic looking buses I've ever seen. People were camping out in them or beside them. It had a swap meet atmosphere with people selling mods and parts for their cars, and other things like anything tie dyed. It took awhile but we finally found our new gift shop friend. We had a nice talk with her. She's really feeling like she's being pulled into underground ministry. We introduced her to Greg and Debbie and they really hit it off. Some of Greg's group home kids are extremely artistic and might have their work for sell in the gift shop. God is good!

In what is turning out to be a tradition, we ate dinner at the Haunted Hamburger. The food is excellent and the view from the restaurant is awesome!

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