Wow

Ok, this weekend I had the high privilege of playing with some awwwwesome musicians from South America. Most also happened to be ordained ministers, so it was one of the most educated bands I've ever performed in. We played this past Saturday night as one of the features of my Church's global missions conference. We had a wonderful time and I hope to be able to play with the group again soon.

I find it absolutely amazing how many missionaries we have out in the field from Alamance Presbyterian. First there's Todd Luke, who isn't from APC but was one of the first sponsored missionaries we have in the field in South America. He is a former lawyer and while still pretty young decided to walk a path to help others. His mission in S.A. focuses on the construction of water cisterns to combat that areas dire need for fresh water. His project has helped build over 80 cisterns with a total storage capacity of over 28000 gallons. Incredible. But then we also have one of our young men getting ready to go to Egypt. Another doing medical mission work for India's untouchables caste. A young woman who will likely be signing up for 5 years of mission work in South Africa. Jacob, one of my fave peeps on this blue marble, has his hands full training other young missionaries for the job. Even our pastor's daughter goes abroad for mission.

The focus this week was on the parable of the samaritan. If you consider this world as being small, and I certainly do, then you need to occasionally stop in the middle of your journey to help the one in need that all others have passed by.

Ok, gotta go. Just deleted 6 rows of "j" after dosing off :) time for bed. g'nite.