Linked through God's Love

Since we left Georgia, I have not been able to be near Nick.  The roads have been narrow and there are no shoulders. So basically, we find a place for me to park the RV and then Nick goes ahead. As soon as he finds a place suitable for me to park he calls me to come and get him.

On May 15 we had an article on the local news paper in Anderson  and from there on, several people have stopped on the side of the road to talk to Nick.

Well, this past week has been the most wonderful week in the month of May. Nick was walking near the town of Belton, SC.   Nick called me and asked me to come by the Neal Creek Baptist Church, because they had a big parking lot. I drove over and there he was in the street corner waiting for me.  As I pulled over, and parked the RV in the church parking lot, a van pulled in and Eric & Robert started to talk to Nick. These guys were on their way to do a job replacing carpets and they saw a "little guy blessing the traffic," so they had to stopped and see what was going on.

After they left, Nick said "Lets go into the church office.  I though we were going in to ask for permission to spend the afternoon there; when Nick said, "Patti is going to interview us for the local paper." Well, little did I know! Nick had been talking with several people from the area and now we were having another interview another paper! Praise God!

I met Patti and we began the interview.  After about hour and a half of sharing stories and information, we finally asked her if we could spend part of the afternoon in the parking lot, until evening, when Nick was going to walk again.  She said, "It'ss OK. You can stay all night if you want to."   We went back to the RV and tried to take a nap; it was very humid and hot.  So after an hour or so, we heard a knocking and tapping on our door.  It was Patti, Scott (her husband) and her mom, Jean. Jean had read the Article in "The Independent,"and she wanted to meet us.  So we invited them into our cabin on the road and spent a very nice hour or so just talking and laughing.  Patti also mentioned, that she had talked to her pastor and asked us if it would come to her church on Wednesday night and do our Zacchaeus presentation. We were delighted to say, "Yes!"

We were really excited. That night Nick walked another 3 miles or so, into the city of  Belton.  The next morning we did our routine and by noon we were on our way to Patti's church. (New Generation Worship Plaza) The people there were soooo gracious. Actually the pastor, told his people to give us all of their information (name, address, phone number) in case we had trouble on the road, they would come and help us out! He said, "Wherever you are we will come and help you.)  We were in total awe!  This is the first time something like this ever happened to us.  God's power was moving in the church and in our hearts. They took up a love offering and included their contact information. Wow!

Patti is sooo talented! She is an author, a singer, speaker plus she had worked in the radio industry for several years.  I guess they hired her when she was 3 years old!

She told us that on Thursday night, her family and other musicians would be performing in Honea Path (Honey-ah Path) at a street out reach.  So we made it a point to go. Wow!  They are soooo talented.  Nick and I really loved listening to them and praising God on main street USA!

We were blessed beyond compare.  That night, Patti gave me the name of a person we needed to contact as soon as we got to the outskirts of Laurens, SC. There was a possibility of another article!

So Friday afternoon, Nick called me and said he was getting close to Laurens, and he said to go ahead of him and find a place to park. I parked right outside of the Laurens Middle School.  As Nick was approaching the RV, the principal Dr. Harris, came over and talked with him.  He had seen "Christ" written on our RV and wanted to know what we were up to. As Nick was talking with the principal, I got on the phone, to contact Ms. Judith Brown.  She is the reporter for The Laurens County Advertiser and, yes, she was interested in running a piece on us.



Nick got in the RV, and was getting on his civilian clothes and I was on the phone with Judith, when someone was knocking at our door.  It was Dr. Harris, I opened the door and he wanted to see if we would be open to come in the school and have lunch with the kids.  As it is our custom, we said, "Yes!"  I asked Judith if she would like to join us for lunch at the middle school and she agreed. We all went in and had a good time.  While Judith was taking notes, listening and trying to eat all at the same time, (she has 6 kids so she is good at multitasking!) some of the kids were looking at us wondering, "Who are they and what are they doing here?" However, since we were sitting with the principal, no one dare to say anything out loud.

Judith spend between one and a half to two hours with us and later that afternoon we met with her again at a local coffee shop. This has been a week full of wonderful blessings making new friends.

I cannot wait to see what God does this week...... keep your ears and eyes open.