Captain’s Log, December
7, 2014. I’m not sure if this counts as
day one or not. If it does, only part of
the day might be consider a Sabbatical because until 12:30 we were still at
First Baptist Church of Wayland and still ministering. Dawn taught the primary Sunday School class
in a frozen classroom and the played the keyboard for our morning service. Dawn
and I sang a duet (People Need the Lord) and I finished my prophecy series with
a message on the New Heaven and Earth.
We celebrated communion together, sang “Blest be the Tie that Binds”,
said some weepy goodbyes to our flock and then we were ready to hit the
road.
I’ll have to confess that I felt a little nervous about
towing our new Mini Cooper behind the RV but for the first 150 miles or so
things were going well. We were heading
to Columbus, Ohio to meet with a group of friends from our sending church,
Immanuel Baptist, and Dawn was asked to speak to a ladies group that
evening. Plans change, however,
including that evening. While we were
traveling on I-469 around Fort Wayne,
Indiana, the dolly started thrashing wildly.
I slowed and stopped as quickly as I could, but I was sure that our
Cooper would be badly damaged, if not totaled
by what I seeing in the rear view camera. It turned out, however, that the car was
fine, but the tow dolly had come loose from the hitch when the hitch pin came
loose. I was still trying to assess the
damage when a county deputy, Christopher Amstutz, pulled his cruiser in back of
our rig. He was nice enough to take us
around to a Flying J, which did not have a hitch pin, and then to Menards,
where I bought two of them. It took a
while, but with the pin in place, and the trailer light wires taped, we were on
our way. We didn’t arrive at the
campgound (Cross Creek Campground) until about 9:30 P.M. and our plans to be in
Columbus earlier were set aside for now.
We were grateful, however, that such a small amount of damage was done,
and that a police officer appeared at just the right time and was willing to
help us (which is unusual in itself).
Obviously the Lord was answering our prayers for protection.
