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.