In October, the Gospel Music Hymn Sing went on tour for the very first time and ended just before Thanksgiving with a special DVD taping at First Baptist of Atlanta, the church Dr. Charles Stanley pastor’s in Georgia. I can’t express how neat it is to be able to say that we not only attended…
Three weeks ago we went to Dallas, Texas for the Grace Revolution Tour. Joseph Prince, a pastor from Singapore who has a world-wide ministry through his television program “Destined to Reign,” released his new book Grace Revolution and was touring in the United States in November. When we heard about the tour, we decided to…
“Where Lutherans meet, Lutherans eat,” said the Pastor. The audience chuckled as he went on to explain that after the concert with Brian Free and Assurance, they would have a meal for everyone who wanted to stay. Squeezed in a pew just a few rows from the front, I couldn’t help but smile. Brian had…
Halloween. It’s been a few years since I’ve been “out and about” on this holiday. I’m not afraid of ghosts or anything, but when people start covering their bushes with white strings and giant purple spiders…well, that’s a little more than I can handle! LOL! However, when there’s a concert with the McKameys, Inspirations and…
Past the cotton fields of Missouri’s bootheel, the natural border of the Mississippi River and into the state of Illinois is the city of Marion. Sitting on the corner of town square is my favorite theater – The Marion Culture and Civic Center. Since 2012, when I first attended the Truthseekers Homecoming, this building and…
The last port we visited on the Alaska cruise was Victoria, British Columbia. Canada. For quite a while, it was a place that had been on my bucket. Oh, how good it felt to cross that one off, even if we only were in port a few hours to do it! The ms Westerdam came…
Our stop in Ketchikan ranged the hours from 7:00am -12:30 noon. We were off the ship so early that the carpets in the elevator hadn’t even been changed yet! LOL! Ketchikan is considered the “Gateway to the Inside Passage” because of its extreme southern location. When we stepped off the ship, a group of historical…
I smiled. Lighthouses are one of my favorites. Seeing a small one sit on the edge of a tiny island as the ms Westerdam glided into Sitka Wednesday morning brought my attention to the number of little land masses rising just above the water. It seemed like they were everywhere you looked. Cabins and houses…
John Muir lived from 1838-1914. As a Naturalist, he made four trips to Alaska where he was the first Euro-American to explore Glacier Bay and document what he found there. On those trips, he had a young missionary by the name of Samuel Hall Young as a companion. Young wrote the book Alaska Days with…
Juneau, Alaska was our first port of call and the northernmost point we would travel to on the In Touch Cruise. The Westerdam docked at one o’clock in the afternoon, giving me plenty of time to enjoy the morning activities, have lunch and head to the gangway. We stayed in Juneau until 10 PM, so…
