Note from Santa Maria, CA

Whew, today's trip was a really long one! I guess it's the Labor Day holiday that added an extra 3 hours of traffic to our trip! On the bright side, we got to stop off at Santa Barbara and have dinner with Jojo at the place where we had our first dinner as a married couple back in 1999: Aldo's on State Street! We saw a cool band playing outside of Borders. And whhile we ate, a guy was sitting on a bench just playing old Beatles and Cat Stevens tunes on his acoustic. I love the atmosphere of State street!

Plus, Enterprise gave me a free upgrade to take a new Chevy Trailblazer LS (It only had 600 miles on it!) on our trip. Yeah, we still need to take a lot of baby stuff that doesn't fit in our little Saturn back home.

So now, we're settling in at the Holiday Inn in Santa Maria. We're greatful for the excellent accomodations set up by the Crosspoint Community Church. I'll be speaking at two services tomorrow morning and sharing with the missions committee as well. Do pray the Lord uses this time to raise our support level and touch people to get more involved in spreading God's kingdom to all peoples.