Sunday morning at Enon Baptist Church, Morris, AL
We have had a wonderful time so far in Alabama. Mike is speaking in 3 different locations in 10 days and Morris, AL is our first stop. We arrived on Saturday, Jan. 21st (more about that later). Mike spoke 4 times on Sunday to the congregation at Enon Baptist church in Morris, Alabama. It is true that people in the South have an extra ordinary amount of hospitality. We have been welcomed and loved from the minute we arrived. On Monday evening there were two more lectures. We will miss the friendly people of God here and the great staff. Here are a couple of pictures of Mike with the pastors.
Mike, Senior Pastor John Hambright, and Worship Pastor Ken McWilliams
Matthew Marsh, Children's Pastor, Mike and David Little, Youth Pastor
We have had some interesting experiences on this trip. There was an ice storm in Kentucky on Friday night before we left. I was afraid that we would have trouble getting to the airport, but that part of the trip was fine. However, after we got on our 9:15 am flight to Atlanta things started to happen. There was a ground delay because of weather in Atlanta so we sat on the plane for 45 minutes before we took off. Then when we got to the Atlanta area, we had to circle until we were diverted to Charleston, SC. We refueled there and then flew back to Atlanta when we finally got to land (only about 4 hours late). Thankfully, we were able to get rebooked onto a later flight to Birmingham. It was a beautiful sight to see that our luggage actually made all of the same changes that we made and came through just fine.
We stayed at a hotel in Fultondale, AL and heard that there could possibly be some severe weather on Sunday night. At 3 am we were awakened by sirens warning of a possible tornado in the area. The TV was not working so we did not know how close the storm actually was to us. In the morning we saw that a tornado had touched down only a few miles from our hotel and leveled some businesses and homes. We were very grateful that our hotel was spared since we were on the 4th floor.
Last weekend we stayed at home for a special reason. Our granddaughters were competing in the Coaches Spectacular Gymnastics meet close to home. We enjoyed watching them in person at the meet – they work very hard to be able to excute their routines. Last year we missed every meet because we were out of town. So, we made sure that we got to see them at least once this year.
