CMA Fun Ride Aug 21, 2010

Our Charity Riders CMA chapter from South Arkansas includes El Dorado, Magnolia and Camden. We had a fun ride to Lake Claiborne in north Louisiana near Homer. It was about a 2 hr ride there and was rather hot on Sat. afteroon, temperature hitting 102 degrees. The restaurant was right on the lake and had excellent catfish dinners. There were about 20 bikers, several on trikes and a couple in a truck. We had a cooler ride home and a lot of fun.

Sunday we had a Biker's Sunday at Temple Baptist in Camden. More CMA chapters showed up for the service....from Fordyce, Arkadelphia, Crossett, and Hope as well as our Charity Riders chapter. It was a wonderful service of singing, testimony and preaching with a potluck dinner for all. These are special services where CMA enjoys sharing with local churches the work that we do around the world in USA and 27 other countries.

Trip to Iowa in July 2010

Gil and I did not plan a trip to Iowa this summer, but when we got word that his son Dan had been in a motorcycle wreck and had broken his neck and back, we headed out to Davenport to be near him. He was with a group of other bikers, it seems, and came around a curve to find some of the other bikers in the road so he and the 3 bikers with him had to hit the ditch. Dan was hospitalized but could move his arms and legs when we got there. We stayed about a week then after we left he had back surgery and is now in physical therapy. He does not have movement in his legs at this time, but we pray he will soon. We took pictures of the grandkids while we spent time with them in our motel. We played dominoes and took them swimming in the pool. Katelynn is 15, and Jacob is 8. Their cousin, Jordan, who is 11 was with us.

Then after we got home, I spent the first week of August with my mama in Louisiana. We had two book events that week, one in Monroe and one in Mangham. We had a good visit and a lot of fun meeting new friends at the book events.