Pastor Mike's Corner: Day 15

Wednesday – God truly works in mysterious ways. We camped at a campground at Tok and this morning I was sitting at a table at the laundry (this is where the wifi worked) uploading my blog when this Mennonite lady came to do her laundry and to make a long story short it was Leroy Martin’s from Missouri. Leroy was a minister at Blue Ball Mennonite until they moved to Missouri about five years ago. Leroy and I got to talking so we didn’t get off till after 9:00. Filled up with gas @$3.51/gal. and headed for Valdez, a 260 mile drive. Another beautiful drive. We seen the Alaskan Pipeline for the first time and had our first opportunity to walk up to a glacier. When we got to Valdez we toured two museums and learned more about the pipeline construction and the earthquake on Good Friday in 1964 that completely wiped out the town. It was 7:00pm till we left Valdez and we decided to drive back to Glenallen which consisted of a 115 mile drive with a 12 mile section rising almost 3,000 feet. We stopped at 6 campsites till we found one that had a space available. Tomorrow we plan on going to Seward. Two items of praise I much share . one has to do with our trip one doesn’t. The first one is a few days ago I talked about the heater core leaking. It keeps getting colder every morning and this morning after we started driving it was really cold. We were praying that somehow we could use the heater without it leaking too much. When our faith was strong enough I turned on the heater and guess what? God fixed the heater! No leaks!
The other one is, we got word from home that the plans for the Discipleship Center came back stamped approved. This was a long process that was started about a year ago. And with that my plumbing license is ready for me to pick up at Kenhorst Borough. God is good!