Dessert with Hillcrest Friends

Sunday, August 28, 2016
After church today and a chat with Beth, Dean and the boys, Ken and I headed to Fenton and the Big Boy off of Owen Road exit of 23.  We arranged for a table for eight and then sat at one end of it to have some lunch while awaiting the arrival of friends from a variety of points in Michigan.  Bill and Penny Schettling had a car load of medical supplies from the office where there daughter works (items they cannot use as they are left from opening packets for treatment of patients and once open items not needed cannot be used on other patients) to give to our Mission Chair at Hillcrest Berte Mercer and her husband Don who had been at a weekend gospel program up north and would be passing through this area. Penny's cousin and our choir director at Hillcrest Shirley and her husband Ron live nearby in Holly also came so eight of us who enjoy winters in Florida at Hillcrest were able to spend some time together over dessert and coffee.

In the late afternoon we helped move the boxes from Penny's car to the Mercer's Class B Roadtrek so they could take them to missionaries who work head out to assignments from the college near her. She was assuming they would probably be going to Africa but wasn't sure.  We said our good byes as we all shared when we expected to be back together in Florida knowing we had a yard sale in early December to work on to raise funds for other missionaries both Internationally, nationally and locally. It won't be long.