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Sunday, August 3 (Gloria’s birthday), 2008, Stum’s house, Towner, Colorado
We all slept well and got up early enough to pick up everything before the people started arriving for breakfast at the church. Every Sunday they bring over different breakfast food and eat before Sunday school. Lots of good food. The group was fairly small, maybe 30 people total, but the Bible discussion was good and insightful. Afterwards we all headed upstairs to the main sanctuary for the sermon, delivered by a man who preaches at another church in Kansas later in the morning. Afterwards, Chris’s dad, Lane, invited us to his house to spend the day with them. Lane and his family are farmers who raise wheat, sunflowers, and birdseed. They also are very knowledgeable, like most farmers are, about machinery, mechanics, construction, and business, and had their hands full with different projects. The family was very hospitable. We also met two sisters who are working with the Stums for the summer, Martha and Joy. Nice girls. We ate lunch and dinner with them and they asked us to spend the night. The kids played cards, Pit (I have never played it), swam, and watched a movie. Lane managed to reconstruct Paul’s broken chain link from welding rod, and helped us fix the van’s faulty headlight. He also showed us around Towner. Nice people. Lane’s dad came over in the evening and we talked politics mostly. Fun time. Some took showers. All in all, it was a restful, relaxing, enjoyable day. God has placed good people in our path.