by KeithE » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:37 am
Just returned from being a Team member on a Walk to Emmaus. I cannot recommend this program highly enough.
Met two unforgetable characters on this Walk-
Bob Watson a retired Marine (20+ years) and now a solo missionary to the nations (mostly Soutern Hemisphere which is much more open to the "real gospel" as he says). He is sick and tired of all the negative protrayals of God as being angry at us and his main message is that God is loves us and is always "pulling for us" - not like the angry Marine sergeants he lived under. He works odd jobs near Shoals area on N AL including golf course manintenence until he has enough money to go on another missionary trip.
Dale White- older gentlemen who was once an actor/singer I believe doing Looney's Tavern (about the proud county of Winston AL) and as well as some Hollywood TV - never said what shows. I suspect Dale had had a stoke and mentioned his arthitis. He moved and talk slow but when you could understand him, he spoke with great conviction and wisdom. At the closing he got up and "testified" and it drew a great applause with lines like "I may not have great degrees hanging on my wall, but I know the Lord and will proclaim Him as loud as my voice can be heard and these weary bones wont stop me- I'll do it from bed if I have to". Dale was at my Table where I was the discussion leader and after the closing he wanted me to meet his Methodist pastor "a greeeaat man of God" of Arley, AL. That pastor immediate asked me where I went to church and I told him Weatherly Heights Baptist Church. He said he never heard of it but "as long as it preaches the Word, Baptist churches could be all right; it does preach the Word doesn't it". I assured him it does, but thought to myself - the Word means Jesus to me but probably something else to him. At least I know Dale is on solid ground.
Informed by Data.
Driven by the SPIRIT and JESUS’s Example.
Promoting the Kingdom of GOD on Earth.