Trip to Maine

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We spent an encouraging weekend of fellowship and sharing with the congregation of West Rockport Baptist Church  in West Rockport, ME.  

On Saturday morning, we took a hike up Beech Hill with several families from the church.  The hill was covered with a blanket of blueberry bushes.  Sarah & Rebecca joined others in the group to pick berries that remained after the main harvest (left-center photo).  There are only low blueberry bushes on the hill and you can see a beautiful panoramic view of the Atlantic. Maine is famous for growing some of the best blueberries in the world.

In the afternoon, we drove to the nearby scenic seaside towns of Rockland and Camden.  We took the 1/2 mile walk on the levy out to the Breakwater Lighthouse in the Bay and took many photos along the way (top-left and bottom photos).  The warm sun was shining and a cool breeze blowing.  Swiss weather. :-)

We had a potluck dinner in the evening sharing with the church in an informal setting.  On Sunday, I (Tim) spoke in the adult Sunday School, spent the afternoon and lunch with the missions committee and shared about the ministry during the evening service.

We stayed with a nice family (with four daughters) we stayed with during our last visit to Maine in '05.  Sarah & Rebecca enjoyed their time with the other girls. 

Past meets Present

We enjoyed visiting with David's Community Bible Church, a supporting church in Millersburg, PA (north of Halifax).  

There is a large population of Amish in the area.  Before church on Sunday, we watched the horse & buggies pass the mission house we stayed in.  In this photo, a farmer and his wife are harvesting the corn with horse drawn modern (adapted) equipment.

York Fair

Our family spent the day at the York Fair (oldest running Fair in America–est. 1765).  We had deep-fried funnel cakes, deep-fried blooming onions, sampled deep-fried Oreo cookies but passed on the deep-fried Twinkies!  There were the pig races that come each year and we enjoyed a free concert by "Vocal Trash" who played everything from garbage cans to a guitar made from an old gas can.

We returned home with great memories and clogged arteries.

Rain & Rainbows

With the hurricane coming up the east coast we had some heavy showers today causing the stream to overflow and flooding our lane to the road so we couldn't go anywhere with the car.  I went stumping about in the churning muddy water and pouring rain with the girls.  What fun!

The rain eventually stopped by evening and a beautiful rainbow filled the sky.  The lake in the foreground of the photo is actually the grass field right next to the house!