EAST COAST TOUR

Why do planes leave this early! We left Napa at 3:30am--most of us hardly slept, but by the time we checked in at the airport we started to get excited. This is our first big trip together in a while and it has been a long time coming.

We flew into Phili then drove up to Lincoln Park, NJ to stay with Jen and Greg Volz. They rolled the red carpet out for the team-thanks to them and their parents for the delicious breakfast suffle and coffee cake!

AHHHH, finally the nectar from heaven. Dunkin Donuts the way it should be in the pink and orange styrofoam cup. It took almost an hour on the east coast, but finally I can partake of the best coffee in the world.

Saturday we took Manhatten by storm. "Trump, where are you!"

We were a few blocks away from the crane that fell, but saw all the emergency vehicles wiz by.

It happened on 52nd and 3rd street and we were on 44th and 6th.

We headed up to Wilbraham, MA in the afternoon and stayed at host homes. Pastor Ralph Clarke put on an awesome Easter Play Saturday night and we were able to do both services for the church on Sunday. A lot of folks responded to our dramas and the pastors sermon on the life of St. Patrick. It was a very powerful day. After service we headed over to Boston, MA and are all set up at my home church, Christ the Rock Metro Church. I am so excited to introduce our GPM interns to the CRMC staff and Pastor's Lou and Kris Zinanti who have been such huge supporters of the FUEL program and GPM.

This is CRMC-built in 1890. It is the coolest building, there are staff members living here as well as a vietnames, spanish, and english churches. Pastor Lou and staff have finished an awesome project on the third floor adding two apartments and another sanctuary.

Well it is almost midnight and we have to be up at 6am to run! Tommorrow we will be painting the second floor to give the kids program more room as they have outgrown the basement.