My Favorite Vacation
What kind of vacations do pastors most enjoy? We asked five ministers to share their most memorable excursions.
April 1, 1984
Shortly after coming to Carl Junction, some generous church members offered to send my wife and me on a trip to the Holy Land. For some reason, I felt I should decline and instead take a group of young people to Mexico. My son David had developed a musical program with the teenagers, and we made arrangements for them to perform in churches on both sides of the border.
Forty-six of us went, sleeping on floors every night and eating the common food of peasants. We experienced the closeness of God as much, I'm sure, as if we'd been standing in Gethsemane.
Typical was an experience on Padre Island when, hot and thirsty, we prayed for some refreshment just fifteen minutes before a truck full of watermelons appeared. Later someone recognized the name on our church bus and offered us the use of his church building to spend the night, thus saving us hours of driving and convincing us that God is a very present help in time of need.
I presume a trip to the Holy Land makes you feel close to Jesus. This trip to Mexico did the same for me.
-Boyce Mouton
Christian Church
Carl Junction, Missouri
In July, 1981, our family of four drove from the landlocked Kansas plains to the majestic grandeur of the Poudre River Canyon west of Fort Collins, Colorado. For the first time, Matthew (age five) and Melanie (age four) encountered the wonders of wild flowers, brown trout, and the rushing Poudre.
One evening on a lark we drove the seventy miles back into Fort Collins just to get ice cream cones at Dairy Queen. Time wasn't an issue.
That experience on the Poudre was a physical renewal that paved the way for spiritual revitalization in ministry.
-Kerwin Thiessen
Koerner Heights Church of the Mennonite Brethren
Newton, Kansas
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