Wed., 10/15/25, Met with everyone and went for a ride to 3 States, came back an hour before service, John Ogden Sr. preached and was amazing, Lew and Cindy came to our camper to visit, Ziggy got back and visited with us

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Bill, Art and Lew trying to figure out why Cindy’s bike won’t start.  We stayed with them while we told the rest of the group to go ahead.  It wouldn’t start and they had tried lots of things.  Art had us all lay hands on it and pray for it and we did!  Immediately after we were done, Lew noticed the gas valve was loose and tightened it.  It started right up and kept going!  We sure did thank and praise the Lord!  God is awesome!  It was 85 degrees out.
We got to the 3 state stop 5 minutes after there other group.  They rode slow.

Me and Bill in front of the Texas Rock...we just entered Texas a little ways before we stopped here

Our friend Ron photo bombed us and we didn’t even know it til I looked at the picture lol

Bill and I by the sign showing the 3 Staes we are in

Lew and Cindy...they just moved to Michigan from Texas

This is the block that is where all 3 states meet!  Very cool to be in 3 states at the same time

This is the top of the rock marker for 3 states

Bill is in Texas and I’m in Arkansas...whoever took the picture didn’t get our feet in to show our feet were in both states.  Ha Ha, we can’t remember who Bill gave his camera to.

Our group picture....Ladies from left to right are Bev, me, Cindy, Teri in Texas...then Pat, Bev, Sue, and Deb in Arkansas
Guys from Left to right are Barry, Lew, Art, Bill, and Tom in Texas and Russ, Jeff, Ron, Dan, Jim, Paul, Bill and Doug in Arkansas

We stoped at Big Jakes in Texarkansas...Cindy got the huge loaded baked potage, Texas toast and brisket.  I got the same thing but sliced chicken instead.  I asked her ahead of time what was good because she’s been there lots.  It was the best food and the potato was huge.  I’m glad she took a picture because I forgot to

Total number of people registered today.  Awesome!

Jared and Jennifer

Rayleen and Rodger...our previous National Evangelists,  

John Ogden Sr....such an anointed man of God who preaches the Word boldly and in truth.

John and his wife Miss Becky

Jerry did an awesome job leading us in worship.  He is an anointed worship leader

Amazing words and scriptures!

We all met down in front of Al and Lucy’s camper at 8:30, prayed and then left for our ride to Three States.  21 people, 13 bikes and 1 faithful cager.on the ride.  It was a beautiful day and nice roads to ride on.  The evening service was totally awesome and the Holy Spirit moved.  We are so blessed to be here worshipping with so many friends and brothers and sisters in the Lord.  Such a great day!

Tues., 10/14/25, Went to breakfast, Awesome worship, great morning sessions, great afternoon ride, great meal at Papa’s Mexican Restaurant in the evening

Our group picture 2025. Paul Melcher was here too, but somehow didn’t get in the picture.

                                                           Our group picture!

                                         All of us at Sonic snacking and eating ice cream

                                        Our bikes parked by the speakers so we could order
 

                                                             Beautiful day for a ride

                                            Bill and I in front of the 3 Stick Memorial

                                       Going back into Arkansas from Oklahoma

                                                                       Lew and Cindy

At Queen Wilhemena

                We found my name in chalk, but they put me with dime, not dollar Bill

We got up and got ready.  Ziggy was still in bed but told us through the curtain that he slept really good and didn’t get up during the night.  We had to be at breakfast at 8, so we walked down to the pavilion.  Ziggy ended up going to Pearl’s in Hatfield for breakfast and met a nice CMA couple to eat with.  He was able to pray with the owners and put a 2026 blessing sticker in their window.  They had one from lots of other years, but not this year.

We enjoyed awesome worship again, and two amazing sessions taught by Jared. All the National Evangelists went up front and spoke words of encouragement to all of us leaders.  They are all blessings to all of us.  At 11:30, we were dismissed and cleaned off our table, and Kathy packed her stuff up and we packed our stuff up.  We all met out in the dining area and had a Michigan meeting which went really well.  Bill led it.  We have amazing area reps.

We came back to the camper and changed into jeans, then went down to meet those who wanted to go on a ride today.  Doug and Sue led it, Russ, Tom, Lew, Cindy, Jeff (Cindy let him borrow her Shadow motorcycle), and Ziggy.  We went the first way to Heavener again because we thought everyone else would love that ride too.  Then we ate a light meal at Sonic.  Bill and I had hot fudge sundaes.  We went back a different way and went the opposite direction to Queen Wilhemena which was really an amazing ride.  We stopped there so the new people with us could see the look out outside and go inside and look around the lodge.  Then we headed back to our camper.  We went to Goodies and Bill exchanged a shirt and we got to “Come and See” shirts.  Then we went and met everyone at Papa’s Mexican Restaurant for dinner.  Bev, Ron, Kathy Jeff, Russ, Tom, Teri, Bill, Lew Cindy, Sue, Doug, Ziggy, Al, Lucy, Pat, Art, Mel and Betty came.  

We came home after that and we visited with Ziggy.  It was a great day and sure was a great ride and great fellowship.

Holly and John Ogden, Jr. stepped down from their positions in CMA and are starting a new journey with the Lord.  We are waiting to hear what it is.  They are and awesome couple.

Monday, 10/13/25, Went to breakfast at 8, Service started at 9, Great worship and teaching sessions, Lunch at noon til 1:30, More great sessions, done at 3, Relaxed at camper, went to Goodies,dinner at 5, amazing worship,

Bill and Teri from the UP...they are new area reps and are doing an amazing job.  Great new friends to have

Doug and Sue during the morning session

This place is huge and this is the overview of all the CMA leaders in the morning session

We got ready and went to breakfast at the pavilion.  There are so many volunteers preparing food and working in the kitchen and out at the buffet tables serving food, picking up our plates when we are finished.  So thankful for them and praying for all of them.  We had eggs, sausage, biscuits and fruit.  It was really good.  None of us are going hungry.  

We have an international team leading worship. Some are from Macedonia, some from Mexico, from Uruguay and a couple of other countries.  Worship is awesome and what a gift to be worshipping with all the international leaders who are so homble and so kind.  Our first session began at 9 and Jared taught it.  A message right from the Word of God and very inspiring about keeping the Mission that God has for CMA.  He gave 2 Scriptures that sum it up.  We took a break and then Jennifer, Jared’s wife taught the next session.  That was excellent too, about being tethered to Jesus before a storm hits so you are hanging on to him to get you through.  

We went to lunch after this session.  We had hamburgers, chips, salads, and cheese for lunch.  We had an hour and a half, so we walked up to our camper to make sure the air was on.  I had the fireplace on this morning, but last night had set the air to come on if it got up to 75 degrees.  I had turned the fireplace off when we left, but didn’t know if the air was still going to come on when it got so hot out.  Bill sometimes turns it off.  We were happy to get back to a cool camper because it was on.  We lowered the bed Ziggy was going to sleep in and I checked to make sure no stink bugs were up there.  We found some trying to travel with us earlier in the week.  I didn’t find any today.  I talked to Vikki and she said Kit Kat didn’t have any food or water.  I looked on the ring video and saw an opossum eating.  She was going to set the live trap and try to catch it.  She was sweet and filled both food dishes and water dishes and moved them.  I am so thankful that she would do all that for us.  

We read our Bibles, then headed back to the pavilion and went to goodies. I got a new blue  CMA sweatshirt and Bill got a new flannel CMA shirt that is really nice. When we got out of Goodies, it was time to get in the food line.  Bev called me so we could get in line by her and Ron.  Rayleen, our previous National Evngelist’s wife, was in line by us and we sure enjoyed hanging out with her and talking.  She is one of the nicest people!  Joy just bubbles out of her!

We enjoyed our choice of spaghetti or Alfredo and garlic toast, plus a salad, and more delicous cheese for all of us but Bill.  We enjoy visiting with our area reps while we enjoy our meal.  We went back in to our Michigan leadership table and the International team lead worship again . First we got in groups of 6 at our table and prayed prayers of thanksgiving for something we were each really thankful to God for.  Then it was just an amazing worship service!  Then Jennifer had all of the international people move up front or in the back  where people could gather around them and lay hands on them and pray for them and their country.  It was awesome too.  After that Jared had everyone stand who needed healing or a miracle.  Then others would gather around them.  I stood for healing for my leg and Linda and Jim who are state coordinators we’ve spent time with from Minnesota came over and some others from their state and prayed for me.  I prayed for Linda after that because she had shared she had pain in her hands from osteo arthritis.  After everyone was prayed for, we worshipped more to such awesome worship songs.  It was a little taste of what heaven is going to be like and was so moving.

We came back to our camper and Ziggy was here.  He told us he would be here at 6.  I had texted him to tell him he could make a sandwich and help himself to chip or anything.  I told him where to find everything too, so he told us he had made a sandwich and thanked us.  He was glad to relax after driving for 8 hours.  We showed him things in the camper and where he could store stuff, visits for a while,  then he finished his Bible reading which is what he had been doing when we came in.  Then we went to bed.  Bill and I have to be down for breakfast at 8 again.  Ziggy is going to sleep in and maybe go with a friend to breakfast.  It was an amazing day of growing even closer to the Lord with spending so much time learning more about Him and how we can be more like Him.    

Sunday, 10/12/25, Went to the Crossing Church, rode up The Talimena Trail, ate at Queen Wilamena’s, came back to campground, Lew and Cindy got here, Everyone else got here too, registered, sat at our table and visited with each other and walked around and visited with other state leaders, dinner was provided at 5, had ham, scalloped potatoes, mixed veggies, salad, and cake, worship and then John Ogden Sr. spoke, went to see Bev and Ron, walked back with Doug and Sue

Worship team at the Crossings Church did great! Awesome songs of praise!

We are in the back, then Bill and Teri in front of us, then Al and Lucy, and Doug and Sue leading us

Bill took a selfie of all of us at the first scenic pull off we went to.  Bill, me, Lucy, Al, Teri, Bill, Sue and Doug

Doug, Sue, Lucy, Al, me, Bill, Teri and Bill

Teri, me, Bill, Lucy, Al, Doug and Sue

Our previous National Evangelist Rayleen and Roger.  We love still getting to see them here.

Jared and Jennifer...awesome worship leaders and amazing teachers of the Word

Becky and John Ogden Sr.

Russ, Bill, Jeff and Kathy at our table

All of us except Bill, Ron and Bev at our table.  Bev and Ron got here after the service

Jared and Jennifer at Leadership training

We all met at Al and Lucy’s campsite to ride together to the Crossing Church.  Worship was awesome.  They sang a lot of Elevation’s Worshis songs.  The pastor gave a good and very touching message and his daughter’s and him gave awesome testimonies.  They were in tears.  The wife of the pastor and mom to the daughter who had the miracle baby, was hold the miracle baby. 

After church, we got gas, then rode up the Talimena Trail.  Mel and Betty decided not to go for lunch because she wasn’t feeling well.  It was another beautiful day and it’s always an enjoyable ride.  We ate once again at the Queen Wilhemena Restaurant.  Bill and I got the same thing we did the other day.  It was so delicious and a great price.  We split a peach dessert with ice cream too.  Yum!   Lew and Cindy called Bill and said they were going to find another campground because the road to where they had to park their camper was too rough.  We suggested campgrounds to call and they found one 4 miles down the road from Iron mountain.  We thanked the Lord because we had all prayed for them to get a close and good campground.  Things are really filled up because of the 50th year celebration for CMA.  We rode back down the mountain the long way and then came back to the campground.  I had left a message with Cindy to call us if we could help them with anything.  We relaxed at our campsite and read our Bibles.  Then we went down to register and to put the candy on the table, the animal crackers and the Michigan Decorations.  Kathy had put some pretty fall decorations on it too.  Everyone was there by the time it was time to eat dinner, except Ron and Bev who were getting close.  The food line was the longest I have ever seen it there.  They had 500 sign up for Leaders Training.  We had 20 people from Michigan with only 2 missing (Debbie and Marcia).  That’s a great turnout.  

The worship was done by and international team and was awesome.  The Board of Director's couples each got up and welcomed us.  Then John and Becky Ogden Sr. welcomed us and Becky prayed over John and us and then he gave a great message.  Jared and Jennifer prayed for us too and he introduced everyone speaking.

It was so warm in there when we first got there that the chocolate candy we put on our table was melted.  Bill got a cup of ice and put small candy bars on ice so they got hard and we age some of them.  

Doug, Sue, Bill and I walked down to welcome Ron and Bev who were still setting up their camper.  We were all happy to see each other.  Then we walked back to our campsite.  Sue had a bright flashlight which was wonderful to be able to see where we were walking.  

It was a really fun and blessed day!  Bill beat me bad at 3-13 and I beat him bad at dice.  We sure laughed and had fun.

 

Saturday, 10/11,25, Went on a great ride to Oklahoma with Doug and Sue, ate At Southern Belle Restaurant, checked on Michigan table for leadership training,

Driving on a fun ride in Oklahoma 

Doug and Sue at lookout in Oklahoma

Bill and I

It was straight down....a long way.  We were very careful!!!

In the train car which is the Southern Bell Restaurant

It was very cool and the food was great

Cutest Smile.....

I got up at 7:15 and got ready, ate, then read my Bible.  Bill got up at 8, got ready and went outside to read his Bible.  It was only 66 degrees out, so I finished reading mine inside today.  Doug came over and was talking with Bill.  I could hear his laugh.  He’s got the best laugh.  About 20 minutes later, Bill opened the door and told me Sue was over.  I went outside and we all visited and planned our trip for today’s ride.  Sue is really organized and loves to plan rides and go to different places.  She had her collection of maps for around here with her.  She showed us the map and where we could go, so we liked and decided it would be a nice ride.  We called Bill and Teri to see if they wanted to go but they had got here late last night and were settling into their cabin and making trips to Walmart for things they forgot.  They didn’t have time for a long ride today.  We decided to leave at 10:30, so Doug and Sue led and Bill and I followed.  We rode down beautiful mountain roads in Oklahoma with hardly any traffic on them.  The roads were newly paved much of the way.  We ended up going to the Southern Belle Restaurant which is a railroad car which now has booths and tables in it.  Lots of people were there.  Our waitress had us wait outside until a booth opened up that she said would be in a couple minutes.  We came back in and there were other people that just came in and sat in the booth we were supposed to have.  There was a table the waitress was clearing off for us.  She apologized and was really nice.  We told he it was ok and we were fine at the table.  Bill and I got burgers and fries.  They were very good.  We kept going through Oklahoma and headed back to Arkansas a different way.

These roads were really hilly with some curves.  So much fun.  Some were pretty thrilling.

Bill did great driving, but his hand was bothering him because the cruise on the bike went out so his hand with his fused wrist got a workout.  I was praying for him.  We ended up back in Mena and stopped at the Pavilion when we got back to Iron Mountain to register.  They changed registration to tomorrow instead.  They had all of the table cloths on for our leadership training and tables decorated for 50th year celebration.  It looked so nice.

We went back to our campers and relaxed and almost got a nap in.  Not sleepy enough though.  Relaxing after our long ride was good though.  At 5:30, we walked down to the pavilion for dinner at 6.  We talked with lots of friends and people we see here every year.  When I got back to our table, there was a young kid sitting very close to where we had our stuff.  We squeezed in.  I introduced my self to him and he told me he was from Switzerland.  This was his first time there.  He owns 3 motorcycles and doesn’t live close to any of his family.  He was there with another CMA member from their chapter.  I thought he was 20 and after talking to him, he told me he was 32.  He had quite an accent, but spoke English very well.  He told me they speak German in Switzerland, but not the same as the Germans.  They have a hard time understanding each other.  It’s like Birish.  Bill’s mom used to speak that kind of German.  His friend didn’t speak much English and had an interpreter.  So interesting to talk to them.  There are people here from Australia too and many more coming from other countries all over.  

The food was good and we especially loved seeing Roger and Rayleen, our previous National Evangelists. There were 300+ there tonight and it’s only leadership and many more are arriving tomorrow.  Should be an exciting week where the Holy Spirit moves in a powerful way.  

We came back to the camper and I did the blog and Bill caught up on his phone.  Time for 3-13 and dice now.  Who will be the winner?  We shall 

It was a very good 3-13 game!  I won!  Dice was close but Bill was the winner 

Friday, 10/10/25, Ate breakfast, sat outside, read our Bibles, Rode to Oklahoma to check out campground that our friends are going to stay at, went to Walmart,, came back to camper, Doug and Sue came over, Rudy, one of the two master grill chefs came over to meet us, went to dinner with Doug and Sue, hung out at their camper afterwards, Facetimed with Kenzie and Rehvyn

Wonderful picture of Evan on the far right and Jack on the far left and all the other kids from Valley that helped build beds for Sleep in Heavenly Peace Ministry.  I’m very proud of them.

I made blueberry pancakes for breakfast this morning.

Read God’s Word out on the patio.  We are having such great weather.  

Beautiful mountains in the background

Lew and Cindy’s campground.  It’s about 20 minutes from Iron Mountain, but a nice drive.  We are so thankful they are coming and found a place to park their camper.  

A little blurry, but this is across from our campground and we were riding home and saw it was on fire.  About a minute later we heard sirens and a firetruck and a fire rescue truck passed us and put it out.  Very thankful it didn’t spread. Things are very dry here.

Bill was negative the whole game and I was negative until the last hand.  Our dice game was very close but he won that too!  Wait a minute...he told me he was negative the whole game, but 0 isn’t negative yet....

Well today, I had my alarm set for 8, but I was sleeping so good and so comfortable, that I turned it off and told Bill I was going to sleep in.  I slept in until 8:30.  It sure felt good.  

I asked Bill if he wanted blueberry or plain pancakes and he said either.  I am so glad he likes blueberries in them now.  They sure tasted good.

We sat out on our patio for a while.  Bill helped put stuff away, then he read his Bible while I did the couple of dishes there were and then did my hair and got ready.  We both went outside after that and I read my Bible and did my prayer books.  

We unloaded the trunk of the trike, and left to go to Oklahoma to check out Lew and Cindy’s campground for them.  It was a nice ride and fun going by CMA Headquarters on our way.  We passed a gas station on the corner where we turned to ride into Oklahoma and gas was $2.60.  It is $2.69 in Mina.  We drove through their campground.  There was a huge rut we let Cindy know about when you drive down to the lower level where they are camping.  I let her know to watch for it when they get here Sunday and to stay to the left.  It’s not marked and is a pretty bad one.  I wanted to warn them incase they get here after dark.  

Their campground was nice and had a lake at the other end.  They were happy we checked it out and sent them pictures.  We came back and went into Mena, to Walmart.  We got some groceries for when Ziggy joins us camping.  We loaded them in the trunk and headed back to our camper.  Doug and Sue were all parked and settling in when we got back.  A man named Rudy stopped at our campsite and talked to us.  He said he has the same trike as us only a 2014.  It’s the same color and he gets lots of compliments on it.  He really liked ours.

He is the master griller cook for the week.  He makes grills that you can haul with your motorcycle.  He showed me a picture of his bike hauling the grill.  Pretty neat.  He told us they told him they need to prepare for 400 people at each meal here.  Wow.  That’s a lot of food and a lot of cooking.  He was really nice and interesting to talk to.  He hasn’t been able to come here since 2012 so said everything has really changed.  The camping spots around us weren’t even here back then.  He loved seeing all of the changes.  Vikki called and I was talking to her for a while, then Doug and Sue came over so I told Vikki I would call her back so that I could say hi to them.    We were so happy to see them.  We introduced them to Rudy and they talked with us for a while.  Then Rudy said he had to go, so left and we visited for a few more minutes with Doug and Sue.  We decided to go to the Mexican Restaurant in town for dinner.  It always has the best Mexican food.  Our waitress was really nice and did a great job.  She wrote God loves you on our receipt, so we talked to her about it and thanked her.  A guy behind me started talking to me and asked where we were from.  He was from Texas and came up for a couple of days to ride.  We invited him to come out and check Iron Mountain out.  Bill explained CMA to him.  I asked him if he knew Jesus as his savior and he said no.  We talked to him about the difference Jesus makes and how important it is to accept Him.  I asked him to pray and ask Jesus to show him how real He is and he said I need someone to pray.  His name is Eric and we told him we would continue praying for him.  A seed sowed, now praying someone comes along to water and God reaps the harvest.  

We came back to the campground and went over and sat and visited at Doug and Sue’s campsite for a while.  Kenzie FaceTimed us and we got to talk to her and Rehvyn for a few minutes.  Rehvyn was cute showing me his red pajamas. Always love seeing them and talking to them.  

We decided we would go on a ride tomorrow where we can be in three states at once.  Then we left and came back to our camper.  Sue brought me some iced tea that she had extra of when she went to pour it in her container for the fridge.  That was sweet of her.  

Now Bill and I are going to play our game of 3-13 and then dice.