Sat., Sept 5, 2026, Happy Birthday Bruce! We love you! Busy day at the rally...Bible Study at 7:20 a.m., breakfast afterward, Bev, Ron and I set up for the RFS Bake Sale, Bev and I ran it all day with some help from Ron and another nice couple., ride to Akron to witness, Trinity Rider’s potluck, prayer in the tabernacle for leadership, CMA Service in tabernacle, ice cream in dining hall afterward

Happy Birthday Bruce! We love you!

Harper, Riley and Debbie.  Debbie is teaching them how to fold a track to put a biker blessing sticker in it

They did a great job!

Wes and Gayla overseen the Hillbilly throwing game

Guess how many are in the jar game.  Marsha is with her granddaughter while she played it

Wendy did a great job face painting for the kids

Cindy’s grandson’s at my table doing the scratch off crosses.

 

The Tawas Chapter

 69 bikes lined up to go on the ride.  Wes led everyone there

Getting ready for the bike blessing.  Abi, the chaplain from the Tawas Chapter, did it.

                                                           On the way to Akron

Lots of motorcycles in Akron for the Freedom Fest

Jane and Jay....our National CMA Evangelists for Michigan

Bev and Ron

Bill and I in Akron for the Freedom Fest

                                                             Bill and I 

Denny and JessiLee from the Tawas Chapter

Tiny doing the left over bake sale items auction.  Things sold for so much.  Altogether we made $567 for the bake sale to give to Run for the Son for missions

Debbie did a great job organizing the worship team and playing the piano and singing during the rally.

Worship was awesome

Prayer for new Chapter

The Indian River Chapter was Chartered.  It is an official chapter of CMA now.

Time of prayer at the altar

Russ gave a great message on Chapter Growth during the evening service

Elaine shared her testimony.  It was very touching.  Her husband, mom and dad came to hear her. 

Barry getting his gift certificate for the Goodie Store for the Challenge ride drawing.  He did all of the lower peninsula rides which was 31.

 

Maggie getting her gift certificate for the Challenge ride

Jack getting his gift certificate for the Challenge Ride

Karen getting her certificate for the Challenge Ride

Bev, Elaine and Debbie doing a skit commercial

Youth leader, Mike, bringing up a poster of Gary who is in his chapter.  Gary ended up not being able to be there that night, but got it the next day

It was a fun but very busy day, starting with Bible Study at 7:20.  It was a really good study.  It is in the back room of the dining hall, so afterwards, I walked into the dining room and waited for Bill to come in after the Men’s Bible Study.  We sat with Jay and Jane, then moved and sat with Russ and Marcia who were sitting alone.  A short time later, others from their chapter came and sat with us.  We left there, and Bev, Ron and I set up the bake sale.  People brought baked goods they had baked a dropped them off.  The bake sale went from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.  We sold a lot of stuff.  Bev and I worked the first hour together, then another couple came and took the next hour.  I helped with the carnival for that hour.  Then I went back to the bake sale and Ron and I worked the bake sale while Bev cut Jane’s hair.  Then Ron and Bev went to lunch.  BayShore had the food tent set up right next to us and had burgers, hot dogs, brats, chips, cookies and pop for sale.  After Bev and Ron finished, Bev came and sat while Bill and I ate lunch.  The worship team from the Holland Chapter did the worship at the 9 a.m. service.  Then Russ taught a class after that.  Bill went around on the golf cart making sure everything was going good.  Bev and I packed up the left over bake sale stuff in the cooler and I took it into the tabernacle for Tiny to auction at the service later in the evening.  

Then we lined up for the ride to Akron.  Abi did the bike blessing and did a great job.  She is due to have her baby on October 30th.  This is their first baby.  Very exciting! 69 bikes lined up and took off when Wes started out to lead us.  It was great weather all weekend so we were very blessed.  We went to Bubba’s booth when we got to Akron and said hi.  I talked to JessiLee and she shared something she needed prayer for so I prayed with her.  Then we talked to a Mom and daughter at another booth, where the dad made the big motorcycle we stood by for our picture.  The son makes a lot of small metal artwork which is very cool.  They are Christians too.  We are going to take a ride to their museum as a group some day.

We went to other booths and looked at stuff.  We also got a coke at a vendor’s booth.  we went to see Liz and Jo at the CMA booth on the Main Street in town.  We talked to a policeman who had been a Marine.  He was so nice.  

We left after that and came back to the campground for Trinity Rider’s Potluck.  I quick made a banana cream pudding dessert and took it.  Bill had a burger and hot dog and I had a hot dog.  There was lots of other food.  My banana dessert was a hit and disappeared shortly after I put it on the table.  We sat with Tater and his wife and they brought him the spoon to lick.  That was the end of the dessert.  We visited with others, then took the golf cart back to our camper to get ready to go to the tabernacle to pray before the service with the state leadership.  Tiny auctioned the baked goods and some other items off for us and made more money for the bake sale.  Then BayShore gave us half of the ice cream we served each night free.  The money everyone paid for the two nights went to Run for the Son so that was a super blessing.  The last night was free for everyone anyhow.  With the carnival and bug run money added in we raised a total of $1123 for RFS.  

 The worship was awesome and the message was really good.  Russ gave the message on Chapter Growth again because it was so good Bill said and not many got to hear it because of so much going on during the day.  

We went and had ice cream afterwards and visited with lots of people.  It was such a fun day.  

 

 

Friday, 9/4/26, Bill did a great job organizing the CMA State Rally, Jerry, Brenda blew the shofar before the Friday evening service started, Dave shared his testimony, ice cream after service

Jerry, and Brenda blowing the Shofar.  Their friend blowing some other instrument

Dave and Chrissy, our Michigan State Prayer Leads.

Dave sharing his testimony.  He had stage 4 cancer 2 years ago.  Now his name is NED, No Evidence of Disease.  He had immunotherapy and his cancer is gone.  We all are praising the Lord.  God is the God of Miracles!

Debbie, Elaine and Terry doing another skit commercial

Bill did such a great job organizing the State Rally and being the one to introduce everyone and make announcements.  God blessed him with everything going so well and so many people helping out.  It was fun, there were great messages and teachings, fun games and activities and so much more.

Cindy gave her testimony

Denny, the chaplain from Trinity Riders had a message to share

Ice cream after the service 3 nights was a huge hit

                                   Gayla, Tiny and Barry were our ice cream scoopers.                                                                                

Lew and Wes

Debbie, Ron and Barb

Don, Denny, Midge, Val, Laura, Cheryl, and Cindy

Jane, Jay, Ron, Bev, U.P. guy, Bill

Sandy, Chrissy, Dave, Jerry

We drove around in the golf cart lots checking on people coming into the campground and visiting with friends.  We registered with CMA for the weekend and got our bracelets and info packet, plus pocket sized schedule.

I relaxed a while in the camper before things really started going.  Know I will be getting up really early and staying up late the rest of the time here.  

We went to leadership prayer before the service.  The worship team Debbie put together did an awesome job and sang amazing songs and did such a great job singing and playing instruments.  We were very blessed.

Cindy did a great job sharing her testimony and encouraging everyone.  Dennis encouraged us to really give God our all and Worship Him with our whole being.  God is so worthy!

That’s what I want to do always.

We had ice cream in the dining hall after the service.  They even had great toppings to put on it.  It cost $2.  Many went to enjoy the ice cream and fellowship.  

Thursday, 9/3/26, Got up at 8, Doug and Sue came over around 9:30, we left at 10:30 on the motorcycles for Snover, the Country View, shopped and had lunch there, rode back and just made it before the rainstorm, talked to Melissa, Tornado Warning back home,

On our ride to Snover.  Doug and Sue are on their Indian motorcycle ahead of us
 

Jane, Jay, Bill, me, Bev, Ron, Don, Jerry, Betty, Mel, Gloria, Bill, Doug, Sue, Marsha, Russ, Kim and Tiny

View from the other end of the table.  A nice lady who was eating in the booth next to us came over and insisted she take a picture with me at the table too.  I had taken two before she offered.

Bill lost and had to wear the donkey hat.  He sure was funny.  I lost the game before, but was fast with my Hee Haw and escaped a picture

This was the last game we played.  Everyone else was tired and left.  We had so much fun this last game!  

Shawn taking his turn losing and saying hee haw with the donkey hat on

 
We got up at 8 and got ready.  Doug and Sue came over around 9:30 to see if we wanted to ride to the C ountry View Store in Snover with them. We told them yes and set a time for 10:30.  Bill went over and talked to Dustin while I read my Bible.  He had read his Bible while I got ready.  He told Dustin it was Peyton’s birthday this Sunday, so Dustin said he was going to get her a birthday present.  He came back with a golf cart that BayShore gives us while we are here, because Bill helps a lot with parking people.  We left at 10:30 and it was 73 degrees out.  It was such a nice ride in the country.  It took about an hour to get there.  Then we shopped and bought a few things, including a cherry pie made by the Mennonites.  It looks delicious.  We paid for our stuff, then went into the attached restaurant and had lunch.  Bill had chicken tenders and I had a chicken salad sandwich meal.  We had a nice visit with Doug and Sue and also another couple who were sitting at our big table.

Sue kept track of the rain on her phone and it said BayShore was going to get rain at 2.  We left at about 12:50 which gives us time to get back 10 minutes before the storm.   We made it dry all but the last mile which was just a few sprinkles.  

Melissa called me and said there were tornado warnings in St. Charles and Saginaw until 2:30.  She was just dropping Max off at college and was trying to decide whether to try to drive home or sit there where she could run in the building if need be.  We were both trying to get the latest information.  She waited until after 2:30 and went to Tim Horton’s, then decided to call Hailey and have her pick up Evan from school, and she went back and waited the hour for Max to get out.  Otherwise she would have had to turn right around and come back.  We were thankful when the warnings were over.  Praise God...no tornado touched down.

We took the stuff we bought out and covered the motorcycle.  Then we got in the camper and the rain started.  About 4 couples (Ron and Bev, Ron and Barb, Phil and Julie, Phil and Carol) came with their campers right while it was raining.  They all set up in the rain and then it started pouring out.  We all stayed in our campers until it stopped.  Then Bill and I took the golf cart around and talked to people.  I am so happy to be back at BayShore.

We called everyone to see who all wanted to go to the Lamplighter Restaurant to eat.  Bill called Dustin from BayShore and asked him if he wanted to go with us too.  He was going to try to come, but had lots going on.  He was really happy to be invited and said he would take a rain check if it didn’t work out.  I made reservations for 18 people.  We all met there and there were 20 that ended up coming.  

The meals were large in portion and very reasonable and so good.  The only problem was that Jane didn’t get her food until everyone else was done eating.  She finally got it and we all stayed and visited while she ate.  

We came back to the campground and met in the hospitality room and played donkey.  We had two tables full each playing a game of donkey.  We all had fun.  I had to wear the donkey hat the first game, Bill had to wear it the second game and Sean had to wear it the last game.  The last game was between Sean and Bill and it was so close.  Bill had the donkey, but was able to give it to Sean and he ended up getting stuck with it.  Lots of Laughs.  

We came back to the camper and I worked more on the blog and Bill read the rest of his Bible reading.

Wed. 9/2/26, Did the last minute packing, helped Bill get the camper closed up and load the motorcycle on the trailer. Bill and I both loaded stuff in my car,

A storm had gone through and knocked a big tree down in Unionville, but on the road to Sebewaing, blue skies were ahead.  I looked to the When I looked to the south though, the sky was dark with the storm that we just missed being in.  Thank You Lord!

Bill and I relaxing in the camper after we had played our games

We packed the last minutes stuff after we were done using everything.  I went out and helped Bill get the camper closed up and then helped with loading the motorcycle on the trailer.  Then I drove my car back by the camper and Bill brought everything to the door and put it in.  Then we both put our stuff away.  

While he was taking his shower, I went to the Dollar Tree and got an anniversary card for Bob and Jan’s 60th wedding anniversary party.  I looked a couple of nights ago and it said Sept. 3 was the date.  We thought that was weird because it wasn’t on a weekend.  Bill copied down the address of where it is at.  Everything disappeared from my phone, even the screenshot I had taken of it.  I tried looking on Facebook for events but nothing was there.  

We knew the time and had the address, so we headed there so we could get there early since it was a surprise party.  We got there and no one was there.  I tried calling their daughter Paula but no answer.  I texted her.  She got back with me later, but I had already found the invitation on Facebook Messenger Events.  It is actually on Sept. 20 at the same place.  

We had planned on eating there and then heading right up north, so we stopped at the Railside Restaurant and had breakfast.  Then we went home and left for BayShore.  It was really dark and looking like rain in the direction we were going to go. I prayed after we started out on our road and asked God to keep the rain away, especially the bad storms.  We drove and just as it looked like we were going to get into it, we turned and then we were on the edge of it for a while with just a few sprinkles, then we were in all clear beautiful weather.  We could see where the thunderstorm had hit in Unionville about 5 miles from Sebewaing, but we only had blue skies and sunshine.  We got there and unloaded the motorcycle and parked the trailer and talked to our friends, Doug and Sue.  The storm had just went through and knocked the power out in Sebewaing.  They said it poured hard.  It was nice the rest of the night.  We set up and that went really fast.  We are on a cement slab and have full hookup.  We ate cabbage buns, then walked down and visited with Dave and Chrissy, our prayer leaders in Michigan.  Then we walked around the campground.  

We came back and had brownies, then played 3-13 and Bill won by 4 points, and we played dice and he really beat me bad and won by about 4,000 points.  It took me a while to get the 350 to get in the game and he got it right away and got in.  We had fun though.

I worked on my blog and he played games on his phone.  Then I talked to Melissa and Hailey and Hailey got the job at Mid Michigan that she wanted.  There was only one opening and she got it.  She starts in one week.   They will pay for 30% of her college tuition.  God is awesome!  That was happy news to go to bed with.

 

 

Tues. 9/1/26, Super hot and muggy already this morning Getting close to fall, packed stuff and put it in camper, picked the garden, delivered garden stuff to Sue and to Melissa and Bruce, went to prayer

 

My sweet daughter Vikki who is the cutest and nicest lunch lady

It was already in the 80’s this morning and very muggy when I got up.  September 1st and getting close to fall, but you wouldn’t know it today.  It got up to 95 degrees out.

I packed stuff in the camper. I was very thankful for air conditioning in the house and in the camper.  I fed the fish.  They sure love eating the food I toss in the water.  I filled bird feeders and then picked the garden.  I got some nice big tomatoes, nice cucumbers and nice green peppers.  I picked some corn too.  I washed everything, then bagged some up for Sue and for Marie and Roy.  

Bill and I ate our spaghetti that was left over from Olive Garden.  It was so good.  I got ready to go to Bible Study and left early so I could drop off some veggies and a cabbage bun to Sue.  I gave her the 3 ears of corn I picked.  She called me and said everything was wonderful.  

I went to intercessory prayer and it was awesome.  Amanda S. was there and Merijo also was visiting.  We worshipped and then we all prayed as the Spirit led.  I am so thankful for this group of friends and prayer warriors.  Marie and Roy weren’t there tonight, so I called Melissa to see if she wanted the veggies I had picked and brought for them.  She didn’t answer, but I was close so I went and knocked on the door.  She and Bruce had just gotten home from Sam’s Club.  She was happy to get the veggies.  After that I went to the Pet Store and got a 2 week drop in feeder for my fish.  I also got some allergy pills at Walmart in order to use up the $2.97 that was still left on my card.  

I took one more load of stuff out to the camper when I got home.  Then I worked on my blog.

I talked to my sweet Vikki a couple of times today.