Problems

As we make out way to WAPA, for City Reach, we have expierenced a few problems. We get around Nashville, TN, and we get a call from the youth pastor of Beech Grove Baptist Church if Fordyce, AR. Their van has broken down, and they need some transportation. It's about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and we try to find Beech Grove. It took us about 30 minutes to find the stranded City Reachers. Somehow or another, we have exactly enough seats for the Fordyce church to hop on. Divine Intervention? Probably. We took about an hour and a half trying to fix their van..unsuccessfully. They get on with us, and we get about 45 minutes down the road to take a dinner break. We stop at Mcdonalds for a nice meal, and tried to hit the road. We got a few miles down, and noticed our lights going out on our bus, and realized our alternator was going out. We're 4 hours from our destination from the night, about 20 minutes outside of Bowling Green. And of course, rain comes down as hard as ever, along with some nasty storms. A few of us drive about 45 minutes out of the way to find an Auto Zone, in which the Auto Zone was only about 10 minutes from our hotel. As I write this, our bus is being worked on. Pray for us. Pray that our bus is fixed and we can successfully make the rest of the trip to WAPA to impact lives. I guess this is the first time that I've really noticed the power of Satan. I've never really noticed Satan at work like this, but he can definitely throw some obstacles our way, and lots of them. Now that I think about it, why is it that our church bus is always breaking down on the way to conferences, mission trips, and other activities that impact lives for the glory of God? It's not a church trip anymore if a vehicle doesn't break down..guess that's just how it works now. So I guess what we do now is pray, pray, pray.