Sunday May 7, 2017
This morning was another cool morning in the North Carolina mountains here at Hayesville. The wind continued to blow most of the day so even though the sun was out and it was a beautiful afternoon, it was still cool. Sitting inside and looking out at the lake it looked like we should be spending the afternoon outside but when you went out it was just a little too cool.
The team decided we would go to Young Harris, GA today for church at Sharp Memorial UMC. Sharp is the largest of the three we have visited during this project and has a very pretty traditional sanctuary with pipe organ. Today all the music was done with the grand piano. The people were friendly and welcoming and since they have an active member who is a NOMAD they were all familiar with what we do and teams visiting while at Hinton. Many of them thanked us for our work at Hinton. The service was traditional following the usual order of worship. As is the custom in many Methodist churches the first Sunday of the month, we also celebrated Communion today. The sermon was on Jesus as our shepherd using the passage from John 10:1-11. During the introductory portion of the sermon the pastor described sheep as filthy and dumb animals that will just walk off a cliff and die without a shepherd taking care of them. At the end of the sermon the pastor said something about us going out into the world being good sheep – not sure exactly how he said it but we both took it as mummmm – go be sheep – dumb, filthy sheep. :). Pretty sure that wasn’t what he meant but we both got a laugh out of it.
For lunch we stopped at Mary’s dinner on the way back to Hinton. For having 9 in our group today and showing up right after 12:00, we had pretty fast service and the food was quite good. We would certainly go back there. We split a blackened chicken chef salad and a cup of black bean soup. The salad was fresh and the chicken not too spicy and the soup excellent. We tried to eat sort of light because Phillip, the chef here at Hinton, said he was serving us tacos tonight with fresh guacamole. The team ate at Hinton again tonight and it was very good. Guess we will be eating Phillip’s cooking every night this week since we don’t have a kitchen without FRED. We will be glad when we get our new rig and be Rver’s again. After dinner we were standing around by the RV parking talking to some of the team members when Els, the hospitality manager, walked up and made a joke about us not being allowed in the RV area anymore. You see, we just happened to be standing on the outside of the yellow tape marking the RV parking and everyone else was on the inside. Another good laugh. Hope you all have a good week.
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