Day 56/August 24 – Sabbath in St. Catharines

Again, another relaxing morning – didn’t have the celebration service until early afternoon – so I walked down to a Laundromat, sat there did my laundry and had a great little chat with my good friend Alex. Its been so awesome getting to know people on this tour – so far building new relationships has been just as awesome, if not better than the biking.

So when we got to the celebration service we first had a meet and greet – good thing, it was pouring. We sat underneath a shelter and ate millons of peaches! I guess right now is Ontario’s peach festival – uh, so goet zoe!

And amazingly enough, the sun came out when it was actually time for the service. The service was wonderful. Some of the things said I remember most is one, by the speaker. He challenged us and said, “perhaps in order to alleviate poverty, we need to alleviate affluence.” Imagine a world like that? Could it happen? I feel sometimes overwhelmed to think that such huge changes need to take place. Then one of the cyclists came up and spoke – Aleida. She said that we should envision ourselves as little waves. Everything is a little wave and as God works as the wind – it’ll great a Tsunami effect. It was great to have that visual image. Gave me hope, and the feeling of wind has been ever present on this tour as well – so the visual was even more real.

Mom: Guess what!? I saw Mr. Bandstra today! He gave me a hug from home and said he would say hi to you. Wow, one more week and I’m gonna be on my way home.

Can’t wait to see ya momma!