TENTH ANNIVERSARY – DAY II
Of course, 9/11/01 figures prominently in all of our minds today. We remember and pray for the families who lost loved ones on that tragic day.
On 9/11/00 the eight “bubbas” got up early and headed toward Matamoros. My most vivid memory is getting into Brownsville and going to a mall to eat at a Luby’s restaurant. The other seven guys went to eat but I could not eat because I had just realized that the titles to the vans (still in the name of Sage Avenue Baptist Church) had been signed in the wrong place. Translated – no longer a valid title. I went to an office supply store and bought a white out marker and promptly marked out the signatures. Stan Strickler then signed them correctly but we still had the white out on the titles.
We stopped to purchase the required insurance and were told that we would not be allowed into Mexico without titles in our names. The first guy at the border said the same thing. However, thanks to God and the boss saw things differently. I had been told by a student minister in a Texas church to get a letter from SABC stating they knew what we were doing with the vans. That letter is what God used to get us through customs. God knows what we need before we know what we need! We then drove on to Tampico where we stopped for the night. By the way, no mention of the doctored titles.
We knew God had blessed us and we went to bed resting in that comfort.