For Wilshire Baptist Church
I was stuck. I had just walked out of Lowe’s with lightbulbs and wasp spray and there was the trap: A Boy Scout at a table with a sign that said, “Will You Help Fund My Adventure?“
I’m a pushover for the Scouts, having been one myself. We camped every month regardless of the season, trekked at Philmont Scout Ranch and hiked rim-to-rim at the Grand Canyon. So my silent answer to the sign was, “Yes, I will help.”
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Stopping for lunch on Friday at the Koffee Kup in Hico, TX, we were seated next to five members of the Iron Legacy Motorcycle Club from Lewisville. They were dressed the way you would expect: leather jackets and vests embroidered with the name and logo of their club, jeans and heavy boots, tattoos and chains, beards and bandanas. And yet there was something different about them.
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Last Sunday LeAnn and I spoke to Wilshire’s Compass Class about our “journey” through my cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery. We were invited to do this almost five months ago, and because we’ve never done anything like this before, we didn’t wait until the last minute to gather our thoughts. More important, Compass is a great group of folks – the very essence of Wilshire really – and we wanted to give them our best.
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