DAY SEVEN b, WEEK TWO,  
Monday, September 12th! of           
Trey's Trek cont.....   

Arriving at Freeland A/G, Freeland, MI

Pastor Don Calvin was waiting on us as we walked into town!  It is always good to know that someone is watching for you!  The church also provided an awesome meal for Mark, Dad Severance and me as we rested our feet and enjoyed an awesome meal!  Thank you Freeland Assembly of God for your sacrifice of love and your grand hospitality! 

Pastor Calvin
former Dow Engineer!

 It was so encouraging to see a 'boat load' of folks there at the church to have lunch with us and afterwards to pray with us for Dearborn.   Then afterwards Mark and I, along with another Sister walked away from Freeland up the road to Midland.  It was very much of an encouragement for me to have company along the way!  We talked and shared stories as we walked along. 

Pastor Calvin with Trey & Mark Kellogg
who are on their way out of town
 ... heading toward Midland, MI

"Sister!" who joined us to Midland
(if you know her name...
please let me know!)

So before we left,  I changed my shirt after freshening up a bit.  I tell you... It just helps!  And you know... that guffy looking hat that I wore... the whole top part of it is 'mesh'!  So anytime that the winds blows, it is like an air conditioner!  Awesome idea!  Great comfort!

It was a hot day!  We drank alot of water!  And it was tiring...and  it was a great sight to be walking up the road and see what you are looking at in this photo below!  It was the first sighting of Celebration Center Assembly of God.  It was was our destination for the day and a welcomed site indeed!  

Tonight the Church would put us up in a hotel but before the day was ended, we would participate in a prayer meeting that this church already had scheduled.  The place was full!  Yes, full of people praying for all kinds of situation and places and people.  In fact, their whole assembly area where we were gathered had a huge map of the whole World, all spread out almost over the whole floor where people would go and stand.  The spot where they would stand over... would be the country that they were praying for and cry out with a broken heart to Jesus for that Country!  It was awesome!  Then they all prayed for us there in Dearborn!  That was humbling!  Thank you Lord!

First sighting of Celebration Center Assembly of God
on our walk up from Freeland!

We made it!  

Praying at Celebration Center for Dearborn!

OK!  There are times when you seem to be on the other side of the world taking care of business as Jesus would have you do.  

So... I am at Celebration Center Assembly of God in Midland, Michigan.  I am on the other end of the country from where I was raised.  I am in a part of the country where hardly no one knows about where I am from, much less where I went to College after High School.  

Now, I am in a PRAYER MEETING!  I have walked over a hundred and twenty miles to get here. I am joining with people praying for places in the world that I have a heart for.  I am wondering around their world map in this assembly area with about 100 other people who are standing over the places that they are focusing on.  While focusing our thoughts and requests in prayer, we all ask Jesus to save and minister those folks who live there!  And naturally I am going to bump into people because there are so many who are there.   They just happen to be doing the same thing as I am doing... 'walking and praying!"  

Then all of the sudden, I look up and I am moving from one country on the map to another and I almost bumped into a lady who is holding a National flag of the country that she is pouring our her heart for in prayer to Jesus!  At first, I did not notice it but it was the colors..., no... not the colors of the flag that she was holding but the colors of the shirt that she was wearing that got my attention!   So quietly, I shuffled over to her and whispered "War Eagle!" (well... I couldn't 'hep ma seff'!)  

At first she did not react at all but afterwards she came over and said the same thing back to me with a big grin on her face!  Evidently, we were the only two in the whole building who knew anything about the big orange AU she sported on her navy blue shirt!  To say the least, I felt right at home!  War Eagle and Praise the Lord!

Just to think about it!  One time Becky was in Midland looking for a certain address.  She got 'turned around' in some residential neighborhood and just stopped to ask two ladies who were talking to each other on the sidewalk.  She asked them where the particular address was that she was looking for and just 'by chance' Becky noticed one of the ladies accents.  It was distinctively "Southern" English!  These folks from the South know how to 'butter' their words!  So, Becky talked to her for a few minutes and discovered that she was from Alabama and had married someone from Midland that she attended Auburn University where I went to School my first two years of College.  And on top of that,  found out that she was 'suite mates' with my sister "Kim" who graduated from Auburn!  'Interesting' to say the least!  Both of these fine incidences took place in Midland, Michigan!  We like Midland!

War Eagle and Praise the Lord!

With my feet on the Ground

Simply Trey