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

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

Today, this man (My father in Law, 'Bill' Severance) who set the pace last Saturday from Bridgeport Saginaw Township is pointing the way as we set out from his house to the church in Freeland where we will have lunch and  pray for our City;  Dearborn!

Mark Kellogg and I as we head for Freeland...

It was pretty early this morning when we left out from the house after an awesome breakfast that Gran'ma "fixed" for us!  So the shadow that spread out in front of us as we headed West was a pretty neat sight!  This shadow was signaling that we were 'on our way!'

"Dad" Severance and Mark Kellogg Trekkin' on up the Road!

Surrounding Farmland between Saginaw and Freeland

Walking out of Saginaw Township

Beautiful Views on our Trek

How would you like to walk to the mailbox 'to get' the mail at this place? LOL!

Tittabawassee Bridge

We started out walking North on Center Road up to McCarty and then turned right up to Tittabawassee Road that intersected with Midland Road where this bridge was located.  From there we turned North again and headed up to Freeland.

It is just a memory... but Grace and I went fishing years ago, just to the right of this bridge when she was a little girl.  I don't know why it was just her and me but that is where we went fishing one time while we were visiting with Grandma and Grandpa Severance!

Mark is making his way... as we get closer to Freeland

Coming into Freeland

The scenery seems to be changing a bit as we get closer to Freeland.  Sidewalks are re-appearing which make it easier to traverse along!

This is actually a scary photo!

The picture of this millstone that we saw on our way over to Freeland reminds me of a sobering story that Jesus told!  He said that if anyone offends one of 'the little ones' that he considers precious to Him that it would be better for that person if a "millstone" would be hung around their necks and then thrown into the sea!  Wow...!  Just thinking about that gives me the "willies!"  I never thought of it that way... But how often do you see millstones laying around?  So I guess... 'Ima gonna thank about it!'  So walking can make you sober up... just from the things you see along the way!  I am so glad that knowing and relating to Jesus is not just some religious function but... "rilly is", real life!  This 'stone' and what it speaks is real life!   So 'I gotta' deal with it! 

With my feet on the Ground!

Simply Trey