This was one of the most exhausting travel adventures that I have had in the two-and-a -half years that I’ve been traveling above non-stop since the book “For Women Only” came out. I should say it was a great weekend, but as you’ll read, very tiring. The adventure started on Friday morning, when I headed off to the airport to catch a flight to Bangor Maine. This was to do a Women’s Conference at Bangor Baptist Church, but it had to be rescheduled due to a freak snow storm a few months ago, and this was the only weekend that I could do something on a Saturday.
I gladly flew way to Bangor Maine, and arrived in the middle of the afternoon. The woman who was my hostess was a wonderful lady named Pam, who picked me up at the airport. Pam was very understanding about the fact that constant travel is pretty tiring. While most sponsors want to be nice and hospitable, offering to take me out to dinner or out on the town and show me around, sometimes I have to admit that I would just as soon have some down time. I enjoy being with people so much getting to know all different people from around the country, but sometimes when you travel a lot, it’s really nice to be able to just lie down in the hotel room and do nothing.
Pam said she understood all that, however she looked at me with a bit of a mischievous glint in her eye and said, however this is Maine, and we were thinking that perhaps we could take you out to a lobster dinner. I looked back at her and said, normally I would say, I’d be fine just hanging out at the hotel, but you could bribe with me, with a lobster dinner to stay out. So, they treated me to a wonderful dinner of Maine lobster, which was the treat that I haven’t had in 15 years, since I was in Rogers School in Boston. The Women’s Conference itself was the next day starting at 8:00 in the morning and going until 2:30 when I had to run out to the airport to catch a flight, to my next event.
It was a tremendous event, and I was so grateful for these Churches in New England that are trying to pull people together in an area of the country where not a lot of people go to Church, and because Maine is a large state geographically, but only has about a million people in the whole state. The cities are pretty widely scattered and pretty small, so Bangor Baptist Church is actually a very large church for the State of Maine, and has about 700 people attending it, 200 from all over the state to attend this Women’s Conference. I was delighted - it was a great day made even more amazing by several women who came up to me at the book table, pointed at the book “For Women Only”, and said, that book saved my best friend’s marriage or that book saved my brother’s marriage, and of course we all know it was God who saved their marriage, but what an honor it is to be used in a way that helps bring about that eye-opening change.
This was a great event, but the travel adventure was just beginning - read my Springfield blog entry if you want to find out what happened next.