What a great week on the road with the Pedaling Parsons! I've had a good night sleep in my own bed and now have a few moments to update all of you on the rest of my week. It seemed that as the week went on the less access I had to the internet, and the less energy I had to go looking for a connection. It has been fun taking pics with my phone and sending them instantaneously to the blog, but I even slowed down doing that with wet weather. It was a pain to get my phone out of the protective zip-lock bag.
Another choice that I made which slowed my blogging activity was to attend my son Josh's football game on Thursday afternoon. Thanks to my Wooster friend Scott Allen, another Wooster friend Jim Kapp and I rode with Scott back to Solon to watch the Solon freshman team defeat Mayfield 28 to 2.
It was good to be back at the Wooster Church, certainly familiar territory after having served as Associate Pastor there from 1994 - 2000.
The ride from Mt. Vernon to Wooster on Thursday had to be a hurried one in order to meet my friends in time to travel back to Solon for the football game. It was also a hurried one for the rest of the group because they had supper at 4:30. The one good thing about their early supper was that they had time to visit the Wayne County Fair that evening. When I returned from Solon, I introduced some of the cyclists to Coccia House Pizza, a unique local favorite.
That set me up for Firday's ride behind schedule of reaching my goal of riding 400 miles for the week. We woke up Friday morning to some wet streets, but no rain falling from the skies. I thought that I would try to catch up on some miles before devotions. I rode about 4 miles out of town when the rain began to pour. By the time I returned to the church I was soaked through. Reports came that we would be facing rain all day. With this in mind, we headed out with a mindset of "getting there" more than enjoying the scenery along the way. So our nearly 60 mile trip didn't allow for me to do many extra miles. I did get a few because of map misreading, but my 4th flat tire slowed me down as well. I ended the ride with 376 miles and about 24 hours on the bike seat.
What we all ended that week with was some great fellowship and holy conversation. We enjoyed our prayers and support for each other along with the renewed friendships. Most important, we ended the week with about 10 thousand dollars headed toward Sam's House in Nepal.
Over the past 21 years, the Pedaling Parsons have raised over 750,000 dollars for mission. What a blessing and gift of ministry to God and God's children!
May you also be blessed,
Pastor Scott Low
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