Morris and Angie Brooks and their two boys hosted us in Midland. Morris is the pastor of Grace Covenant Church and Nige was invited to preach there (and I sang too). They are a small church body and were very welcoming to us. Saturday night they held a missions evening where Nige shared about the ministry of The Shepherd's Bible College, and they also had another visiting missionary who shared about how he was physically persecuted because he was a Christian in his home country but he escaped.
A cool chair out front of Morris and Angie's home.
The Brooks took us to the Petroleum Museum . . .
which helped us understand what all these lines and squares were that we could see from the plane as we flew in. They're oil drilling rigs, and there are hundreds of them. No, probably thousands of them. They're everywhere!
Also on Saturday, we went to a local fair that was on in town. There were lots of craft vendors, a band playing . . .
and some yummy food.
This is called Funnel Cake, and its kind of like batter poured into the oil and made into this cake-like shape. Once its cooked they put icing sugar on top. Yum!
They also had a petting zoo . . .
with a cow
a zebra
and a tortoise that the goats liked to stand on . . . even when the tortoise was moving. Quite funny to watch!
And we even got to tour the house where George W Bush grew up. It was fun to go back in time.
Nige and I outside the Brooks's home, before we flew back to Los Angeles.
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