We attended the early traditional service at First Presbyterian Church of Starkville, Mississippi this morning. Peggy Branch met us at the door and introduced us to her husband, Larry. Larry was a retired professor at Mississippi State in the engineering department and Ruth asked Larry if he knew her brother, Wayne Parker, who also was a professor of engineering at MSU. Larry indeed knew Wayne and knew him well. Carol and I met Wayne on Phase II of the walk when we traveled to Chula Vista, AZ. 'Tis a small world.

 

John was invited by the pastor, Dr.Olin McBride to briefly address the congregation about our walk and about Habitat in general. He commented about how a wonderful job the local affiliate did in recruiting the local college students to help with building Habitat houses.

 

After the service, we drove back to the RV park, changed clothes and headed out to walk another 6 miles. We now have 4 miles "in the bank" or you can say we are 4 miles ahead of schedule.

 

We had walked only a short distance, when we had a first. Something that had never happened on the walk before. We found a $1.00 bill. Our first paper money. We also found pair of needle nose pliers. Stay tuned ...