The Scares

Mark and I were enjoying an evening at home when Susan, Dan's wife called. Dan had not come home after work, he wasn't answering his phone which would ring and ring. She wanted to know if he mentioned going somewhere after work instead of home. We both talked to Danny today but nothing was said about going anywhere so we weren't much help. This is not at all like Dan, he is a typical Meister ALWAYS on time or early. After an hour more of waiting Susan called back pretty frantic. She still had not heard from him. Mark and I went down to Meister Brothers and checked all the buildings. Kurt Bennett the accounting manager at Meisters lives in Morton, IL so he started driving the interstate towards Goodfield where Dan and Susan live with their 3 children looking for Dan's car while we started driving creek road slowly towards the interstate keeping a sharp eye out for anything unusual. Kurt called Crystal and she remembered that Dan left around 3:15pm for the Old School Center in Farmington, IL which meant for the last 5 hours Dan was completely out of contact with everyone, again not like him at all, so route 116 was next on the list to check. The awful things that start going through ones mind when someone is missing is just not a pleasant experience. We didn't get far on 116 when Dan called, he was fine, he wanted to get the floors scrubbed at the school as a group is coming in tomorrow, the floor scrubber died and needed to be charged, sat down to wait and fell asleep. Too bad the ringer was off on his phone.
The other scare today was that Steven's dog Kylie ate a chunk of rat poison. Steven took her to the vet where she was given charcoal and started on vitamin K.
Earlier today the Bible requests were all entered and printed out, over 200 of them and there were not 200 wrapped Bibles. Samantha Ginzel came picked up 16 boxes and is having the young group over tonight to wrap them for us. How thankful we are for this service. These kids, high school and college age, could be out partying on a Friday night but gave their evening to help our program and have a great time fellowshipping while working together. Another reason I LOVE MY CHURCH!