Traveling Mercies Ministry

When we were married in 1961, my wife was in school planning to become a social worker. She quit to take a full-time job until I graduated. With a new degree in hand, and a good job with a Fortune 500 company, we set out to start a family, but there were no results. We did everything the doctors suggested, but still no results. In desperation, we applied for adoption with the Children's Home Society in 1969. After completing the application and qualification process, we expected to wait up to two years for a placement. "the pill" had reduced the number of unwanted pregnancies, and there was a shortage of adoptable babies. My wife explained to her boss that she intended to quit to become a homemaker when we received a baby. The wait was shorter than she expected. We wanted a child so badly, we made no restrictions as to sex, race, physical condition, whatever. Within two weeks we received a call from Children's Home that they had a newborn. They told us the baby had a ...

This is my favorite story from the Traveling Ministry. I was heading North on I-57 through Illinois on my way to Indianapolis to visit my son and his family. I have a sign on the side of my rig with the name of the ministry, E-Mail address and my cel phone number. Suddenly, the phone rang. When I answered it, a woman's voice said "are you the guy pulling the trailer we just passed." I said "I guess so." She said "could you stop up ahead?" So I said "sure, why." Then she said "the Lord spoke to us and told us to give you some money." Thoughts raced through my head. Could this be some kind of highway pirate scam? I said "pull off at the next exit, I am getting off there anyway." It was time for lunch, and I thought it was safer than stopping along a freeway. As I rolled up the exit ramp, there was a little red sports car sitting there with two people and a kid. As I got out of my truck, a woman got out of the sports car, gav...