AHQ Gospel Echoes Tour Update #4
12/22/02For textual content this edition, we offer a schizophrenic transcription of in-the-bus dialog.
Tom: What did we do Friday?
David: Absolutely nothing.
By: That's totally wrong because we went to Krispy Kreme first
thing in the morning at 11 o'clock!
Brent: Where we bought 7 dozen donuts for 5 guys and
watched Tom consume 10 donuts on the spot!
Kon: He continued working on his cell phone holder.
Tom: Alright, so we're trying to tell what happened Friday.
By: Then we went across the pass and found a Wal-Mart in
Richland where we could bed down for the night. But it was still early so
we figured we had to do something. This would be a good place for someone
to say what we did. (Editor's note: We did not have a prison
service scheduled for Friday.)
By: Ok, since no one is, we went bowling. Um, I
mean, uh, Tom had 132 the first game and didn't win. Kon cleaned up the
second game with 158 or 178 or something.
Brent: He had a 169 or 179 or something.
Kon: I had a 158 but I'll let you guys say I had a 178 if you
want.
By: Then we went to this hoppin' Mexican place to eat.
People were really weird there, somebody literally kicked me! They were
doing karaoke in the other room and it was loud. Everything was very loud
and strange.
Brent: Had to keep By from getting into a fight with some
guys!
Tom: Somebody kicked you?
By: Yeah, I was talking on a cell phone to my Dad and as I was
going through the door these three guys passed me and one of them hauls off and
kicks me in the rear end! But they weren't mad, they didn't even look at
me, it was just something fun to do, let's kick the stranger!
Tom: I like this bus.
By: Hey David, what did we do after we ate?
David: I think we went back to Wal-Mart, didn't we? Was
Konrad up until the wee hours of the morning again?
By: What's new?
Kon: Define wee hours.
Brent: Just about every night Kon was up until the wee hours.
David: I think the rest of the night was pretty much
uneventful.
Tom: Ok, what happened the next day then?
David: I got up and jogged for a little bit and rediscovered
how out of shape I am.
Tom: Yeah, you really are, maybe I should give you some
pointers on getting yourself into condition!
Brent: Saturday morning we slept in again.
Kon: What day didn't we sleep in?
Brent: Last Sunday morning we didn't.
David: Saturday afternoon we pretty much just dinked around,
didn't we?
Brent: Yeah, we looked around for a place to dump our
wastewater. And it's a good thing we didn't do it illegally because
we could have been fined and put in jail.
By: Yeah, we would have been singing to the prisoners from the
inside! That night we sang at Coyote Ridge Correction Center.
Brent: That was a huge service, the biggest crowd we had on
this trip.
By: It was their Christmas party.
Brent: Some other local volunteers were there too for a cookie
distribution.
By: This was a different kind of service because there were a
lot of guys there who weren't Christians.
Brent: Say something about By's experience.
By: I'd been praying before the service that at least one guy
would be saved that evening. Well guess what. After the service a
guy comes up to me and we start talking. It turns out he's not a
Christian, and he comes to the Lord. It was an incredible experience.
Remember Danny in your prayers.
David: After the service, let's see, um. . .
Brent: Something about crossing the pass that night.
David: We left the prison about 9:15 that evening and headed
over the Snoqualmie Pass yet that night. We stopped to eat at Denny's
later that night, then we left there and got to Wal-Mart about 3:30am.
Brent wanted to make sure we had enough time to get to the prison so we headed
over the pass that night since the weather forecast for the pass was good.
(Editor's note: We parked at a Wal-Mart I think every night. I
like Wal-Mart)
By: By the way, the reason Kon isn't saying anything is
because he's on his phone, which he's been on a whole bunch this trip!
Along with most other people in this group.
David: Most other people have been on my cell phone!
Tom: Get a phone By.
By: I don't feel the need to become a slave to that particular
technology.
Tom: Did you know I can check my email with my phone?!
David: I can check mine with my computer with my phone!
Brent: The most difficult time we had getting into a prison
was this morning. The quartet had to learn patience through that
waiting period!
Tom: Oh come on! We were patient!
Brent: It was a time to build on your patience, to strengthen
your patience!
By: We hauled our equipment in, all the way in, into the heart
of the prison only to find there was a full sound system already set up.
Brent: Tom's pet peeve, hauling in the sound system!
Tom: Konrad's too!
Extended silence.
(Editor's note: I'm having a hard time here. David's writing emails,
Konrad's talking on his cell phone, Brent's driving, and By's buried in the
paper.)
Tom: Kon, did you just hang up?
Kon: No, there's just root beer and mountain dew.
Brent: Then get me a root beer.
(Editor's note: Man, this is getting worse.)
Kon: Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye, four and
twenty blackbirds bak-ed in a pie. It's gotta be bak-ed.
Everyone goofs off while I slave away putting together another update.
Tom: So anyway, what happened next?
Kon: I don't know, where are you at?
Tom: Sitting at the table on the bus.
Kon: Good point. I think I'm going to move this icon
over here. It is always a good thing to reformat your hard drive. So
does Windows XP have built-in drivers for CD-RW drives?
Tom: We're at the service this afternoon.
By: I'm bored, I'm going to turn my computer on. Do you
want to plug this in Tom?
Brent: Did those carrots get opened up?
By: They're back in the fridge. Then we hung out
for a little bit waiting for our service this evening. It was in another
prison in the same complex as two others that we sang in this week.
David: We had another great service, possibly the best one of
the whole tour in my opinion. The inmates once again seemed to be blessed
by the service.
Tom: And so were we. It was a pretty good one, wasn't
it. When we were singing Sweet Fellowship I realized that this was the
last program we would do for quite a while.
Brent: And now as we're heading home, AHQ is in the process of
buying a bus!!
By: Or so we wish!
Tom: Come on, let's do more than wish!
Editor's note: Ok, so now we want a bus. Can you blame us? This tour has been fantastic! We are very grateful to Brent and Gospel Echoes NW for inviting us to be a part of this tour. God has been incredibly good to all of us on this trip, it's exciting to be a part of His work. AHQ? We're off to BMA Bible Institute this winter, along with friends from church and around the country. You'll be hearing more from us, you can count on that!