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Our Son Aaron, is making preparations to go to Taiwan to Teach English as a Second Language.  This is a huge step and we are totally dependant upon the Lord to close doors and open opportunities for him. 

Please pray for our son Aaron as he spends his summer at a fishing company in Homer, Alaska.  He’s doing the ‘net setting’ for a small Christian company there, and hopes to earn money to begin paying off his college loans. 

Sounds like the lead in to a cheesy musical, doesn’t it? Let me explain…

It was a Monday morning and Becky and I were thinking we’d leave San Luis Obispo for a drive through wine country around Paso Robles, then maybe back to San Luis to check out the downtown shops and Cal Poly on the way to an afternoon plane ride with Travis, one of the groomsmen who is a budding missionary pilot (He was slated to take another groomsman to his connecting flight in Santa Barbara). But, as we were heading up the 101 to the pass going to Atascadero, we suddenly got the urge to turn around and head back up the coast on the Pacific Coast Highway. I mean, how better to spend our last day in the Central Coast area than cruising with the top down, smelling the wild rosemary as it toasts under a nice warm sun along the breathtaking hills and rocky shoreline? So…we pulled a legal U turn and headed back up the coast. We had about 4 hours before our flight to Santa Barbara, so northward we went.

We made it quite a ways up the coast (past Limekiln State Park) before we turned around and came back down and saw a nice turnout that looked a lot different when you see it heading south, so we stopped. While we were standing atop the bluff looking down on the sea, rocks and killer beaches, a guy hops out of a minivan, followed by another guy with a fairly largish video camera and just kind of starts shooting around a bit. Me, being curious and sort of friendly, went over and asked them what they were doing. The guy not holding the camera told me he was a writer and movie maker (strictly indie) and they were on a book tour as well as shooting scenes for a movie that would go along with the book he was promoting, I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single (Google it!). So, he asks me where I’m from, what am I doing here, yada yada. I tell him I was here doing a wedding in Santa Maria, and he stops dead still while I’m telling him the whole scene and says, “Wait! How would you like to be in my movie? This is just what I need for the film…” I’m like, “OK, but what’s going to happen?” “I just want you to say on camera what you’ve just been telling me!”, he says. “It’s just what I’ve been looking for!” SO, while Becky is looking on and taking pictures like crazy (he wanted to interview her, but she’s camera shy), we started up and lively interview on love and marriage.

The really neat thing about the whole event was that he let me answer the questions very openly, so I basically gave him the challenge I gave to Josh and Mandi at the wedding. It was great- at least from my side of things. And, as I was to find out after more than 15 minutes, so it was for Eric (the writer/interviewer-in blue); he said this was “going to be the best 15 minutes of the whole film!” – his words, not mine.

In Eric’s words, “this serendipitous” event was definitely not what he was expecting when he stopped the van and got out to shoot some filler for the movie, but God knew. Let’s pray that the Lord would cause Eric to keep my statements in context and done in a way that would glorify the Lord, and also that he would mull over the answers. We need to take the opportunity given us, don’t we?

PLUS, the young lady holding the boom mike, came up to me after the interview and said, “so, did you go to seminary in St Louis?”.
“No, why do you ask?”
“Because I graduated from Webster University, next to Concordia Seminary.” (which happens to be right down the street from where Becky grew up-go figure!)
She said she would be back in St. Louis this weekend–you guessed it, to attend a wedding…