In 2007, we covered 7748 miles!
Motion for Missions 2008, has begun. We are going to Baguio City, Philippines. Give to yourself the gift of a healthy lifestyle, and health itself.
For information and counting your miles click here.
Use the miles input form to turn in your miles and we will count up the miles.
God Bless and keep moving!!
Vienna Assembly of God
Loving God, Loving Others, Loving Life
We need about 1700 miles to get to Hawaii !
Sixth Stop: Pacific Ocean
Miles to Date: 4,253.35
Largest of the 5 world oceans
Area: 155.557 million sq km
Area - comparative:about 15 times the size of the US; covers about 28% of the global surface; larger than the total land area of the world
Environment – current issues: endangered marine species include the dugong, sea lion, sea otter, seals, turtles, and whales; oil pollution in Philippine Sea and South China Sea
Scriptures:
Isaiah 12:3 “With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.”
Rev 21:6 “To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.”
John 4:14 “But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life.”
Fifth Stop: Santa Rosalia, Mexico
Miles to Date: 3,249.85
Population: Estimated at 10,000
Copper discovery in 19th Century creates mining town luring Europeans
Claim to fame: Iglesia Santa Barbara
Story of how Rosalia became a Saint:
Rosalia was the daughter of Duke Sinibaldo, Lord of the Quisquina and the Roses, who was a cousin of King William II of Sicily
Rosalia turned her back on a life of ease and chose to devote herself to prayer and solitude. The legend says that in 1159 she retired to a hermetic existence in a remote cave on Monte Pellegrino, the rocky cliff high above the Bay of Palermo. Nothing was heard from her again until 1624, when the plague arrived in Sicily.
Salvation to Sicily came in the unexpected form of La Santuzza, who appeared in a vision to a hunter lost on Monte Pellegrino. "Don't worry," she said "I will protect you and I will protect the city". She revealed to him the site of the cave in which she had lived as a hermit and told him to go back to Palermo and alert the archbishop and rulers of the city. The hunter did as he was instructed, and those leaders found her remains and displayed them through the streets of Palermo. Within three days, the plague ended, and she was proclaimed patron saint of the city.
Proverbs 31:10-12 and 25-31
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate. (NIV)
Fourth Stop: Joshua Tree, CA
Miles to Date: 2,724.45
Population: Estimated at 9,000
According to the National Park website, humans have occupied Joshua Tree National Park's nearly 800,000 acres for at least 5,000 years.
The first group known to inhabit the area was the Pinto Culture, followed by the Serrano, the Chemehuevi, and the Cahuilla.
Joshua Tree, formerly a National Monument, was promoted to a National Park in 1994.
The land lies at the transition between the Sonoran and Mojave deserts, and has vegetation and scenery representative of both.
The geologic landscape of Joshua Tree has long fascinated visitors to the Mojave Deserts.
How were these steep-sided, bold outcrops, rising abruptly from the desert floor, formed?
Geologists believe the face of this modern landscape was born more than 100 million years ago. Molten liquid, heated by the continuous movement of the Earth's crust, oozed upward and cooled while still below the surface. These plutonic intrusions are a granitic rock called monzogranite.
Mormon pioneers considered the limbs of the Joshua trees to resemble the upstretched arms of Joshua leading them to the promised land.
22 Then Joshua said, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD." "Yes, we are witnesses," they replied.
23 "Now then," said Joshua, "throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel."
24 And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and obey him."
25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he drew up for them decrees and laws.
26 And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the LORD.
27 "See!" he said to all the people. "This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God."
Third Stop: Lubbock, TX
Miles to Date: 1,712.75
Population 256,081
Males: 49%
Females: 51%
Mayor: David A. Miller
- Lubbock, Texas, is located in northwest Texas. Lubbock's official elevation is 3,256 feet.
- Lubbock was named after Thomas S. Lubbock, a former Texas Ranger and Confederate officer.
- His brother, Francis R. Lubbock, was the governor of Texas during the Civil War.
- Lubbock county was founded in 1876 and the settlement of the present-day city formed late 1890.
- The city was incorporated on March 16, 1909. Shortly after incorporation, rail service was established in Lubbock and it became the marketing center of the region and earned the name "Hub of the Plains".
- Texas Technological College became Texas Tech University in 1969.
- In1970 Texas Tech added its medical school, which grew into the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, with schools of medicine, nursing, and allied health.
- Reese Air Force Base had by the 1980s become an important economic part of Lubbock, though in 1995 it was scheduled to be closed.
- Lubbock's churches grew with the city so that by the 1980s there were some 250, including a Jewish synagogue.
- The city has had only one saloon, and that only very briefly soon after the town was founded. Lubbock remained legally dry until an election on April 9, 1972, made liquor by the drink, but not package sales, legal, and Lubbock abandoned its distinction as the largest dry city in the country.
- Knight arrived at Texas Tech in March 2001, six months after being fired by Indiana for what school officials there called a "pattern of unacceptable behavior."
- In Knight's first six years at Tech, he led the Red Raiders to five 20-win seasons, a first at the school. Knight passed former North Carolina coach Dean Smith as the winningest Division I coach Jan. 1, 2007, getting career win No. 880.
- Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holly was born September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas the fourth of four children born to Lawrence and Ella Holly.
- The Holly's had a rich musical tradition. Every Sunday found the Hollys attending services at the Baptist Church, singing hymns of praise and joy to God.
Proverbs 29
11 A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.
Psalm 98:
2 The LORD has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
3 He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;
5 make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing,
6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn - shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
Second Stop: Tulsa, OK
Miles to Date: 1,241.75 miles
Tulsa, OK
Population: 393,049
Males: 189,937
Females: 203,112
Mayor: Kathy Taylor
- A post office was established in 1879 for what has become Oklahoma's second-largest city.
- Tulsa was named after the clan of Native American Creeks called Tulsa Lochapoka.
- Tulsa is a Creek word meaning "town"
- Tulsa was forever changed by the discovery of oil on June 25, 1901.
- Tulsa is home to art deco treasures and nationally renowned museums.
- Named the "Terra Cotta City" in the late 1920s for its beautiful examples of art deco buildings. - Three internationally recognized architects designed art deco buildings in Tulsa: -Frank Lloyd Wright (Westhope); - Barry Byrne (Christ the King Church); - Bruce Goff (United Methodist Church). - Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum houses the world's most comprehensive collection of American Indian and Western
art, this nationally-celebrated museum includes extensive exhibits on America's prehistory, settlement and
expansion.
- The Tulsa Municipal Airport was the busiest airport in the world in 1930!
- Tulsa’s historic Greenwood district is famous for its gospel, jazz & blues musicians
- The Tulsa Race Riot began on May, 31,1921,a day after a black man named Dick Rowland, stepped into an
elevator in the Drexel Building operated by a woman named Sarah Page. Rowland was accused of a sexual
attack against Page.
- The next day, Rowland was arrested and held in the courthouse lockup. Outside the courthouse, 75 armed
black men mustered, offering their services to protect Rowland The Sheriff refused the offer.
- A white man then tried to disarm one of the black men. While they were wrestling over the gun, it discharged.
That spark turned the incident into a massive racial conflict. Fighting continued through the night, homes were
looted and burned.
Leviticus 19
17 Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.
18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Romans 12:17
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.
18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
19 Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I
will repay,” says the Lord. 
