We own Charlotte...

Thursday we, the Lurecrestboys, cruised into Charlotte again... much to our dismay, seeing how we usually feel so out of place in the big city. We were heading into town to sign up for some retirement plan stuff that the Board here at camp wanted to get set up for us full time employeses. Seeing how "early is on-time" we arrived about a half hour before any one else did so we took a walk through a little neighborhood, please note Big Nate's button down shirt and "satchel", he went all out.

When we got back to the Wachovia building where the meeting was to be held lo-and-behold, there was a Porsche parked right next to the white van. By the way, Nate did an incredible job backing the white van into that parking spot without hitting any of the fancy Charlotte cars, it truly was impressive.

As we walked into the fancy-shmancy Wachovia Securities building we couldn't help but feel like we had just entered into another dimension, one that we really shouldn't ever be remotely near. And then the most amazing thing happened, the people there asked us if we would like a drink... we didn't know what to do. They sat us down in this big conference room and brought in food and let us sit in comfortable clean chairs and brought us Coke and water.

This spiffy dude is Travis McCullough, the gentleman who would be setting up our retirement accounts. He was actually a really neat guy and very helpful, check out the pose he's rocking, pretty sweet. Jeremy was probably the first person to ever sign up for an IRA wearing a Trucker Cap and Carhartts... or at least in Charlotte.

The whole gang was there, this is after the meeting... we had so much fun they eventually kicked us out of the building, not really... but we did have a lot of fun. It's always neat getting to see everyone again, seeing how Jeremy White and Scott have been stuck at the Camp Office for the better part of the year.

We took the white van because we were supposed to pick up all of the pool supplies but they ended up not being ready for us. We did, however, also have the opportunity to make a sidetrip we had been needing to make for some time now. We went to see Meryle Garr, who was the wife of the late founder of Camp Lurecrest, the Reverend Alfred Garr, who now is worshipping with our Lord Jesus in heaven. Meryle has been in the possession of the old Camp Lurecrest van and had asked us to come and take it away... check out the sweet paint job complete with old school logo and everything. It was really sweet to get to see her and tell her of how the camp has been going, as well as the way the Emmaus School of Biblical Studies is really a blessing to the students as well as our whole ministry.

On the way home we felt really blessed to have had such a good day in Charlotte. We were treated like royalty... which doesn't happen too often for us grunt Lurecrestboys... and got to see a sweet woman who invested so much time and love into the ministry which we now carry on, standing upon the shoulders of her and Alfred.