After Saturday's youth event, we went back to our hosts' house and had a very comfortable night's sleep.  We were up early the next day, though, as we had a show for the morning service at State Street Baptist Church, where our host is the interim pastor.

We were thrown a couple of curves as we planned our set.  First of all, the water in a newspaper illusion sprung a leak.  It worked perfectly well the night before, but as we packed up, it began to drip.  This is an integral part of "Do Something Now", our routine about world hunger.  We have an extra of these effects at home, but that did us no good 300 miles away.  "Do Something Now" had to be cut.  I had also planned to open with "Johnny's Cafe", but a passing comment by our host the day before about the church being a teetotaling church caused me to change my mind.  The routine's not about alcohol, of course, but it does involve juggling flair bottles and I didn't feel it was necessary to confuse or offend anyone present - especially since it was to be the opening routine in the Sunday service.

We were able to fill in the time with some other routines we brought with us, including the Bible Coloring Book effect, which gave Rose a little more stage time, and I built my message around "Unless the Lord Builds the House" which is always powerful.

Besides our show, it was Veteran's Day, and the Vets who were present were honored.  Sue and I found it surprisingly touching.  Veteran's Day always brings up memories of my dad.

State Street has been good to us over the years, and this trip was no exception.  They agreed to help support our Paraguay trip next August, and. we were made to feel very welcome.  Several friends from camp were there, including the Ayotte family, who make this their home church.  After the service, we had pizza with the college Bible study group and headed home to Bridgton.  It was a quick, but enjoyable and meaningful trip.