The 2009 Ride

It looks like the time of year to enjoy a good motorcycle ride is upon us again. Since last year's ride, I have been dreaming of taking a group of riders to Vancouver Island. We have one MCBC congregation on the Island, so what better connection than to work with them.  Thankfully they also have a few riders in their midst.  I have met with leadership in the church and with some of their riders, and the folks at the Black Creek United Mennonite Church are excited about being our host for this year's ride.  

The details are not all finalised, but here's a sketch of what we might do.  We are planning for the weekend of August 8-9.  We would take the ferry across to Nanaimo early Saturday morning and ride to the church (approximately 2 hours north - between Courtenay and Campbell River).  We would ride all day Saturday and folks from the Black Creek church would host us Saturday night.  

We would join them for worship on Sunday.  I am planning to preach, but we would welcome others from the crowd of riders to make a contribution to the worship.  Sunday afternoon we would ride again, ending up at Nanaimo to take the ferry home.

What do you think?  If you wanted to stretch it out a little more, you could go to the Island on Friday and find your own accommodations, joining the rest of the group on Saturday.