Making it to the 5K Finish Line

Early morning on Saturday, April 5, 2008, James Maker and I left Glenmont to meet the Sudanese at ChristChurch Presbyterian who were waiting for the bus to go together to Bear Creek Park where the race would take place.  We were behind for some minutes and when we arrived, John Markle and the team had already left.  But we thought they were not yet gathered, so we waited for a few minutes. Then Peter Biar came and we went to Houston’s First Baptist Church to see if there were people there but we didn’t get anybody there either, so we headed to Bear Creek Park. We arrived there and found the people starting the race. We parked the car and rushed to the starting point but the people had already taken off for the run. We started running, although we were told that we might rather walk. We made it through bypassing some of the people who ran before us.  We came to the finishing line and none of the people knew that we’d started late. The good thing was that we finished it well.  I think that there will be lots of fun next year for the 5K Run and Walk because God will draw many people, perhaps more than the almost 400 that attended.