What do MAF pilots do at the weekend?

They go into the woods to look for fairies. Well at least that's what Stuart got me doing yesterday. I should explain that he is into 'Geocaching' and we were looking for a geocache in the Ann Morrison park in central Boise yesterday. For those of you who don't know its a quirky pastime where you go following Lat. and Long. directions to a place where there's a cache whcih may contain some treasure (such as a plastic fairy, allegedly). then you spend 45 minutes looking for said treasure before your phone/gps runs out of juice and you give up and go home. Marvellous.

Today Stuart and I went to Crossroads Community Church (www.crossroadsnampa.com), where we've been going for the last three Sundays. It's about a mile from our apartment and they have two services on Sundays at 9 and 10.45. Since our clocks went back this morning we were both up and ready for the 9am service. Crossroads is a similar 'flavour' (or flavor!) to my home Church in Basingstoke, but larger. The service is 75mins (exactly), and starts with around 30 mins of contemporary worship, followed by the notices (of course) and then a sermon.

Crossroads central philosophy is that it is a place not for 'perfect people' but as a place of refuge, where God can be found. It is also a place where people are changed, not into perfect people, but into forgiven people. That is the central message of the gospel, after all.

The Senior Pastor has preached for the last three weeks and he is a very gifted communicator and teacher. If you're interested, look up the sermons on the website.

MAF is a Christian organisation and the Instructor Pilots and staff are all Christians, but the course is demanding and we're living right next to the airfield, so its great to find a place like Crossroads where we are welcomed and refreshed, away from the airfield. Thank you Lord for Crossroads Church.