Friday at the Northwest Area Rally

We have started each morning at the Northwest Area Rally with new friends at Morning Devotions with the Oregon/Washington Coaches for Christ Chapter. One of the members shared with us that they had had a hard time finding someone to provide a devotion for the meeting and finding someone to lead music... they had had different folks arranged to participate but each had to back out for various reasons - including one having to back out at the last minute as he tested positive for COVID. But, they called on a youth pastor from a church about 1/2 hour away, Josh Woodruff, and he has been great! 

He led devotions Thursday: Had you ever considered that, a couple of chapters preceding the David and Goliath story, it was noted in I Samuel 13, that there wasn't a blacksmith anywhere in Israel - "Lest those Hebrews start making swords and spears."? So, when you read in chapter 17 that the Philistines and Israelites were drawn up in battle array, that only Saul and Jonathan of the troops of Israel had swords and shields? Not only did David not have battle gear, neither did anyone else in the Israelite army!

When one of the ladies said that they were hoping they could find someone who could lead worship, Josh indicated that he could play the guitar, so on Friday morning, he both taught the devotion and led in worship!

Josh leading in worship

Our group for devotions on Friday morning...

... the other half of the room.

Then we attended an RV educational session... When we went to the FMCA Convention in Tucson, I had attended a session that I thought was going to be on Proteng (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2022/03/friday-at-fmca-rally.html) -- it ended up not really being so. Carl and I both went to a presentation on Friday at this rally that did end up addressing Proteng, and we were both impressed with the information. They offered to examine our coach and give us an estimate of the cost to install, so we decided to get the estimate done...

A really nice young man, Cordova, came out to our coach and told us what would be recommended for our coach.

Proteng is a fire suppression system designed to give you more time to get out of the coach in case of a fire. (https://proteng.com/about-us)

We decided to go ahead and get it installed while here at the show -- there is a show discount, and Oregon has no state sales tax, so that provided a better overall price...

... so Cordova came back out Friday afternoon to perform the installation.

He installed devices in the places where fires would be most likely to start: generator, fuse panel/relay panel, battery bay, inverter/Oasis diesel heating system/automatic transfer switch bays, engine compartment, and circuit breaker panel.

Example of one of the devices installed in the top of the bay with the fuse panel/relay panel.

Hopefully these will never be used, but they give us a layer of protection that we feel more comfortable living with!