I'm the product of a bus ministry.

In the 70's, a bus ministry worker knocked on the door of a friend of mine and the next Sunday morning she rode the bus. She told her friends and they told theirs. Over the course of a year we became known as *The Tillmans Corner Gang" -- a group of preteens and teenagers that traveled 15 miles one-way to church every Sunday. We in turn became bus workers. Eventually, parents of some of those *snot nosed kids* became church members and bus ministry workers as well. Some of us even went on to Tennessee Temple University after graduating from high school.

It's a terrific ministry and outreach which is near and dear to my heart. When I consider where my life was headed at the time and how I was searching for a place to *belong*, any place at all, I thank God that He sent that big white church bus into my friend's neighborhood way back when.