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Move to the Mountains
We are so blessed to live here on this mountain.
Sovereignty of God aside, most of us live here by choice.
We could live anywhere.
When you’re retired and have some resources you could go wherever you want.
A few of us had some outside influencers that brought us here.
I was hired to be the pastor.
So we moved out here.
Some of you, your parents already had a place here.
So many moved here over the past couple of years.
The turnover has been dramatic.
Housing prices are soaring.
Many moved here to get out of the high taxes of CA.
Many moved here to get out of densely populated areas and into a more, rural area.
We have the best of all worlds here.
The pandemic has driven the migration.
If you want to move to, or go to a mountain, it’s important to pick the right one.
Mt.
Everest
A surprising number of ppl thought this would be a perfect time to climb Mt.
Everest.
Travel restrictions caused a big problem for ppl w/ this idea.
Outdoors, breathing from your own oxygen tank, socially distant, until you get into the line.
250 summit Mt.
Everest Every year.
5 ppl die on avg every year.
It costs $45K or more for each climber.
So you see the line of climbers waiting to summit.
The summit of Mt.
Everest is one of the most crowded places on earth now.
So, if you’re trying to get away from ppl, in a nice, safe environment, that may not be the right mountain.
Mt.
Ararat
How about an expedition to find Noah’s Ark on Mt.
Ararat?
Paul Meier, a psychiatrist.
He and his partner, Frank Minerth, started the Minerth/Meier clinics, counseling centers.
Dallas, PHX, LA, Chicago.
After they went to med school, they went to Dallas Seminary and earned MAs in Biblical studies and opened these Xian counseling centers.
When I was a Dallas Seminary, Paul Meier came and spoke in one of our chapel service.
He told us the story of being the doctor on an expedition to find Noah’s Ark.
Mt.
Ararat was still open for those things in the 80s.
Not now.
The Kurds believe the mountain to be sacred ground.
The Muslims don’t want to encourage anything Jewish or Christian.
Anyway, the 2nd day of their expedition up the mountain they were accosted at gunpoint by a militant group that stole all their equipment and sent them back down.
There were numerous tribal groups that did not get along but were adamant they did not want anyone else on their mountain.
There was no way to sign a treaty w/ all the groups b/c none of them got along either.
Their plan B, they found a USAF airman, who flew reconnaissance missions out of Ankara and into what was the Soviet Union taking pictures.
Meier and the group described what they were looking for.
He told them they have pictures of the petrified Ark. Lots of them.
Said to meet him back at the restaurant and he’d bring them one.
They showed up back at the restaurant, no sign of the guy.
They looked him up on the base.
He said he’d never seen them before and didn’t know what they were talking about.
The pics are classified.
Our air force has pics of Noah’s Ark but cannot publish b/c they are classified.
Obviously, God does not want it out.
Maybe someone would make an idol out of the boat.
But if you’re looking for a nice, safe place to live w/ a view of a boat, that might not be the right mountain.
Kilauea, HI
How about Kilauea, HI.
A beautiful place.
HI is known for it’s tropical beauty.
Of course, here, you might melt you Keds.
Volcano National Park.
Some friends who used to live here, Doug and Jan Hansen, were with the Indian Bible College, they were just there and posted some beautiful pics of the live volcanoes.
Walk right up to them.
But I don’t think you want to live there.
Fast asleep on the cool lave and have the molten lave run right up to you.
Beautiful, but a little scary.
The White Mountains in Eastern AZ
Sara’s family has a cabin in Pinetop in the White Mountains.
Pinetop, Lakeside, Show Low, they are all much more densely populated.
You see the storms.
I’m reminded of when I was in college and went to a Christian camp for the summer.
There were two, supposed mountaineers, young guys in their 20s, who took us on a hike up one of the 14K’ peaks in CO.
La Plata.
In their brilliance, we set out right after lunch.
They had us on the summit at 3:30 in the afternoon.
So you know what happens every afternoon at 3:30 in the Rockys?
We encountered every kind of weather.
It was raining, sleeting, thundering all around us on the summit.
Lightening struck the ground about 100 yards below us.
One of the mountaineers was taking a group picture when the camera started to buzz and vibrate.
Metal.
Electricity in the air.
We thought it best to start down then.
I was part of the 2nd group who started down.
Boulder field near the top, no trail, I found my own way a short distance away from the group.
I was wearing a rain poncho, baseball cap.
Suddenly, the strings to the poncho hood started to vibrate.
I thought I was dead.
I quickly knocked the cap off my head.
Metal button on top.
I got as small as I could.
It wouldn’t have done any good, just boulders around me and lightening travels thru the ground when it strikes.
It never came out of the clouds.
Lit a fire under me.
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