like this...

No, sadly, the sleeping bag is not very purple. So, my purple pillows do not match.

BRILLIANT Cathy!!! I just happen to be wearing a red sweater!!! I'll pop them together in the wash tonight.

DC, we'll be sleeping at the Gulport Armory (it's their Disaster Rebuild Operations Center).

Mary Ann,  Think about it.  It's a sleeping bag.  You can sleep outside in the rain in one of those things.

Is it Gulport or Gulfport?

Mary Ann,

I have some camping gear, Coleman sleeping bag included, that is brand new (out of box) that I will never get to use since I got sick right after getting it. I've got a lantern, heater and some other stuff. I know that my wife has promised the $220 Eureka tent to a local Christian Boy Scout troop (sorry). But for the rest of the stuff, I would like to donate it to C3 if you all could use it. It is not good to me anymore and I need to get the basement cleaned out. My wife said let it all go minus the tent.

If you, Pastor Dan, Cathy D or whoever needs some of this, let me know.

Dave

P.S. I also have a nice 2004 Jeep Rubicon (lifted on 31s with extra underbody armor) if anybody is looking for a 2 door soft-top TJ style. Sorry, I can't donate that though. I need $$$s for a wheelchair van. LOL

Rita, you don't like purple? DANG!!! Actually, that's cool. More purple for me :-) What about chocalate?

Jan, oohhh, great idea. A purple tent!!! We're sleeping indoors though... still, a PURPLE tent would be awesome!!!

Dave, thank you for the VERY generous offer brother... I've asked Pastor Dan to jump in here and respond. Your sleeping bag wouldn't happen to be purple, would it? :-)

You sure love purple. A can of spray paint makes your sleeping bag just right! I will have to get busy on the blogs now since you won't be on here as much for a week. Will you have some internet access?

In all seriousness, y'all are doing God's work down there. GIT R DONE for Jesus! 

MaryAnn....Girlfriend you are the only person on MyChurch who could write a blog about a sleeping bag and get loads of stars and comments!  If any of us did this, forget it! 

Anyway, more importantly then the sleeping bag itself, but where it is going. 

Lord, Please bless the trip to Mississippi.  Please anoint your servants to do your will.  May they accomplish far more than they even set out to do, by your mighty power and strength.  I pray that you would use this team to bring salvation to the lost, homes for the homeless, and healing for the broken-hearted.  May they do all of this in Jesus Name to the Glory of God.

Mary ann, just repeated Sue's prayer and offered it up again. 

 Sleeping in doors?  Well not as much fun as outdoors but as Keith said GITER DONE! for JESUS!! 

 I kind of like purple... kind of.. as long as it stays in the crayon. 

God Bless

OK folks, let's do this the easy way....

Can somebody PLEASE just give Mary Ann some red colored sunglasses? Then her sleeping bag will look purple. LOL

For the rest of you reading this blog, I want you to start asking Mary Ann questions about purple. Everything you ever wanted to know can be found at the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple

LOL < wink > LOL

Dave

Mary Ann,  I can't believe this. You start a blog about your sleeping bag. You already got 204 reads and 8 stars. I hope we don't have problem's getting you out of that sleeping bag down in Gulfport to go do some work.

Mark <><

MaryAnn;

You are so funny girl!  I am blessed to be able to read your blogs and am looking forward to more when you get back with all the juicy details of your missions trip to Mississipi (every time I say mississippi I spell it out m-i-ss-i-ss-i-pp-i! lol)  That is such a wonderful missions trip!  Good for you for being apart of it and doing the good works for Jesus!  Bless you ten folds.  I prayed the prayer with Sue's comments too! 

 I LOVE PURPLE - I just can't wear it!  Plus I love pink, but my husband doesn't like pink on me - I still wear it though for my own satisfaction!)  I love all colors though! 

This is hilarious i've not laughed so much in a long time. You all are pure treasures and i'm so glad i found you on mychurch.

i'm pleasantly amused.. there are definitely purple sleeping bag liners!  and you could die your hair purple to match the beanie =)

lol you guys are so funny! although a purple tent would be cool... my husband is with pastor  he hates camping in a tent so he says lets hotel it... i tell him thats not camping!

 SO i just had to add that becouse it was funny!

Ok, here is a "roughing it" story...my wife and I were doing some mission work in southern Mexico just on the Guatamala border. We were with a team that was working the mountain villages.  The area is jungle in the valleys, but arid at the top of the mountains.  We stayed above the jungle line.  Most nights we slept outside.  You would zip your sleeping bag all the way shut and wrap it around your head. There were a lot of insects, animals, and sometimes rain, so you always made sure you were well covered.

At one location where we stopped, there was an old, decrepid, run down shed. A couple of guys were tired of sleeping out "in the elements" and decided it was time to sleep in the shed.  Did I forget to mention that scorpions were pretty common, too?

Well, in the wee hours of the night, my wife and I, sleeping peacefully under the stars, hear one of the guys get up and walk out in the woods to do his personal business. He returns and slips into his sleeping bag.  Within about 5 seconds we hear a piercing scream.  Both guys are jumping and running and end up knocking the old shed over. 

We all ran over there to see what had happened. The one guy, upon returning to his sleeping bag, thought he felt a scorpion inside of it, got scared, ended up waking the other guy up who panicked, and both were yelling because the other one was yelling and they ended up crashing into the wall of the shed and knocking it over.

There was no scorpion....and after all the noise, there were no animals within miles to bother us for the rest of the night. We all laughed about that night for a long time.  Still makes me smile to think about it.

I'm with Cathy on the slow room service, that's rough stuff!  LOL

Cute story DC,  I would have been the screaming one (no actually I don't think I could have slept in an old shed - or outdoors, I guess I would have been hooped.  lol.

PatorDATM, those red sunglasses are the BOMB!!! What a simple solution!!! But, alas, the sleeping bag will still be more blue than purple once the glasses come off.

David the Beloved, I'm doing my penance now dude :-) I'm suffering with my almost purple bag.

aaallleen, no time now to pick up purple bag liners...great suggestion though.

Rosie, you would look AWESOME in purple leather!!!

Keith and Jan, I'll be with Mark Wigley...and he ALWAYS GITs R DONE for Jesus!!! Praise God... I'm just grateful to participate. :-) Thank you for the encouragement.

Rita, you meanie :-) Hey, your daughter has great taste!!!

Cathy, sistah, you can come over any time and lay hands on my sleeping bag. You have the key :-) But, to quote my dear brother Michael (LOL!!!), "Blessed are they who have not seen, but believe"

Mike and Sue: you 2 are the reigning C3 blogging champions!!! Thanks for humoring me :-) And, thank you for your prayers.

tracylea and DC, thank you for sharing your camping stories here... :-) DC, you're a brave man...married to a VERY brave woman...scorpions? YIKES!!!

Kathy and Kelly, thank you...I'm praying we will all have many bloggable experiences that will bring glory to our Lord...Mark Wigley is the king of Mississippi blogs though!!!

Wow, it's good it's bright color, could you imagine if it was camo, way too easy to lose in the woods. Then you have the problems with all those animals getting used to warm beds, and invading camping stores in search of their own sleeping bags, and well you know, camo is just way too complicated!!!!!!

Dennis

Dennis, I LOVE purple camo!!! Will it really cause animals to invade camping stores? How about if I just get a purple camouflauge head wrap?

Mary Ann.. you know purple is my favorite color, but more importantly it's the color Royalties used over the centuries....I put a purple drape on my cross out in front of my house for Easter!  I have to tell you when I see PURPLE I think of God!!!!  Now, there are many things you can do to make that sleeping bag purple, but as someone already said, ti's where it's going that matters!

Dear Heavenly Father we ask that you surround Mary Ann and those going with her to this area Your Perfect grace..Lord give them strength to do whatever is needed.  Give them wisdom to share YOUR Word so that others may know YOU too!!!  We thank you Lord and give you Praise for all that you continue to do in our lives.  In Jesus' name we pray!!!

God bless, Bevie

This is such a holy blog - not.  Does somebody have a scripture about sleeping bags...there has to be something out there...I certainly hope the new sleeping bag isn't full of holes, errr holy...

I like the purple camo also, wow!  I never saw that before....I'll have to find something in that shade. 

I was just pondering the deep theological growth which I have had since the inception of this blog!  Muchas Gracias, MaryAnn!

"...For purple mountain majesties..."

I just hope you don't get any Purple Rain. With a bag full of holes that could be bad.

De nada mi hermana Sue.

PD, awesome song!!!

12 stars, 61 comments and 417 reads in just 3 days; for a sleeping bag!  :eek:

Mary Ann, I need to get your autograph. I sense that you are well on your way to stardom.  :)

Dave

P.S. Will you please touch my blog? Perhaps you can cause a dramatic change in readership of my blogs! LOL

yellow umbrella ,electric blue jacket with hood purple sleeping bag, sister girl can you see the beauty you got goin on here it will be all the craze we will have to call it the Mary Ann movement. Since Cathy is your manager and voice is carrying your bags i'll be your body guard.

Must keep the bag blog on the top of the list!

24 more hours until Mississippi!!!!