prayers for safe travels

[Torah613]

I need prayers. This coming weekend I'm gunna try to make it to church. Problem is all four of my tires are shot, I'm coming up to needing new brakes and an oil change, and need a new fuel filter. I'm not gunna have either money or time to get any of it fixed before I try to make teh over 250 mile round trip to and from church. Please pray my little car makes it.....

Joe Zollars

[Torah613]

There's also noone I can carpool with and no public transportation options.

Joe Zollars

[Orthosdoxa]

zoinks!! borrow a friend or relative's car? Do you at least have AAA? Because this sounds like a stranding waiting to happen. :(

[eoe]

Don't be careless. I would really consider reevaluating your transportation needs in the very near future.

[moses916]

:crosseo:

[MariaRegina]

Have you talked to the priest about starting a mission?

If you could find one more orthodox Christian in your area, then perhaps you could see if a priest could speak to a small gathering of neighbors and have a Vesper's service in someone's house.

[Torah613]

Have you talked to the priest about starting a mission?

If you could find one more orthodox Christian in your area, then perhaps you could see if a priest could speak to a small gathering of neighbors and have a Vesper's service in someone's house.

that would be the problem. Only Orthodox person round these here parts. I am planning on moving in a couple of months to a location where I could conceivably walk to church.

Joe Zollars

[Torah613]

Don't be careless. I would really consider reevaluating your transportation needs in the very near future.

Its a good car, and fairly new too (only 50 some odd thousand miles), but I haven't had the money to do routine maintance in a while, and its all coming to a head at once.

But this is my first chance since Christmas to make it, and probably gunna be among my last for a while.

Joe Zollars

[Torah613]

zoinks!! borrow a friend or relative's car? Do you at least have AAA? Because this sounds like a stranding waiting to happen. :(

Nope--can't afford AAA membership. Being a convenience store manager is not the highpaying glamourous job most think it is. I have enough trouble trying to keep my head above water with my back bills, let alone taking on new expenses (however necessary they may be). And my second job petered out and won't start back up again until close to may.

Joe Zollars

[MariaRegina]

The Greek Archdiocese has church online for those who cannot make it to church.

Several churches do a live feed. Check it out.

Don't risk driving and perhaps getting stuck.

[HandmaidenOfGod]

I dunno Joe, I'm not sure if making this trip is the wisest thing.

If you get stuck in the middle of that 250 mile trip, you're gonna have to pay for a tow truck, especially since you don't have AAA.

God wants us to worship Him, that's true, but He also wants us to be good stewards of what He has given us.

You might want to reconsider this trip...

In XC,

Maureen

[Greg the byzantine]

The Greek Archdiocese has church online for those who cannot make it to church.

Several churches do a live feed. Check it out.

Don't risk driving and perhaps getting stuck.
Yes don't risk it. Towing a car = big bucks. On several occasions when I was too sick to go to church I, followed along with the services online. St Barbara's of Orange County Connecticut has a really nice streaming video of the DL every sunday. Here:
http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/live.asp

[Torah613]

I am begining to think y'all are right, but it has been nearly a month since I have been able to go to Church and stand in services. I want to go very badly, but is it the wisest thing? Hopefully I can hasten my move up there so that I can go more frequently and not have these worries. Even when I don't have car troubles, it costs so much to go to church that it makes it difficult to make it....

Joe Zollars