Jun 10, 2001 — Mudeif Productions

Sunday. We went Episcopalian this time, visiting Elizabeth's mom's church, St. Paul's on the Plains and Fr. Peter Fritsch. Fr. Peter had been visited a few years back by Fr. Hatem Shehadeh from St. Paul's Church in Shefa'amer, Galilee (whom we met back in March), which gave us a nice jumping off point. He invited us to speak for about five minutes at each worship service, and then to do a talk and slide show after each service. We had a nice turnout, and a good response with some lively conversation (a curveball question thrown into the mix).

We then headed off to see the sights of Lubbock, including the windmills museum, an homage to these dying-out sentinels of the plains, and a center for renewing support for alternative energy (sometimes a hard sell in west Texas). Housed in a giant warehouse, it has dozens of old and restored windmills - quite varying in size, shape, and function, and many of them manufactured in Illinois (of all places).