En Route: News/Journal

The En Route "Research Department" is pleased to let you know that we've had four straight months of over 10,000 unique visits to http://www.enroutemusic.net. We're grateful for your stop at our site and for you being one of the 10,000!

Richard and Karey's son Keith Harty's video has placed in the top 10 public service announcements on auto safety for teens.

He is now in the voting for one of the top 3 positions which will earn him a $5000 scholarship.

If you want to help him out vote for his video at this link. His is the third video called "Flames or Flowers" by Keith Harty.

Vote for Keith!

"John said, Master, we saw a man driving out demons in Your name and we commanded him to stop it, for he does not follow along with us. But Jesus told him, Do not forbid [such people]; for whoever is not against you is for you."

-Luke 9:49-50 Amplified Bible

Today we live from a place of abundance. We choose to thrive! We choose to spend from a place of plenty and not a place of want. Today is a new start. Today we get another chance. How grateful we are for the flow of Goodness and grace. How thankful we are for the favor shone on us from above us and around us. We invite you in to this place of peace and safety.

-Barton J. Vogel

Erica participated Friday in the attempt (and we believe successful) to have the most wheelchair tennis players in one tournament!

Wheel Chair Tennis

Thanks for your help!

". . . I'm thankfully happy to report that it looks like we made over $11,000 profit from Foodstock! To put that number into perspective please consider the following:

1. We had no budget, not one penny! God led us by the hand and created Foodstock from nothing! We just started asking for help and everything fell into place...it was awesome!

2. Our food pantry budget for '08 was $3,000...God quadrupled that number! We have stood on the promise of 2 Corinthians 9:6-15... it's been like a mission statement. Read it sometime if you feel like you need a little encouragement . . ."

Jim Miller
Rock of Ages Cafe'
http://www.rockofagescafe.org

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Surprise Me: A 30 Day Faith Experiment
Terry Esau
Page 19, Paragraph 2:

"We're always trying to ease our way into change - SAME our way into something different. WE try to do it in such a way that nobody feels uncomfortable. Long ago I decided that in my music business, if everyone feels good and safe with the music, then it must be weak, impotent, passionless. And it probably won't achieve its purpose. I call it the S & T factor. If there's not at least one person who Squirms and Twitches when they hear it, then toss it out, it's dead."

-as quoted by Steve Humes

Maria Sue Chapman, adopted and youngest daughter to Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, was killed Wednesday night in a tragic accident in the family driveway on Wednesday evening. She was LifeFlighted to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital but for only reasons God can explain she went home to Him... not to Franklin as we all so desperately wanted.

Your prayers are needed for all in the Chapman family. This is a family who has so generously loved and given to so many. Just hours before this close knit family was celebrating the engagement of the oldest daughter Emily Chapman, and were just hours away from a graduation party marking Caleb Chapman's completion of high school. Now, they are preparing to bury a child who blew out 5 candles on a birthday cake less than 10 days ago. These words are unthinkable to type. And yet we trust in a God who was not surprised by this and because of Jesus I am certain through faith in Him we will see Maria again. - Jim Houser (Manager)

Memorial Blog

"High above this hodgepodge, however, hangs one of Davis' prized possessions. A Trek SLR 1500 triathlon bike is collecting dust, dangling from two hooks attached to the ceiling. Though the $1,100 cycle hasn't seen action in some time and hangs indefinitely fallow, Davis has no intention of selling.

"I'm saving it," said Davis, a 26-year-old Lodi native who moved to Carlsbad in January 2007. "I'll use it again someday soon."

That big purchase was a major step toward fulfilling a dream, one Davis refuses to abandon. She's determined to complete the Ironman Triathlon world championships before her 30th birthday, targeting 2009 as the year to qualify for and finish the grueling competition annually held in Kona, Hawaii."

For more of the story:

North County Times Article Link

Erica participated in the "They Will Surf Again" program at Joella Shores last month. You can see the video in the link below.

This week Erica found a site that allows you to help her financially to pay for her recovery. Blue Shield health insurance does not cover helping a person to recover from Spinal Cord Injury. It is all paid for by Carol and me AND fine people who have taken an interest in Erica's mission to walk again and to be an example to others.

All Donations are tax deductible! The expenses run about $1,000 a week.

Carol, Erica and I appreciate your support, encouragement, and prayers. The recovery is slow but Erica is making progress with her hard work.

Many people are inspired by Erica's example and speaking. This Sunday Erica will be doing the Encinitas Sprint Triathlon.

Donate to Help Erica Walk

Surfing Video Link

En Route now has over 700 MySpace friends!

Check out our myspace at the link below...

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One of En Route's regular venues, Jericho Coffee in Roseville, CA, was voted best coffee shop in the entire Sacramento area. See link below for details. Way to go Franc, Sheri & crew! We're celebrating with you!!!!

Jericho Coffee Article on KCRA Channel 3 Web site

A Benefit Music Festival to Help Feed the Hungry in Calaveras County

The Good Samaritan Community Covenant Church invites you to... "FoodStock 2008"

Join us for a day of delicious food, rockin’ music, and fun for all benefiting the Neighbor to Neighbor Food Pantry serving Calaveras County on...

Saturday, May 31, 2008
4:00pm – 9:00pm

Come enjoy an awesome BBQ Dinner, Raffle, Silent Auction, and a great cause too! Foodstock will host six bands on 2 separate stages, boasting some of the areas finest entertainment! Music style will include both acoustic/easy listening and contemporary/rock, something for everyone! The concert is Free but monetary or canned food donations are greatly appreciated. All proceeds will go directly to help fight local hunger.

Admission is Free!!

4684 Baldwin Street, Valley Springs, Ca. 95252 .(209) 772-9548
Get directions

www.foodstock.info

"As gray, as controlled, as dreamless as we may strive to be, the fire of our dreams will not stay buried. The embers are always there, stirring in our frozen souls."

Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.

". . . on the way back down the hill the back way, we were riding nicely with no worries and I was about to take a right turn not going too fast…with my bike, I have to lean to turn and so leaned to the right into the turn when my left wheel caught in the SUPER BAD roads of Redlands and it flipped me over. I was lucky as I only got road rash. Not really any blood. I scrapped my knuckles, wrist, side, knees, elbow, chin, and shoulder which had the most on it. Just like the top layer of skin. I do have scars in all those places but they are just battle wounds. Kind of cool as there is a heart scar on my shoulder. I have a few pictures in my training/races section of pictures on myspace. So this all happened Thursday so I still had two more days of racing that I had to push through the pain to race. Something kind of funny is that I looked up in my senior yearbook from high school and it said for me, "most hard core athlete" . . ."

For rest of the story of Erica's race go to: http://www.MySpace.com/MissDavis88

Thanks to many of you who are reading this at this moment the readership of enroutemusic.net is now over 10,000 people per month! All of us at En Route appreciate your interest and support AND your clicks. And your feedback is always welcome. Got any ideas to make this site better? We'd love to hear from you. Heard anything especially inspiring? Toss it our way. We'd like to share it in kind. We'd be honored to hear your thoughts. You are part of our community.

"Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then - the glory - so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished. And I guess a man's importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories. It is a lonely thing but it relates us to the world. It is the mother of all creativeness, and it sets each man separate from all other men.


I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused.

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on the preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost."

-John Steinbeck, from his book East of Eden (1952), as quoted by Morgan Chinnock

En Route is proud to announce that our live concerts are now listed on the California Bluegrass Association calendar. Band member Bart Vogel has some roots in bluegrass music having played stand-up bass in a bluegrass group in high school and his brother, Cary Vogel, up in the Idaho Panhandle is leader of Crossroads, a gospel bluegrass group. En Route wants to support local roots music and we thank California Bluegrass Association (specifically John Hettinger) for their support, as well.

http://www.cbaontheweb.org/

En Route's friend Erica Davis will be racing over the weekend of April 3, 4 & 5, 2008 on her handcyle.

Link to Erica: http://www.myspace.com/missdavis88

Link to event: http://www.redlandsclassic.com/handCyc.shtml