June 1: Cape May

We waited for Julie Anna and Ben to get back from their 6 mile run to have breakfast together Sunday morning (Oh, to be young and have so much energy!). This morning we worshiped with the Island Cape Baptist Church. This was a small church affiliated with the American Baptist convention. Records show that there were Baptists living on Cape Island before 1695. After its formation in 1712 they attended the First Baptist Church in Cape May Court House, twelve miles to the north and then in 1844 founded the Island Cape church. The church had six stained glass windows and each one had a verse from the Beatitudes highlighted in it. The opening congregational hymn was accompanied by four handbell ringers, a trumpet player and the organ for a happy beginning to the service and their choir sang a medley of old hymns. Their bulletin insert told about a project in Zimbabwe to provide for AIDs orphans and we felt we were in a good place. We participated in the Lord’s Supper with them and were blessed to be with God’s children in Cape May. After church we went to the Lobster House for Sunday dinner and had a table overlooking the water (we could actually see our boat from there). I tried to get hushpuppies, but we have gotten too far north for them to know what we were talking about. Our sweet weekend with Julie Anna and Ben was quickly coming to and end and they packed up after lunch and headed back to Philadelphia.
In the later afternoon, Tom and I went for a 9 mile bike ride back through the water front of Cape May and saw a beautiful wedding on the beach. There were surfers there in wetsuits enjoying the most of the height of the waves. I assumed the water was cold was the sun was warm. There was the lighthouse in the distance across the glittering water. We stopped again on the Washington Street mall for a little shopping, listened to their big clock chiming a ten minute concert and a sipped a Mocha Ice Cream smoothie. Wow!