For years our church held a chuck wagon service and dinner in the spring, compliments of Elder and Rancher Tom.
It would start very early in the morning when Tom would set up the chuck wagon and people would come and meet for breakfast. You could smell the bacon afar off and the coffee that was steaming hot, hanging over the open fire pit.
The beans would already be simmering and the blueberry and peach cobblers would be cooking in a bed of hot coals buried in the ground.
The chairs had been moved outside to the open sanctuary and His people came and worshiped HIM there, some dressed of old.
The hustle and bustle of cooking preparations went on throughout the morning worship and the sweet aroma of charred beef rose up as a sweet offering as Pastor John delivered the message.
Old familiar hymns and bluegrass style gospels spilled out as the congregation joined in the ‘Sweet By and By’ chorus.
The big double bass, banjo and mandolin joined in with the usual instruments and we turned back to simple worship
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After the service, people would line up for the most amazing delicacy, consisting of top grade beef and all the fixins’ that a cow Rancher would experience on the wagon trail.
After the savoury dinner there was always time for the children to play and the grown ups to sit awhile and fellowship.
It is good to turn back sometimes and to recapture the simplicity and purity of times past. To set aside all the modern gadgets and technology and experience life as it was, and as it still is for the Ranchers and cowboys who still live the simple life.
Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart. Jeremiah 24:7
The Portion of my Inheritance 
looks like everyones having a good time
Sharon, it was a lot of fun!!! We haven’t done it in a few years. I think it was too much work and our church has grown a lot. But I treasure the memories of the times we did do it.