The Lord has been very good to us in meetings this spring. We have seen great things happen along the way.
In Macon, GA, Nick, a 17-year-old boy, trusted Christ as Savior on a Tuesday night. He was a foster kid whose mother had turned to drugs and alcohol after the death of her husband and one of her sons. As a result of her mother’s actions, the government removed her living children from her custody and placed them in foster care. Nick had been coming to youth group on Wednesday night for a couple of months prior to the revival meeting. After hearing the preaching several times, he admitted his need of salvation and came forward to trust Christ.
From Macon, we returned home for what we hoped would be some rest. Instead of rest, it was missions conference and we were still in services nearly every night of the week.
On Thursday night of missions conference, our son Daniel went to Sarah once the service was over and told her, “Mama, I should have gone forward tonight.” Of course, Sarah wanted to know why. “Because I need to be saved,” was his answer. I was playing the postlude on the piano at the time, but as soon as I was finished, Sarah brought him to me. After a few simple questions in which he told me of his sin and different things that he had done, he prayed and asked the Lord to save Him.
We were to leave on Saturday of that week. Our schedule left us with a decision. Do we baptize him right away or wait a few months until we get back? The Lord seemed to give me peace about doing it right away.
You can refer to Sarah’s blog to see the details of his baptism, but he followed Christ in baptism on Friday night of missions conference.
After a meeting in central IL, we are off to NM and camp. The cowboy boots will come in handy all summer as we go from NM to SD and then on to CO. If only I hadn’t forgotten my hat.
