Faint, Yet Pursuing

This past month has been a busy month of meetings.  Since our last update, we have had a meeting every week.  Our travels have taken us up the East coast and out to Michigan where I sit now.  God has done some great things in churches in South Carolina, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

In Pennsylvania, I was preaching about a man in the Bible who did right even when his parents did not.  The night after I preached to the adults about his remarkable story, a girl was saved in the children's meeting with just such a story.  It was a blessing to hear those who regularly worked with the children tell the story of her background and how she had come to understand the Gospel and trust Christ as Savior.

This week, in Michigan, we are involved in the first meeting of a new church merger between two other independent Baptist churches.  One church just left the American Baptist Convention not long ago to become independent while the other church lost their pastor to illness.  Their first Sunday as Victory Baptist Church was the week before Easter, and on Easter Sunday, they began their first ever revival meeting.  It was great to see God working yesterday, and we look forward to what He will do in the future.

Many continue to ask about our trailer situation.  There is nothing new to report regarding the situation.  Part of the reason is that we have been so busy in meetings that I have not been able to do much regarding it.  The trailer sits in Mississippi while we are all over the country.  Taking pictures, studying documents, measuring parts--all are impossible while we are on the road.  When we return, I plan to do some work to try to get things done on it.

Josiah is graduating from high school in a couple of weeks.  All of his course work is done, and we are just waiting to get home so that we can put together a ceremony for him.  He is planning to attend Ambassador Baptist College in the fall to study for the ministry.  Please pray for him as he seeks the Lord's leading in his life.  Pray also for his mother who will be losing her firstborn to college.

After a couple of weeks at home, we will start the round of camps in different places.  Camps alone will take the family from New Mexico to New Hampshire this year.

Finally, please pray for the family to get some rest in the next few weeks that we are home.  Jesus told His disciples at one point to come apart into a desert place and rest awhile.  That is the greatest need that our family has right now.  Some have nagging illnesses that have plagued them for as many as five weeks while we have been on the road.  All are weary and in need of a break.  Please pray that, as God has used the times of ministry to affect the lives of people, so He will use the time of rest to refresh us and renew us so that we can hit the road once again in the fall.