Camp!

Summer is camp season for many evangelists, and this year has been a great year for camps in our ministry.  Every year, we head west to Silver City, New Mexico, to minister at Gila Christian Ranch.  This year, the Lord blessed again with many souls saved and young people surrendering to the Lord's will for the their lives.  Then, after a travel week to get home, Sarah and my girls got on a plane and headed for New York City.  The Bay Ridge Baptist Church of Brooklyn paid for them to fly to New York and then join them to head to camp at the Wilds of New England.  The Lord used their time there to work in their hearts as well as to encourage those of the youth in New York.

After years of serving as evangelist for Gila Christian Ranch, God has allowed me to serve on its board of directors.  Gila has had a unique ministry over the years of ministering to the youth of the Southwest.  The camp is currently in a project that will require some concrete work and a capable stone mason.  It will be a few months before these jobs are ready to be done, but we are praying for the Lord to provide us with the skilled laborers to complete this task before the next camp season.

July's schedule has been a busy one, and August only provides a brief respite before we take Josiah to Ambassador Baptist College where he will be a freshman this coming fall.  By September, we hope to be on the road again in our trailer (see last month's post) as we travel.

In the past month, a need has arisen about which we need much prayer.  In April of this year, Sarah began to have problems with serious muscle spasms.  The first one appeared in her back in the major muscle connecting the lower ribs to the pelvis.  When this spasm first occurred, she nearly fell to the ground in pain. 

In time, the spasms have moved to where they now are in her shoulder and down her right arm.  The muscles spasm and the nerves seem to be irritated as well.  The pain seems to be the worst at night, having robbed her of sleep every night for at least two weeks.  At this point, we have not been able to find the cause of these problems.  The pain is so intense that Sarah cannot even sit through a service, much less play the piano.  Obviously, this has quite an impact on our ministry and travel plans.

Would you please pray that God would intervene in Sarah's body and heal her?  God is the great physician and He alone can solve this problem. 

As always, thank you for your prayers for our family and ministry.