What a wonderful Christmas season we had last year! The Victory Gospel Crusade in Shelby, North Carolina was a great time with souls being saved and many believers encouraged. No one froze to death, despite some cool temperatures under the tent. The heaters didn't catch the tent on fire--another detail for which we are very grateful. After the Shelby meeting, most of the family went to Ethel, Mississippi where I preached for a friend in his absence. After that, it was my home church in Southaven, Mississippi. There was only one Sunday last month when I was not preaching somewhere. It was a great blessing to see God work in the lives of people.
Something else unusual happened in December. I got sick. It would be easy for those who knew me to assume that I just had a mere head cold that would soon pass. This was definitely my opinion of my wife the situation. What she and so many other women fail to realize that childbirth is a hiccup, but a man cold is serious. I still don't believe that she realizes that I was at death's door during those long nights of December. It was unusual for me to be sick because my immune system kicked into ninja mode after I contracted COVID-19 in 2020. For a period of 17 months, I did not have so much as the sniffles, so active was my immune system. In North Carolina, however, I did contract something that made ministry more difficult. Nevertheless, all are healthy now, and we are grateful.
Abigail begins college classes this semester even though she has not yet graduated from high school. The goal is to lighten her load once she actually gets to college. The day we drop her off as a freshman in college is fast approaching. Due to this reality, the family will stay home for some of the meetings in our spring round in order to allow her to work and earn some money. Not yet sure how this will go, but it will probably work out just fine. The day is coming in the not-so-distant future when the Crow team will be reduced to Sarah and me, the way it was at the beginning.
Until February, our meetings are fairly local, after which we head out again for the east coast. Thank you always for praying, and we trust that God will give you fruitful year in 2022.
