Harvest

 Spring is customarily a time when savvy farmers think about planting, not harvest. For our ministry, though, there are some spring seasons in which we see people saved.

This spring season of revival meetings has been busy indeed. In early March, we finished our time out west in California and Arizona, and made the long trek to South Carolina, stopping by Mississippi on the way across America. God allowed us to see people saved in South Carolina and Virginia so far. Before we finish on the east coast, we will go as far as Brooklyn, New York, before turning once again toward home.

On Sunday, March 29, we opened a meeting at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. This church has been a tremendous blessing to our ministry over the years. There have been times when their generous giving has literally kept us in evangelism. Just as important as their giving, though, is their zeal to bring lost people to services. A man brought a gym buddy and his wife with him to the meeting on Sunday morning. Exactly how many years he had been witnessing to this man I do not remember, but the number six sticks in my mind. I preached on assurance of salvation from I John 5:9-13 on Sunday morning. At the invitation, the guest told his friend, "Move out of my way." His wife wondered what he was doing to which he responded, "I'm going forward." He settled his salvation that morning. 

Another man also responded in the invitation, convicted of his need of salvation. After the service, Sarah got to lead to Christ a woman who had been visiting the church for several weeks. That morning, she bowed her head and heart to receive Christ. She was 89 years old.

This meeting in Alexandria is the third meeting in a row that has taken us through Friday in services. Next week we only go through Wednesday in Brooklyn, after which we hit the road hard heading for our home in north Mississippi.

There we are scheduled to be a part of the Memphis, TN, Victory Gospel Crusade. Already invitations have gone out, and souls have been saved. Please pray for a mighty moving of God in our home area of metropolitan Memphis. We are barely finished with the Victory Gospel Crusade before graduation season hits, followed closely by Abigail's wedding. 

Thank you so much for your prayers.

Running

 Job complained that his days were swifter than a post, a man delivering messages from one person to another. In our modern times, we might imagine the UPS man who runs from his truck to make a delivery and back to the driver's seat to speed to the next delivery and so forth.

Our days seem swifter than a post. One of the reasons was that we had barely two weeks at Christmas before we had to hit the road again. Our year started in California with meetings in the northern and southern parts of the state, interrupted by a trip to the Dominican Republic.

February find us entirely in the state of Arizona ministering in different churches there.

Our ministry is now different from what it has ever been before in that none of our children now travel with us. Josiah serves on staff at our home church in Mississippi. Abigail is finishing her final semester of college, after graduation from which she plans to be married. Esther lives in our home and works in Mississippi. Daniel, too, stays in Mississippi so that he can earn money for college in the fall. What it means for our family is that our helpers in ministry are gone. So many aspects of daily life were handled by our children that living life without them has been an adjustment. For example, our music ministry is much different now. Whereas we used to have the capability for six-part harmony, now everything is either a duet or a solo. There were also many jobs that our children did with respect to our table. Now, those jobs are all on us. Trailer setup and maintenance, too, have been affected. Some things our children did without being told, and now that they are gone, there is the ever-present danger of those jobs being neglected.

On the other hand, Sarah and I are enjoying our time together as husband and wife only. That is the way we started, and now that life has come full circle, we are greatly enjoying it. Most of all, we are enjoying the ministry to which God has called us, preaching and teaching all over the country and occasionally the world. Thank you for your prayers.