MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 07-05-2007

Howdy, folks! I trust you all had a great Independence Day. We sure did.

Our trip to Colorado went great. We had great meetings with Pastor James Legg (1st Baptist Church of Silt, CO), Pastor Bruce Dunsdon (Eagle Baptist Church and Berns Baptist Church), and Pastor Justin Hall (Glenwood Springs Baptist Church). God blessed in the services, and I was able to preach and serve Him and the churches. We got to spend a week in the beautiful Vail valley of Colorado, which we all enjoyed tremendously. We took the opportunity while in Glenwood Springs to hike up to Hanging Lake. It's a 1.5 mile hike up a rocky trail. Was it a brutal hike with five kids? Oh yes. The view from the top was gorgeous. Beautiful falls, crystalline water in a scenic mountain setting, the works. It was worth the work to get up there to see it.

Last Sunday we got to have a meeting close to home. I ministered and preached in Calvary Baptist Church with Pastor Clyde Myers in Cottage Hills, IL. God blessed and it was a good meeting.

Tomorrow we head down to South Carolina for a meeting in Calvary Baptist Church with Pastor Vernon Pritchard. It's going to be another great church and we're looking forward to it.

Pray for us as we travel, and that God will bless in the services. Pray for us as well as we prepare in the next weeks for language school at Baptist Bible Translators in Bowie, TX. Pray that I'll be able to get plenty of meetings down that way in the months ahead, and that the remainder of our support will come in in time for us to head to Africa in 2008 when language school is complete next May.