MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 07-17-2007

Hello again! Our trip out to South Carolina last week went well. We spent all day Sunday before last at Calvary Baptist Church in W Columbia, SC with Pastor Vernon Pritchard and his fine church. We got to minister to the folks and have some great fellowship with the Pastor and his family. It was great and we really enjoyed ourselves.

On Sunday afternoon, I went over to Maranatha Baptist Church (Pastor William Gillespie) in St. Louis to canvass the neighborhood with John and Romans. Their a church plant out of our home church. Bro. Gillespie is a Baptist church planter trying to establish sound, Biblical churches for the intercity black population of St. Louis. He's a great man of God, superb preacher, and a good friend. Pray for Maranatha, that God will help them to get into a permanent building. Pray that folks will get saved from the literature, and come join the church and be baptized. Pray that his support will increase (he is a Baptist missionary with Baptist Home Missions). If any of you out there are interested in having a Baptist church planter who is reaching the black community of St. Louis, MO in for a meeting in your church, let me know and I'll put you in touch with him. It will be well worth it. I guarantee it.

I preached in our home church on Sunday night, and will be doing so multiple times in the weeks prior to going down to Texas. Pray for me that God will continue to supply me with messages, and that I will succeed in challenging and encouraging our church family.