MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 02-03-2008

Greetings once again, in the name of the LORD! We are in chilly Elgin, IL at a missions conference in Northwest Bible Baptist Church (Pastor Keith Gomez). We had a great meeting with Pastor Karl Ogdie and Lakeland Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX a few Wednesdays back. Pray for them as they have their missions conference in a few weeks.

We went out to the annual Fort Worth Rodeo and Stockshow on Saturday. We had a great time! They opened in prayer, PRAYER, and not some mamby-pamby, not-gonna-offend-anybody everyprayer, but a real live, born again, in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God prayer! Wow! There's something you don't run into every day. The show was tremendous. All our little cowboys had a ball, as did we. I have pictures up in the Gallery at the website if you'd like to see.

This past Wednesday, we drove down to Snyder, TX for a meeting with Faith Baptist Church with Pastor Nicky Johnson. We had a great meeting and enjoyed fine fellowship with the people. Pray for the town of Snyder. They are in the middle of a flu epidemic which had half the church, including the Pastor, out sick. Pray that they would recover soon, and that we would not catch it. Pray for our health the next few months in particular, as this is the time of year that such things tend to nail us.

We got back from that meeting Wednesday night around midnight, and then hit the ground running on Thursday, finishing up our Language Learning class, getting our final assignments ready to turn in, and also getting packed and ready to leave on Friday to drive to St. Louis. We got everything done, and made our way home on Friday. We got a great night's sleep in our own house and our own beds, and then shoved off on Saturday to make the four hour drive up to Elgin.

It's going to be a tremendous conference. Bro. Terry Anglea from Faith Baptist Church in Bourbonnais, IL is preaching. I will be sharing our burden for Uganda on Wednesday night, so pray for me. Pray for the conference that the LORD will work. Be in prayer for Pastor Keith Gomez. He would have been here for the conference, but his wife, Carla, just died of cancer. They buried her on Friday. He has taken a leave of absence to grieve. Their spirit was great this morning, but I know the church is hurting over the loss of their First Lady as well. Pray for Pastor Gomez, their children and families, and for NBBC during this time of mourning.

On Wednesday, we'll be driving back to St. Louis to leave the kids with their grandparents, and then Anna and I will be flying to San Francisco for a conference in Lighthouse Baptist Church with Pastor Bill Bryson. Pray for the trip, our kids, and for this conference that we'll be a blessing and an encouragement as we serve the LORD.