MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 08-04-2008

Greetings! Our summer break has gone well. It was good to be home for a while, and our church and families were happy to have us around.

We had a great Fourth of July, with much pyrotechnic goodness. We attended our church's 4th of July picnic, which was great fun as always.

Our daughter Elizabeth was baptized. We had been instructing her about baptism for a while, and she was adamant in her desire to be baptized. Her Grandpa Spilger did the honors. He had to lift her up to see over the rim of the baptismal. It's always a blessing to see children following Jesus, particularly when they are your own.

I preached for our Pastor for three Sundays so he and his family could go on vacation. They had a great time out West, and I was happy to be of service. It was a blessing as always to preach God's Word.

Elizabeth turns five tomorrow, but we are celebrating today. She's busy learning to ride her new pink and purple bicycle, so pray for her as she learns the physics of bike riding.

Tomorrow, we are departing for some meetings out East. We will be in Antioch Baptist Church with Pastor Barry Pace in Sunset, SC on Wednesday. This is the same church that we attempted to visit more than a year ago, but missed the service because we became desperately, hopefully lost. Never fear! I have the Pastor's cellphone, and (for sure) the physical address of the church, so we'll be fine. Pray for the meetings to come, and many more to follow this Fall as we seek to complete deputation and be ready to go to Africa next year. Pray that the churches which we have visisted in the past who have expressed interest in joining with us in ministry to Uganda will do so. Pray for our travels. We have had no car troubles in a while and would like to keep it that way.