MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 10-29-2006

Hello, all! We've just finished up our conference in Good News Baptist in Cedar Rapids, IA with Pastor Robert Pleiness. It was a great week and the LORD blessed us. The family we're staying with has kids our kids' age, so they've had a great time. On Wednesday, I taught a children's class, and afterwards, got to lead one of the bus kids, Kevin, to saving faith in our LORD Jesus Christ. Glory! What a privilege! Pray for Kevin as he grows and follows Christ. They've gotten him a Bible, and will be following up with him to make sure he's provided for spiritually. All the meetings went well. We ran into Tom and Cathy Talley on Thursday night. They're missionaries to the Canadian Indians in South Indian Lake in Northern Manitoba. Our church has supported them for years, and they're good friends, so it was a thrill to get to meet them on the road like this. They had visited our church last week, and of course we were on the road and couldn't be around to get to see them or view their new DVD presentation, or hear how things are going, so it was great that God provided us this opportunity to do so. On Saturday night, we went to a teen activity, where they had a bonfire and the kids got to have hot dogs roasted over a fire, and s'mores for dessert. We all enjoyed that! It's just been a really great week. We've enjoyed the the fellowship with the Pastor and his wife, and with his Associate, Bro. and Mrs. Louks, and the other missionaries, and with all these dear people. Pray for this church, that God will continue to bless them, and that they'll continue to see folks saved, baptized, and added to the church.

Tomorrow, Monday, we'll be heading back south to St. Louis. We have many things to get done the one day we will be home, including voting absentee, so pray we'll be able to think of everything, and get it all done. Tuesday, we'll be up bright and early to drive down to Amarillo, TX, and on Wednesday, we'll be finishing the drive to Tucson, AZ, where we will be in a missions conference in Sonrise Baptist Church with Pastor Joe Stoppelbein. Bro. John Halsey will be preaching the conference, so we're looking forward to getting to visit with him again, as well as to all the LORD is going to do in the conference. We have about three weeks of meetings lined up in New Mexico and Arizona, and will be returning home the weekend before Thanksgiving, so be in prayer for us as we travel, and minister, and continue to seek the financial support we need to get to the field in Uganda, Africa.