MISSION: Uganda Email Update 05-06-2007

Hello again! Here's the story so far, since our last update: Our meeting in Albermarle Baptist Church with Pastor Marc DeLoach went well. We had some great preaching from Pastor Jim Sumpter (Landmark Baptist Church, Richmond, VA). The services went well and God blessed, so thank you for praying for us. It was a busy week. We had plenty to do to keep us occupied. On Thursday, we visited Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's famous home. It was quite cool. The man basically had a little town on top of the hill, with a wide view of the entire surrounding area. He had a great gift for invention, and his home is full of nifty devices he created for various purposes. His library, what they had of it, was impressive, as was the collection of paintings in his gallery. It was a really neat opportunity, and Anna and I enjoyed it tremendously.

On Wednesday, we had a meeting in Great Hope Baptist Church of Chesapeake, VA with Pastor John Godfrey. I presented our burden and preached, and the LORD blessed. We met with their missions committee afterwards, and they are going to support us! I got a call from Pastor Steve Corbett of Bethel Baptist Church in LaPlata, MD as we were driving back to Williamsburg, VA where we stayed last week, and they have voted to support us also!

Then, this morning we had a meeting in Community Baptist Church of Dendron, VA with Pastor Gary Ross. It went well, and they, too, are supporting us. That makes five churches in a row (except for Albermarle), that are definitely supporting us right now, and Albermarle will soon once they've taken on the missionaries who were there before us. Isn't that exciting? God has answered my prayers, and is rapidly raising up our support as we approach the end of deputation, just in the nick of time.

This evening, we were in Faith Bapitst Church here in Fredericksburg, VA, with Pastor Don Forrester. The service went great. I presented our burden and preached, and God met with us in the service. Overall, this has been a very good and profitable period in our deputation this past month. We are approaching the end, and I am confident that the LORD is going to get all or most of our support raised up by August 22 when we begin language school. Things are progressing well, and the end is finally in sight.

We head back to St. Louis on Monday (tomorrow), so pray for us as we drive. We have a bent crankshaft that's making a bunch of racket. Pray that the engine hangs together until we can get home and get that fixed (I have an appointment with our mechanic on May 14, so we have to tolerate the noise until then). We have had the engine checked by two different mechanics, and they didn't think the engine was in any imminent danger. The only threat is to my sanity from having to listen to the continual chirping emanating from the engine compartment. Pray that all goes well on the voyage home.