MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 03-18-2008

Hello, again! We've just had a meeting in a missions conference in Bossier City, LA at Shady Grove Baptist Church. Their new pastor is Steven Sorrell. He and his family were missionaries to Sri Lanka. The former Pastor, Dennis Blankenship, was called to be a missionary to Sudan, and is now on deputation to that end. It is a very missions oriented church. Several of their folks are are either currently missionaries, or are called to be missionaries. It was a great missions conference.

Shady Grove is just around the corner from Barksdale Air Force Base. Our friends Tim and Julie Tuttle are stationed there along with their kids. We had a great time touring the base and the Air Museum, and the gang had a lot of fun ripping around with their three boys. The boys enjoyed all the cool old planes they had on display. It's not every day you get to touch a B-17 or an SR-71 Blackbird. Barksdale is home to the B-52G bomber. Every so often, one of these huge planes would come swooping in for a landing. I marvel that something so huge could possibly get off the ground, and yet it does. It was great to get to fellowship with them and catch up on their lives in person.

Our next meeting is on the 30th in Gainesville, TX about an hour away with Pastor Garry Way and Fair Avenue Baptist Church. Pray for us as we go to this meeting, and as we finish up Greek at BBTI.